dedness.
shrewish, a. vixenish, termagant, brawling, clamorous.
shriek, n. screech, yell, scream.
shrill, a. piercing, acute, strident.
shrink, v. contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle; flinch, recoil,
blench, wince, winch.
shrinkage, n. contraction; (Colloq.) depreciation.
shrinking, a. coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring.
shroud, n. winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements.
shroud, v. mask, screen, cloak, conceal.
shrub, n. bush; pl. shrubbery, thicket, boscage, bosket.
shuck, n. shell, husk, pod, shale.--v. shell, enucleate.
shudder, n. tremor.--v. tremble, shake, shiver, quake.
shuffle, v. jumble, intermix; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble,
shift; shamble.
shuffle, n. artifice, evasion, prevarication, trick, sophism, ruse.
shun, v. avoid, elude, evade, eschew.
shut, v. close; debar, exclude, preclude; (shut up) confine,
imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure.
shy, a. timid, coy, backward, retiring, diffident, wary, cautious;
(Slang) short, lacking.
shyness, n. diffidence, coyness, timidity, bashfulness.
shyster, n. (Slang) knave, impostor, rogue, cheat.
sick, a. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, diseased, morbid;
nauseated, queasy, squeamish, qualmish; disgusted, surfeited, weary,
palled, satiated.
sick, v. sick on, incite, urge.
sicken, v. nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish.
sickening, a. nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting.
sickle-shaped, a. falcate, falcated.
sickly, a. invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing; unwholesome; pale,
languid, haggard, puny, peaked.
sickness, n. illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder,
distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. Associated
words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture,
convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic.
sickness of stomach. nausea, qualm, qualmishness.
side, n. flank; faction, sect, party. Associated Words: lateral,
laterality, laterally, collateral, bilateral, equilateral, quadrilateral,
longilateral, lopsided, multilateral, perimeter, ambidexter, ambidextrous,
ambidexterity.
side, a. lateral, collateral, incidental.
side by side. in apposition. Associated Words: apposition,
juxtaposition, juxtapose, juxtaposit.
side dish. entree, entremets.
sidehill, n. descent, declivity, decline, slope.
sidelong, a. lateral, oblique.
sidesman, n. partisan.
sidetrack, v. shunt; (Colloq.) switch off, diver
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