| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A very large number of things grouped together. Used in plural: army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck1, swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 2. An incision, a notch, or a slight cut made with or as if with a knife: scotch, scratch, slash. See MARKS. 3. The total number of points made by a contestant, side, or team in a game or contest: tally. See COUNT. | | VERB: | 1. Slang. To succeed in doing: accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, reach, realize. See DO. 2. Slang. To do or fare well: boom, flourish, go, prosper, thrive. Idioms: get (or go) somewhere, go great guns, go strong. See THRIVE. 3. To evaluate and assign a grade to: grade, mark. See VALUE. 4. To gain (a point or points) in a game or contest: post1, tally. Informal : notch. See DO. 5. To criticize harshly and devastatingly: blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify1, scathe, scorch, scourge, slap, slash. Informal : roast. Slang : slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See PRAISE.
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