Oxford Thesaurus - An A-Z Dictionary Of Synonyms
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vivacity, exhilaration: Thurgood did not join in the hilarity |
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of his retirement party. |
hill |
n. 1 elevation, rise, highland, mound, prominence, promontory, |
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eminence, knoll, hillock, hummock, height, foothill, tor, mount, |
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upland, downs or downland, Scots brae, No. Brit fell, W Brit |
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tump, US and Canadian butte: The house is on a hill overlooking |
the valley. 2 heap, pile, mound, stack; mountain: By the autumn, the hill of compost had reached six feet in height. 3 slope, incline or decline, acclivity or declivity, gradient or
esp. US grade, US upgrade or downgrade: Are you sure this car can make it up the next hill?
hinder v. 1 hamper, delay, interrupt, impede, interfere with, foil, thwart, frustrate, forestall, bar, stymie, check, balk or baulk, encumber, obstruct, handicap, set or keep or put or hold back, defer, retard, restrain, slow, postpone: The difficulty of the task should not hinder the attempt. 2 stop, prevent, check, preclude, arrest; discourage, deter, inhibit, obviate: Does the threat of capital punishment hinder people from committing murder?
hindrance n. 1 obstruction, impediment, snag, check, obstruction, barrier, obstacle, restraint, drawback, hitch, stumbling-block, deterrent, encumbrance: The only hindrance to the plan is Phyllis's disapproval of it. 2 prevention, curb, limitation: The presence of police cars serves as a hindrance to speeding motorists.
hint |
n. 1 suggestion, clue, implication, inkling, indication, tip, |
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tip-off, intimation, allusion, innuendo, insinuation; pointer, |
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help, advice: The quiz-master gave me a hint and I got the |
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answer at once. 2 trace, suggestion, touch, taste, breath, |
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dash, soup‡on, whiff, undertone, tinge, whisper: Which |
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government has ever served without any hint of scandal? |
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--v. 3 suggest, imply, indicate, tip (off), intimate, allude, |
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insinuate, mention, clue, cue, signal, refer, advert: She |
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hinted that I might appeal to her sister. |
hip |
adj. informed, aware, knowledgeable, knowing, perceptive, |
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alert, in or up on, onto, Colloq wise (to), with it, cool, |
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Old-fashioned hep: He's not hip to what they're saying about |
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him and Carrie. |
hippie |
n. bohemian, Old-fashioned drop-out, beatnik, beat, longhair, |
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flower child or person, hipster: A few hippies were playing |
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their guitars at the street corner. |
hire |
v. 1 engage, employ, take on, appoint, enlist, sign on: |
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Alexandra had to hire more people to get all the work done. 2 |
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rent, lease, engage, charter: We hired a car for the day. 3 |
hire out. rent (out), lease (out), let (out), charter (out): I hire out my boat by the day.
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--n. 4 rent, lease, charter, letting: Do you have bicycles for |
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hire by the day? 5 (hire) charge, cost, fee, price, rate, rent, |
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rental: How much is the hire of a horse by the hour? |
hiss |
n. 1 hissing, sibilance: Serpents and geese make a sound like |
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a hiss. 2 catcall, jeer, boo, hoot, Slang raspberry, US Bronx |
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cheer: The villain was greeted by hisses from the audience. |
--v. 3 boo, hoot, jeer, deride, mock, taunt, decry, disparage: The workers hissed and booed the speaker.
historic adj. momentous, important, noteworthy, significant, red-letter, notable, celebrated, distinguished, prominent, great, consequential, signal, unforgettable, memorable: We are gathered here to commemorate a historic event.
historical
adj. factual, true, verifiable, reliable, real, authentic, recorded, documented: The historical truth of what actually happened on that day has been obscured by legends.
history n. 1 account, story, record, description, depiction, portrayal, representation, telling, retelling, recital, narration,
narrative, relation, retailing: Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York begins with the creation of the world. 2 news, summary, recapitulation, report,
intelligence, information: The history of these events is recounted in a book by Robinson. 3 past, background, life; experiences, adventures, story, biography: This woman appears to have had a rather curious history. The history of your years in Polynesia would make an interesting book. 4 record,
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experience, information, biography, CV or curriculum vitae, US |
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r‚sum‚: Your entire work history should be included in your |
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application. 5 chronicle, annals, record, account: The history |
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of Parliamentary debate can be traced through Hansard. 6 |
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ancient history, the past, yesterday, the (good old) days, days |
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of yore, olden days, yesteryear, antiquity: What can history |
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tell us about the future? 7 dead letter, yesterday's news, old |
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hat: Any animosity I might have felt towards him is now |
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history. |
hit |
v. 1 strike, cuff, smack, knock, whack, bash, bang, thump, |
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thwack, punch, buffet, slap, swat, bludgeon, club, smite; spank, |
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thrash, beat, pummel, batter, flog, scourge, birch, cane, lash, |
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belabour, flagellate, whip, horsewhip, cudgel, Archaic |
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fustigate; Colloq belt, wallop, clobber, clout, sock, clip, |
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crown, bop, conk, paste, lambaste, zap: She hit him on the jaw |
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and he went down. 2 strike, bat, swat, knock, drive, propel: |
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He hit the ball over the heads of the fielders. 3 strike, |
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collide or impact with, run or smash or crash into, bump or bang |
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into: The car went off the road and hit a tree. 4 affect, |
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touch, stir, move, wound, hurt, strike or hit home, make or |
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leave an impression or a mark on, (make an) impact (on): The |
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new taxes hit the wealthy more than the poor. 5 dawn on, enter |
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one's mind, occur to, strike: It finally hit Graham that he had |
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been insulted. 6 reach, attain, arrive at, gain, achieve: |
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Those who have hit eighty know the meaning of old age. She hit |
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the jackpot this week. 7 experience, encounter, meet (with): It |
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was at that point that we hit a snag in the negotiations. 8 |
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Also, hit up. importune, beseech, petition, beg, implore, |
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entreat, ask for: As usual, Guthrie hit me for a loan as soon |
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as we met. 9 hit on or upon. a come or happen or chance or |
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light on or upon, discover, find, uncover, unearth, stumble or |
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blunder on or upon, arrive at: After years of experimentation, |
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the Curies hit upon pitchblende as a source of radium. b devise, |
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think of or up, invent, dream up, come up with, work out, see, |
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perceive, detect, discern, find: I have hit upon a way to |
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counteract the force of gravity. |
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--n. 10 impact, collision; blow, punch, knock, strike, swat, |
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shot, smack, bump, bang, Colloq whack, thwack, conk, bop, sock: |
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The weakness of the hit caused only a slight dent in my car |
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door. The boxer reeled after a hard hit to the midriff. 11 |
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success, triumph, coup, winner, sensation, Colloq smash (hit), |
sell-out: After opening in the West End the musical became a hit on Broadway. 12 kick, jolt, thrill, Slang charge, US rush, bang: Give me a hit off that reefer.
hitch v. 1 connect, couple, fasten, attach, join, harness, tie, unite, hook (up), link, fix: When I arrived, she was hitching the horses to the wagon. 2 Often, hitch up. raise, pull up, hike (up), tug (up), hoist, yank, jerk, Brit hoick: He hitched up his trousers, tucked in his shirt, and tightened his belt. 3
hitchhike, thumb a lift or ride, Colloq US bum a ride: I had no money and no car, so I hitched here from Newcastle.
--n. 4 snag, catch, difficulty, trouble, problem, mishap, handicap, entanglement, interference, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, obstacle: The entire plan went off without any hitch.
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hoard n. 1 supply, stock, store, stockpile, reserve, fund, reservoir, accumulation, collection, cache: They kept a hoard of food in the shelter in case of attack. Occasionally, farmers turn up a hoard of gold coins buried by the ancient Romans.
--v. 2 amass, collect, accumulate, pile (up), assemble, gather, put away, stockpile, store, reserve, set aside, save (up),
squirrel away, lay in or away or aside or up, Colloq stash away: Hoarding food was against the law during rationing.
hoax n. 1 deception, fraud, swindle, trick, flam or flimflam, imposture, cheat, humbug, Slang con (game), gyp, scam, game, US snow job: They perpetrated a hoax on you, and I am afraid there is no way of getting your money back.
--v. 2 deceive, defraud, swindle, trick, fool, dupe, take in, cozen, hoodwink, gull, bluff, Slang con, gyp, bamboozle: She was hoaxed into investing in Sicilian gold-mines.
hobble v. 1 limp, falter, dodder, totter, stagger, reel, weave, stumble, shuffle, shamble: I hobbled about on crutches for weeks. 2 shackle, fetter, restrain, restrict, hamper, hinder,
impede, trammel: As hobbled horses do not stray, she tried to think of some way to hobble Clarence's errant ways.
--n. 3 limp, shuffle, shamble, claudication, stagger: With the leg-irons on, I could walk only with a jerking hobble.
hobby |
n. pastime, avocation, sideline, recreation, diversion, |
relaxation: Her hobby is collecting wedding rings. |
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hobnob |
v. associate, fraternize, socialize, consort, mingle, rub |
elbows or shoulders, mix, hang about or around, keep company: He hobnobs with the aristocrats.
hocus-pocus
n. 1 trickery, chicanery, deceit, deception, artifice, cheat, duplicity, mischief, hoax, humbug, trick, swindle, pretence, Colloq con (game), jiggery-pokery, flimflam, hanky-panky: He tried some hocus-pocus on the company books but was caught. 2 mumbo-jumbo, abracadabra, incantation, nonsense, rigmarole,
gibberish, Colloq gobbledegook: The medicine man muttered some hocus-pocus over the body, which began to rise into the air. 3 sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, magic,
conjuring, jugglery: From the earliest days religion has had its share of hocus-pocus.
hoggish adj. piggish, greedy, avaricious, insatiable, gluttonous, voracious, edacious, acquisitive, possessive, self-seeking, selfish: Don't be so hoggish; share the cake with the others.
hoi polloi
n. riff-raff, rabble, mob, common herd, proletariat, populace, common people, crowd, masses, multitude, rank and file, plebeians, multitude, bourgeoisie, man in the street, Brit
admass, man on the Clapham omnibus, US John Q. Public, Colloq great unwashed, proles, plebs, US silent majority: Much of what goes on in government is incomprehensible to hoi polloi.
hoist v. 1 lift (up), elevate, raise, heave, uplift, winch: The lifeboat with the survivors aboard is now being hoisted onto the rescue vessel.
--n. 2 crane, lift, elevator, davit, winch, tackle: The cable of the hoist broke, and the container dropped onto the pier.
hoity-toity
adj. haughty, arrogant, overweening, snobbish, disdainful, supercilious, conceited, lofty, superior, self-important, Colloq high and mighty, stuck-up, snooty, uppity or chiefly Brit uppish, Brit toffee-nosed, Slang snotty: Eleanor became very hoity-toity after her husband got his knighthood.
hold |
v. 1 grasp, grip, clasp, seize, clutch, keep; carry, Colloq |
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hang on to: She asked me to hold the baby for just a minute |
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while she bought her railway ticket. 2 hug, embrace, clasp, |
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cradle, clench, clutch, enfold: He held me in his arms briefly |
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before the guards led him into the quad. 3 maintain, keep, put: |
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Hold up your hands and kick the gun over here to me. 4 |
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maintain, keep, sustain, absorb, occupy, engage, involve, |
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engross, monopolize: You hold his attention while I try to get |
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round behind him. 5 confine, restrain, detain, contain, coop |
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up: Even a strait-jacket and chains couldn't hold Houdini. 6 |
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imprison, detain, confine, place into custody, put behind bars, |
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jail: He is being held overnight for questioning. 7 believe, |
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deem, judge, consider, regard, look on or upon, maintain, think, |
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esteem, take, assume: What do you hold to be important in life? |
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Father holds me responsible for every little dent in his car. 8 |
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accommodate, support, carry: That little nail won't hold this |
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picture. 9 contain, include, comprise: This suitcase holds |
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everything I own in the world. 10 call, convene, assemble, |
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convoke; run, conduct, engage in, participate in, have, carry |
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on, preside over, officiate at: The next meeting will be held |
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on Tuesday, at noon. 11 apply, hold good, be in effect or in |
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force, stand or hold up, hold or prove or be true, be the case, |
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function, operate, be or remain or prove valid or relevant or |
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applicable or operative, Colloq hold water, wash: What may be |
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in order for Manchester may not necessarily hold for another |
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city. 12 have, possess: She holds two engineering degrees. He |
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was holding four aces. 13 remain or keep (fast), stay, stick: |
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Screws are needed here - nails won't hold. 14 hold back. a |
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restrain, repress, suppress, curb, inhibit, control, check, keep |
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back, hinder: Many reasons hold me back from telling you what I |
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think. b withhold, reserve, deny, keep back, refuse: We ought |
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to hold back payment till the work is completed. 15 hold down. |
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a control, restrain, check; reduce, diminish: We must hold down |
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inflation. b keep, maintain, manage: He has to hold down two |
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jobs to pay all the bills. 16 hold forth. a Often, hold forth |
on or upon. lecture (on), declaim, harangue, preach (on or about), orate, sermonize (on), discourse (on), speechify (on or about), expatiate or expand on or upon, Colloq go on (about), Brit rabbit or natter or witter on (about): As usual, Pinckley endlessly held forth on his pet subject, fishing. b hold out, offer, proffer, tender, submit, advance, propose, propound, hold out, extend: The company has held forth a profit-sharing plan that we cannot refuse. 17 hold in. a control, curb, check, hold back, restrain, contain: I could hold myself in no longer and a scream escaped my lips. b conceal, hide, suppress: How can I hold in my feelings for you? 18 hold off. a delay, defer, put off, refrain from, postpone, avoid: We held off buying till we had the money saved up. b repel, keep off, repulse, fend off, rebuff, resist, withstand: We held off the attackers till help came. 19 hold on. a grip, grasp, hold, clutch, cling: Hold on to the rope and I'll pull you up. b keep, maintain, cling, hang on, retain: Don't try to hold on to yesterday's dreams. c
stop, wait, hold off, Colloq hang on: Hold on a minute! I'm not finished. 20 hold out. a last, carry on, persist, persevere, continue, hang on, stand firm or chiefly US pat, endure: I hope that the good weather holds out for our trip. Can we hold out till reinforcements arrive? b offer, proffer, extend, hold
forth, present: I grasped the hand he held out. 21 hold over. a postpone, delay, defer, put off, hold off, suspend: The decision is to be held over till next year. b continue, retain,
extend, prolong: The singer was popular enough to be held over a month. 22 hold up. a rob, waylay, Colloq mug, stick up; knock off or US over: Two men held up the bank courier last night. b delay, impede, hinder, slow (down or up), set back, detain: I was held up by the infernal traffic again. c last, survive, fare, bear up, endure: I am not sure that my car will hold up through another winter. d present, show, exhibit, display: Gibbons has been held up to ridicule since the
scandal. 23 hold with. support, sustain, agree to or with,
favour, countenance, approve (of), subscribe to, condone, concur with: Being married to her doesn't mean you have to hold with all her ideas.
--n. 24 grasp, grip, clasp, clutch: Take hold of the rope! 25 foothold, toe-hold, purchase: She lost her hold and fell. He has a good hold on the subject. 26 power, dominance, mastery, control, ascendancy, authority, influence, leverage, sway, Colloq pull, clout: She has a hold over him that makes him do
her bidding.
hold-up |
n. 1 (armed) robbery, Colloq stick-up, mugging, US heist: The |
robbers escaped with my gold watch in the hold-up. 2 delay, |
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set-back, hitch, snag, interruption, lacuna, gap, hiatus, break, |
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stoppage: The cause of the hold-up was an overturned van. |
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hole |
n. 1 cavity, pit, hollow, excavation, burrow, crater, cavern, |
cave, recess, niche, nook, pocket, depression, indentation, |
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dent, impression: The snake disappeared into a hole in the rock. 2 opening, aperture, orifice, perforation, puncture, slit, slot, breach, rip, tear, rent, break, crack, fissure: The water poured through a hole in the pipe. 3 hole in the wall,
shack, hut, shanty, slum, hovel; Slang dump, dive, joint: How can anyone live in such a hole? She finally got a job dancing in some hole downtown. 4 cell, prison, dungeon, donjon, keep, jail, oubliette, brig, cage: When he refused to talk, they put him in the hole for a week. 5 difficulty, trouble, dilemma, predicament, situation, fix, corner, Colloq (tight) spot, hot water, scrape, box, bind, pickle, catch-22, mess, muddle: She really got herself into a hole with the tax man. 6 flaw, shortcoming, inconsistency, fault, error, mistake, fallacy, discrepancy, loophole: He never offers anything original but is always ready to pick holes in any suggestion you make.
--v. 7 puncture, pierce, perforate: A floating log holed the hull and the boat went down with all aboard.
holiday |
n. 1 time off, break, recess, respite, leave (of absence), |
furlough, sabbatical, Chiefly US vacation: We spent our holiday |
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in Ibiza this year. 2 festival, feast, celebration, fˆte or |
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fete; gala, fair, red-letter day, event: Where are you going |
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over the Christmas holiday? |
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hollow |
adj. 1 vacant, empty, void, unfilled: A hollow space in the |
wall concealed a secret passage. 2 sunken, concave, indented, dented, sunken, recessed, depressed: Dust gathers in the hollow places of the floor. 3 hungry, ravenous, starved, empty, famished: I'm feeling hollow and should prefer to eat now, not later. 4 insincere, false, hypocritical, sham, artificial, counterfeit, feigned, fraudulent, spurious, deceitful, mendacious, deceptive, cynical: Politicians campaigning for office often make hollow promises they do not intend to keep. 5
empty, futile, costly, Pyrrhic, worthless, vain, unavailing, bootless, fruitless, profitless, unprofitable, valueless, ineffective, pointless, senseless, meaningless: Winning the lawsuit was a hollow victory, for the man was bankrupt. 6 muffled, dull, flat, low, sepulchral, toneless: His voice sounded hollow, as if he were speaking into a metal bowl.
--n. 7 hole, cavity, cavern, crater, basin, depression, excavation, pit, trough, furrow, indentation, dent, impression; valley, dale, dell, glen, dip: We dug ourselves in a hollow in
the ground hoping not to be seen. The dog herded the sheep into the hollow near the stream.
--v. 8 excavate, dig (out or up), gouge, scoop, furrow, dredge: Huskies hollow out places for themselves to sleep in the snow.
holocaust n. 1 conflagration, fire-storm, inferno, fire; destruction, devastation: When the volcano exploded, few escaped the holocaust. 2 genocide, mass murder, massacre, blood bath,
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pogrom, butchery, carnage, annihilation, extinction, |
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extermination, eradication, elimination: Survivors of the Nazi |
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holocaust hold periodic memorial services. |
holy |
adj. 1 sacred, religious, consecrated, sanctified, blessed, |
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hallowed, venerated, divine, heavenly, supernal, celestial: The |
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holy relics are kept in a silver casket. 2 godly, godlike, |
saintly, saintlike, pious, devout, reverent, reverential, faithful, God-fearing, chaste, pure, unsullied, clean, sinless, spotless, immaculate, undefiled, uncorrupted, untainted: The holy men, in their saffron robes, sat in a circle, contemplating the master of the universe.
homage |
n. obeisance, respect, deference, honour, esteem, admiration; |
loyalty, allegiance, fidelity, tribute: Today we pay homage to |
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those who fought and died so that we might be free. |
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home |
n. 1 dwelling-place, residence, domicile, abode, dwelling, |
house, (living) quarters, habitation, lodging(s), Brit accommodation or US accommodations, Colloq place, Chiefly Brit digs, diggings: He has been a guest in my home on many occasions. 2 (home) base, residency, territory, haunt, home ground, bailiwick, Colloq stamping-ground: As you travel so much, what do you call home these days? 3 hospice, retreat,
nursing home, old folks' or people's home, retirement community, almshouse, poorhouse, refuge, haven, institution, shelter, rest-home, US snug harbor: His parents, who are very old and indigent, have been sent to a home. 4 at home. a comfortable,
at ease, relaxed, cosy, composed, tranquil, placid, peaceful, serene, untroubled: The Harrises certainly do make one feel at home. b in, accessible, available, welcoming: You know that we are always at home to you, Frances. 5 at home with or in. comfortable with, conversant with, knowledgeable in or about, familiar with, well-versed in, competent in, expert in,
proficient in, skilled in, up on, current in, adept in, adroit in, qualified in, (well-)informed in or on or about: Widely read, she is at home in almost any subject you can name.
--adj. 6 domestic, native, national, internal: Buying more foreign than home goods upsets the balance of trade. 7 domestic, household: She now sells home appliances for a big manufacturer. 8 family, domestic: What kind of home life has he had?
--adv. 9 homeward(s): When will you come home? 10 to the heart or core, to the quick; effectively, tellingly, profoundly, deeply, stingingly, cuttingly, harshly, severely, Colloq where it hurts, where one lives: That remark really hit home. 11 bring or drive home. stress, emphasize, impress upon, make clear: I am trying to bring home to you the hardships people suffered during the war.
homeless adj. 1 dispossessed, outcast, exiled, vagabond, derelict, unsettled; unhoused: Their houses destroyed in the war, homeless people wandered everywhere.
--n. 2 the homeless. knights of the road, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, US bums, hoboes: There are not enough shelters for the homeless.
homely adj. 1 homey, homelike, unpretentious, modest, unassuming, simple, unaffected, informal, plain, natural, everyday, unsophisticated, homespun, commonplace, ordinary, familiar, friendly, amiable, neighbourly, affable, congenial, Colloq chiefly US folksy: Her success as a doctor is traceable in part
to her homely approach. 2 homey, homelike, warm, cosy, snug, domestic, comfortable, easy, serene, peaceful, restful,