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| Main Entry: | crush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compress, smash |
| Synonyms: | beat, bray, break, bruise, buck, crease, crowd, crumble, crunch, embrace, enfold, express, hug, jam, mash, pound, powder, press, pulverize, push, romp, rumple, squash, squeeze, squish, total*, trample, tread, triturate, wrinkle, comminute, contriturate, contuse, kablooey |
| Antonyms: | release, let go, uncompress, unwrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeating soundly |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, bear down, beat, conquer, defeat, demolish, extinguish, ice*, kill, obliterate, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, quell, reduce, ruin, squelch, stamp out*, strangle, subdue, subjugate, suppress, vanquish, wreck, blot out*, blow away, force down, quelch |
| Antonyms: | lose, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | humiliate |
| Synonyms: | abash, browbeat, chagrin, dispose of, dump, hurt, mortify, overwhelm, put away*, put down*, quash, quell, shame, suppress |
| Antonyms: | build up, compliment, encourage, praise, inspirit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abashed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibiting mental discomfort, ill at ease |
| Synonyms: | ashamed, bewildered, confounded, confused, discombobulated*, disconcerted, embarrassed, humiliated, shamed, bugged, chagrined, crushed, fazed, fuddled, humbled, in a tizzy, mortified, rattled, taken aback |
| Antonyms: | composed, proud, at ease, emboldened, reassured |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brokenhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devastated |
| Synonyms: | crestfallen, desolate, despairing, despondent, disappointed, disconsolate, grief-stricken, heartbroken, heartsick, inconsolable, miserable, mournful, sorrowful, wretched, crushed, grieved, heartsore, prostrated |
| Antonyms: | happy, lighthearted, pleased |
| Main Entry: | crowded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy, congested |
| Synonyms: | brimming, chock-full, clean, close, compact, cramped, dense, full, full house, jammed, loaded, overflowing, packed, populous, stuffed, teeming, thick, tight, SRO, awash, brimful, crammed, crushed, elbow-to-elbow, filled to the rafters, fit to bust, full up, huddled, jam-packed, lousy with, massed, mob scene, mobbed, sardined, sold out, standing room only, stiff with, swarming, thickset, thronged, topped off, up to here, up to the hilt, wall-to-wall |
| Antonyms: | empty, unfilled, uncongested, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | disconsolate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, heartbroken, hopeless, inconsolable, low, melancholy, miserable, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, comfortless, crushed, hurting, in pain, in the pits, ripped, torn-up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, consoled, solaced, soothed |
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally injured |
| Synonyms: | aggrieved, burned, cut, damaged, distressed, disturbed, harmed, hit, impaired, indignant, miffed, mutilated, offended, pained, put away, rueful, sad, shot, sore, stricken, struck, suffering, tender, unhappy, wounded, aching, agonized, all torn up, battered, bleeding, bruised, buffeted, busted up, contused, crushed, disfigured, grazed, in pain, lacerated, marred, mauled, nicked, piqued, resentful, scarred, scraped, scratched, shook, tortured, umbrageous, warped |
| Antonyms: | healthy, pleased, well, comforted, cured, healed, ok, remedied |
| Main Entry: | defeated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beaten |
| Synonyms: | overcome, conquered, crushed |
| Main Entry: | beaten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defeated |
| Synonyms: | disappointed, frustrated, overcome, overthrown, overwhelmed, ruined, undone, baffled, bested, circumvented, conquered, cowed, crushed, discomfited, disheartened, humbled, licked, mastered, overpowered, routed, subjugated, surmounted, thwarted, trounced, vanquished, worsted |
| Main Entry: | broken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destroyed; made into pieces from a whole |
| Synonyms: | burst, cracked, crippled, damaged, defective, fragmentary, hurt, injured, mutilated, rent, separated, smashed, split, busted, collapsed, crumbled, crushed, demolished, disintegrated, dismembered, fractured, fragmented, in pieces, mangled, pulverized, riven, ruptured, severed, shattered, shivered, shredded, slivered |
| Antonyms: | complete, connected, fixed, unbroken, whole, ok |
| Main Entry: | ruined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | destroyed |
| Synonyms: | decayed, extinct, smashed, wrecked, abolished, annihilated, collapsed, crashed, crushed, demolished, desolated, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, ravaged, subverted, torn down, totaled |
| Antonyms: | protected, restored, saved, preserved |
| Main Entry: | smashed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | wrecked |
| Synonyms: | broken, destroyed, mashed, crumbled, crushed, demolished, shattered |
| Main Entry: | broken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally defeated |
| Synonyms: | beaten, crippled, defeated, demoralized, depressed, discouraged, heartsick, oppressed, subdued, browbeaten, crushed, disheartened, humbled, overpowered, tamed, vanquished |
| Antonyms: | happy, satisfied, uplifted |
| Main Entry: | annihilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy completely |
| Synonyms: | abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, crush*, decimate, demolish, do in*, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, invalidate, liquidate, massacre, murder, negate, nullify, obliterate, quash, quell, raze, rub out*, ruin, slaughter, undo, vitiate, wipe out*, wrack*, wreck, blot out*, finish off, root out*, take out* |
| Antonyms: | help, preserve, revive, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | batter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strike and damage |
| Synonyms: | assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck, contuse |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure by striking |
| Synonyms: | bang, bash, bat, batter, belt, box, break, bruise, buffet, cane, castigate, clout, club, collide, crush, cudgel, drub, flagellate, flail, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste*, lash, lick*, maltreat, mash, maul, pelt, pound, pummel, punch, punish, ram, rap, slap, slug, smack, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thump, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale*, whip, thresh |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, guard, help, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grip or tear with teeth |
| Synonyms: | chew, chomp, clamp, crunch, crush, cut, eat, gnaw, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nibble, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, snap, taste, tooth, wound, champ, chaw, chaw on, take a chunk out of |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, blast, crush, damage, dash, decay, disappoint, foul up*, frustrate, injure, mar, mess up*, nip in the bud*, nullify, shrivel, spoil, taint, trash*, wither, wreck, glitch up |
| Antonyms: | aid, bless, guard, help, prosper, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; make whole into pieces |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, batter, burst, bust, crack, crash, crush, damage, demolish, disintegrate, divide, eradicate, fracture, fragment, part, rend, separate, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, splinter, split, tear, total, trash*, bust up, finish off, make hash of, make mincemeat of, pull to pieces, torpedo |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | attach, fasten, fix, join, mend, put together, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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