| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Slang. A drinking bout: binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree. Slang : bat2, bender, booze, jag. See DRUGS, RESTRAINT. 2. A hole made by tearing: rent2, rip, run. See HELP. | | VERB: | 1. To remove from a fixed position: extract, pluck, pull. See PUT IN. 2. 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, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal : hotfoot, rip. Slang : barrel, highball. Chiefly British : nip1. 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 separate or pull apart by force: rend, rip, rive, run, split. See ASSEMBLE, HELP. | | PHRASAL VERB: | tear down To pull down or break up so that reconstruction is impossible: demolish, destroy, dismantle, dynamite, knock down, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, wreck. Aerospace : destruct. See HELP. tear down To make defamatory statements about: asperse, backbite, calumniate, defame, malign, slander, slur, traduce, vilify. Law : libel. Idioms: cast aspersions on. See ATTACK, CRIMES, LAW.
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