| Main Entry: | put away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incarcerate |
Synonyms: |
certify, commit, confine, institutionalize, jail, lock up |
Antonyms: |
free, liberate |
| Main Entry: | put away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume |
Synonyms: |
devour, eat up, gobble, gulp down, polish off, punish, put down, shift, swill, wolf down |
Antonyms: |
abstain, refrain |
| Main Entry: | put away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
Synonyms: |
assassinate, bury, cool*, cut off, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, dust off, execute, finish, inter, knock off, liquidate, murder, plant, put down*, put out of its misery, put to sleep, slay, tomb |
Antonyms: |
give birth |
| Main Entry: | put away/put aside/put by |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep in |
Synonyms: |
deposit, keep, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, put by, put out of the way, reserve cache, salt away, save, set aside, squirrel away, stockpile, store, store away, stow away |
Antonyms: |
spend, use up, waste |
| Main Entry: | amaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surprise |
Synonyms: |
affect, alarm, astonish, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, bowl over, daze, dumbfound, electrify, flabbergast*, impress, move, perplex, put one away, shock, stagger, startle, strike, stun, stupefy, touch* |
| Notes: | amaze once meant 'alarm, terrify' but now means 'astonish'; surprise means 'meet with suddenly or without warning' |
| Main Entry: | amuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain; make laugh |
Synonyms: |
break one up, charm, cheer, crack up, delight, divert, fracture, gladden, grab*, gratify, interest, kill*, knock dead, make roll in the aisles, occupy, panic*, please, put away, regale, slay, tickle, wow* |
Antonyms: |
anger, annoy, bore, dull, tire, upset |
| Main Entry: | astonish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surprise |
Synonyms: |
amaze, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, boggle, bowl over, confound, daze, dumbfound, flabbergast, floor*, knock over, overwhelm, put one away, shock, spring on, stagger, startle, stun, stupefy, take aback, throw a curve |
Antonyms: |
bore, calm, expect |
| Main Entry: | best |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat; gain advantage |
Synonyms: |
KO, beat, beat up, better, blank*, blast*, bulldoze, clobber, conquer, cream*, deck, drub, exceed, excel, flax, floor*, get the better of, knock off, lambaste, let have it, lick*, master, outclass, outdo, outshine, outstrip, overcome, prevail, put away, shoot down, shut down, surpass, take care of, take down, tan*, thrash*, top, total, transcend, trash*, triumph, triumph over, trounce, wallop, waste*, wax, whip*, whomp, whop, wipe out, wipe the floor with, wipe, zap |
Antonyms: |
give up, lose, relent, surrender |
| Main Entry: | bury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay to rest after death |
Synonyms: |
consign to grave, cover up, deposit, embalm, ensepulcher, enshrine, entomb, hold last rites for, hold services for, inearth, inhume, inter, inurn, lay out, mummify, plant*, put away, put six feet under, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb |
Antonyms: |
dig out, disinter, uncover |
| Main Entry: | cache |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide a supply of something |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, bury, conceal, cover, ditch, duck, ensconce, lay away, maintain, park, plant, put away, put in the hole, save, screen, secrete, squirrel, squirrel away, stash, stash away, store |