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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one. |
Inattention | Close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to; pay no attention to; dismiss from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from one's mind; drop the subject, think no more of; set aside, turn aside, put aside; turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon. |
Nonobservance | Verb: fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CLOSE ONE'S EYES |
| English words defined with "CLOSE ONE'S EYES": complaisant, cross one's eyes ♦ obliging ♦ squinch, squint. (references) |
Expressions using "CLOSE ONE'S EYES": close one's eyes to ♦ close one's eyes to smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CLOSE ONE'S EYES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbyll sytë para diçkaje (close one's eyes to smth.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | augen schließen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemet huny vmi felett (to close one's eyes to sg, to connive at sg, to overlook, to shut one's eyes to sg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memicingkan (squint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oseclay one'say eyesay zažmureti. (various references) görmemezlikten gelmek (blink, blink at, close one's eyes to, connive, cut, cut smb. dead, dissemble, give smb. the go-by, look through, overlook, overpass, pass off, pretend not to see, turn a blind eye, wink at), aldırmamak (be unmindful of, close one's eyes to, disregard, ignore, neglect, not to mind, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, shelve), önemsememek (be oblivious to, close one's eyes to, coquet, discount, disregard, have a low opinion of, ignore, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, not to care twopence for, pay no attention, piss on smth., play down, play it low down, set at naught, set at nought, slight, slur over, toy, treat smb. like dirt, trifle, trifle with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-c-e-e-e-e-l-n-o-o-s-s-s-y" | |
-4 letters: coolnesses. | |
-5 letters: closeness, colessees, coynesses, looseness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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