| Main Entry: | cock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim up toward |
Synonyms: |
erect, hump, perk up, pile, prick, raise, stack, stand erect, stand up, stick up |
| Notes: | the male crab or lobster is a cock; the female, a hen |
| Main Entry: | disappoint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sadden, dismay; frustrate |
Synonyms: |
abort, baffle, balk, bring to naught, bungle, cast down, chagrin, circumvent, come to nothing, dash, dash hopes, deceive, delude, disconcert, disenchant, disgruntle, dishearten, disillusion, dissatisfy, dumbfound, embitter, fail, fall down on, fall flat, fall short of, foil, founder, hamper, hinder, leave in the lurch, let down, miscarry, mislead, not show, put out, ruin prospects, stand up, tease, thwart, torment, vex |
Antonyms: |
delight, excite, make happy, please, satisfy |
| 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: | hold |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue, endure |
Synonyms: |
apply, be in effect, be in force, be the case, be valid, exist, have bearing, hold good, hold true, last, operate, persevere, persist, remain, remain true, resist, stand up, stay, stay staunch, wear |
Antonyms: |
cease, desert, halt, quit, stop |
| Main Entry: | perpendicular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at right angles to |
Synonyms: |
erect, horizontal, on end, plumb, sheer, stand-up, standing, steep, straight, straight-up, upright, vertical |
Antonyms: |
horizontal, level |
| 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: | right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fair, just |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, condign, conscientious, deserved, due, equitable, ethical, fitting, good, honest, honorable, justifiable, lawful, legal, legitimate, merited, moral, proper, requisite, righteous, rightful, scrupulous, stand-up, suitable, true, upright, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
corrupt, immoral, inequitable, unfair, unjust, wrong |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get up; ascend |
Synonyms: |
arise, arouse, aspire, awake, be erect, be located, be situated, blast off, bob up, climb, come up, get out of bed, get steeper, get to one's feet, go uphill, grow, have foundation, levitate, lift, mount, move up, pile out, push up, reach up, rise and shine, rise up, rocket, roll out, rouse, scale, sit up, slope upwards, soar, sprout, stand up, straighten up, surface, surge, surmount, sweep upward, tower, turn out, up*, upspring |
Antonyms: |
descend, lower |
| Main Entry: | survive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue to live |
Synonyms: |
be extant, be left, bear, carry on, carry through, come through, cut it, endure, exist, get on, get through, go all the way, go the limit, handle, hold out, keep, keep afloat, last, live, live down, live on, live out, live through, make a comeback, make the cut, outlast, outlive, outwear, persevere, persist, pull out of it, pull through, recover, remain, remain alive, revive, ride out, see through, stand up, subsist, suffer, sustain, tough it out, weather, withstand |
Antonyms: |
cease, die |
| Main Entry: | upright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straight-up |
Synonyms: |
cocked, end on, end up, erect, on end, perpendicular, plumb, raised, sheer, stand-up, standing, steep, straight, upended, upstanding, upward, vertical |
Antonyms: |
fallen, lying, prone |