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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push to do something |
| Synonyms: | agitate, arouse, drive, encourage, excite, exhort, goad, incite, instigate, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, rally, sic, spur, stimulate, stir up, urge, whip up |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade, hold back, talk out of |
| Main Entry: | literally |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | word for word; exactly |
| Synonyms: | actually, completely, correctly, direct, directly, faithfully, indisputably, letter by letter, literatim, not figuratively, plainly, precisely, really, rightly, rigorously, sic, simply, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, undisputably, unerringly, unmistakably, verbatim, veritably |
| Notes: | literally means 'with truth to the letter; exactly' or according to the strictest sense of the word or words, while figuratively means 'by or as a figure of speech; metaphorically', or 'in a descriptive, analogous, but metaphorical sense of the word or words |
| Antonyms: | figuratively, loosely |
| Main Entry: | prod |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | urge, incite |
| Synonyms: | crowd*, egg on, excite, exhort, goad, goose, impel, instigate, jog memory, motivate, move, pique, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, remind, rouse, sic, sound, spark, spur, stimulate, stir up, trigger, turn on |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Scientists have long sought ways to sic the body's own immune system on cancer cells.
- The logic of this plan is to whip the boys into an elite vigilante unit, then sic them on the various drug dealers of.
- Supplement their diet with snails and sic them on the bugs in your orchard.
| Main Entry: | prompt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incite, cue |
| Synonyms: | advise, aid, arouse, assist, bring up, call forth, cause, convince, draw, egg on, elicit, evoke, exhort, get, give rise to, goad, help, help out, hint, impel, imply, indicate, induce, inspire, instigate, jog, mention, motivate, move, occasion, persuade, prick*, prod, propel, propose, provoke, refresh, remind, sic, spur, stimulate, suggest, talk into, urge, win over |
| Antonyms: | halt, prevent, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incite, prompt |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, countenance, drive, egg on, exhort, favor, fire up, goad, goose, impel, instigate, key up, press, prick, prod, propel, push, put up to, rally, rouse, sic, spark, stimulate, stir, trigger, turn on, urge, work up |
| Antonyms: | disapprove, discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | verbatim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exactly |
| Synonyms: | accurately, direct, directly, literally, literatim, precisely, sic, to the letter, word-for-word |
| Antonyms: | different |
| Main Entry: | so |
| Part of Speech: | conjunction |
| Definition: | in such a manner |
| Synonyms: | accordingly, afterward, apparently, because, consequently, ergo, exact, hence, indeed, likewise, quite, sic, similarly, then, therefore, thus, too, true, very, well |
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