cast the lead - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

mislead collapse: lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"

seniority collapse: higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

paradigm collapse: the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"; systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

rusticate collapse: lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country"; give (stone) a rustic look; send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad behavior"; live in the country and lead a rustic life

sadden collapse: make unhappy; "The news of her death saddened me"; come to feel sad

steer collapse: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling; direct (oneself) somewhere; "Steer clear of him"

upstage collapse: the rear part of the stage; of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience"; at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were directed to move upstage"; steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"; move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience; treat snobbishly, put in one's place

hold down collapse: restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"; keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"

demobilize collapse: retire from military service; release from military service or remove from the active list of military service

roughcast collapse: a rough preliminary model; a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls; apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall"; shape roughly

textured collapse: having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"

malign collapse: evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"

ferret out collapse: search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"

frostbite collapse: destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

banish collapse: drive away; "banish bad thoughts"; "banish gloom"; expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"; expel from a community or group; ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

beach collapse: an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake; land on a beach; "the ship beached near the port"

implicate collapse: bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"

stabile collapse: a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support; (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change

newborn collapse: having just or recently arisen or come into existence; "new nations"; "with newborn fears"; recently borne; "a newborn infant"

act on collapse: regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice; "The Founding Fathers acted on certain moral principles"

take over collapse: take over ownership of; of corporations and companies; free someone temporarily from his or her obligations

squint collapse: the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed; cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other"; partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"; be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus

Wordage.info