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salvage - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | salvage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | save, rescue |
| Synonyms: | deliver, get back, glean, ransom, reclaim, recover, redeem, regain, restore, retrieve, salve |
| Antonyms: | endanger, harm, hurt, injure, lose, waste |
| Main Entry: | discount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction in cost |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allowance, commission, concession, cut, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, drawback, exemption, modification, percentage, premium, qualification, rebate, remission, salvage, subtraction, cut rate, knock-off, markdown, rollback, something off, tare |
| Antonyms: | increase, premium, rise, mark-up |
| Main Entry: | junk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | odds and ends; garbage |
| Synonyms: | clutter, collateral, debris, filth, hogwash*, litter, miscellany, offal, refuse, rubbish, rubble, rummage, salvage, scrap, trash, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, boost, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off*, rob, sack, salvage, snatch, snitch*, swipe, take, thieve, burglarize, moonlight requisition, smash and grab, stick up, tip over |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obtain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get, acquire |
| Synonyms: | access, accomplish, achieve, annex, attain, beg borrow or steal, capture, chalk up*, collect, come by, compass, cop*, corral, drum up*, earn, effect, fetch, gain, gather, get at, get hold of, get one's hands on, glean, gobble up, grab, have, hoard, inherit, invade, lay up, make use of, nab*, occupy, pick up, pocket*, procure, purchase, reach, realize, reap, receive, recover, retrieve, salvage, save, score, scrape together, scrape up, secure, seize, snag, take, wangle, win |
| Notes: | obtain means to come into possession of; attain means to gain with effort |
| Antonyms: | forfeit, forsake, lose, sacrifice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, burn, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, knock off*, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off*, rob, sack, salvage, snatch, spoil, strip, depredate, kip, knock over*, lay waste, moonlight requisition, smash and grab, stick up* |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recycle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reuse |
| Synonyms: | convert, reclaim, recover, salvage, save, reprocess |
| Main Entry: | remainder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | balance, residue |
| Synonyms: | butt, detritus, dregs, excess, fragment, garbage, hangover*, heel, junk, leftover, obverse, odds and ends*, refuse, relic, remains, remnant, rest, ruins, salvage, scrap, stump, surplus, trace, vestige, waste, wreck, wreckage, bottom of barrel, carry-over, leavings, oddment, overplus, residuum |
| Antonyms: | base, core |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving from danger |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, emancipation, exploit, feat, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving, disembarrassment, disentanglement, extrication, heroics, reclaiming |
| Antonyms: | danger, peril |
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | save from danger |
| Synonyms: | conserve, deliver, disentangle, emancipate, extricate, free, get out, keep, liberate, preserve, protect, ransom, recapture, recover, redeem, regain, release, retain, retrieve, safeguard, salvage, spring*, unleash, bail one out, disembarrass, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, hold over, manumit, pull out of the fire, save life of, set free, unloose |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, imperil, injure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | retrieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get back |
| Synonyms: | fetch, recall, recapture, reclaim, recoup, recover, recruit, redeem, regain, repair, repossess, rescue, restore, salvage, save, bring back, reacquire, win back |
| Antonyms: | give, offer, relinquish |
| Main Entry: | acquisition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obtaining or receiving |
| Synonyms: | accretion, achievement, addition, attainment, buy, gain, learning, possession, prize, procurement, procuring, property, purchase, pursuit, recovery, redemption, salvage, winning, acquirement, acquiring, gaining, obtainment, procuration, retrieval |
| Antonyms: | dearth, lack, loss, need, want |
| Main Entry: | get back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regain |
| Synonyms: | reclaim, recoup, recover, repossess, retrieve, salvage |
| Antonyms: | lose, miss, pass |
| Main Entry: | recover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find again |
| Synonyms: | balance, compensate, get back, offset, recapture, reclaim, recoup, recruit, redeem, regain, repair, repossess, rescue, restore, resume, retrieve, salvage, take back, bring back, catch up, make good, obtain again, reacquire, rediscover, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, retake, win back |
| Antonyms: | lose, mislay, miss |
| Main Entry: | save |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rescue |
| Synonyms: | bail out, come to rescue, defend, deliver, emancipate, extricate, free, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, liberate, pull out of fire, ransom, recover, redeem, salvage, save one's neck, set free, spring, unchain, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | endanger, harm, hurt |
| Main Entry: | tax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge levied by government on property, income |
| Synonyms: | assessment, bite*, contribution, cost, custom, dues, duty, excise, expense, fine, imposition, impost, levy, obligation, pork barrel*, price, rate, salvage, tariff, toll, tribute, brokerage, capitation, giveaway, tithe, towage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb1 |
| Definition: | bring into usable condition |
| Synonyms: | convert, recover, recover, recycle, redeem, regenerate, remodel, rescue, restore, salvage, recondition |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
| Synonyms: | abolition, autonomy, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, emancipation, exemption, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, rescue, salvage, salvation, sovereignty, abolitionism, autarchy, citizenship, disengagement, disimprisonment, enfranchisement, extriction, representative government, self-determination, self-government |
| Antonyms: | communism, government, subordination, suppression, subjection |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
| Synonyms: | abduct, abstract, annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, filch*, liberate, lift*, misappropriate, nab*, nail*, nip*, pick up, pinch*, pluck, pocket*, preempt, pull in, purloin, rip off*, salvage, seize, sequester, snag, snare, snatch*, snitch*, swipe*, take in, accroach, carry off, haul in, run off with |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving of freedom |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, emancipation, escape, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, rescue, salvage, salvation |
| Antonyms: | capture, confinement, imprisonment, restraint |
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