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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bare, uncover |
| Synonyms: | decorticate, denude, deprive, despoil, dismantle, displace, disrobe, divest, empty, excorticate, expose, gut, hull, husk, lay bare, lift, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, remove, rob, scale, shave, shed, shuck, skin, slip out of, spoil, take off, tear, unclothe, undress, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
| Synonyms: | depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, lay waste, pillage, rape, ravage, raze, reduce, sack, spoil, spoliate, wreak havoc |
| Notes: | wastage is loss through use such as wear, leakage, or decay; the gradual process of wasting; or an amount that is wasted -- while waste is loss through carelessness, inefficiency, or ignorance or another word for garbage or rubbish |
| Antonyms: | build, create, preserve |
| Main Entry: | despoliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plunder |
| Synonyms: | depredation, destruction, pillage, piracy, theft |
| Main Entry: | depredate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder |
| Synonyms: | attack, despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, raid, ransack, ravage, sack, spoliate |
| Main Entry: | harrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sack |
| Synonyms: | demolish, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, fleece, gut, havoc, lay waste, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, ransack, rape, ravage, rifle, rob, ruin, spoil, spoliate, strip, waste |
| Main Entry: | pauperize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggar, botch, break*, bring down, bring to ruin, bust, clean out, crush, decimate, deface, defeat, defile, demolish, deplete, deplore, depredate, desecrate, despoil, devour, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, drain, exhaust, fleece, impoverish, injure, lay waste, maim, make a mess of, mangle, mar, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pillage, rape, ravish, raze, reduce, sack, shatter, smash, spoil, spoilate, total*, use up, wipe out, wrack, wreak havoc on, wreck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ruination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ruin |
| Synonyms: | bane, bankrupt, beggar, botch, break*, bring down, bring to ruin, bust, clean out, crush, decimate, deface, defeat, defile, demolish, deplete, deplore, depredate, desecrate, despoil, destroyer, destruction, devour, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, downfall, drain, exhaust, fleece, impoverish, injure, lay waste, maim, make a mess of, mangle, mar, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pauperize, pillage, rape, ravish, raze, reduce, sack, shatter, smash, spoil, spoilate, total*, undoing, use up, wipe out, wrack, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spoliate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sack |
| Synonyms: | demolish, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, fleece, gut, havoc, lay waste, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, ransack, rape, ravage, rifle, rob, ruin, spoil, strip, waste |
| Main Entry: | unclothe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strip |
| Synonyms: | decorticate, denude, deprive, despoil, dismantle, displace, disrobe, divest, empty, excorticate, expose, gut, hull, husk, lay bare, lift, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, remove, rob, scale, shave, shed, shuck, skin, slip out of, spoil, take off, tear*, undress, withdraw |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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