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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab, perforate |
| Synonyms: | bore, cut, drill, enter, hurt, jab, lance, pierce, pink, punch, puncture, slash, slit, smart, spur, sting |
| Main Entry: | rent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening, split |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, chink, cleavage, crack, discord, dissension, division, faction, fissure, flaw, fracture, gash, hole, perforation, rift, rip, rupture, schism, slash, slit, tatter, tear |
| Antonyms: | closed |
| Main Entry: | rip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tear, cut |
| Synonyms: | cleavage, gash, hole, laceration, rent, slash, slit, split |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | rip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear, cut |
| Synonyms: | burst, claw, cleave, fray, frazzle, gash, hack, lacerate, rend, rive, score, shred, slash, slit, split |
| Antonyms: | close, sew |
| Main Entry: | scar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mark, hurt |
| Synonyms: | beat, blemish, brand, cut, damage, deface, disfigure, flaw, injure, maim, mar, pinch, score, scratch, slash, stab, traumatize |
| Antonyms: | perfect, smooth |
| Main Entry: | score |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, nick |
| Synonyms: | cleave, crosshatch, deface, furrow, gash, gouge, graze, groove, indent, line, mark, mill, notch, scrape, scratch, serrate, slash, slit |
| Antonyms: | mend, smooth |
| Main Entry: | shave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut outer covering off |
| Synonyms: | barber, brush, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, graze, kiss, make bare, pare, peel, plane, prune, shear, shingle, shred, skim, skin, slash, slice thin, sliver, strip, touch, trim |
| Main Entry: | shorten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, decrease |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, blue pencil, bob, boil down, chop, clip, compress, condense, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut to the bone, dock, edit, elide, excerpt, lessen, lop, make a long story short, minimize, put in a nutshell, reduce, retrench, shrink, slash, snip, trim |
| Antonyms: | amplify, elongate, enlarge, grow, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | slam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize very harshly |
| Synonyms: | attack, castigate, damn, excoriate, flay, lambaste*, lash into, pan, scathe, scourge, shoot down, slap, slash, vilify |
| Antonyms: | flatter, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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