| Main Entry: | fish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throwing bait to catch seafood |
Synonyms: |
angle, bait, bait the hook, bob, cast, cast one's hook, cast one's net, chum, extract, extricate, find, go fishing, haul out, net, produce, pull out, seine, trawl, troll |
| Notes: | fish is the plural when referring to fish in general or a quantity of fish of the same kind, and fishes is the plural to refer to a quantity with variety |
| Main Entry: | beginner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person unskilled in something |
Synonyms: |
abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, buckwheater, catechumen, colt, fish*, fledgling, greenhorn, greenie, initiate, learner, neophyte, new kid on the block, new person, newcomer, novice, novitiate, probationer, recruit, starter, student, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro |
Antonyms: |
expert, old hand, professional, veteran |
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is fooled |
Synonyms: |
butt*, chump, easy mark, fish*, fool, mark*, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap*, sitting duck, sucker, victim |
Antonyms: |
cognizant |
| Main Entry: | game |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undomesticated animals chased for food |
Synonyms: |
chase, fish, fowl, kill, meat, prey, quarry, ravin, victim, wild animals |
| Main Entry: | grope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel about for |
Synonyms: |
cast about, examine, explore, feel blindly, finger*, fish*, flounder, fumble, grabble, handle, manipulate, poke, pry, root, scrabble, search, touch |
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; indicate |
Synonyms: |
acquaint, adumbrate, advise, allude to, angle, apprise, bring up, broach, coax, connote, cue, drop, expose, fish*, foreshadow, give an inkling, impart, imply, infer, inform, insinuate, intimate, jog memory, leak*, let it be known, let out of bag, make*, mention, point, prefigure, press, prompt, put flea in ear, recall, refer to, remind, say in passing, shadow, signify, solicit, spring, tip off, tip one's hand, touch on, whisper, wink |
| Main Entry: | hunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chase for killing |
Synonyms: |
beat the bushes, bird-dog, capture, course, dog, drag, drive, fish, follow, give chase, grouse, gun for, gun*, hawk, heel, hound, kill, look for, poach, press, pursue, ride, run, scent, scratch, scratch around, seek, shadow, shoot, snare, stalk, start, track, trail |
Antonyms: |
let go |
| Main Entry: | pretend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fake, falsify |
Synonyms: |
act, affect, allege, assume, be deceitful, be hypocritical, beguile, bluff, cheat, claim, claim falsely, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fake out, feign, fish*, fool, fudge, hoodwink*, impersonate, jazz, jive, lay claim, let on, make out, malinger, masquerade, mislead, pass off, pass oneself off as, profess, purport, put on*, put up a front, sham*, shuck and jive, simulate, stonewall, sucker, whitewash |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
Antonyms: |
tell truth |
| Main Entry: | pursue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chase, follow |
Synonyms: |
accompany, attend, badger, bait, bird-dog, bug, camp on the doorstep of, chivy, dog*, fish*, give chase, go after, harass, harry, haunt, hound, hunt, hunt down, move behind, nose around, oppress, persevere, persist, plague, play catch up, poke around, prowl after, ride, run after, run down, scout out, search for, search high heaven, search out, seek, shadow, stalk, tag, tail, take out after, trace, track, track down, trail |
Antonyms: |
retreat, run away |
| Main Entry: | rummage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ransack, search |
Synonyms: |
beat the bushes, comb, delve, dig out, disarrange, disarray, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, examine, explore, ferret out, fish, forage, grub, hunt, jumble, leave no stone unturned, look high and low, mess up, mix up, poke, rake, root, scour, search high heaven, seek, shake, shake down, spy, toss, turn inside out, turn upside down |
Antonyms: |
order, organize |