| camp | | |
| bivouac, camp, cantonment, encampment | (n.) | temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers.; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" |
| camp | (n.) | a group of people living together in a camp.; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake" |
| camp | (n.) | temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers.; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas" |
| camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack | (n.) | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
| camp | (n.) | a penal institution (often for forced labor).; "China has many camps for political prisoners" |
| camp | (n.) | something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality.; "the living room was pure camp" |
| camp, refugee camp | (n.) | shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs. |
| camp, summer camp | (n.) | a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months.; "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp" |
| bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent | (v.) | live in or as if in a tent.; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" |
| camp, camp down | (v.) | establish or set up a camp. |
| camp | (v.) | give an artificially banal or sexual quality to. |
| camp, campy | (adj.) | providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's" |
| reside | | |
| domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack | (v.) | make one's home in a particular place or community.; "may parents reside in Florida" |
| lodge in, occupy, reside | (v.) | live (in a certain place).; "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" |
| repose, reside, rest | (v.) | be inherent or innate in. |
| stay | | |
| stay | (n.) | continuing or remaining in a place or state.; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court" |
| arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage | (n.) | the state of inactivity following an interruption.; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" |
| stay | (n.) | a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted.; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" |
| stay | (n.) | a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset). |
| stay | (n.) | (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar. |
| remain, rest, stay | (v.) | stay the same; remain in a certain state.; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" |
| stay, stay put, stick, stick around | (v.) | stay put (in a certain place).; "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" |
| abide, bide, stay | (v.) | dwell.; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" |
| continue, remain, stay, stay on | (v.) | continue in a place, position, or situation.; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" |
| stay | (v.) | remain behind.; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" |
| delay, detain, stay | (v.) | stop or halt.; "Please stay the bloodshed!" |
| persist, remain, stay | (v.) | stay behind.; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" |
| last out, outride, ride out, stay | (v.) | hang on during a trial of endurance.; "ride out the storm" |
| stay | (v.) | stop a judicial process.; "The judge stayed the execution order" |
| stay | (v.) | fasten with stays. |
| appease, quell, stay | (v.) | overcome or allay.; "quell my hunger" |
| live | | |
| dwell, inhabit, live, populate | (v.) | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| live | (v.) | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
| endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive | (v.) | continue to live through hardship or adversity.; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" |
| exist, live, subsist, survive | (v.) | support oneself.; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" |
| be, live | (v.) | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
| experience, know, live | (v.) | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" |
| live | (v.) | pursue a positive and satisfying existence.; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" |
| live, unrecorded | (adj.) | actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing.; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience" |
| live | (adj.) | exerting force or containing energy.; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" |
| alive, live | (adj.) | possessing life.; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" |
| live | (adj.) | highly reverberant.; "a live concert hall" |
| live | (adj.) | charged with an explosive.; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb" |
| bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy | (adj.) | elastic; rebounds readily.; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" |
| live | (adj.) | abounding with life and energy.; "the club members are a really live bunch" |
| live | (adj.) | in current use or ready for use.; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" |
| live | (adj.) | of current relevance.; "a live issue"; "still a live option" |
| hot, live | (adj.) | charged or energized with electricity.; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" |
| alive, live | (adj.) | capable of erupting.; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive" |
| live | (adv.) | not recorded.; "the opera was broadcast live" |
| sack | | |
| carrier bag, paper bag, poke, sack | (n.) | a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases. |
| pocket, pouch, sac, sack | (n.) | an enclosed space.; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" |
| sack, sackful | (n.) | the quantity contained in a sack. |
| sack | (n.) | any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry). |
| sack, sacque | (n.) | a woman's full loose hiplength jacket. |
| hammock, sack | (n.) | a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily. |
| chemise, sack, shift | (n.) | a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist. |
| sack | (n.) | the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter.; "the sack of Rome" |
| discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking | (n.) | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart). |
| plunder, sack | (v.) | plunder (a town) after capture.; "the barbarians sacked Rome" |
| can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate | (v.) | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| clear, net, sack, sack up | (v.) | make as a net profit.; "The company cleared $1 million" |
| sack | (v.) | put in a sack.; "The grocer sacked the onions" |
| stay | | |
| occupy | | |
| busy, occupy | (v.) | keep busy with.; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" |
| fill, occupy | (v.) | occupy the whole of.; "The liquid fills the container" |
| concern, interest, occupy, worry | (v.) | be on the mind of.; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift" |
| invade, occupy | (v.) | march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation.; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" |
| occupy, take, use up | (v.) | require (time or space).; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" |
| absorb, engage, engross, occupy | (v.) | consume all of one's attention or time.; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" |
| fill, occupy, take | (v.) | assume, as of positions or roles.; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne" |
| abide | | |
| abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate | (v.) | put up with something or somebody unpleasant.; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" |
| reside | | |
| dwell | | |
| brood, dwell | (v.) | think moodily or anxiously about something. |
| consist, dwell, lie, lie in | (v.) | originate (in).; "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" |
| dwell, inhabit | (v.) | exist or be situated within.; "Strange notions inhabited her mind" |
| dwell, harp | (v.) | come back to.; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" |
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