| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To spoil or destroy: blast, blight, dash. See HELP. 2. Chiefly British. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal : hotfoot, rip. Slang : barrel, highball. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE. 3. To grasp at (something) eagerly, forcibly, and abruptly with the jaws: catch, snap, snatch, strike. See REACH. 4. Slang. To take (another's property) without permission: filch, pilfer, purloin, snatch, steal, thieve. Informal : lift, swipe. Slang : cop, heist, hook, pinch, rip off, snitch. Idioms: make (or walk) off with. See CRIMES, GIVE.
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