| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, drove, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, ruck1, swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 2. Informal. An extravagant, short-lived romantic attachment: infatuation. See EXCITE, SEX. | | VERB: | 1. To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of: break, destroy, overwhelm, ruin. See HELP. 2. To act on with a steady pushing force: crowd, press. See PUSH. 3. To break up into tiny particles: bray, granulate, grind, mill, powder, pulverize, triturate. See HELP. 4. To press forcefully so as to break up into a pulpy mass: mash, mush, pulp, squash. See HELP. 5. To affect deeply or completely, as with emotion: engulf, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate. See AFFECT. 6. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal : massacre, wallop. Slang : clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See WIN. 7. To extract from by applying pressure: express, press, squeeze. See TIGHTEN. 8. To bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight: choke off, extinguish, put down, quash, quell, quench, squash, squelch, suppress. Idioms: put the lid on. See CONTINUE, WIN.
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