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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ruin |
| Synonyms: | bane, bankrupt, beggar, botch, break*, bring down, bring to ruin, bust, clean out, crush, decimate, deface, defeat, defile, demolish, deplete, deplore, depredate, desecrate, despoil, destroyer, destruction, devour, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, downfall, drain, exhaust, fleece, impoverish, injure, lay waste, maim, make a mess of, mangle, mar, mutilate, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pauperize, pillage, rape, ravish, raze, reduce, sack, shatter, smash, spoil, spoilate, total*, undoing, use up, wipe out, wrack, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrecker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | digest |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abridged, analectic, compendious, condensed, curtailed, minified, synoptic, truncated
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| Concept: | [Difference at different times] Change. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
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change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
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| Antonyms: | permanence |
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| Concept: | Limit. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; general |
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limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods., boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, line of circumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra; sluice, floodgate.
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| Concept: | Price. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages (remuneration); value., dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage., bill (account); shot.
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| Concept: | Waste. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; rubbish (useless)., mountain in labor.
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