| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The superlative or most preferable part of something: best, choice, crème de la crème, elite, flower, pick, prize1, top. Idioms: cream of the crop, flower of the flock, pick of the bunch (or crop) . See BETTER. | | VERB: | 1. To form or cause to form foam: bubble, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, lather, spume, suds, yeast. See SOLID. 2. Slang. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal : massacre, wallop. Slang : clobber, shellac, smear. See WIN.
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