| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A tiny amount: bit1, crumb, dab1, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British : spot. See BIG. 2. Residual matter: butt4, end, fragment, ort (often used in plural), shard, stub. See LEFTOVER. | | VERB: | To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective, for example: discard, dispose of, dump, junk, throw away, throw out. Informal : chuck, jettison, shuck (off). Slang : ditch. See KEEP.
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