Word of the Day
Definition: (verb) To steal (someone's possessions). Synonyms: cop, glom, snitch, knock off, hook. Usage: The unscrupulous but skilled pickpocket thieved no fewer than a dozen wallets on even the slowest day. Discuss
Definition: (noun) The food served and eaten at one time. Synonyms: meal. Usage: Numerous exquisite dishes … were placed successively before the guests, and the richest wines of France flowed in profusion during this splendid repast. Discuss
Definition: (verb) Support oneself. Synonyms: exist, survive, live. Usage: I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet.
Definition: (noun) A product or event, such as a movie or concert, that is exceedingly successful. Synonyms: smash hit, blockbuster. Usage: After a series of flops brought the film studio to the brink of bankruptcy, it released several megahits that restored its solvency. Discuss
Definition: (verb) Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line. Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike. Usage: She forced herself to expunge most of her beloved descriptions, though it took three re-writings before the story could be pruned down to please the fastidious Mr. Harrison. Discuss
Definition: (verb) Get up on the back of. Synonyms: climb on, hop on, jump on, mount. Usage: A man who bestrides a horse must be essentially different from a man who cowers in a canoe.
Definition: (verb) Look down on. Synonyms: command, overlook, dominate. Usage: The brow of the upland overtops the square tower of the Colebrook Church.
Definition: (adjective) Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally. Synonyms: accidental. Usage: An autobiography, when confronted by a careful editor with documentary evidence, is usually found to be full of obviously inadvertent errors. Discuss
Definition: (verb) To render insignificant or less important in comparison. Synonyms: eclipse, dominate. Usage: They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. Discuss
Definition: (verb) Sleep lightly or for a short period of time. Synonyms: doze, snooze. Usage: Through one after another of those gray days Alexander drowsed and mused, drinking in the grateful moisture.