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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rock, sway |
| Synonyms: | billow, drift, flow, glide, heave, incline, jibe, lean, lumber, lurch, pitch, ramble, range, reel, roam, rove, run, stagger, stray, surge, swagger, swing, toss, tumble, undulate, waddle, wallow, wave, welter, yaw |
| Antonyms: | stabilize, steady |
| Main Entry: | sip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drink slowly |
| Synonyms: | drink in, extract, imbibe, partake, quaff, sample, savor, sup, swallow, taste, toss |
| Antonyms: | down, slurp |
| Main Entry: | sling |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw or hang over |
| Synonyms: | bung, cast, catapult, chuck, dangle, fire, fling, heave, hoist, hurl, launch, lob, peg, pitch, raise, send, shoot, suspend, swing, toss, weight |
| Main Entry: | sow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, disject, disseminate, drill, fling, grow, implant, inseminate, lodge, pitch, propagate, put in, raise, scatter, seed, strew, toss |
| Antonyms: | dig, harvest, reap |
| Main Entry: | squirm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wiggle, fidget |
| Synonyms: | agonize, flounder, shift, skew, squiggle, toss, twist, wind, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| Antonyms: | sit still |
| Main Entry: | stir |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, agitate |
| Synonyms: | beat, blend, disturb, flutter, mix, move, move about, quiver, rustle, shake, toss, tremble, whip, whisk |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | swallow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume |
| Synonyms: | absorb, belt, bolt*, chugalug, devour, dispatch, dispose, down, drink, drop, eat, gobble, gulp, imbibe, ingest, ingurgitate, inhale, put away, quaff, sip, slurp, swig, swill, take, toss, wash down, wolf |
| Antonyms: | expel, regurgitate, spit out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flail about; beat |
| Synonyms: | batter, beat up, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, bury, cane, chasten, chastise, clobber, crush, defeat, flagellate, flog, jerk, kill, lambaste*, lick, maul, murder, overwhelm, paste, pelt, pitch, pound, pummel, punish, rout, rush, scourge, seesaw, slaughter, spank, stir, strike, surge, tan, tan one's hide, thresh, toss, toss and turn, trash, trim, trounce, wallop, wax, whip, work over, writhe |
| Notes: | trash means to beat, defeat, or move violently; thresh means to separate seeds of grain from husks by beating |
| Antonyms: | be still |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | throw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | propel something through the air |
| Synonyms: | bandy, barrage, bombard, buck, bunt, butt, cant, cast, catapult, chuck, dash, deliver, discharge, dislodge, drive, fell, fire, flick, fling, fling off, flip, floor, force, heave, hurl, impel, lapidate, launch, let fly, let go, lift, lob, overturn, overwhelm, peg, pellet, pelt, pepper, pitch, precipitate, project, push, put, scatter, send, shove, shower, shy, sling, splatter, spray, sprinkle, start, stone, strew, thrust, toss, tumble, unhorse, unseat, upset, volley, waft |
| Antonyms: | catch, receive |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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