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(v.) to run off and hide
SYNONYMS: bolt, make off, skip town |
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(v.) to overcome with fear, intimate; to dishearten, discourage
SYNONYMS: dismay, cow |
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(v.) to make right, correct
SYNONYMS: remedy, set right |
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(v.) to free from tangles or complications
SYNONYMS: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl |
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(v.) to mislead by a trick, deceive
SYNONYMS: dupe, put one over |
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(v.) to attack with words, call bad names
SYNONYMS: inveigh against, malign, vilify, denounce |
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(v.) to burn to ashes
SYNONYMS: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes |
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(n.) a temporary relief or delay (v.) to grant postponement
SYNONYMS: (n.) stay, respite; (v.) postpone, delay |
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(n.) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase (v.) to get at, obtain
SYNONYMS: entry, admittance, entree |
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(n.) theft
SYNONYMS: stealing,robbery, burglary |
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(n.) a very steep cliff; the brink or edge or disaster
SYNONYMS: cliff, crag, bluff, promontory, ledge |
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(n.) a lack of government and law; confusion
SYNONYMS: chaos, disorder, turmoil, pandemonium |
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(adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable
SYNONYMS: valiant, courageous, audacious, daring |
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(adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort
SYNONYMS: hard difficult, laborious, fatiguing |
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(adj.) bending readily; easily influenced
SYNONYMS: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic |
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(adj.) favoring one side unduly, prejudiced
SYNONYMS: unfair, partial, bigoted |
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(adj.) overly self0-important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious
SYNONYMS: pretentious, highfalutin, bombastic |
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(adj.) favorable; fortune
SYNONYMS: promising, encouraging, propitious |
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(adj.) not having life; without energy or spirit
SYNONYMS: lifeless, dead, inert, spiritless |
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(adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune
SYNONYMS: destined, preordained, doomed |
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