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Main Entry: sound
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something heard or audible

Synonyms:

accent, din, harmony, intonation, loudness, melody, modulation, music, noise, note, pitch, racket, report, resonance, reverberation, ringing, softness, sonance, sonancy, sonority, sonorousness, static, tenor, tonality, tone, vibration, voice

Antonyms:

silence
Main Entry: sound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: produce noise

Synonyms:

babble, bang, bark, blare, blow, boom, burst, buzz, cackle, chatter, clack, clang, clank, clap, clatter, clink, crash, creak, detonate, echo, emit, explode, hum, jabber, jangle, jar, moan, murmur, patter, play, rattle, reflect, resonate, resound, reverberate, ring, roar, rumble, shout, shriek, shrill, sing, slam, smash, snort, squawk, thud, thump, thunder, toot, trumpet, vibrate, whine, whisper

Antonyms:

quiet
Main Entry: sound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give the impression

Synonyms:

appear, appear to be, look, seem, strike as being
Related Words
Main Entry: sound
Part of Speech: adjective, noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
deaf, faint, loud, acoustic, altitonant, amphorous, anechoic, assonant, audible, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, borborygmic, buccinal, cacuminal, closed, distinct, dumb, foudroyant, glad, inaudible, isacoustic, monophonic, mum, mute, noisy, non, quadraphonic, quiet, rataplan, raucous, reel, rooped, roupy, singultous, soft, sonant, sonic, soniferous, sonorific, sonorous, sounding, soundproof, stereophonic, stertorous, still, stone, supersonic, throaty, tone
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Sound.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; sound in general

Synonyms:

-nouns
sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness; audibility; resonance; voice; aspirate; ideophone; rough breathing., [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography; diacoustics, diaphonics; phonetism.
-verbs
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound.
-adjectives
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
-phrases
"a thousand trills and quivering sounds" [Addison]; forensis strepitus.

Antonyms:

silence
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Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attack with words

Synonyms:

backbite, bad-mouth, bash, belittle, berate, blow off, calumniate, cap, castigate, cuss out, cut down, cut to the quick, decry, defame, derogate, discount, do a number on, dump on, give a black eye, hurl brickbat, insult, knock*, minimize, nag, offend, oppress, persecute, pick on, put down*, rag on, reproach, revile, ride*, rip up, run down, scold, signify, slam*, slap, sling mud, smear, sound*, swear at, tear apart, trash*, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, zing
Notes: abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm
to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it

Antonyms:

acclaim, adulate, approve, commend, compliment, praise
Main Entry: acoustics
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sound quality

Synonyms:

echo, noise, sound, sound properties, sound transmission
Main Entry: appear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: seem

Synonyms:

have the appearance, look as if, look like, occur, resemble, sound, strike one as

Antonyms:

be real
Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outward show; pretense

Synonyms:

aura, beard, blind, countenance, dream, facade, front, guise, idea, illusion, image, impression, mirage, phenomenon, reflection, screen, seeming, semblance, sound, specter, vision

Antonyms:

reality
Main Entry: arm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: narrow body of water

Synonyms:

branch, brook, channel, creek, estuary, firth, fjord, inlet, rivulet, sound, strait, stream, subdivision, tributary
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