| dislodge | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. dislodge, free | remove or force out from a position.; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| v. (motion) | 2. dislodge, reposition, shift | change place or direction.; "Shift one's position" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ beat down | dislodge from a position.; "She beat the dealer down to a much better price" |
| v. (contact) | 3. bump, dislodge | remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied.; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" |
| ~ throw | cause to fall off.; "The horse threw its inexperienced rider" |
| ~ displace | cause to move, usually with force or pressure.; "the refugees were displaced by the war" |
| dismiss | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside | bar from attention or consideration.; "She dismissed his advances" |
| ~ cold-shoulder, slight | pay no attention to, disrespect.; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance" |
| ~ reject | refuse to accept or acknowledge.; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" |
| ~ discredit | cause to be distrusted or disbelieved.; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary" |
| ~ shrug off | minimize the importance of, brush aside.; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points" |
| ~ pass off | disregard.; "She passed off the insult" |
| ~ flout, scoff | treat with contemptuous disregard.; "flout the rules" |
| ~ turn a blind eye | refuse to acknowledge.; "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office" |
| ~ laugh away, laugh off | deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it.; "She laughs away all these problems" |
| ~ disoblige | ignore someone's wishes. |
| v. (communication) | 2. dismiss, throw out | cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration.; "This case is dismissed!" |
| v. (social) | 3. dismiss, drop, send away, send packing | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
| ~ give notice, give the axe, give the sack, can, force out, sack, send away, displace, dismiss, fire, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| ~ drop | terminate an association with.; "drop him from the Republican ticket" |
| v. (social) | 4. can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| ~ retire | make (someone) retire.; "The director was retired after the scandal" |
| ~ pension off | let go from employment with an attractive pension.; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" |
| ~ clean out | force out.; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" |
| ~ furlough, lay off | dismiss, usually for economic reasons.; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" |
| ~ squeeze out | force out.; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| ~ send away, send packing, dismiss, drop | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
| v. (communication) | 5. dismiss, usher out | end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave.; "I was dismissed after I gave my report" |
| ~ say farewell | say good-bye or bid farewell. |
| v. (change) | 6. dismiss, dissolve | declare void.; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ dissolve, break up | bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company" |
| drop | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. bead, drop, pearl | a shape that is spherical and small.; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" |
| ~ sphere | a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses). |
| ~ dewdrop | a drop of dew. |
| ~ teardrop | anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring). |
| n. (quantity) | 2. drib, driblet, drop | a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid).; "he had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man"; "years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet" |
| ~ tear, teardrop | a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.; "his story brought tears to her eyes" |
| ~ raindrop | a drop of rain. |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| ~ droplet | a tiny drop. |
| ~ eye-drop, eyedrop | a drop from an eye dropper. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. dip, drop, fall, free fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" |
| ~ decrement, decrease | the amount by which something decreases. |
| ~ correction | a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases.; "market runups are invariably followed by a correction" |
| ~ voltage drop | a decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing. |
| n. (object) | 4. cliff, drop, drop-off | a steep high face of rock.; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop" |
| ~ crag | a steep rugged rock or cliff. |
| ~ geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth. |
| ~ precipice | a very steep cliff. |
| n. (location) | 5. drop | a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property). |
| ~ drug | a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic. |
| ~ dead drop | a drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information.; "a dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time" |
| ~ hiding place | a place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself). |
| n. (event) | 6. drop, fall | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" |
| ~ free fall | the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field. |
| ~ gravitation | movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction.; "irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps" |
| ~ descent | a movement downward. |
| ~ plunge | a steep and rapid fall. |
| ~ precipitation | the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. drop, drop cloth, drop curtain | a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery. |
| ~ curtain, drape, drapery, pall, mantle | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window). |
| n. (artifact) | 8. drop | a central depository where things can be left or picked up. |
| ~ depositary, depository, repository, deposit | a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping. |
| ~ maildrop | a drop where mail can be deposited. |
| n. (act) | 9. drop | the act of dropping something.; "they expected the drop would be successful" |
| ~ descent | the act of changing your location in a downward direction. |
| v. (motion) | 10. drop | let fall to the ground.; "Don't drop the dishes" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ drop | to fall vertically.; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
| ~ plop | drop something with a plopping sound. |
| ~ dump | drop (stuff) in a heap or mass.; "The truck dumped the garbage in the street" |
| ~ hang | let drop or droop.; "Hang one's head in shame" |
| ~ plank down, plonk down, plump down | drop heavily. |
| ~ drop down, sink, drop | fall or descend to a lower place or level.; "He sank to his knees" |
| v. (motion) | 11. drop | to fall vertically.; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ dump, plunge | fall abruptly.; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" |
| ~ drop | let fall to the ground.; "Don't drop the dishes" |
| ~ plummet, plump | drop sharply.; "The stock market plummeted" |
| ~ flump, flump down | fall heavily. |
| ~ decline | go down.; "The roof declines here" |
| v. (change) | 12. drop | go down in value.; "Stock prices dropped" |
| ~ wane, go down, decline | grow smaller.; "Interest in the project waned" |
| ~ fall off, slump, sink | fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.; "The real estate market fell off" |
| ~ tumble | fall suddenly and sharply.; "Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency" |
| v. (motion) | 13. drop, drop down, sink | fall or descend to a lower place or level.; "He sank to his knees" |
| ~ fall off, slump, sink | fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.; "The real estate market fell off" |
| ~ drop | let fall to the ground.; "Don't drop the dishes" |
| ~ drop open, fall open | open involuntarily.; "His mouth dropped open"; "Her jaw dropped" |
| ~ change posture | undergo a change in bodily posture. |
| ~ droop, sag, swag, flag | droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness. |
| ~ sag down, sag | cause to sag.; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably" |
| v. (social) | 14. drop | terminate an association with.; "drop him from the Republican ticket" |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| ~ send away, send packing, dismiss, drop | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
| v. (communication) | 15. drop | utter with seeming casualness.; "drop a hint"; "drop names" |
| ~ give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise, verbalize | articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise.; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" |
| v. (change) | 16. drop, knock off | stop pursuing or acting.; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" |
| ~ nol.pros., nolle pros, nolle prosequi | drop prosecution of by entering a nolle prosequi in the court records.; "They nolle prossed the charge" |
| ~ cease, discontinue, lay off, quit, stop, give up | put an end to a state or an activity.; "Quit teasing your little brother" |
| v. (contact) | 17. discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload | leave or unload.; "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel" |
| ~ deliver | bring to a destination, make a delivery.; "our local super market delivers" |
| ~ wharf | discharge at a wharf.; "wharf the passengers" |
| ~ air-drop | drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter. |
| v. (contact) | 18. cut down, drop, fell, strike down | cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow.; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" |
| ~ chop down | cut down.; "George chopped down the cherry tree" |
| ~ poleax, poleaxe | fell with or as if with a poleax. |
| ~ log, lumber | cut lumber, as in woods and forests. |
| ~ cut | fell by sawing; hew.; "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| v. (competition) | 19. drop | lose (a game).; "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ lose | fail to win.; "We lost the battle but we won the war" |
| v. (possession) | 20. drop, expend, spend | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume, eat | use up (resources or materials).; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
| ~ ware, squander, consume, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| ~ afford | be able to spare or give up.; "I can't afford to spend two hours with this person" |
| ~ pay | give money, usually in exchange for goods or services.; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please" |
| ~ blow | spend lavishly or wastefully on.; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater" |
| ~ trifle away, wanton away, wanton | spend wastefully.; "wanton one's money away" |
| ~ underspend | spend at less than the normal rate. |
| ~ misspend | spend (money or other resources) unwisely. |
| ~ nickel-and-dime, penny-pinch | spend money frugally; spend as little as possible. |
| ~ invest, commit, put, place | make an investment.; "Put money into bonds" |
| ~ economise, economize, save | spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" |
| ~ lay out | spend or invest.; "lay out thousands on gold"; "he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit" |
| ~ piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away | waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently. |
| ~ misspend | spend time badly or unwisely.; "He misspent his youth" |
| v. (change) | 21. drop, flatten | lower the pitch of (musical notes). |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (stative) | 22. dangle, drop, swing | hang freely.; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" |
| ~ hang | be suspended or hanging.; "The flag hung on the wall" |
| ~ loll, droop | hang loosely or laxly.; "His tongue lolled" |
| v. (contact) | 23. dribble, drip, drop | let or cause to fall in drops.; "dribble oil into the mixture" |
| ~ pour | cause to run.; "pour water over the floor" |
| ~ drip | fall in drops.; "Water is dripping from the faucet" |
| v. (contact) | 24. cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off | get rid of.; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" |
| ~ exuviate, molt, moult, slough, shed | cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.; "our dog sheds every Spring" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ abscise | shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue. |
| ~ exfoliate | cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters. |
| ~ autotomise, autotomize | cause a body part to undergo autotomy. |
| v. (consumption) | 25. drop | take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth.; "She dropped acid when she was a teenager" |
| ~ do drugs, drug | use recreational drugs. |
| v. (cognition) | 26. drop | omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing.; " New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's" |
| ~ elide | leave or strike out.; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant" |
| v. (cognition) | 27. drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| ~ forget | forget to do something.; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" |
| ~ pass over, skip, skip over, jump | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| v. (change) | 28. drop | change from one level to another.; "She dropped into army jargon" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 29. drop | fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death.; "shop til you drop" |
| ~ fall | pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind.; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" |
| v. (body) | 30. degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ fatigue, jade, tire, weary, pall | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| ~ languish, fade | become feeble.; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" |
| ~ rot, waste | become physically weaker.; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| v. (body) | 31. drop | give birth; used for animals.; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" |
| ~ birth, give birth, bear, deliver, have | cause to be born.; "My wife had twins yesterday!" |
| terminate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. end, terminate | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ close out | terminate.; "We closed out our account" |
| ~ finish | cause to finish a relationship with somebody.; "That finished me with Mary" |
| ~ abort | terminate before completion.; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer" |
| ~ culminate | bring to a head or to the highest point.; "Seurat culminated pointillism" |
| ~ lift, raise | put an end to.; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" |
| ~ ax, axe | terminate.; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it" |
| ~ stamp out, kill | end or extinguish by forceful means.; "Stamp out poverty!" |
| ~ dissolve, break up | come to an end.; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up" |
| ~ dissolve, break up | bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company" |
| ~ break off, discontinue, stop, break | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| ~ break, interrupt | terminate.; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" |
| ~ crush out, press out, stub out, extinguish | extinguish by crushing.; "stub out your cigar" |
| ~ finalise, finalize, nail down, settle | make final; put the last touches on; put into final form.; "let's finalize the proposal" |
| ~ complete, finish | come or bring to a finish or an end.; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" |
| ~ closure, cloture | terminate debate by calling for a vote.; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion" |
| ~ resolve, adjudicate, decide, settle | bring to an end; settle conclusively.; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" |
| ~ conclude | bring to a close.; "The committee concluded the meeting" |
| ~ close | complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement.; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building" |
| ~ phase out | terminate gradually. |
| ~ close | finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.).; "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| v. (stative) | 2. cease, end, finish, stop, terminate | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| ~ pass away | go out of existence.; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away" |
| ~ lapse | end, at least for a long time.; "The correspondence lapsed" |
| ~ cut out | cease operating.; "The pump suddenly cut out" |
| ~ go out | become extinguished.; "The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark" |
| ~ adjourn, recess, break up | close at the end of a session.; "The court adjourned" |
| ~ disappear, vanish | cease to exist.; "An entire civilization vanished" |
| ~ climax, culminate | end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage.; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" |
| ~ run out | become used up; be exhausted.; "Our supplies finally ran out" |
| ~ run low, run short, go | to be spent or finished.; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest" |
| ~ disappear, vanish, go away | become invisible or unnoticeable.; "The effect vanished when day broke" |
| ~ conclude, close | come to a close.; "The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin" |
| ~ come out, turn out | result or end.; "How will the game turn out?" |
| ~ discontinue | come to or be at an end.; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" |
| ~ break | come to an end.; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" |
| v. (stative) | 3. end, terminate | be the end of; be the last or concluding part of.; "This sad scene ended the movie" |
| ~ close | cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop. |
| ~ 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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