Nearby Words
reverted
| Main Entry: |
reverted
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unclaimed |
| Synonyms: | confiscated, returned, seized |
| Main Entry: | inverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposite |
| Synonyms: | changed, contrary, converse, flipped, inverted, reverse, reversed, reverted, transposed, turned, turned over |
| Main Entry: | backslide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go astray |
| Synonyms: | apostatize, deviate, fall from grace, lapse, leave the straight and narrow, relapse, revert, sin, slip |
| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into being; bring about |
| Synonyms: | be at the bottom of, begin, brainstorm*, break in, break the ice, breed, bring to pass, come out with, compel, cook up, create, dream up, effect, elicit, engender, evoke, fire up, generate, get things rolling, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, introduce, kickoff, kindle, lead to, let, make, make up, motivate, muster, occasion, open, originate, precipitate, produce, provoke, result in, revert, secure, sow the seeds, start the ball rolling, think up, work up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, become less |
| Synonyms: | abate, backslide, cheapen, decay, decrease, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, diminish, disimprove, disintegrate, droop, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fail, fall, fall off, flag, go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, languish, lapse, lose value, lower, pine, recede, relapse, retrograde, return, revert, rot, sag, settle, shrink, sink, slide, subside, wane, weaken, worsen |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
| Antonyms: | improve, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, deteriorate |
| Synonyms: | backslide, come apart at seams, corrode, corrupt, decline, decrease, deprave, descend, die on vine, disimprove, disintegrate, fall off, go downhill, go to pieces, go to the dogs, lapse, lessen, regress, retrogress, return, revert, rot, sink, slip, vitiate, worsen |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
| Antonyms: | develop, improve |
| Main Entry: | get back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | return |
| Synonyms: | arrive home, come back, come home, reappear, revert, revisit, turn back |
| Antonyms: | depart, go away, leave |
| Main Entry: | go back/go back on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break promise; change one's mind |
| Synonyms: | abandon, be unfaithful, betray, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch, renege, repudiate, retract, return, revert, run out on |
| Antonyms: | keep, promise |
| Main Entry: | invert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reverse; turn upside down |
| Synonyms: | alter, backtrack, capsize, change, convert, double back, evert, flip, flip-flop, introvert, inverse, modify, overturn, renege, revert, tip, transplace, transpose, turn, turn down, turn inside out, turn over, turn the tables, upend, upset, upturn |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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