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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | KO, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | extinguish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put out a fire |
| Synonyms: | blot out, blow out, choke, douse, drown, out, quench, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, suffocate, trample |
| Antonyms: | light |
| Main Entry: | gag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | silence, stop up |
| Synonyms: | balk, bottle up, choke, constrain, cork up, cork, curb, deaden, demur, garrote, keep the lid on, muffle, muzzle, obstruct, put the lid on, quiet, repress, restrain, shut down, shy, squash, squelch, stifle, still, stumble, suppress, tape up, throttle, tongue-tie |
| Main Entry: | hide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal; remain unseen |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, go into hiding, go underground, harbor, hold back, hole up, hush up, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, mask, not give away, not tell, obscure, plant, protect, put out of the way, reserve, salt away, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, squirrel, stash, stifle, stow away, suppress, take cover, tuck away, veil, withhold |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | bare, disclose, divulge, exhibit, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, unmask |
| Main Entry: | hush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to make quiet |
| Synonyms: | burke, choke, gag, muffle, mute, muzzle, quiet, quieten, shush, shut up, silence, stifle, still, stop, suppress |
| Antonyms: | yell |
| Main Entry: | hush up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep secret |
| Synonyms: | burke, conceal, cover, cover up, keep dark, sit on, smother, squash, stifle, suppress |
| Antonyms: | reveal, tell |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn off; cancel |
| Synonyms: | annul, cease, counteract, deaden, defeat, extinguish, forbid, halt, negative, neutralize, nix, nullify, prohibit, quash, quell, recant, refuse, revoke, ruin, scotch, shut off, smother, stifle, still, stop, suppress, turn out, veto |
| Antonyms: | begin, initiate, start, turn on |
| Main Entry: | muffle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suppress, make quiet |
| Synonyms: | conceal, cover, cushion, dampen, deaden, decrease, drown, dull, envelop, gag, hide, hush, mellow, mute, muzzle, put the lid on, quieten, shut down, silence, sit down on, smother, soft-pedal, soften, squelch, stifle, subdue, tone down, wrap* |
| Antonyms: | blab, let loose, tell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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