y, exhaust, deplete; filter.
draw, v. haul, drag, tug, tow; attract; entice, allure, lure, induce,
tempt; extract, educe; unsheathe; deduce, infer, conclude, derive;
disembowel, eviscerate; delineate, draught, sketch, depict, trace, limn;
influence, win, induce; contract, shrink. Antonyms: repel, repulse,
rebuff, reject, alienate.
drawback, n. disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection; rebate,
deduction, discount.
draw back. retract; shrink, flinch, recoil, withdraw, wince.
drawer, n. till (money drawer), tiller.
drawing, n. traction, hauling, pulling; graphics, diagraphics,
delineation; sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation.
drawing back. retraction; shrinking, flinching, recoiling,
withdrawal, wincing.
drawing off. withdrawal, abstraction.
drawing out. extension, protraction, stretching; eduction,
extraction.
draw off. withdraw, abstract.
draw out. stretch, extend, protract; elicit, educe, extract.
draw up. compose, draught, write; array, arrange.
dread, n. apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear).
dread, v. fear, apprehend.
dreadful, a. fearful, terrible, formidable, awful, dread, dire,
direful, frightful.
dream, n. vision; illusion, vagary, wild conceit, revery, fancy,
fantasy. Antonyms: fact, actuality, reality, substance, realization.
Associated Words: Morpheus, Morphean, oneiroscopy, oneiroscopist,
oneirocritic, oneiromancy, oneirology, oneirocriticism, nightmare.
dreamer, n. visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder, John-a-dreams.
dreamy, a. visionary, unreal, illusory. Antonyms: practical, real.
dreary, a. dismal, drear, cheerless, lonesome, wearisome, dull.
dregs, n. pl. refuse, sediment, lees, draff; riffraff.
dress, n. gown, toilette, robe; raiment, clothes, clothing, garments,
habiliments, attire, garb, apparel, habit, array, costume, togs, toggery.
Antonyms: See undress.
dress, v. clothe, deck, drape, apparel, robe, array, attire; adjust,
align; curry, smooth, plane, finish; (Colloq.) castigate, chastise,
whip. Antonyms: undress, disrobe, divest, strip, expose.
dress gaudily. bedizen, prank.
dressing, n. forcemeat, stuffing, condiment; (Colloq.) castigation,
scolding, whipping, flogging, chastisement.
dressmaker, n. modiste, mantuamaker.
dribble, v. drip, trickle.
dribble, n. (Colloq.) trickling.
drier, n. desiccator, desiccant, desiccative, exsiccant, exsiccator.
drift, n. course, direction, bearing, tendency, aim, int
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