Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
introduction; insinuation &c. (intervention) 228; planting, &c. v.;
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injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress &c.
294;
immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath &c. (water),
337;
interment &c. 363.
clyster[Med], enema, glyster[obs3], lavage, lavement[obs3].
V. insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import;
inject;
interject &c. 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue,
imbrue.
graft, ingraft[obs3], bud, plant, implant; dovetail.
obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press,
in,
drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce| &c. (make
a
hole) 260[obs3].
imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak &c. (water) 337; dip,
plunge &c. 310.
bury &c. (inter) 363.
insert &c itself; plunge in medias res.
Adj. inserted &c. v.
#301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction.—N. extraction; extracting &c.
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v.; removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution.
evulsion[obs3], avulsion[obs3]; wrench; expression, squeezing;
extirpation, extermination; ejection &c. 297; export &c. (egress) 295.
extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers.
V. extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck
out,
pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub
up,
rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by
the
roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate|; unroot[obs3]; uproot, pull
up,
extirpate, dredge.
remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate &c. (eject)
297;
eviscerate &c. 297.
express, squeeze out, press out.
Adj. extracted &c. v.
#302. [Motion through.] Passage.—N. passage, transmission;
permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration;
endosmose exosmose[obs3]; endosmosis[Chem]; intercurrence[obs3];
ingress &c. 294; egress &c. 295; path &c. 627; conduit &c. 350; opening
&c. 260; journey &c. 266; voyage &c. 267. V. pass, pass through;
perforate &c. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid[obs3],
enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford,
cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm
one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's
way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the
course; traverse, go over the ground. Adj. passing &c. v.;
intercurrent[obs3]; endosmosmic[obs3], endosmotic[Chem]. Adv. en
passant &c. (transit) 270[Fr].
#303. [Motion beyond] Transcursion—N. transcursion|,
transiliency[obs3], transgression; trespass; encroachment,
infringement; extravagation|, transcendence; redundancy &c. 641. V.
transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to the
front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon. overstep,
overpass, overreach, overgo[obs3], override, overleap, overjump[obs3],
overskip[obs3], overlap, overshoot the mark; outstrip, outleap,
outjump, outgo, outstep[obs3], outrun, outride, outrival, outdo; beat,
beat hollow; distance; leave in the lurch, leave in the rear; throw
into the shade; exceed, transcend, surmount; soar &c. (rise) 305.
encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench
on[obs3]; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.
Adj. surpassing &c. v. Adv. beyond the mark, ahead.
#304. [motion short of] Shortcoming—N. shortcoming, failure;
falling short &c v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no
go. incompleteness &c. 53; imperfection &c. 651; insufficiency &c. 640;
noncompletion &c. 730; failure &c. 732. V. 303, come short of, fall
short of, stop short of, come short, fall short, stop short; not reach;
want; keep within bounds, keep within the mark, keep within the
compass. break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out [U.S.], come
to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke,
miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays. Adj. unreached;
deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth; perfunctory &c.
(neglect) 460. Adv. within the mark, within the compass, within the
bounds; behindhand; re infecta[Lat]; to no purpose; for from it. Phr.
the bubble burst.
#305. [Motion upwards] Ascent.—N. ascent, ascension; rising &c.
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309; acclivity, hill &c. 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's
way
up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.
climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade[obs3], surmount; shin,
shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.
[cause to go up] raise, elevate &c. 307.
go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up,
jump
up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim,
float,
surge; leap &c. 309.
Adj. rising &c. v. scandent|, buoyant; supernatant,
superfluitant|;
excelsior.
Adv. uphill.
#306. [Motion downwards] Descent.—N. descent, descension[obs3],
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declension, declination; fall; falling &c. v.: slump; drop, plunge,
plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip,
tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute[obs3]; titubation[obs3], stumble;
fate
of Icarus.
avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.
declivity, dip, hill.
[equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel.
V. descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop,
slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set,
sink,
droop, come down a peg; slump.
dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop &c. 308; fall
prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall &c. 308.
tumble, trip, stumble, titubate[obs3], lurch, pitch, swag, topple,
topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump
down, come down a cropper.
Adj. descending &c. v.; descendent; decurrent[obs3],
decursive[obs3];
labent[obs3], deciduous; nodding to its fall.
Adv. downhill, downwards.
Phr. the bottom fell out.
#307. Elevation.—N. elevation; raising &c. v.; erection, lift;
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sublevation[obs3], upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c.
(convexity) 250.
lever &c. 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge,
dredger, dredging machine.
dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.
V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch
up,
perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear,
upbear[obs3], upcast[obs3], uphoist[obs3], upheave; buoy, weigh mount,
give
a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.
[ref] escalate (increase) 35, 102, 194.
take up, drag up, fish up; dredge.
stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold
oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
Adj. elevated &c. v.; stilted, attollent[obs3], rampant.
Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind
legs.
#308. Depression.—N. lowering &c. v.; depression; dip &c.
(concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion[obs3]; reduction. overthrow,
overset[obs3], overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.
bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion[obs3], genuflection, kowtow,
obeisance, salaam. V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a
peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring
low, abase, reduce, detrude[obs3], pitch, precipitate. overthrow,
overturn, overset[obs3]; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast
down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut
down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the
ground[obs3]; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears. sit, sit
down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob,
duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the
head; cower; recline &c. (be horizontal) 213. Adj. depressed &c. v.; at
a low ebb; prostrate &c. (horizontal) 213; detrusive[obs3]. Phr.
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lat][Lucan].
#309. Leap.—N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault,
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saltation[obs3].
ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade|, gambado|; capriole,
demivolt[obs3]; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade[obs3].
kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea;
buckjumper[obs3]; wallaby.
V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault,
ramp,
cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet,
caracole;
foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk &c. (amusement) 840; jump
about
&c. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light
fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
Adj. leaping &c. v.; saltatory[obs3], frisky.
Adv. on the light fantastic toe.
Phr. di salto in salto[It].
#310. Plunge—N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c. v.; diver.
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V. plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a
header; make a plunge; bathe &c.(water) 337.
submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the
bottom.
get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone,
drop
like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.
#311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition.—N. circuition[obs3],
circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation,
circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit &c. 629. turning &c. v.;
wrench; evolution; coil, corkscrew. V. turn, bend, wheel; go about, put
about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right
about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle,
describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go through 180x, go
through 360x, pass through 180x, pass through 360x. circumnavigate,
circumambulate, circumvent; "put a girdle round about the earth"
[M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of. wind, circulate, meander;
whisk, twirl; twist &c. (convolution) 248; make a detour &c. (circuit)
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