| rebel | | |
| n. (person) | 1. greyback, johnny, johnny reb, reb, rebel | `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ confederate soldier | a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. |
| n. (person) | 2. freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel | a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions). |
| ~ mutineer | someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers). |
| ~ crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer | a disputant who advocates reform. |
| ~ revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter | a radical supporter of political or social revolution. |
| ~ young turk | a member of one or more of the insurgent groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule. |
| ~ nat turner, turner | United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831). |
| ~ denmark vesey, vesey | United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822). |
| ~ sir william wallace, wallace | Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305). |
| n. (person) | 3. maverick, rebel | someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action. |
| ~ recusant, nonconformist | someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct. |
| v. (social) | 4. arise, rebel, rise, rise up | take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance. |
| ~ dissent, protest, resist | express opposition through action or words.; "dissent to the laws of the country" |
| ~ revolt | make revolution.; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again" |
| ~ mutiny | engage in a mutiny against an authority. |
| v. (social) | 5. rebel, renegade | break with established customs. |
| ~ dissent, protest, resist | express opposition through action or words.; "dissent to the laws of the country" |
| dilute | | |
| v. (change) | 1. cut, dilute, reduce, thin, thin out | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.; "cut bourbon" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| ~ water down | make less strong or intense.; "water down the mixture" |
| v. (change) | 2. adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.; "adulterate liquor" |
| ~ stretch, extend | increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice" |
| ~ spoil, corrupt | alter from the original. |
| ~ water down | thin by adding water to.; "They watered down the moonshine" |
| ~ doctor, doctor up, sophisticate | alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" |
| adj. | 3. dilute, diluted | reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity.; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" |
| ~ thinned, weakened, cut | mixed with water.; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup" |
| ~ washy, weak, watery | overly diluted; thin and insipid.; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" |
| ~ white | (of coffee) having cream or milk added. |
| mingle | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify | to bring or combine together or with something else.; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ aggregate, combine | gather in a mass, sum, or whole. |
| ~ concoct | make a concoction (of) by mixing. |
| ~ combine, compound | combine so as to form a whole; mix.; "compound the ingredients" |
| ~ blend, immingle, intermingle, intermix | combine into one.; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" |
| v. (social) | 2. mingle | get involved or mixed-up with.; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair" |
| v. (stative) | 3. jumble, mingle | be all mixed up or jumbled together.; "His words jumbled" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
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