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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to rest; fall |
| Synonyms: | alight, bed down, decline, descend, flop, immerse, land, lay, light, lodge, perch, place, plop, plunge, put, repose, roost, seat, set down, settle down, sink, sit, submerge, submerse, subside, touch down |
| Antonyms: | move |
| Main Entry: | soak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, wet |
| Synonyms: | absorb, assimilate, bathe, damp, dip, drink, drown, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerge, immerse, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, macerate, marinate, merge, moisten, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pour into, pour on, saturate, seethe, soften, sop, souse, steep, submerge, take in, wash, water, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
| Synonyms: | brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | steep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | let soak |
| Synonyms: | bathe, damp, drench, fill, imbue, immerse, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, invest, macerate, marinate, moisten, permeate, pervade, saturate, soak, sodden, sop, souse, submerge, suffuse, waterlog |
| Notes: | a gentle slope is a glacis; a precipitous slope is a steep |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm, flood |
| Synonyms: | beset, besiege, crowd, drench, drown, engulf, inundate, overcrowd, overflow, overload, satiate, saturate, sink, snow*, submerge, submerse, surfeit, swallow up, upset, wash, waterlog, whelm |
| Antonyms: | pass up, underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | swim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make way through water using arms, legs |
| Synonyms: | bathe, breast-stroke, crawl, dive, dog-paddle, float, freestyle, glide, go for a swim, go swimming, go wading, high-dive, move, paddle, practice, race, skinny-dip, slip, stroke, submerge, take a dip, wade |
| Main Entry: | immerge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dip |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bathe, douse, drench, duck, dunk, immerse, irrigate, lave, lower, moisten, pitch, plunge, rinse, slop, slosh, soak, souse, splash*, steep, submerge, submerse, wash, water, wet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dip |
| Synonyms: | bail, baptize, bathe, douse, drench, duck, dunk, heap, immerse, irrigate, ladle, lave, load, lower, moisten, pitch, plunge, rinse, scoop, slop, slosh, soak, souse, splash*, steep, submerge, submerse, wash, water, wet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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