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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, clobbering, comedown, confusion, debacle, disaster, drubbing, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow, retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, shutout, thrashing, trashing, upset, vanquishment, walkover, washout, waxing, whipping |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Main Entry: | bawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yell |
| Synonyms: | bark, bellow, bluster, call, cheer, clamor, holler, howl, roar, rout, scream, screech, shout, shriek, vociferate |
| Notes: | a ball is round object or a formal dance; to bawl is to cry loudly |
| Main Entry: | bellow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | holler |
| Synonyms: | bark, bawl, bay, beller, blare, bluster, bray, call, clamor, cry, howl, low, roar, rout, scream, shout, shriek, wail, whoop, yawp, yell, yelp |
| Main Entry: | carnival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outdoor celebration |
| Synonyms: | Mardi Gras, amusement park, bacchanal, carny, carousal, circus, conviviality, exposition, fair, feasting, festival, fete, fiesta, frolic, gala, grind show, heyday, jamboree, jollification, jubilee, masquerade, merrymaking, orgy, ragbag, revelry, rout, saturnalia, side show, spree, street fair |
| Main Entry: | clamor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cry out, make commotion |
| Synonyms: | agitate, bark, bawl, bellow, bluster, claim, debate, demand, dispute, holler, put up a howl, raise Cain, raise the roof, roar, rout, shout |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, be silent |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crowd |
| Synonyms: | army, dense mass, flock, horde, host, legion, multitude, rout, scores, shower, swarm, throng |
| Main Entry: | concourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crowd, group |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, assembly, collection, concursion, confluence, convergence, crush, gang, gathering, joining, junction, linkage, meeting, mob, multitude, rout, throng |
| Main Entry: | conquer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat, overcome |
| Synonyms: | beat, bring to knees, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, control, cream*, crush, discomfit, drub, foil, frustrate, get the better of, humble, lick, master, outwit, overmaster, overpower, override, overthrow, prevail, quell, reduce, rout, shut down, subdue, subjugate, succeed, surmount, throw, thwart, total*, trample underfoot, trash, triumph, vanquish, whip, wipe off map, worst, zap |
| Antonyms: | capitulate, fail, give up, lose, retreat, succumb, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win, clean sweep, conquering, coup, defeating, discomfiture, grand slam, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, routing, score, splash*, subdual, subjection, subjugation, success, takeover, triumph, vanquishment, win |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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