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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get away from |
| Synonyms: | avoid, baffle, balk, beat around bush, beg the question, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, flee, fly, fudge, get around, give the runaround, hedge, hide, keep distance, lay low, lead on a merry chase, lie, parry, pass up, pretend, prevaricate, pussyfoot, put off, shift, shirk, shuck, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, slip out, sneak away, steer clear of, tergiversate, trick, waffle, weasel |
| Antonyms: | face, meet, take on |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trade |
| Synonyms: | alternate, bandy, bargain, barter, buy and sell, cash in, castle, change, change hands, commute, contact with, convert into, correspond, deal in, displace, flip-flop, give and take, go over to, hook up, horse trade, interchange, invert, link up, market, network, pass to, pay back, rearrange, reciprocate, replace, return the compliment, reverse, revise, seesaw, shift, shuffle, shuttle, substitute, swap, swap horses, switch, traffic, transact, transfer, transpose, truck, turn the tables |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | fudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fake, misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | avoid, color, cook up, dodge, embellish, embroider, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, falsify, hedge, magnify, overstate, pad, patch, shuffle, slant, stall |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | hedge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid, dodge |
| Synonyms: | be noncommittal, beat around the bush, blow hot and cold, cop a plea, cop out, duck, equivocate, evade, flip-flop, fudge, give the run around, hem and haw, jive, pass the buck, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, run around, shilly-shally, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stall, stonewall, temporize, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle |
| Antonyms: | confront, face, meet |
| Main Entry: | hobble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | limp |
| Synonyms: | clump, dodder, falter, halt, hitch, scuff, shuffle, stagger, stumble, totter |
| Antonyms: | go, move, run, walk |
| Main Entry: | juggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead, falsify; handle several things at once |
| Synonyms: | alter, beguile, betray, bluff, change, conjure, delude, disguise, doctor*, double-cross, fix, humbug, illude, maneuver, manipulate, misrepresent, modify, perform magic, prestidigitate, shuffle, take in, tamper with, trim |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jumble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hodgepodge |
| Synonyms: | assortment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, farrago, gallimaufry, garbage, goulash, hash, litter, medley, mess, miscellany, mishmash, mixture, muddle, mélange, olio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, snarl, tangle, tumble |
| Antonyms: | order, organization |
| Main Entry: | jumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, confuse |
| Synonyms: | clutter, confound, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, disorder, disorganize, disturb, entangle, foul up, mess up, mistake, muddle, rummage, shuffle, snarl, tangle, tumble |
| Antonyms: | arrange, clear up, order, organize |
| Main Entry: | lag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move slowly; delay |
| Synonyms: | be behind, dally, dawdle, decrease, dillydally, diminish, drag, drag one's feet, ebb, fail, fall off, falter, flag, get no place fast, hang back, hobble, idle, inch, inch along, jelly, limp, linger, loiter, lose strength, lounge, plod, poke, procrastinate, put off, retard, saunter, shuffle, slacken, slouch, slow, slow up, stagger, stay, straggle, tail, tarry, tool, trail, trudge, wane |
| Antonyms: | run, rush |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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