| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A fundamental principle or underlying concept: base1, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, fundamental, rudiment (often used in plural). See OVER. 2. A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate: bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, quick. See START. 3. The most central and material part: core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, soul, spirit, stuff, substance. Law : gravamen. See BE. 4. A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fount, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See START. 5. The main part of a word to which affixes are attached: base1, stem, theme. See WORDS. | | VERB: | 1. To destroy all traces of. Out or up: abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill1, liquidate, obliterate, remove, rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See HELP, MAKE. 2. To provide a basis for: base1, build, establish, found, ground, predicate, rest1, underpin. See OVER. 3. To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible: embed, entrench, fasten, fix, infix, ingrain, lodge. See MOVE.
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