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| Main Entry: | tug |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | quick pull |
| Synonyms: | drag, draw, haul, heave, jerk, lug, strain, toil, tow, traction, wrench, yank |
| Antonyms: | push |
| Main Entry: | battle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, struggle |
| Synonyms: | agitate, argue, clamor, combat, contend, contest, dispute, feud, oppugn, skirmish, strive, tug, war, wrestle |
| Antonyms: | make peace |
| Main Entry: | draw out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prolong |
| Synonyms: | attract, continue, drag, drag out, elongate, extend, lengthen, protract, pull, spin, stretch, tug, lead on, make longer, prolongate, spin out*, string out |
| Antonyms: | clip, shorten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, exertion |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, aim, application, aspiration, attempt, battle, crack*, creation, deed, discipline, drill, elbow grease*, endeavor, energy, enterprise, essay, exercise, feat, fling*, force, go*, industry, intention, job, labor, old college try*, power, product, production, pull, purpose, push, resolution, shot*, spurt, stab*, strain, stress, stretch, strife, striving, struggle, sweat, tension, toil, training, travail, trial, trouble, try, tug*, undertaking, venture, whack*, pains |
| Antonyms: | hesitation, idleness, laziness, inactivity, passivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | haul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move, pull to another spot |
| Synonyms: | back, boost, bring, buck, carry, cart, convey, drag, draw, elevate, gun, heave, heel, hoist, hump, jag, lift, lug, pack, raise, rake, remove, ride, schlepp*, shift, shoulder, tow, trail, transport, trawl, truck, tug, piggy back, tote |
| Notes: | a hall is a corridor or passageway in a building; haul (noun) is something that is pulled or transported, and haul (verb) carry or drag slowly or heavily |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jerk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move with lurch |
| Synonyms: | bounce, bump, dance, flick, fling, flip, flop, grab, hook, hurtle, jolt, lug, pluck, pull, quake, quiver, seize, shiver, sling, snag, snatch, throw, thrust, tug, tweak, twitch, whisk, wiggle, wrench, wrest, wriggle, wring, yank, shrug, vellicate |
| Main Entry: | lug |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drag something around |
| Synonyms: | bear, buck, carry, convey, draw, ferry, haul, heave, hump, jerk, lift, lurch, pack, pull, rake, schlepp*, snap, tow, transport, trawl, tug, yank, tote, vellicate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pluck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grab, pull out; pick at |
| Synonyms: | catch, clutch, collect, cull, draw, finger, gather, harvest, jerk, plunk, snatch, strum, tug, tweak, yank, pull at |
| Antonyms: | insert |
| Main Entry: | schlepp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lug |
| Synonyms: | carry, drag, haul, heave, lift, lurch, pull, tow, tug, yank, tote |
| Main Entry: | strive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try for, exert oneself |
| Synonyms: | aim, assay, attempt, bear down, bend over backward, break one's neck, compete, contend, do one's best, do one's utmost, drive, endeavor, essay, fight, go after, go all out, go for broke, go for the jugular, go the limit, hassle, jockey*, knock oneself out, labor, leave no stone unturned, make every effort, moil, offer, push, scramble, seek, shoot for, strain, struggle, sweat, tackle, take on, toil, try hard, tug*, work |
| Antonyms: | forget, skip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | toil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work hard |
| Synonyms: | drive, drudge, grind, labor, plod, plug, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tug, work, knock oneself out, moil, peg away, push oneself, work like a dog |
| Antonyms: | idle, neglect, laze |
| Main Entry: | tow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pull along |
| Synonyms: | drag, draw, ferry, haul, lug, propel, push, trail, trawl, tug, yank |
| Antonyms: | push |
| Main Entry: | twitch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have a spasm |
| Synonyms: | beat, blink, clasp, clutch, flutter, grab, grasp, grip, jerk, jiggle, jump, kick, lug, lurch, nip, pain, palpitate, pluck, pull, seize, shiver, shudder, snap, snatch, squirm, tic, tremble, tug, twinge, yank, vellicate |
| Main Entry: | war |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, battle |
| Synonyms: | attack, attempt, bombard, challenge, clash, combat, contend, contest, differ, disagree, endeavor, kill, meet, murder, oppugn, shell, shoot, strive, struggle, take on, tug, campaign against, engage in combat, go to war, make war, march against, take the field against, take up arms, wage war |
| Antonyms: | agree, ceasefire, make peace |
| Main Entry: | wrench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jerk, force violently |
| Synonyms: | bend, coerce, compel, contort, dislocate, dislodge, distort, drag, exact, extract, pervert, pinch, pull, rend, rip, screw, sprain, squeeze, strain, tear, tug, tweak, twist, wrest, wring, yank |
| Main Entry: | yank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pull hard and fast |
| Synonyms: | draw, extract, hitch, jerk, lug, snap, snatch, tear, tug, twitch, wrench, evulse, vellicate |
| Antonyms: | push |
| Main Entry: | contend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compete, fight |
| Synonyms: | argue, battle, clash, confront, contest, controvert, cope, dispute, emulate, encounter, face, give all one's got, give one's all, go after, go for, go for broke, go for it*, go for jugular, grapple, have at*, jockey for position, jostle, knock oneself out, litigate, lock horns*, make play for, meet, mix it up with, oppose, oppugn, push, push for, resist, rival, scramble for, shoot at, shoot for, skirmish, stand, strive, struggle, tangle with, tug, vie, withstand |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, give up, leave, retreat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | haul something to a new place |
| Synonyms: | draw, hale, lug, magnetize, move, pull, schlepp*, tow, trail, transport, truck, tug, yank |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | draw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move something by pulling |
| Synonyms: | attract, bring, carry, convey, cull, draft, drag, drain, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, fetch, gather, haul, hook, jerk, lug, magnetize, pick, pluck, pump, rake, siphon, tap, tow, trail, trawl, tug, wrench, yank, wind in |
| Antonyms: | exhale, propel, push, repel, repulse |
| Main Entry: | fight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | engage in physical encounter |
| Synonyms: | assault, attack, battle, bear arms, bicker, box, brawl, buck, challenge, clash, contend, cross swords, dispute, duel, feud, grapple, joust, meet, oppugn, protect, quarrel, repel, resist, rowdy, scrap, scuffle, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, tiff*, tilt*, traverse, tug, tussle, war, withstand, wrangle, wrestle, altercate, bandy with, brush with, carry on war, do battle, exchange blows, flare up, go to war, mix it up, ply weapons, take all comers, take the field, take up the gauntlet, wage war |
| Antonyms: | agree, surrender, yield, make peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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