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| Main Entry: |
pounce
 [pouns] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | leap at; take by surprise |
| Synonyms: | ambush, attack, bound, dart, dash, dive, drop, fall upon, jump, snatch, spring, strike, surge, swoop, take unawares |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assault, attack |
| Synonyms: | advance, foray, incursion, invasion, pounce, raid, swoop |
| Main Entry: | jump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leap |
| Synonyms: | bob, bounce, bound, buck, canter, caper, capriole, dance, dive, drop, fall, gambade, gambol, hop, hopping, hurdle, jar, jerk, jolt, leapfrog, leapfrogging, leaping, lurch, nosedive, plummet, plunge, pounce, rise, saltation, shock, skip, skipping, spring, start, swerve, twitch, upspring, upsurge, vault, wrench |
Example Sentences
- Apart from a propensity to pounce on prey, cats' aloof elegance has long made them the choice for animal companionship.
- Somewhere in the recesses of her mind, the author of this wonderful book knew that acrostic-makers would pounce.
- The birds perch, watch, and then swoop to the ground to pounce on their prey.
| Main Entry: | powder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine, loose grains made by crushing a solid |
| Synonyms: | crumb, dust, film, grain, grit, meal, particle, pounce, pulverulence, seed, talc |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | seize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abduct; take by force |
| Synonyms: | ambush, annex, apprehend, appropriate, arrest, arrogate, bag, bust, capture, carry off, catch, claw, clutch, commandeer, confiscate, conquer, exact, force, gain, get, grab, grasp, hijack, hook, impound, incorporate, kidnap, lift, nab, nail, occupy, overcome, overpower, overrun, overwhelm, pick up, pounce, secure, snag, snare, spirit away, subdue, take, take by storm, take captive, take over, take possession of, throttle, trap, usurp, wrench |
| Notes: | cease means to put an end to a state or an activity, to stop - while seize means to take hold of, to grab |
| Antonyms: | free, liberate, release |
| Main Entry: | swoop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend quickly |
| Synonyms: | dive, fall, plummet, plunge, pounce, rush, slide, stoop, sweep |
| Antonyms: | ascend |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
deciduous, declivous, decurrent, decursive, defluous, demersal, descendent, descending, downgyred, labent, nodding to its fall, stillatitious
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| Concept: | [Motion downwards] Descent. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus., avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide., declivity, dip, hill.
-verbs
descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump., dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall., tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.
-adjectives
descending; descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent, deciduous; nodding to its fall.
-adverbs
downhill, downwards.
-phrases
the bottom fell out.
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| Antonyms: | ascent |
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