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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into being; arise |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, acquire, appear, become a reality, become visible, condense, crystallize, develop, eventuate, fall into place, grow, harden, materialize, mature, rise, set, settle, shape up, show up, take on character, take shape |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill, ruin |
| Main Entry: | loom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appear, often imposingly |
| Synonyms: | approach, await, be at hand, be coming, be forthcoming, be imminent, be in the cards, be in the wind, be near, become visible, break through, brew, bulk, come forth, come into view, come on, come on the scene, dawn, dominate, emanate, emerge, figure, gather, hang over, hover, impend, impress, issue, lower, make up, menace, mount, near, overhang, overshadow, overtop, portend, rear, rise, seem huge, seem large, show, soar, stand out, take shape, threaten, top, tower |
| Main Entry: | materialize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into being |
| Synonyms: | actualize, appear, be incarnate, be realized, become concrete, become real, become visual, coalesce, come about, come to pass, corporealize, develop, embody, emerge, entify, evolve, exteriorize, externalize, happen, hypostatize, make real, manifest, metamorphose, objectify, occur, personalize, personify, personize, pragmatize, realize, reify, substantialize, substantiate, symbolize, take form, take place, take shape, turn up, typify, unfold, visualize |
| Main Entry: | crystallize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become settled |
| Synonyms: | assume a pattern, become definite, become delineated, form into crystals, take form, take shape |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Form. |
| Category: | 1. General Form |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour (outline); structure; plasmature., feature, lineament, turn; phase (aspect); posture, attitude, pose., [Science of form] morphism., [Similarity of form] isomorphism., forming; formation, figuration, efformation; sculpture; plasmation.
-verbs
form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build (construct).
-adjectives
formed, [Receiving form] plastic, fictile; formative., [Give form] plasmic., [Similar in form] isomorphous.
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| Antonyms: | amorphism |
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