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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow over the top |
| Synonyms: | fill, fill up, hold no more, overflow, run over, spill, swell, teem, well over |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, think through |
| Notes: | estimate implies a calculation has been performed and it is on that basis that a judgment or valuation is being made, while estimation implies that an on-the-spot evaluation is being performed and that it is an opinion based on that evaluation; an estimate conveys a more reasoned or impersonal judgment than an estimation |
| Main Entry: | frisk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | search |
| Synonyms: | check, fan, inspect, run over, shake down |
| Main Entry: | glance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look at briefly |
| Synonyms: | browse, check out, dip into, flash*, flip through, gaze, get a load of, glimpse, leaf through, peek, peep, peer, riffle through, run over, run through, scan, see, skim through, take a gander, take in, thumb through, view |
| Notes: | a glance captures more than a glimpse; the verb glance takes no object while glimpse does |
| Antonyms: | stare |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | play over with fire |
| Synonyms: | blaze, burn, dart, flick, flicker, fluctuate, flutter, ignite, kindle, leap, palpitate, quiver, ripple, run over, shoot, touch, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, waver |
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out, flood |
| Synonyms: | brim, bubble over, cascade, cover, deluge, discharge, drain, drown, engulf, fall over, gush, inundate, irrupt, issue, jet, leak, overbrim, overrun, overtop, pour, run over, rush, shed, shower, slop, slosh, soak, spill, spill over, spout, spray, spurt, squirt, submerge, surge, swamp, water, wave, well, well over, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | overlap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie over something else |
| Synonyms: | extend along, flap, fold over, go beyond, imbricate, lap over, overhang, overlay, overlie, overrun, project, protrude, ride, run over, shingle |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | overrun |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infest, spread over; exceed |
| Synonyms: | beset, choke, deluge, go beyond, inundate, invade, overflow, overgrow, overshoot, overspread, overstep, overwhelm, permeate, ravage, run on, run over, spill, spread like wildfire, surge, surpass, swarm, well over |
| Antonyms: | evacuate, retreat |
| Main Entry: | recapitulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go over something again |
| Synonyms: | epitomize, go over same ground, go the same round, outline, paraphrase, recap, recount, rehash, reiterate, repeat, rephrase, replay, restate, review, reword, run over, run through again, sum up, summarize |
| Notes: | recapitulate means to briefly summarize and repeat the main points; capitulate means to surrender under agreed conditions |
| Antonyms: | take back |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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