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Deliverance - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | deliverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberation |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, delivery, emancipation, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving, extrication |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval; respite; liberation [more]; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
-verbs
deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off, bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve (restore) [more]; be rid of, get rid of.
-adjectives
saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
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| Main Entry: | acquittal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration removing blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, dismissal, exemption, exoneration, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, reprieve, vindication, acquitting, discharging, dismissing, exculpation, letting off, releasing, relief from |
| Antonyms: | blame, censure, conviction, denunciation, doom, sentence |
| Main Entry: | emancipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, independence, liberation, liberty, release, enfranchisement, setting free |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
| Main Entry: | liberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | abolition, deliverance, democracy, emancipation, freeing, liberty, release, salvation, sovereignty, setting free, unchaining, unshackling |
| Main Entry: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, sovereignty, suffrage, autarchy, enfranchisement, power of choice, self-determination, self-government, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| Main Entry: | ransom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail money paid for return of possession or person |
| Synonyms: | bribe, compensation, deliverance, payment, payoff, price, redemption, release, rescue, expiation, liberation money |
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Notes: | relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving from danger |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, emancipation, exploit, feat, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving, disembarrassment, disentanglement, extrication, heroics, reclaiming |
| Antonyms: | danger, peril |
| Main Entry: | respite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, suspension in activity |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather*, breathing space*, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, downtime*, ease, five*, forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup*, lull, moratorium, pardon, postponement, recess, relaxation, release, relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten*, time, truce, exculpation, interregnum, protraction, time out |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | salvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rescue, saving |
| Synonyms: | conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, conservancy, extrication, preserval, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste, endangerment |
| Main Entry: | freeing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emancipation |
| Synonyms: | clearing, deliverance, delivery, liberation, manumission, reprieve, restoration, salvation, saving, discharging, disentangling, extrication, granting freedom, loosening, loosing, pardoning, releasing, rescuing, setting free, unbinding, unchaining, unfettering, unlocking, untying |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivery; dispensation |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, charge, clemency, commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption, exoneration, freedom, freeing, liberation, liberty, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, acquittance, floater, let-off, lifeboat, lifesaver, walkout |
| Antonyms: | check, collection, gathering, hold |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
| Synonyms: | abolition, autonomy, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, emancipation, exemption, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, rescue, salvage, salvation, sovereignty, abolitionism, autarchy, citizenship, disengagement, disimprisonment, enfranchisement, extriction, representative government, self-determination, self-government |
| Antonyms: | communism, government, subordination, suppression, subjection |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving of freedom |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, emancipation, escape, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, rescue, salvage, salvation |
| Antonyms: | capture, confinement, imprisonment, restraint |
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