| Main Entry: | consummation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, fulfillment |
Synonyms: |
cleanup, completion, culmination, doing it to a T, end, mop-up, payoff, perfection, realization, to a finish, wind-up, wrap, wrap-up |
Antonyms: |
failure, unfulfillment |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation, justification |
Synonyms: |
answer, apologetics, apologia, apologizing, apology, argument, cleanup, copout, exculpation, excuse, excusing, exoneration, explaining, extenuation, fish story, jive, off-time, plea, rationalization, rejoinder, reply, response, retort, return, song and dance, story, vindication, whitewash |
Antonyms: |
betrayal, capitulation, yielding |
| Main Entry: | excuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reason, explanation |
Synonyms: |
alibi, apology, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, cover*, coverup, defense, disguise, evasion, expedient, extenuation, fish story, grounds, jive, justification, makeshift, mitigation, plea, pretext, rationalization, regrets, routine, semblance, shift, song and dance, song*, stall, stopgap, story, substitute, subterfuge, trick*, vindication, whitewash, why and wherefore |
| Notes: | an alias is an assumed name, an alibi is a form of defense whereby a defendant attempts to prove that he or she was elsewhere when the crime in question was committed, while an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness a pardon is the act of excusing a mistake or offense; an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness |
| Main Entry: | pay dirt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profit |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, benefit, bottom line, cleanup, earnings, gate*, goods*, gravy, harvest, killing*, net, payoff, proceeds, receipts, return, revenue, score*, split*, surplus, take*, winnings |
| Main Entry: | pretext |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise; alleged reason |
Synonyms: |
affectation, alibi, appearance, bluff, cleanup, cloak, color*, coloring, cop-out, cover, cover story, cover-up, device, excuse, face, feint, fig leaf, front, guise, mask, masquerade, plea, ploy, pretense, red herring, routine, ruse, semblance, show, simulation, song and dance, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, veil* |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | profit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gain |
Synonyms: |
accumulation, acquisition, advancement, advantage, aggrandizement, augmentation, avail, benefit, bottom line, cleanup, earnings, emoluments, gate*, goods*, gravy, gross, harvest, income, interest, killing, lucre, net, output, outturn, percentage, proceeds, product, production, receipt, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, saving, skim, split*, surplus, take*, takings, turnout, use, value, velvet*, winnings, yield |
Antonyms: |
loss |
| Main Entry: | purge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elimination, removal |
Synonyms: |
abolition, abstersion, catharsis, clarification, cleaning, cleanup, coup, crushing, disposal, disposition, ejection, eradication, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, expurgation, extermination, extirpation, liquidation, murder, purification, reign of terror, suppression, witch hunt |
Antonyms: |
holding, keeping, maintenance |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
gas, alleged, apagogic, apologetic, armed, armed at all points, armed cap, casemated, castellated, defended, defending, defensive, iron, loopholed, machicolated, magnum, mural, panoplied, proof against, pump, slide, to the teeth
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| Concept: | [Ostensible motive, ground, or reason assigned] Pretext. |
| Category: | 2. Causes of volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
pretext, pretense, pretension, plea; allegation, advocation; ostensible motive, subterfuge, obtensible ground, obtensible reason, phony reason; excuse (vindication); color; gloss, guise, cover., loophole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of escape., handle, peg to hang on, room, locus standi; stalking-horse, cheval de bataille, cue., pretense (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading (sophistry); soft sawder (flattery).
-verbs
pretend, plead, allege; shelter oneself under the plea of; excuse (vindicate); lend a color to; furnish a handle; make a pretext of, make a handle of; use as a plea; take one's stand upon, make capital out of , pretend (lie) [more].
-adjectives
ostensibly (manifest); alleged, apologetic; pretended.
-adverbs
ostensibly; under color; under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of.
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| Concept: | Defense |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding; propugnation, preservation; guardianship., self-defense, self-preservation; resistance., safeguard (safety); balistraria; screen (shelter); (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling (enclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counterscarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos., buttress, abutment; shore (support)., breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage, fort-alice; lines., loophole, machicolation; sally port., hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum (refuge); keep, donjon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls., buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabasset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickethaube, vambrace, shako (dress) [more]., bearskin; panoply; truncheon (weapon)., garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian (safety); bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner.
-verbs
defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round (circumscribe); fence, intrench; guard (keep safe); guard against; take care of (vigilance); bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off; hinder., parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to [ironical]; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length., stand on the defensive, act on the defensive; show fight; maintain one;s ground, stand one's ground; stand by; hold one's own; bear the brunt, stand the brunt; fall back upon, hold, stand in the gap.
-adjectives
defending; defensive; mural; armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth; panoplied; ironplated, ironclad; loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated; defendedv.; proof against., ballproof, bulletproof.
-adverbs
defensively; on the defense, on the defensive; in defense; at bay, pro aris et focis.
-phrases
defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit; fidei defensor.
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Antonyms: |
attack |
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