| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To make dirty: befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See CLEAN. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having little or no light: dark, pitch-dark. See LIGHT. 2. Of the darkest achromatic visual value: ebon, ebony, inky, jet1, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sable, sooty. See COLORS. 3. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities: dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See CLEAN. 4. Morally objectionable: bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong. See RIGHT. 5. Dark and depressing: bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 6. Characterized by intense ill will or spite: despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. Slang : bitchy. See ATTITUDE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | black out To suffer temporary lack of consciousness: faint, keel over, pass out, swoon. See AWARENESS. black out To keep from being published or transmitted: ban, censor, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idioms: keep (or put) a lid on. See SHOW.
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