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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dip in liquid |
| Synonyms: | douse, duck, immerse, saturate, soak, sop, souse, submerge, submerse |
| Main Entry: | founder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go under, fail |
| Synonyms: | abort, be lost, break down, collapse, come to nothing, fall, fall through, go down, go lame, go to bottom, lurch, miscarry, misfire, sink, sprawl, stagger, stumble, submerge, submerse, trip |
| Notes: | founder means to sink, while flounder means to flail helplessly |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | go down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose, fall |
| Synonyms: | be beaten, be defeated, cave in, collapse, crumple, decline, decrease, descend, droop, drop, fold, founder, go under, keel, lessen, make less, pitch, plunge, reduce, sag, set, sink, slump, submerge, submerse, submit, succumb, suffer defeat, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | gain, go up, increase |
| Main Entry: | inundate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drown, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow, overrun, pour down on, snow*, submerge, swamp, whelm |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | let down; fall |
| Synonyms: | bring low, cast down, couch, demit, depress, descend, detrude, droop, drop, ground, let down, make lower, push down, reduce, set down, sink, submerge, take down |
| Antonyms: | elevate, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | merge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring or come together |
| Synonyms: | absorb, amalgamate, assimilate, be swallowed up, become lost in, become partners, blend, cement, centralize, coalesce, combine, come aboard, compound, conglomerate, consolidate, converge, deal one in, fuse, hitch on, hook up, immerge, incorporate, interface, intermingle, intermix, join, join up, line up, marry, meet, meld, melt into, mingle, mix, network, plug into, pool, slap on, submerge, synthesize, tack on, tag, team up, throw in together, tie in, unite |
| Antonyms: | divide, part, separate |
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out, flood |
| Synonyms: | brim, bubble over, cascade, cover, deluge, discharge, drain, drown, engulf, fall over, gush, inundate, irrupt, issue, jet, leak, overbrim, overrun, overtop, pour, run over, rush, shed, shower, slop, slosh, soak, spill, spill over, spout, spray, spurt, squirt, submerge, surge, swamp, water, wave, well, well over, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | overwhelm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flood, beat physically |
| Synonyms: | bury, conquer, crush, defeat, deluge, destroy, drown, drub, engulf, inundate, massacre, overcome, overflow, overpower, overrun, overthrow, rout, smother, submerge, swamp, thrash, total*, whip*, win* |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plunge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dive or fall fast |
| Synonyms: | belly-flop, career, cast, charge, dash, descend, dip, drive, drop, duck, fling, go down, go the limit, go whole hog, hurtle, immerge, immerse, jump, keel, lunge, lurch, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunk, propel, rush, shoot the works, sink, sound, submerge, submerse, swoop, take a flyer, take a header, tear, throw, throw oneself, thrust, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascend, increase, rise |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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