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71stoop — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, accord, be shamed, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bob, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, cannonball, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse …
72bed — n. article of furniture for sleeping 1) to make, make up a bed 2) to undo a bed 3) to lie, stay in bed; to lie, sit on a bed 4) to get out of bed 5) to take to one s bed ( to remain in bed because of illness ) 6) a double; king size; queen size;… …
73cringe — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. cower, stoop, flinch, wince, crouch, shrink; fawn, truckle, crawl, grovel; sneak. See recoil, fear, servility. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. flinch, quail, recoil; see wince . III (Roget s 3… …
74grovel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. fawn, creep, cringe; wallow, humble (oneself). See servility, lowness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. crawl, cringe, fawn, fawn upon, beg, sneak, stoop, kneel, crouch before, truckle, kowtow, implore, toady …
75Flattery — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Flattery >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 flattery flattery adulation gloze Sgm: N 1 blandishment blandishment blandiloquence Sgm: N 1 cajolery cajolery Sgm: N 1 fawning fawning wheedling & …
76truck — English has two distinct words truck. The earlier, ‘dealings’, as in ‘have no truck with’, was originally a verb, meaning ‘exchange, barter’ [13]. It was borrowed from Anglo Norman *truquer, but its ultimate ancestry is unknown. Americans call a… …
77trochanter — 1610s, from Fr. trochanter (16c.), from Gk. trokhanter, from trekhein “to run” (see TRUCKLE (Cf. truckle) (n.)) …
78trochee — 1580s, from Fr. trochée, from L. trochaeus a trochee, from Gk. trokhaios (pous), lit. a running, spinning (foot), from trekhein to run (see TRUCKLE (Cf. truckle) (n.)). As a metrical foot, a long followed by a short syllable, or an accented… …
79truck — {{11}}truck (n.) vehicle, 1610s, small wheel (especially one on which the carriages of a ship s guns were mounted), probably from L. trochus iron hoop, from Gk. trokhos wheel, from trekhein to run (see TRUCKLE (Cf. truckle) (n.)). Sense extended… …
80cringe — v 1. cower, shrink, quail, blench, flinch, wince, start, recoil, shy, Inf. funk, Sl. mooch; shake, tremble, quiver, Inf. shake in one s boots or shoes, kowtow, bow, bow before, bow to, bow and scrape, bend, bend before, stoop, squat, crouch,… …
