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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| Synonyms: | a lot*, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jillion, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain*, much, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, trillion, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | broaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, supplement |
| Synonyms: | augment, breadthen, develop, enlarge, expand, fatten, grow, increase, open up, ream, spread, stretch, swell, widen |
| Antonyms: | decrease, narrow, restrict |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | beat, bilk, chisel, cozen, deceive, defraud, gyp, overreach, ream, swindle, take, trick, use |
| Antonyms: | aid, help |
| Main Entry: | castigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize severely |
| Synonyms: | baste, bawl out, beat, berate, blister, cane, censure, chasten, chastise, chew out, come down on, correct, criticize, discipline, drag over the coals, dress down, drub, excoriate, flay, flog, jump down one's throat, lambaste, lash, lay out, lean on, penalize, pummel, punish, rail, rate, read the riot act, ream, rebuke, reprimand, scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge, thrash, tongue-lash, upbraid, whip |
| Antonyms: | compliment, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | chastise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold, discipline |
| Synonyms: | baste, beat, berate, castigate, censure, chasten, chew out, climb all over, correct, ferule, flog, lash, lay into, lean on, pummel, punish, ream, scourge, skelp, slap down, spank, thrash, upbraid, whip |
| Notes: | chasten means to correct by punishment, to take to task - to restrain or subdue; chastise means to punish, as by beating or to criticize severely |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, compliment, encourage, forgive, inspirit, promote |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defraud, fool |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do a number on, do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, snow, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take for a ride, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dress down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
| Synonyms: | bawl out, berate, carpet, castigate, censure, chew out, lash, rail, rake over coals, ream, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, tear into, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flatter, praise |
| Main Entry: | pad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tablet of paper |
| Synonyms: | block, jotter, memorandum, notebook, notepad, paper, parchment, quire, ream, scratch, scratch pad, slips |
| Main Entry: | penetrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce; get through physically |
| Synonyms: | access, barge in, bayonet, blow in, bore, break in, breeze in, bust in, charge, come, crack, diffuse, drill, drive, eat through, encroach, enter, filter in, force, get in, go through, gore, impale, infiltrate, ingress, insert, insinuate, introduce, invade, jab, knife, make a hole, make an entrance, pass through, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, pop in, prick, probe, puncture, ream, run into, saturate, seep, sink into, spear, stab, stick into, suffuse, thrust, trespass |
| Notes: | the difference between permeate and pervade is that the former is affecting a surface, the latter an area; a characteristic of penetrate is that it is effected upon a solid substance |
| Antonyms: | exit, take out, withdraw |
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