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| Main Entry: | drown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | submerge in liquid; submerge and die |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse, stifle, suffocate, swamp, wipe out, knock over, whelm |
| Antonyms: | float, rescue, save |
| Main Entry: | asphyxiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut off air |
| Synonyms: | choke, drown, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, strangulate |
| Antonyms: | breathe, loosen |
| Main Entry: | choke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | smother, block |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, bar, check, clog, close, constrict, dam, die, drown, fill, gag, gasp, kill, noose, obstruct, occlude, overpower, retard, squeeze, stifle, stop, stopper, strangle, stuff, stunt, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wring, congest, garrote, gibbet, strangulate |
| Antonyms: | release, unblock, unconstrict |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | abate, alleviate, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken, KO, anesthetize, etherize, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
| Synonyms: | deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, steep, submerge, wet, blow out, squench, submerse |
| Notes: | douse first meant 'knock, punch, strike' and now means 'to extinguish or wet thoroughly; dowse means to look for water or minerals with a divining rod |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | drench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wet thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, flood, immerse, impregnate, inundate, pour, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, submerge, teem, imbrue |
| Antonyms: | dry, parch |
| Main Entry: | engulf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | absorb, overwhelm |
| Synonyms: | bury, consume, deluge, drown, encompass, engross, envelop, flood, imbibe, immerse, inundate, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, plunge, submerge, swamp, swallow up, whelm |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate or submerge |
| Synonyms: | choke, deluge, drown, engulf, fill, flow, glut, gush, immerse, overflow, overwhelm, rush, saturate, surge, swamp, swarm, sweep, brim over, oversupply, pour over, whelm |
| Main Entry: | go under |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, submerge |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, default, die, drown, fall, fold, founder, go down, sink, submit, succumb, suffocate, surrender, submerse |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | muffle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suppress, make quiet |
| Synonyms: | conceal, cover, cushion, dampen, deaden, decrease, drown, dull, envelop, gag, hide, hush, mellow, mute, muzzle, shut down, silence, smother, soft-pedal*, soften, squelch, stifle, subdue, tone down*, wrap*, put the lid on, quieten, sit down on |
| Antonyms: | blab, tell, let loose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | muffle, tone down sound |
| Synonyms: | benumb, bottle up*, dampen, deaden, drown, gag, hush, lower, moderate, muzzle, reduce, silence, soft-pedal*, soften, subdue, turn down, cork up, decrease the volume, keep it down, pipe down, put damper on, put the lid on |
| Antonyms: | articulate, speak, voice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overcome |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat, defeat |
| Synonyms: | best*, conquer, crush, down*, drown, hurdle, lick*, master, outlive, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, prevail, prostrate, reduce, render, shock, stun, subdue, subjugate, surmount, survive, throw*, vanquish, weather*, win, worst*, be victorious, come out on top, get around*, get the better of, knock over*, knock socks off, rise above, triumph over, whelm |
| Antonyms: | give in, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out, flood |
| Synonyms: | brim, cascade, cover, deluge, discharge, drain, drown, engulf, gush, inundate, issue, jet, leak, overrun, pour, rush, shed, shower, slop, slosh, soak, spill, spout, spray, spurt, squirt, submerge, surge, swamp, water, wave, well, wet, bubble over, fall over, irrupt, overbrim, overtop, run over, spill over, well over, whelm |
| Main Entry: | overpower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beat; get the upper hand |
| Synonyms: | bear down, blank, bulldoze*, bury, clobber, conquer, cream*, crush, defeat, drown, drub*, knock out*, murder*, overcome, overthrow, overwhelm, prostrate, put away*, quell, reduce, rout, smash*, subdue, subjugate, swamp*, total*, trash*, trounce, vanquish, waste*, wax*, beat down, blow away, immobilize, lay one out, roll over, shellack, shut off*, take care of, take out*, torpedo*, whelm |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, wet |
| Synonyms: | absorb, assimilate, bathe, damp, dip, drink, drown, dunk, flood, immerse, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, macerate, marinate, merge, moisten, penetrate, percolate, permeate, saturate, seethe, soften, sop, souse, steep, submerge, take in, wash, water, imbrue, immerge, pour into, pour on, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
| Synonyms: | brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, wet, submerse, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | splash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw liquid |
| Synonyms: | bathe, broadcast, dabble, dash, douse, drench, drown, moisten, paddle, plunge, shower, slop, slosh, soak, sop, spatter, splatter, spray, spread, sprinkle, squirt, strew, throw, wade, wallow, wet, bespatter, get wet, plash |
| Main Entry: | splatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | splash |
| Synonyms: | douse, drench, drown, moisten, plunge, shower, slosh, soak, sop, spatter, spray, sprinkle, squirt, wet, bespatter, get wet |
| Main Entry: | submerge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dunk in liquid |
| Synonyms: | deluge, descend, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, impregnate, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, plunge, sink, sound, souse, subside, swamp, submerse, whelm |
| Antonyms: | dry, surface |
| Main Entry: | suffocate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, drown, smother, stifle, strangle |
| Antonyms: | free, loose, let go |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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