| Main Entry: | bondage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slavery |
Synonyms: |
chains, enslavement, helotry, peonage, serfage, serfdom, servility, servitude, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, villenage, yoke |
Antonyms: |
freedom, independence |
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
Synonyms: |
acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win, clean sweep, conquering, coup, defeating, discomfiture, grand slam, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, routing, score, splash*, subdual, subjection, subjugation, success, takeover, triumph, vanquishment, win |
Antonyms: |
failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
Synonyms: |
KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
Antonyms: |
conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demolition, devastation |
Synonyms: |
abolishing, abolition, annihilation, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing, extirpation, havoc, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaughter, slaying, subjugation, subversion, subverting, undoing, wreckage, wrecking |
Antonyms: |
building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration |
| Main Entry: | disarmament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction of weapons |
Synonyms: |
arms limitation, arms reduction, conquest, crippling, de-escalation, demilitarization, demobilization, disablement, disqualification, freeze, neutralizing, occupation, pacification, paralyzing, rendering powerless, subjugation |
Antonyms: |
arming, buildup |
| Main Entry: | occupation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizure, takeover |
Synonyms: |
attack, capture, conquest, entering, foreign rule, invasion, subjugation |
Antonyms: |
giving up, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | servitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slavery |
Synonyms: |
bondage, bonds, chains, confinement, enslavement, obedience, peonage, serfdom, serfhood, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, vassalage, yoke |
Antonyms: |
mastery |
| Main Entry: | slavery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of working under duress or without freedom |
Synonyms: |
bondage, bullwork, captivity, chains constraint, drudge, drudgery, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, grind, helotry, indenture, labor, menial labor, moil, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servitude, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, toil, vassalage, work |
Antonyms: |
mastery |
| Main Entry: | victory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | win, success |
Synonyms: |
achievement, advantage, ascendancy, bull's-eye, clean sweep, conquest, control, defeat, defeating, destruction, dominion, feather in cap, gain, grand slam, hit, hole in one, killing*, laurels, mission accomplished, overthrow, prize, subjugation, superiority, supremacy, sweep, the gold, triumph, upper hand, upset, winning |
Antonyms: |
defeat, failure, forfeit, loss |
| Main Entry: | reduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decline |
Synonyms: |
abatement, attrition, conquest, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutback, debasement, decrement, degradation, devaluation, diminution, discount, downgrading, markdown, minimization, overthrow, rebate, shrinkage, subdual, subjection, subjugation, subtraction |
Antonyms: |
enlargement, increase |