Classes Abstract Relations Causation Power in Operation
Power in Operation
Nouns
production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture
building, architecture, erection, edification
coinage
diaster
organization
putting together etc. v.
establishment
workmanship, performance
achievement etc. (completion) Completion . flowering, fructification
inflorescence. bringing forth etc. v.
parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics
geniture
gestation etc. (maturation) Preparation
assimilation
evolution, development, growth
entelechy [Phil.]
fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.] , genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation
fecundation, impregnation
albumen etc. Organization . spontaneous generation
archegenesis, archebiosis
biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesi
authorship, publication
works, opus, oeuvre. biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny
tocogony, vacuolization. edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.
Verbs
produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture
weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel
build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up
establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute
achieve, accomplish etc. (complete) Completion . flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle
bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world. make productive etc. Productiveness
create
beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate
procreate, progenerate, propagate
engender
bring into being, call into being, bring into existence
breed, hatch, develop, bring up. induce, superinduce
suscitate
cause etc. [Constant antecedent] . Cause
acquire etc. Acquisition .
Adjectives
produced, producing etc. v.
productive of
prolific etc. Productiveness
creative
formative, genetic, genial, genital
pregnant
enceinte, big with, fraught with
in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of
puerperal, puerperous. digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic
ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous [Biol.] , sporophorous [Biol.] . architectonic.
Nouns
destruction
waste, dissolution, breaking up
diruption, disruption
consumption
disorganization. fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash
smash, havoc, debacle
break down, break up, fall apart
prostration
desolation, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm
washout. extinction, annihilation
destruction of life etc. [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing
knock-down blow
doom, crack of doom. destroying etc. v.
demolition, demolishment
overthrow, subversion, suppression
abolition etc. (abrogation) Abrogation
biblioclasm
sacrifice
ravage, razzia
inactivation
incendiarism
revolution etc. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution
extirpation etc. (extraction) [Forcible egress.] Extraction
beginning of the end, road to ruin
dilapidation etc. (deterioration) Deterioration
sabotage.
Verbs
be destroyed etc.
perish
fall to the ground
tumble, topple
go to pieces, fall to pieces
break up
crumble to dust
go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin
go by the board, go all to smash
be all over, be all up, be all with
totter to its fall. destroy
do away with, make away with
nullify
annual etc. Abrogation
sacrifice, demolish
tear up
overturn, overthrow, overwhelm
upset, subvert, put an end to
seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish [Slang] , undo
break up, cut up
break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down
suppress, quash, put down, do a job on
cut short, take off, blot out
dispel, dissipate, dissolve
consume. smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver
batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces
laniate
nip
tear to rags, tear to tatters
crush to atoms, knock to atoms
ruin
strike out
throw over, knock down over
fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge
lay in ashes, lay in ruins
sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze
level with the dust, level with the ground
waste
atomize, vaporize. deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut
disorganize
dismantle etc. (render useless) Inutility
devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound
exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate
snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out
lay in the dust, trample in the dust
prostrate
tread under foot
crush under foot, trample under foot
lay the ax to the root of
make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of
cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons
fling to the winds, scatter to the winds
throw overboard
strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword
cast to the dogs
eradicate etc. [Forcible egress.] Extraction
Adjectives
destroyed etc. v.
perishing etc. v.
trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall
in course of destruction etc. n.
extinct. all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing. destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating
incendiary, deletory
destroying etc. n.. suicidal
deadly etc. (killing) [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing
Adverbs
with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
Phrases
ecrasez l'infame [Voltaire] .
Nouns
reproduction, renovation
restoration etc. Restoration
renewal
new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis, revivification
apotheosis
resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance
regrowth
Phoenix. generation etc. (production) Production
multiplication.
Verbs
reproduce
restore etc. Restoration
revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate
remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible
multiply, repeat
resurge. crop up, spring up like mushrooms.
Adjectives
reproduced etc. v.
renascent, reappearing
reproductive
suigenetic.
Nouns
producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover
maker etc. (agent) Agent
prime mover.
Nouns
paternity
parentage
consanguinity etc. [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity
father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba
genitor, progenitor, procreator
ancestor
grandsire, grandfather
great-grandfather
fathership, fatherhood
mabap. house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan
genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry
forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. motherhood, maternity
mother, dam, mamma, grandmother.
Adjectives
paternal, parental
maternal
family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal.
Nouns
posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat
family, grandchildren, heirs
great-grandchild. child, son, daughter
butcha
bantling, scion
acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch
off-shoot, off-set
ramification
descendant
heir, heiress
heir-apparent, heir-presumptive
chip off the old block
heredity
rising generation. straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.
Phrases
the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth]
the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, " like father, like son."
Nouns
productiveness etc. adj.
fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty. pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation
superfetation. milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey
second crop, aftermath
aftercrop, aftergrowth
arrish, eddish, rowen
protoplasm
fertilization.
Verbs
make productive etc. adj.
fructify
procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate
fecundate, fecundify
teem, multiply
produce etc. Production
conceive.
Adjectives
productive, prolific
teeming, teemful
fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing
fecund, luxuriant
pregnant, uberous. procreant, procreative
generative, life-giving, spermatic
multiparous
omnific, propagable. parturient etc. (producing) Production
profitable etc. (useful) Utility .
Nouns
unproductiveness etc. adj.
infertility, sterility, infecundity
masturbation
impotence etc. Impotence
unprofitableness etc. (inutility) Inutility . waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.
Verbs
be unproductive etc. adj.
hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing. [make unproductive] sterilize, addle
disable, inactivate.
Adjectives
unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund
sine prole
fallow
teemless, issueless, fruitless
unprofitable etc. (useless) Inutility
null and void, of no effect.
Nouns
agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play
interworking, interaction
procurement. causation etc. [Constant antecedent] . Cause
instrumentality etc. Instrumentality
influence etc. Influence
action etc. (voluntary) Action
modus operandi etc. Method [Path.] . quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power
home stroke.
Verbs
be in action etc. adj.
operate, work
act, act upon
perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike. come play, come bring into operation
have play, have free play
bring to bear upon.
Adjectives
operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual. at work, on foot
acting etc. (doing) Action
in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise
acted upon, wrought upon.
Nouns
energy, physical energy, force, power etc. Power
keenness etc. adj.
intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity
go
high pressure
fire
rush. acrimony, acritude
causiticity, virulence
poignancy
harshness etc. adj.
severity, edge, point
pungency etc. Pungency . cantharides
seasoning etc. (condiment) Condiment . activity, agitation, effervescence
ferment, fermentation
ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle
voluntary energy etc. Activity
quicksilver. resolution etc. (mental energy) Resolution
exertion etc. (effort) Exertion
excitation etc. (mental) Excitation .
Verbs
give energy etc. n.
energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert
sharpen, intensify
inflame etc. (render violent) Violence
wind up etc. (strengthen) [Degree of power.] Strength
make an impression.
Adjectives
strong, energetic, forcible, active
intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk. rousing, irritation
poignant
virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent
double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled
drastic, escharotic
racy etc. (pungent) Pungency . potent etc. (powerful) Power
radioactive.
Adverbs
strongly etc. adj.
with telling effect.
Phrases
the steam is up
the race by vigor not by vaunts is won" [Pope] .
Nouns
inertness, dullness etc. adj.
inertia, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor
quiescence etc. Quiescence
latency, inaction
passivity. mental inertness
sloth etc. (inactivity) Inactivity
inexcitability etc. [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
irresolution etc. Irresolution
obstinacy etc. Obstinacy
permanence etc. [Absence of change.] Permanence
Verbs
be inert etc. adj.
hang fire, smolder.
Adjectives
inert, inactive, passive
torpid etc. Inactivity
sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt
unreactive
lifeless, dead, uninfluential. latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted.
Adverbs
inactively etc. adj.
in suspense, in abeyance.
Nouns
violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity
boisterousness etc. adj.
effervescence, ebullition
turbulence, bluster
uproar, callithump [U.S.] , riot, row, rumpus, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire. severity etc. Severity
ferocity, rage, fury
exacerbation, exasperation, malignity
fit, paroxysm
orgasm, climax, aphrodisia
force, brute force
outrage
coup de main
strain, shock, shog
spasm, convulsion, throe
hysterics, passion etc. (state of excitability) [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
debacle
burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent. turmoil etc. (disorder) [Absence, or want of Order, etc. ] Disorder
ferment etc. (agitation) [Irregular motion] Agitation
storm, tempest, rough weather
squall etc. (wind) [Air in motion] Wind
earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm. berserk, berserker
fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast
fire eater etc. (blusterer) Blusterer .
Verbs
be violent etc. adj.
run high
ferment, effervesce
romp, rampage, go on a rampage
run wild, run amuck, run riot
break the peace
rush, tear
rush headlong, rush foremost
raise a storm, make a riot
rough house [Slang]
riot, storm
wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod
spread like wildfire (person) . [shout or act in anger at something] , explode, make a row, kick up a row
boil, boil over
fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof
fly into a rage (anger) Resentment . break out, fly out, burst out
bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst
shock, strain
break open, force open, prize open. render violent etc. adj.
sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on
irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment
accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury
fan the flame
add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire
let fly, fly off
discharge, detonate, set off, detonize, fulminate.
Adjectives
violent, vehement
warm
acute, sharp
rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild
brusque, abrupt, waspish
impetuous
rampant. turbulent
disorderly
blustering, raging etc. v.
troublous, riotous
tumultuary, tumultuous
obstreperous, uproarious
extravagant
unmitigated
ravening, inextinguishable, tameless
frenzied etc. (insane) Insanity . desperate etc. (rash) Rashness
infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics. fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient. savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger. excited etc. v.
unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly
headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable
uncontrollable, incontrollable
insuppressible, irrepressible
orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic. spasmodic, convulsive, explosive
detonating etc. v.
volcanic, meteoric
stormy etc. (wind) [Air in motion] Wind
Adverbs
violently etc. adj.
amain
by storm, by force, by main force
with might and main
tooth and nail, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet
at one fell swoop
with a high hand, through thick and thin
in desperation, with a vengeance
a outrance
headlong, head foremost.
Phrases
blown with restless violence round about the blown with restless violence round about the pendent world" [Measure for Measure] .
Nouns
moderation, lenity etc. Lenity
temperateness, gentleness etc. adj.
sobriety
quiet
mental calmness etc. (inexcitability) [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitabilityetc. v.
anaphrodisia
relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification. measure, golden mean
lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum
rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora
" wet blanket
palliative.
Verbs
be moderate etc. adj.
keep within bounds, keep within compass
sober down, settle down
keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail. moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy
attemper, contemper
mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten
sober down, tone down, smooth down
weaken etc. Weakness
lessen etc. (decrease) Nonincrease, Decrease
check palliate. tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off
slake
curb etc. (restrain) Restraint
tame etc. (subjugate) Subjection
smooth over
pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters
pour balm into, roar you as gently as any sucking dove" [Midsummer-Night's Dream] .
Adjectives
moderate
lenient etc. Lenity
gentle, mild, mellow
cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured
tempered etc. v.
calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still
slow, smooth, untroubled
tame
peaceful, peaceable
pacific, halcyon. unexciting, unirritating
soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne
hypnotic etc. Inactivity
sedative
antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac. mild as mother's milk
milk and water.
Adverbs
moderately etc. adj.
gingerly
piano
under easy sail, at half speed
within bounds, within compass
in reason.
Phrases
est modue in rebus
pour oil on troubled waters.