| Main Entry: | knife |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab with pointed tool |
Synonyms: |
brand, carve, chop down, clip, cut, hurt, impale, jag, kill, lacerate, lance, open up, pierce, shank, shiv, slash, slice, spit, stick, thrust, wound |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbal attack |
Synonyms: |
bad-mouthing, blame, castigation, censure, curse, curses, defamation, derision, hosing, insults, invective, kicking around, knifing, libel, obloquy, opprobrium, pushing around, put-down, quinine, reproach, revilement, scolding, signifying, slander, swearing, tirade, upbraiding, vilification, vituperation |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
Antonyms: |
acclamation, adulation, approval, commendation, plaudit, praise |
| Main Entry: | betray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be disloyal |
Synonyms: |
abandon, be unfaithful, bite the hand that feeds you, blow the whistle, bluff, break faith, break promise, break trust, break with, commit treason, cross, deceive, deliver up, delude, desert, double-cross, finger*, forsake, go back on, inform against, inform on, jilt, knife*, let down, mislead, play Judas, play false, seduce, sell down the river, sell out, stab in the back, take in*, trick, turn in, turn informer, turn state's evidence, walk out on |
Antonyms: |
be faithful, be loyal, defend, protect, support |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, crime, death, destruction, dispatching, felony, foul play, hit*, homicide, knifing, liquidation, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, offing, one-way ticket, rub out, shooting, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
Synonyms: |
abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste* |
Antonyms: |
guard, preserve, protect, save |
| Main Entry: | penetrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce; get through physically |
Synonyms: |
access, barge in, bayonet, blow in, bore, break in, breeze in, bust in, charge, come, crack, diffuse, drill, drive, eat through, encroach, enter, filter in, force, get in, go through, gore, impale, infiltrate, ingress, insert, insinuate, introduce, invade, jab, knife, make a hole, make an entrance, pass through, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, pop in, prick, probe, puncture, ream, run into, saturate, seep, sink into, spear, stab, stick into, suffuse, thrust, trespass |
Antonyms: |
exit, take out, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | puncture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | poke hole in |
Synonyms: |
bore, cut, cut through, deflate, drill, go down, go flat, knife, lacerate, lance, nick, open, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, riddle, rupture |
Antonyms: |
close, sew |
| Main Entry: | slit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut open |
Synonyms: |
gash, incise, knife, lance, pierce, rip, sever, slash, slice, slot, split open, tear |
Antonyms: |
close, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | stab |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | puncture, pierce with sharp, pointed object |
Synonyms: |
bayonet, brand, carve, chop, cleave, clip, cut, drive, gore, hit, hurt, injure, jab, jag, knife, open up, penetrate, pierce, plow, plunge, prick, prong, punch, ram, run through, saber, shank, sink, slice, spear, stick, thrust, transfix, wound |
| Main Entry: | bayonet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab |
Synonyms: |
knife, pierce |