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| Main Entry: | chase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pursuit |
| Synonyms: | hunt, hunting, quest, race, venery |
| Antonyms: | escape, retreat |
| Main Entry: | chase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run after, pursue |
| Synonyms: | charge, course, drive, expel, follow, hound, hunt, run down, rush, seek, speed, tear, track, trail, bird-dog, chivy, drive away, go after, shag, take off after, track down |
| Antonyms: | escape, retreat, run away |
| Main Entry: | chimney |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | smokestack for building |
| Synonyms: | chase, fireplace, flue, funnel, furnace, hearth, pipe, stack, vent, chimney pot, chimney stack, smokeshaft, ventilator |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow; run |
| Synonyms: | career, chase, dart, dash, follow, gallop, gush, hasten, hunt, hurry, hustle, pursue, race, rush, scamper, scoot, scurry, speed, spring, stream, surge, tumble |
| Main Entry: | court |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fawn over, pay attention to |
| Synonyms: | allure, ask in marriage, attract, beseech, bid, bootlick, captivate, charm, chase, cultivate, curry favor, date, entice, entreat, flatter, follow, gallant, go out with, go steady, go together, go with, grovel, importune, invite, keep company with, make love to, make overture, make time with, pander to, pay addresses to, pay court to, please, pop the question*, praise, propose, pursue, run after*, seek, seek the hand of, serenade, set one's cap, solicit, spark, spoon, sue, sweetheart, take out, woo |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ditch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gulley |
| Synonyms: | canal, channel, chase, cut, dike, drain, excavation, furrow, gutter, mine, moat, trench, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | dragnet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manhunt |
| Synonyms: | all points bulletin, chase, pursuit, search |
| Main Entry: | engrave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carve letters or designs into |
| Synonyms: | bite, burn, chase, chisel, cut, embed, etch, fix, grave, hatch, impress, imprint, ingrain, initial, inscribe, instill, lodge, ornament, print, scratch, stipple, crosshatch, diaper, enchase, infix, intaglio, lithograph, mezzotint |
| Main Entry: | evict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw out from residence |
| Synonyms: | bounce*, chase, dislodge, dismiss, dispossess, eject, expel, extrude, kick out*, oust, out, put out, remove, send packing*, shut out, turn out, boot out, force out, heave-ho, show out, show the door, toss out on ear |
| Antonyms: | admit, board, include, lease, receive, rent, take in, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extrude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | force out |
| Synonyms: | boot*, chase, dismiss, eject, evict, expel, kick out, press, project, squeeze*, throw out, thrust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ferret out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | search out |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, bring to light*, chase, determine, disclose, discover, elicit, extract, follow, get at*, hunt, learn, penetrate, pierce, probe, pry, pursue, quest, seek, trace, trail, uncover, unearth, be on to, chase down, dig out, dig up, dig up, drive out, hunt down, nose out*, pick up on, root out, root out*, scout out, search out, smell out, smoke out, smoke out, sniff out, track down, worm out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area with a large number of trees |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, wood, woodland, woods, timberland, weald, wildwood, woodlot |
| Main Entry: | gully |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ravine, ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, chase, chasm, crevasse, culvert, gutter, notch, trench, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | empty out; make concave |
| Synonyms: | channel, chase, dent, dig, dish, ditch, excavate, furrow, gorge, groove, indent, notch, pit, remove, rut, scoop, shovel, trench, corrugate, rabbet |
| Antonyms: | fill, raise, make convex |
| Main Entry: | kick out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get rid of |
| Synonyms: | ax, boot*, bounce*, can*, cashier*, chase, chuck, discharge, dismiss, drop, eject, evict, expel, extrude, fire, oust, out, reject, remove, sack*, throw out, toss out |
| Antonyms: | allow, hold, keep |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expel, get rid of |
| Synonyms: | banish, bereave, bounce*, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, eject, evict, fire, kick out, lay off, lose, ostracize, pink slip*, relegate, remove, rob, sack, send packing*, throw out, topple, transport, turn out, unseat, boot out, bundle off, cast out, drive out, expulse, force out, give the 1-2-3, let go, pack off, show the door |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quarry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal |
| Synonyms: | aim, chase, game, objective, prey, prize, quest, victim, ravin |
| Main Entry: | quest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | search, exploration |
| Synonyms: | adventure, chase, crusade, enterprise, examination, expedition, hunt, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, journey, mission, prey, probe, pursuit, quarry, research, seeking, voyage, delving, pilgrimmage, probing, pursual |
| Main Entry: | race |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run, speed in competition |
| Synonyms: | boil, bolt, bustle, career, chase, compete, contest, course, dart, dash, fling, fly, gallop, haste, hasten, hie, hurry, hustle, lash, outstrip, post, pursue, rush, scamper, scramble, scud, scuttle, shoot, skim, sprint, spurt, swoop, tear, whisk, wing, plunge ahead |
| Main Entry: | rout |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat overwhelmingly |
| Synonyms: | bash, beat, bulldoze*, bury*, chase, clobber, conquer, cream*, crush, destroy, discomfit, dispel, expel, finish*, hunt, kill*, lambaste*, murder*, outmaneuver, overpower, overthrow, repulse, scatter, scuttle, shut out*, skunk*, subdue, subjugate, swamp*, total*, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wax*, whip, wipe out*, worst, zap*, blow out of water, clean up on, cut to pieces, drive off, larrup*, put to flight, torpedo*, wipe off map |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Antonyms: | win |
* = 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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