| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An area sunk below its surroundings: basin, concavity, depression, hollow, pit1, sag, sink, sinkhole. See CONVEX. 2. A usually swift downward trend, as in prices: decline, descent, dive, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, drop, drop-off, fall, nosedive, plunge, skid, slide, slump, tumble. See INCREASE. 3. Slang. One deficient in judgment and good sense: ass, fool, idiot, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool. Informal : dope, gander, goose. Slang : cretin, ding-dong, goof, jerk, nerd, schmo, schmuck, turkey. See ABILITY. 4. The act of swimming: duck, dunk, plunge, swim. See WORK. | | VERB: | 1. To immerse in a coloring solution: color, dye. See COLORS, ENTER. 2. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid: douse, duck, dunk, immerge, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse. See ENTER. 3. To take a substance, as liquid, from a container by plunging the hand or a utensil into it: bail2, lade, ladle, scoop (up). See GIVE. 4. To slope downward: decline, descend, drop, fall, pitch, sink. See RISE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | dip into To look through reading matter casually: browse, flip through, glance at or (over) or (through), leaf (through), riffle (through), run through, scan, skim, thumb (through). See INVESTIGATE, WORDS.
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