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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | earn, acquire |
| Synonyms: | bring home bacon, bring in, clean up, clear, gain, get, harvest, hustle, net, obtain, pull, pull down, rate, realize, reap, receive, secure, sock, take in |
| Antonyms: | lose |
| Main Entry: | perpetrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be responsible for |
| Synonyms: | act, bring about, carry out, commit, do, effect, enact, execute, inflict, perform, pull, up and do, wreak |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
| Main Entry: | pick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, harvest |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, choose, collect, cull, cut, draw, pluck, pull |
| Antonyms: | grow, plant |
| Main Entry: | pry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | force or break open |
| Synonyms: | disengage, disjoin, divide, elevate, elicit, extort, extract, heave, hoist, jimmy, lever, lift, move, pick up, press, prize, pull, push, raise, rear, separate, take up, tear, tilt, turn, turn out, twist, uplift, upraise, uprear, wrest, wring |
| Antonyms: | close |
| Main Entry: | put on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, confound, confuse, counterfeit, deceive, don, fake, feign, make believe, masquerade, playact, pose, pull, put on a front, put on an act, sham, simulate, strike, take on, trick |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
| Main Entry: | rack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | torture; strain |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agonize, crucify, distress, excruciate, force, harass, harrow, martyr, oppress, pain, persecute, pull, shake, stress, stretch, tear, torment, try, wrench, wring |
| Notes: | rack is the linear gear and pinion is the circular gear in a mechanism rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |
| Antonyms: | please, pleasure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | receive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accept delivery of something |
| Synonyms: | accept, acquire, admit, apprehend, appropriate, arrogate, assume, be given, be in receipt of, be informed, be told, catch, collect, come by, come into, cop, corral*, derive, draw, earn, gain, gather, get, get from, get hands on, get hold of, grab, hear, hold, inherit, latch on to, make, obtain, perceive, pick up, pocket, procure, pull, pull down, reap, redeem, secure, seize, snag*, take, take in, take possession, win |
| Antonyms: | deliver, donate, give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove blame, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absolve, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber, dismiss, dispense, excuse, exempt, force to resign, free, let off, privilege, pull, release, spare, throw out, unburden, yank* |
| Antonyms: | accuse, blame, condemn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chime; make bell-like noise |
| Synonyms: | bang, beat, bong, buzz, clang, clap, jangle, jingle, knell, peal, play, pull, punch, resonate, resound, reverberate, sound, strike, tinkle, tintinnabulate, toll, vibrate |
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