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| NOUN: | Something hard to bear physically or emotionally: affliction, burden1, trial, tribulation. See HEAVY, OVER. | | VERB: | 1. To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean. Off or out: annul, blot (out), cancel, delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub (out), scratch (out), strike (out), undo, wipe (out), x (out). Law : vacate. See CONTINUE. 2. To go across: pass, track, transit, traverse. See MOVE. 3. To pass through or over: crisscross, crosscut, cut across, decussate, intersect. See MEET. 4. Informal. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose: baffle, balk, check, checkmate, defeat, foil, frustrate, stymie, thwart. Informal : stump. Idioms: cut the ground from under. See ALLOW. | | ADJECTIVE: | Having or showing a bad temper: bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. Informal : crabby, mean2. Idioms: out of sorts. See ATTITUDE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | cross up To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of: bankrupt, break down, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack2, wreck. Slang : total. Idioms: put the kibosh on. See HELP.
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