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Nouns (18)

out

n. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"

out

n. a return or service that does not land within the in-bounds limits

lift

n. a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"

lift

n. the act of giving temporary assistance

lift, elevator

n. lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building

lift, rise

n. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

heave, lift, raise, elevation

n. the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

lift, ski lift, ski tow

n. a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

lift, elevation, raising

n. the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"

Verbs (61)

out

v. reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"

lift

v. remove from a surface, of fingerprints

lift

v. take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"

lift

v. remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"

lift

v. remove (hair) by scalping

lift

v. put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"

lift

v. rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"

lift

v. call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

lift

v. make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"

lift

v. take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"

lift

v. pay off (a mortgage)

lift, face-lift

v. perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

lift, raise

v. raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"

lift, raise

v. invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

lift, airlift

v. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"

lift, take and move

v. take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"

lift, raise

v. move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

lift, rustle

v. take illegally; "rustle cattle"

out, come out, be disclosed, be revealed

v. be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

lift, wind, hoist

v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

lift, plagiarize, plagiarise

v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

lift, rise, rear, rise up

v. rise up; "The building rose before them"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

lift, rise, go up, come up, ascend, move up

v. move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

overturn, lift, repeal, reverse, revoke, annul, countermand, rescind

v. annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

Adverbs (5)

out

adv. outside of an enclosed space: "She is out"

out, away

adv. away from the reference point: "He kicked his legs out"

out, away from home

adv. "They went out last night"

Adjectives (30)

out

adj. not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"

out

adj. no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"

out

adj. directed outward or serving to direct something outward; "the out doorway"; "the out basket"

out

adj. out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election; "now the Democrats are out"

out, exterior

adj. outside or external; "the out surface of a ship's hull"

out, outlying

adj. outer or outlying; "the out islands"

out, unfashionable

adj. (unpopular)

out, retired

adj. not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out"

out, extinct, extinguished, quenched

adj. being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"

out, gone, away

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

out, kayoed, KO'd, stunned, knocked out

adj. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

out, taboo, tabu, prohibited, forbidden, proscribed

adj. excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo subject"

Fuzzynyms (333)

way

n. a journey or passage; "they are on the way"

reassurance

n. the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence

block, pulley, pulley-block

n. a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope

support

n. any device that bears the weight of another thing; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf"

promotion

n. act of raising in rank or position

shove

n. the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"

take off, doff

v. remove clothes; "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

tilt, lean, slant, tip, angle

v. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

copy, recreate

v. make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"

lift, raise

v. invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

lift, raise

v. move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

lift, wind, hoist

v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

lift, raise

v. raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"

lift, raise

v. move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

lift, wind, hoist

v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

break, scatter, disperse, dissipate, spread out

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

lift, raise

v. raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"

lift, raise

v. invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

lift, wind, hoist

v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

uplift

v. lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"

break, scatter, disperse, dissipate, spread out

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

lift, raise

v. raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"

lift, raise

v. invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

lift, raise

v. move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

lift, wind, hoist

v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

pad, lard, blow up, embellish, embroider, aggrandize, dramatize, dramatise

v. add details to

take off, doff

v. remove clothes; "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here"

lift

v. remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"

take, remove, take away

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

tilt, lean, slant, tip, angle

v. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

enlarge, magnify, blow up

v. make large; "blow up an image"

animate, enliven, invigorate, inspire, exalt

v. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

jump, rise, climb up

v. rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"

intensify, escalate, step up

v. increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

increase

v. become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"

brace, arouse, stimulate, energize, energise, perk up

v. cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"

lift, raise

v. raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"

lift, raise

v. invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

lift, raise

v. move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

counterfeit, fake, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

doctor, sophisticate, adulterate, doctor up

v. alter with the intention to deceive

abuse, misuse, pervert

v. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

hijack, highjack, pirate, commandeer, expropriate

v. take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"

strip, foray, pillage, rifle, plunder, ransack, despoil, reave

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

appropriate, seize, take possession of, take over

v. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

lift, raise

v. raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread"

lift, raise

v. invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

lift, raise

v. move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

hover, levitate

v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"

uplift

v. lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces; "the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"

heave, heft, heave up, heft up

v. lift or elevate

heave

v. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

boost, shove upward, push upward

v. push or shove upward, as if from below or behind; "The singer had to be boosted onto the stage by a special contraption"

jump, leap, spring, bound

v. move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"

rise, climb, go up

v. increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

rise, arise, develop, originate, spring up

v. come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

jump, start, startle, move suddenly

v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

jump, derail, run off the rails

v. run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"

march, hike

v. walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies"

break, scatter, disperse, dissipate, spread out

v. move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";

shove, jostle

v. come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train"

shove, push roughly, push along

v. push along

thrust, shove, squeeze, stuff

v. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"

scale

v. climb up by means of a ladder

clamber, scramble, struggle, skin, shin, sputter, shinny

v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

scale, surmount

v. reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc"

come through, succeed

v. attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"

spread, broadcast, propagate, circulate, disperse, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, diffuse, pass around

v. cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

spiral, coil, gyrate

v. to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

mount, get on, bestride, mount up, climb on, hop on, jump on

v. get on the back of; "mount a horse"

twiddle, twirl, whirl, swirl

v. turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"

whirl, purl, eddy, whirlpool, swirl, gurge

v. flow in a circular current, of liquids

twine, grow upward

v. grow upward

spin, twirl, whirl, birl

v. cause to spin; "spin a coin"

tumble, whirl, skirl, whirl around

v. fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"

spiral, corkscrew

v. move in a spiral or zigzag course

void, invalidate, vitiate, make invalid

v. take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"

invalidate, nullify

v. show to be invalid

cancel, invalidate

v. make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets"

void, invalidate, nullify, annul, avoid, quash

v. declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

get rid of, abolish

v. do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

abrogate, revoke formally

v. revoke formally

abjure, recant, forswear, retract

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

refuse to acknowledge, disavow

v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

disclaim, renounce title to

v. renounce a legal claim or title to

withdraw, take back, unsay

v. take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"

retire, withdraw

v. withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"

veto, interdict, forbid, prohibit, proscribe, disallow

v. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

defunct

adj. having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

obsolete

adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words"

wildcat, unauthorized

adj. without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"

banned, prohibited

adj. forbidden by law

illegitimate, outlaw, unlawful, illicit, outlawed

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

wrong, incorrect

adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

unutterable, ineffable, unspeakable, unnameable

adj. too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"

Synonyms (81)

bring, convey

v. take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"

antique, old-fashioned, out-of-date, outmoded, demode, old-hat, passe, passee, old hat, out of fashion, out of style, démodé

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

dated

adj. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

dowdy, frumpy, frumpish

adj. primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

prehistoric

adj. no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"

outward, departing, outbound, outward-bound

adj. that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships"

effluent, outflowing

adj. that is flowing outward

past, retiring, preceding

adj. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

attempted

adj. tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder"

defeated, frustrated, disappointed, foiled, thwarted

adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

undone, ruined, done for, sunk, washed-up

adj. doomed to extinction

down-and-out

adj. lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)

empty-handed, unrewarded

adj. having acquired or gained nothing; "the returned from the negotiations empty-handed"

failing, failed

adj. unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"

hitless, scoreless, goalless

adj. having no points scores; "a scoreless inning"

self-defeating

adj. acting to defeat its own purpose; "it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events"

unfulfilled, unrealized

adj. of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions"

unplaced

adj. not one of the first three in a race or competition

winless

adj. having no wins; "the team had a very disappointing winless season"

outer

adj. being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"

outside

adj. originating or belonging beyond some bounds:"the outside world"; "outside interests"; "an outside job"

outermost, outmost

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

outside

adj. on or toward an outer edge; "an outer lane"; "the outside lane"

satellite

adj. surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; "a city and its satellite communities"

disliked

adj. regarded with aversion; "he was intensely disliked"

less-traveled

adj. not visited by many travelers; "the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries"

disconnected

adj. not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is disconnected"

drained, run-down

adj. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

invalid, irrelevant

adj. no longer having force or currency: "a dead issue"; "a dead law"

out of play

adj. (of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"

lacking, wanting, nonexistent, missing

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

truant, awol

adj. absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

comatose

adj. in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient"

senseless, insensible

adj. unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"

nonconscious

adj. concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness; "nonconscious psychic processes"

out cold

adj. (unconscious)

semicomatose

adj. in a state of partial coma

subconscious

adj. just below the level of consciousness

unmentionable

adj. unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation; "unmentionable words"

untouchable

adj. forbidden to the touch; "in most museums such articles are untouchable"

Antonyms (63)

raise, arouse, bring up, invoke, call forth, put forward, conjure up, call down

v. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

raise, call up, arouse, evoke, conjure, invoke, call forth

v. call to arms; of military personnel

lower, bring down, get down, take down, let down

v. move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf"

give, kick in, contribute, chip in, make a contribution

v. contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office"

level, dismantle, take down, pull down, raze, rase, tear down

v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"

sink, settle, go down, go under

v. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

sink, descend into some soft substance

v. descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"

flop, fall suddenly

v. fall suddenly and abruptly

drop, fall vertically

v. to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"

fell, drop, cut down, strike down

v. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"

plunk, dive, plunge

v. drop steeply; "the stock market plunged"

tumble, topple

v. fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"

assume, take over, usurp, arrogate

adj. holding office; "the in party"

internal

adj. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering"

inside

adj. relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter"

safe

adj. having reached a base without being put out; "the runner was called safe when the baseman dropped the ball"

present

adj. spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation"

permissible

adj. that may be permitted especially as according to rule; "permissible behavior in school"; "a permissible tax deduction"

in, inside an enclosed space

adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"

lift out

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