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| Main Entry: |
sop
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench |
| Synonyms: | absorb, bribe, dip, douse, dunk, milksop, saturate, soak, steep, weakling, wet |
| Main Entry: | bribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payoff to influence illegal or wrong activity |
| Synonyms: | allurement, bait, blackmail, buyoff, compensation, contract, corrupt money, corrupting gift, enticement, envelope*, feedbag, fringe benefit, gift, goody, graft, gratuity, gravy, grease, hush money, ice*, incentive, inducement, influence peddling, kickback, lagniappe, lure, payola, perk*, perquisite, present, price, protection*, remuneration, reward, sop, sweetener, sweetening, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | buy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bribe |
| Synonyms: | corrupt, fix, grease palm, have, land, lubricate, oil palm, ransom, reach, redeem, sop, square, suborn, tamper |
Example Sentences
- The pasta is cut on traditional bronze dies, resulting in a rough texture designed to sop up the ingredients that dress it.
- The granting of access did seem a small sop to international opinion.
- Sop up extra liquid with toasted and buttered flour tortillas.
| Main Entry: | customary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | SOP, accepted, according to Hoyle, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, in a rut, in the groove, normal, ordinary, orthodox, playing it safe, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, same old, standard, standard operating procedure, stipulated, traditional, understood, universal, wonted |
| Notes: | habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed practice; customary means in accordance with convention or custom; usual means commonly or normally encountered, experienced, or observed |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with water |
| Synonyms: | douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
| Synonyms: | blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | drench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wet thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerse, impregnate, inundate, pour, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, submerge, teem |
| Antonyms: | dry, parch |
| Main Entry: | drink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take in liquid |
| Synonyms: | absorb, belt, booze, consume, dissipate, down, drain, gargle, gulp, guzzle, hit the bottle, imbibe, indulge, inhale, irrigate, lap, liquor up, nip, partake of, put away, quaff, sip, slosh, slurp, soak up, sop, sponge, suck, sup, swallow, swig, swill, tank up, thirst, tipple, toast, toss off, wash down, wet whistle |
| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, knock over, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, whelm, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
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