| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come up against a situation |
| Synonyms: | abide, accost, affront, allow, be confronted by, bear, beard, bit the bullet, brace, brave, brook, challenge, confront, contend, cope with, countenance, court, cross, dare, deal with, defy, encounter, endure, experience, eyeball, fight, fly in face of, go up against, grapple with, make a stand, meet, oppose, resist, risk, run into, square off, stand, stomach*, submit, suffer, sustain, swallow*, take, take it, take on, take the bull by the horns, tell off, tolerate, venture, withstand |
| Antonyms: | hide, retreat, run, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | gobble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat hurriedly |
| Synonyms: | cram, devour, gorge, gulp, guzzle, ingurgitate, scarf, stuff*, suck up, swallow, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | nibble |
| Main Entry: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat voraciously |
| Synonyms: | blimp out, bolt*, cloy, congest, cram, devour, eat like a horse, feed, fill, glut, gobble, gormandize, gulp, guzzle, hoover, jade, jam, make a pig of, overeat, overindulge, pack, sate, satiate, stuff*, surfeit, swallow, wolf* |
| Notes: | a canyon is a narrow chasm with steep cliff walls formed by running water; a gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides formed by running water; a ravine is a deep narrow steep-sided valley formed by running water |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast |
| Main Entry: | go through |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
| Synonyms: | bear, brave, experience, suffer, support, survive, swallow, tolerate, undergo, withstand |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | gulp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat, drink fast |
| Synonyms: | belt, choke down, chugalug, consume, devour, dispatch, dispose, drop*, englut, gobble, guzzle, imbibe, ingurgitate, inhale*, pour, quaff, scarf down, slop, slosh, stuff, swallow, swig, swill, take in, toss off, wolf down, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | nibble |
| Main Entry: | hang tough |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
| Synonyms: | be patient with, bear, bear the brunt, brave, cope with, face, go through, grin and bear it, gut it out, hang in, hang in there, keep up, live out, live through, meet with, never say die, put up with, ride out, sit through, stand, stick in there, stick it out, stomach*, suffer, swallow*, take, take it, tough it out, weather, withstand |
| Main Entry: | imbibe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drink, often heavily |
| Synonyms: | absorb, assimilate, belt, consume, down, gorge, guzzle, ingest, ingurgitate, irrigate, partake, put away, quaff, raise a few, sip, swallow, swig, swill, toss* |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
| Main Entry: | lump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tolerate, withstand |
| Synonyms: | abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up with, stand, stomach, suffer, swallow, take |
| Antonyms: | change, fight, stand up |
| Main Entry: | mumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say low and inarticulately |
| Synonyms: | grumble, maunder, murmur, mutter, ramble, rumble, say to oneself, speak, stammer, stutter, swallow, talk, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whimper, whine, whisper |
| Antonyms: | speak clearly |