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re-aped
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | collect, harvest |
| Synonyms: | acquire, bring in, come to have, crop, cull, cut, derive, draw, gain, garner, gather, get, get as a result, glean, ingather, mow, obtain, pick, pick up, pluck, procure, produce, profit, realize, receive, recover, retrieve, secure, strip, take in, win |
| Antonyms: | plant, sow |
| Main Entry: | attain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | achieve, accomplish |
| Synonyms: | accede to, acquire, arrive, arrive at, bring off, come through, complete, cop, earn, effect, fulfill, gain, get fat, get hands on, get there, get*, glom onto, grasp, hit, latch onto, make it, obtain, procure, promote, pull off, rack up, reach, realize, reap, score, secure, snag, succeed, unzip, win |
| Notes: | obtain means to come into possession of; attain means to gain with effort |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, fail, forfeit, give in, give up, lose, miss, surrender |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | profit |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, acquire, clean up, earn, gain, gather, get, glean, make, net, obtain, pick up, realize, reap, receive, secure, win |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | earn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make money |
| Synonyms: | acquire, attain, be gainfully employed, be in line for, bring home, bring home the bacon, bring home the groceries, bring in, clean up, clear*, collect, consummate, cop, derive, draw, effect, gain, gather, get, gross, hustle, make, make fast buck, make it big, net, obtain, pay one's dues, perform, pick up, procure, profit, pull down, pull*, rate, realize, reap, receive, scare up, score*, scrape together, secure, snag*, sock, turn, win, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | cost, lose, spend, throw away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | earn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deserve a reward |
| Synonyms: | acquire, attain, bag, be entitled to, be worthy of, come by, gain, harvest, merit, net, rate, reap, score, warrant, win |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically remove, draw out |
| Synonyms: | avulse, bring out, catheterize, cull, derive, distill, eke out, elicit, eradicate, evoke, evulse, exact, express, extirpate, extort, extricate, garner, gather, get, glean, obtain, pick up, pluck, press out, pry, pull, reap, secure, select, separate, siphon, squeeze, take, tear, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest, wring, yank |
| Antonyms: | add, insert, put in |
| Main Entry: | farm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce crops, raise animals |
| Synonyms: | bring under cultivation, crop, cultivate, direct, dress, garden, graze, grow, harrow, harvest, homestead, husband, landscape, look after, operate, pasture, plant, plow, ranch, reap, run, seed, sow, subdue, superintend, tend, till, till the soil, work |
| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acquire, win |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, advance, ameliorate, annex, attain, augment, benefit, boost, bring in, build up, capture, clear, collect, complete, consummate, earn, enlarge, enlist, expand, fulfill, gather, get, glean, grow, harvest, have, improve, increase, land, make, make a killing, move forward, net, obtain, overtake, parlay, perfect, pick up, procure, produce, profit, progress, promote, rack up, reach, realize, reap, score*, secure, succeed, win over |
| Antonyms: | exhaust, forfeit, lose, miss, pass, spend, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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