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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off; scatter |
| Synonyms: | afford, beam, branch out, broadcast, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, diverge, emanate, emit, expand, give out, gleam, glitter, illumine, irradiate, issue, light up, pour, proliferate, propagate, ramble, ramify, send out, shed, shine, shoot out, spread, spread out, sprinkle, strew, throw out, transmit, yield |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise young |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, care for, cultivate, educate, foster, grow, nurse, nurture, propagate, train |
| Notes: | one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | abandon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, breed, engender, father, fecundate, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, produce young, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, repopulate, sire, spawn |
| Antonyms: | abort, kill |
| Main Entry: | sow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, disject, disseminate, drill, fling, grow, implant, inseminate, lodge, pitch, propagate, put in, raise, scatter, seed, strew, toss |
| Antonyms: | dig, harvest, reap |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | publicize |
| Synonyms: | advertise, blazon, broadcast, cast, circulate, declare, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, make known, make public, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, radiate, scatter, shed, sow, strew, transmit |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | bruit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rumor |
| Synonyms: | advertise, blazon, broadcast, circulate, disseminate, gossip, noise, promulgate, propagate, report, spread, spread the word, whisper |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Rear. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; special |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland., occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside, scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone., stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper., wake; train (sequence)., reverse; other side of the shield.
-verbs
be behind; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
-adjectives
back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal.
-adverbs
behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back., after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward.
-phrases
ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.
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| Antonyms: | front |
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