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| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sporting event involving several participants |
| Synonyms: | competition, conflict, contest, event, match, meeting, tournament, athletic event, tourney |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, bump into, clash, collide, come across, confront, contact, cross, encounter, engage, experience, face, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, salute, see, strike, stumble, tumble, tussle, wrestle, brush against, chance on, come up against, dig up, fall in with, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, touch shoulders |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | connect, join |
| Synonyms: | abut, adhere, adjoin, border, coincide, connect, converge, cross, intersect, link, reach, touch, unite, link up |
| Antonyms: | disconnect, disjoin, divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform, carry out |
| Synonyms: | answer, approach, come up to, comply, discharge, equal, execute, fit, fulfill, gratify, handle, match, rival, satisfy, suffice, tie, touch, cope with, measure up |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come together, convene |
| Synonyms: | appear, assemble, collect, congregate, converge, flock, gather, get together, join, muster, open, rally, rendezvous, show, sit, be introduced, be present, be presented, enter in, foregather, get to know, make acquaintance |
| Antonyms: | cancel |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insult or involve in entanglement |
| Synonyms: | abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, encounter, face, give the cold shoulder*, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex, dispraise, dump on, give a zinger, hit where one lives |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
| Antonyms: | appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | answer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | solve; fulfill |
| Synonyms: | clarify, conform, correlate, correspond, crack*, do*, dope, elucidate, fill, fit*, lick*, meet, pass, qualify, satisfy, serve, suffice, suit, unzip, work, deal with*, dope out*, measure up, work through |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appointment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting |
| Synonyms: | assignation, assignment, blind date, consultation, date, engagement, errand, gig, interview, invitation, meet, rendezvous, session, tryst, zero hour* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come nearer |
| Synonyms: | advance, approximate, bear, border, buzz*, come, come at, contact, converge, equal, match, meet, near, progress, reach, resemble, surround, take after, threaten, be comparable to, be like, belly up to, catch up, close in, come close, compare with, correspond to, creep up, draw near, gain on, go toward, impend, loom up, move in on, move toward, verge upon |
| Antonyms: | depart, distance, leave, go away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | congregate |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bunch, call, capture*, collect, convene, convoke, corral*, flock, gather, group, hang around*, huddle, lump, meet, mobilize, muster, rally, reunite, round up, summon, unite, bring together, bunch up, call together, come together, gang up*, hang out*, make the scene, meet up, scare up |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assembly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congregation |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, body, bunch, cluster, collection, company, conclave, conference, convocation, council, crew, crowd, faction, flock, gathering, get-together, group, huddle, mass, meet*, meeting, multitude, rally, sit-in*, throng, turnout*, clambake, coffee klatch, confab |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be of use; use |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, answer, benefit, fill, fulfill, meet, profit, satisfy, serve, suffice, work, be adequate |
| Main Entry: | bump into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | come across, encounter, hit, light, luck, meet, stumble, tumble, chance upon, light upon, meet up with, run across, run into |
| Main Entry: | bunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit half-heartedly |
| Synonyms: | butt, meet, sacrifice, throw, toss, lay it down |
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch, adjoin |
| Synonyms: | abut, border, bound, communicate, join, jut, meet, neighbor, project, protrude, verge |
| Main Entry: | carry out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | complete activity |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, consummate, discharge, effect, execute, finalize, fulfill, implement, meet, perform, realize, carry through, effectuate |
| Antonyms: | leave, stop, not finish |
| Main Entry: | center |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | concentrate, draw together |
| Synonyms: | attract, centralize, collect, consolidate, focus, gather, intensify, join, meet, unify, bring to a focus, bring together, close on, concenter, converge upon, focalize, medialize |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen |
| Synonyms: | arrive, be one's fate, befall, betide, blunder on, break, bump, come, come about, come off, come to pass, fall out, fall to one's lot, go, hap, hit upon, light, light upon, luck, meet, occur, stumble, stumble on, transpire, tumble, turn up |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | join, unite |
| Synonyms: | agree, bind, chain, coalesce, connect, couple, encounter, fuse, grapple, meet, put together, tie, tie up, come together, inclose |
| Antonyms: | disjoin, disunite, open |
| Main Entry: | come across |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encounter, find |
| Synonyms: | bump into, discover, meet, notice, uncover, unearth, chance upon, happen upon, hit upon, light upon, stumble upon |
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