| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow less or make less |
Synonyms: |
abate, calm down, check, contract, crumble, curb, curtail, cut down, decay, decline, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, devaluate, die down, diminish, droop, drop, drop off, dry up, dwindle, ease, ebb, evaporate, fade, fall off, lessen, let up, lighten, lose edge, lower, modify, narrow down, peter out, quell, quiet, reduce, restrain, run low, settle, shrink, shrivel, sink, slack off, slacken, slash, slow down, slump, soften, subside, tail off, wane, waste, weaken, wear away, wear down, wither |
Antonyms: |
add, develop, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | dehydrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take moisture out of |
Synonyms: |
cotton-mouth, desiccate, drain, dry, dry out, dry up, evaporate, exsiccate, parch, sear |
Antonyms: |
hydrate, moisten, wet |
| Main Entry: | deplete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, exhaust supply |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bleed, decrease, dig into, diminish, drain, draw, dry up, empty, evacuate, expend, finish, impoverish, lessen, milk, reduce, sap, spend, squander, suck dry, undermine, use up, wash up, waste, weaken |
Antonyms: |
add, augment, expand, fill, give, increase |
| Main Entry: | desiccate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take moisture out of |
Synonyms: |
anhydrate, dehydrate, deplete, devitalize, divest, drain, dry, dry up, evaporate, exsiccate, parch, sear, shrivel, wither, wizen |
Antonyms: |
moisten, moisturize, wet |
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moistureless |
Synonyms: |
anhydrous, arid, athirst, baked, bald, bare, barren, dehydrated, depleted, desert, desiccant, desiccated, drained, dried-up, droughty, dusty, evaporated, exhausted, hard, impoverished, juiceless, not irrigated, parched, rainless, sapless, sapped, sear, shriveled, stale, thirsty, torrid, unmoistened, waterless |
Antonyms: |
damp, dripping, humid, juicy, moist, soaked, soggy, watery, wet |
| Main Entry: | gone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present, no longer in existence |
Synonyms: |
AWOL, absent, astray, away, burned up, consumed, dead, decamped, deceased, defunct, departed, disappeared, disintegrated, displaced, dissipated, dissolved, done, down the drain, dried up, elapsed, ended, extinct, finished, flown, lacking, left, lost, missing, moved, no more, nonextant, not a sign of, not here, out the window, over, passed, past, quit, removed, retired, run-off, shifted, spent, split, taken a powder, taken leave, transferred, traveling, turned to dust, vanished, withdrawn |
Antonyms: |
around, current, existing, present, working |
| Main Entry: | muzzle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gag, quiet |
Synonyms: |
bottle up, censor, check, choke, clamp down on, cork, crack down on, curb, dry up, dummy up, hush, ice*, muffle, prevent, quieten, repress, restrain, restrict, shush, shut down, silence, squash, squelch, stifle, still, stop, suppress, tongue-tie, trammel |
Antonyms: |
free, let go, liberate |
| Main Entry: | parch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dry, burn |
Synonyms: |
blister, brown, dehydrate, desiccate, dry up, evaporate, exsiccate, make thirsty, scorch, sear, shrivel, stale, wither |
Antonyms: |
dampen, moisten, wet |
| Main Entry: | parched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dry |
Synonyms: |
arid, burned, cotton-mouth, dehydrated, dried out, dried up, dry as dust, scorched, shriveled, thirsty, waterless, withered |
Antonyms: |
damp, moist, wet |
| Main Entry: | reticent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secretive, quiet |
Synonyms: |
bashful, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, dried up, dummied up, hesitant, mum, reserved, restrained, shy, silent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, unspeaking, uptight* |
Antonyms: |
communicative, forward, unrestrained |