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taper/taper off
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease to a point |
| Synonyms: | abate, bate, close, come to a point, die away, die out, diminish, drain, dwindle, fade, lessen, narrow, recede, reduce, rescind, subside, thin, thin out, wane, weaken, wind down |
| Antonyms: | go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | water |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dampen; put water in |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bathe, damp, dilute, doctor, douse, drench, drool, flood, hose, imbue, inundate, irrigate, moisten, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, spatter, spray, sprinkle, steep, thin, wash, weaken, wet |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | weaken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce the strength of |
| Synonyms: | abate, adulterate, break up, cripple, crumble, cut, debase, debilitate, decline, decrease, depress, devitalize, dilute, diminish, droop, dwindle, ease up, enervate, exhaust, fade, fail, faint, flag, give way, halt, impair, impoverish, invalidate, languish, lessen, limp, lose, lose spirit, lower, minimize, mitigate, moderate, reduce, relapse, relax, sap, slow down, soften, temper, thin, thin out, tire, totter, tremble, undermine, vitiate, wane, water down, wilt |
| Antonyms: | build up, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | taper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decrease |
| Synonyms: | abate, bate, close, die away, die out, diminish, drain, dwindle, fade, lessen, narrow, recede, reduce, rescind, subside, taper off, thin, thin out, wane, weaken, wind down |
| Antonyms: | go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | water down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dilute |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, reduce, thin, thin down, weaken |
| Antonyms: | beef up, strengthen, thicken |
| Main Entry: | sophisticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adulterate |
| Synonyms: | alloy, amalgamate, attenuate, blend, cheapen, commingle, contaminate, cook, corrupt, cut*, debase, defile, degrade, denature, depreciate, deteriorate, devalue, dilute, dissolve, doctor up, doctor*, falsify, impair, infiltrate, intermix, irrigate, lace, load, make impure, mingle, mix, phony up, plant*, pollute, shave, spike*, taint, thin, transfuse, vitiate, water down, weaken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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ablaze, actinic, anacamptic, beaming, beamy, blazing, bright, bright as day, bright as noonday, bright as silver, bright as the sun at noonday, burnished, circumfulgent, clear, cloudless, effulgent, epipolic, flimmering, fluorescent, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurous, gairish, garish, glassy, glossy, guttering, heliographic, in a blaze, incandescent, inenubilable, interlucent, irradiated, lambent, light, light as day, light as noonday, light as the sun at noonday, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luculent, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, meridian, meteoric, nitid, noonday, noontide, orient, phosphorescent, photic, photoelastic, photogenic, photographic, plenilunar, radiant, refractive, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillant, self, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
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| Main Entry: | water |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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adlittoral, aquatic, aqueous, balneal, brashy, cloacal, diluent, diluted, drenching, eupotamic, grandinous, hydrodynamic, hyetal, interlacustrine, lacuscular, lacustrine, lenitic, lentic, limnal, lymphate, lymphatic, moiré, phreatic, pluvial, pluvious, rainy, showery, stagnicolous, stillicidous, subriguous, undigenous, vadose, watery, weak, wet
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