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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move fast and display |
| Synonyms: | bolt, brandish, dart, dash, disport, exhibit, expose, flaunt, flit, flourish, fly, parade, race, shoot, show, show off, speed, spring, streak, sweep, trot out, whistle, zoom |
| Antonyms: | pause, slow, walk |
| Main Entry: | flounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce; intermittently move |
| Synonyms: | fling, jerk, mince, nancy, prance, sashay, spring, stamp, storm, strut, swish, throw, toss |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | issue, surge, run out |
| Synonyms: | abound, arise, brim, cascade, circulate, continue, course, deluge, discharge, disembogue, dribble, ebb, emanate, emerge, emit, exudate, exude, flood, glide, gurgle, gush, inundate, jet, leak, move, ooze, overflow, pass, percolate, pour, proceed, progress, pullulate, regurgitate, result, ripple, roll, rush, slide, sluice, smooth along, spew, spill, splash, spring, spurt, sputter, squirt, stream, sweep, swell, swirl, teem, trickle, tumble, void, well forth |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | forgive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop blame and grant pardon |
| Synonyms: | absolve, accept apology, acquit, allow for, amnesty, bear no malice, bear with, bury the hatchet, clear, commute, condone, dismiss from mind, efface, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, extenuate, forget, kiss and make up, laugh off, let bygones be bygones, let it go, let off easy, let off, let pass, let up on, make allowance, overlook, palliate, pocket, purge, release, relent, remit, reprieve, respite, spring, think no more of, turn other cheek, wink at, wipe slate clean |
| Antonyms: | accuse, blame, censure, charge, punish |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | liberate, let go |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, bail, bail out, clear, cut loose, deliver, demobilize, discharge, disengage, disenthrall, disimprison, dismiss, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, let loose, let off the hook, let off, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, pardon, parole, put on the street, ransom, redeem, release, relieve, reprieve, rescue, save, set free, spring*, turn loose, turn out, unbind, uncage, unchain, undo, unfetter, unfix, unleash, untie |
| Antonyms: | confine, enslave, hold, incarcerate, restrain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gallop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bolt, race with slight jumping motion |
| Synonyms: | amble, canter, career, course, dart, dash, fly, hasten, hurdle, hurry, jump, leap, lope, pace, rack, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, sprint, stride, tear along, trot, zoom |
| Main Entry: | gambol |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tumble playfully |
| Synonyms: | bound, caper, carry on, cavort, cut, cut a caper, cut loose, fool around, frisk, frolic, hop, horse around, jump, kibitz around, kick up one's heels, lark, leap, play, prance, revel, roister, rollick, romp, skip, sport, spring, whoop it up |
| Notes: | a gamble (noun) is a risky act, venture, bet, or wager - to gamble (verb) is to take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; a gambol (noun) a skipping or leaping about in frolic - to gambol (verb) is to dance and skip about in play or to frolic |
| Main Entry: | gush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out |
| Synonyms: | burst, cascade, emanate, emerge, flood, flow, flush, issue, jet, pour, roll, run, rush, sluice, spew, spout, spring, spurt, stream, surge, well |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | happen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to pass; occur |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, arrive, be found, become a fact, become known, become of, befall, betide, bump, chance, come about, come after, come into being, come into existence, come off, crop up, develop, down, ensue, eventuate, fall, follow, go on, hit, issue, light, luck, materialize, meet, pass, present itself, proceed, recur, result, shake, smoke*, spring, stumble, stumble upon, supervene, take effect, take place, transpire, turn out, turn up, what goes |
| Notes: | happen means to come to pass or occur; transpire means to come to be known or come to light |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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