| Main Entry: | add |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjoin, increase; make further comment |
Synonyms: |
affix, annex, ante, append, augment, beef up, boost, build up, charge up, continue, cue in, figure in, flesh out, heat up, hike, hike up, hitch on, hook on, hook up with, include, jack up, jazz up, join together, pad, parlay, piggyback, plug into, pour it on, reply, run up, say further, slap on, snowball, soup up, speed up, spike, step up, supplement, sweeten, tack on, tag |
| Notes: | ad is short for advertisement while add means 'to join or unite' so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deduct, diminish, lessen, reduce, remove, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay with credit card |
Synonyms: |
book, buy on credit, chalk up, cuff, debit, encumber, go into hock, incur debt, nick, paste, put on account, put on one's card, put on the cuff, put on the tab, receive credit, run up |
Antonyms: |
pay by check, pay cash |
| Main Entry: | enrich |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
Synonyms: |
adorn, aggrandize, ameliorate, augment, beef up, better, build, build up, cultivate, decorate, develop, endow, enhance, figure in, flesh out, grace, hike up, hop up, jack up, jazz up, make rich, ornament, pad, parlay, pour it on, pyramid, refine, run up, soup up, spike*, step up, supplement, sweeten, up*, upgrade |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deplete, impoverish, reduce, take |
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build; establish |
Synonyms: |
assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise, uprear |
Antonyms: |
raze, topple |
| Main Entry: | magnify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enlarge, intensify |
Synonyms: |
aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, bless, blow up, boost, build up, deepen, dignify, dilate, distend, enhance, ennoble, eulogize, exalt, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up, increase, inflate, intensate, jack up, jump up, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, redouble, rise, rouse, run up, step up, sweeten, swell |
Antonyms: |
decrease, diminish, lessen, miniaturize, weaken |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift; build from the ground |
Synonyms: |
boost, bring up, construct, elevate, erect, establish, exalt, heave, hoist, hold up, lever, lift, lift up, mount, move up, place up, promote, pry, pull up, put on its end, put up, rear, run up, set up, set upright, shove, stand up, take up, throw up, upcast, upheave, uplift, upraise, uprear |
Antonyms: |
demolish, destroy, drop, lower, raze |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
Synonyms: |
advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, fetch up, forgather, form, gather, get, goose up, goose, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump, jump up, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, run up, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball, strengthen, up |
Antonyms: |
decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |
| Main Entry: | throw up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build quickly |
Synonyms: |
build overnight, jerrybuild, knock together, patch, put together, roughcast, roughhew, run up, slap together, throw together |
Antonyms: |
destroy, raze, tear down |
| Main Entry: | curtain raiser |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | short preliminary event |
Synonyms: |
countdown, curtain lifter, curtain warmer, inaugural, kickoff, lead-in, opener, opening gun, opening shot, preliminary, preview, run-up, walk-up, warm-up |
| Main Entry: | jack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise |
Synonyms: |
boost, bring up, construct, elevate, erect, establish, exalt, heave, hike, hoist, hold up, jump, lever, lift, lift up, mount, move up, place up, promote, pry, pull up, put on its end, put up, rear, run up, set up, set upright, shove, stand up, take up, throw up, up, upcast, upheave, uplift, upraise, uprear |