| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To be endowed with as a visible characteristic or form: bear, carry, display, exhibit, possess. See SHOW. 2. To give birth to: bear, bring forth, deliver. Chiefly Regional : birth. Idioms: be brought abed (or to bed) of. See RICH. 3. To hold on one's person: bear, carry, possess. Informal : pack. See OWNED. 4. To have at one's disposal: boast, command, enjoy, hold, possess. See OWNED. 5. To be filled by: contain, hold. See INCLUDE. 6. To have as a part: comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, include, involve, subsume, take in. See INCLUDE. 7. Informal. To cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation: beguile, betray, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, fool, hoodwink, humbug, mislead, take in, trick. Informal : bamboozle. Slang : four-flush. Idioms: lead astray, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put something over on, take for a ride. See HONEST. 8. To have the use or benefit of: enjoy, hold, possess. See OWNED. 9. To participate in or partake of personally: experience, feel, go through, know, meet1 (with), see, suffer, taste (of), undergo. Archaic : prove. Idioms: run up against. See PARTICIPATE. 10. To be physically aware of through the senses: experience, feel. See KNOWLEDGE. 11. To undergo an emotional reaction: experience, feel, know, savor, taste. See FEELINGS. 12. To cause to be in a certain state or to undergo a particular experience or action: get, make. See CAUSE. 13. To keep at one's disposal: hold, own, possess, retain. See KEEP. 14. To organize and carry out (an activity): give, hold, stage. See CONTROL, PLANNED. 15. To involve oneself in (an activity): carry on, engage, indulge, partake, participate. Idioms: take part. See PARTICIPATE. 16. To neither forbid nor prevent: allow, let, permit, suffer, tolerate. See ALLOW. 17. To admit to one's possession, presence, or awareness: accept, receive, take. See ACCEPT. 18. To engage in sexual relations with: bed, copulate, couple, mate, sleep with, take. Idioms: go to bed with, make love, make whoopee, roll in the hay. See SEX. | | PHRASAL VERB: | have at To set upon with violent force: aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, fall on or (upon), go at, sail into, storm, strike. Informal : light into, pitch into. See ATTACK.
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