4. Violate, outrage, ravish, deflour.
Abuse, n. 1. Misapplication, misuse, misemployment, profanation, prostitution, desecration, perversion, ill-use.
2. Maltreatment, outrage, ill-treatment, bad treatment.
3. Corrupt practice.
4. Vituperation, railing, reviling, contumely, obloquy, opprobrium, insult, scurrility, ribaldry, jaw, foul invective, rude reproach.
Abusive, a. Reproachful, opprobrious, scurrilous, ribald, contumelious, vituperative, condemnatory, damnatory, invective, calumnious, denunciatory, insulting, insolent.
Abut against, Meet (end to end or side to side), be contiguous.
Abut upon, Meet (end to end or side to side), be contiguous.
Abyss, n. 1. Gulf, gorge, great depth, bottomless gulf or pit.
2. Hell, limbo, purgatory.
Academic, a. 1. Scholastic, literary, lettered.
Academical, a. 1. Scholastic, literary, lettered.
2. Platonic, of Plato.
Academy, n. School, seminary, institute, gymnasium, high school, college.
Acarpous, a. (Bot.) Unfruitful, sterile, barren, fruitless, unproductive.
Accede, v. n. Consent, agree, assent, acquiesce, comply, yield assent, give assent.
Accelerate, v. a. Hasten, expedite, hurry, quicken, speed, precipitate, despatch, urge forward, push forward, push on, press on, urge on.
Acceleration, n. Hastening, increase of velocity.
Accent, n. 1. Intonation, cadence, tone, modulation of voice.
2. Stress (on a certain syllable).
Accent, v. a. Accentuate, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.
Accents, n. pl. Language, words.
Accentuate, v. a. 1. Mark with accent, put the mark of accent upon.
2. Accent, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.
Accept, v. a. 1. Take (what is offered), receive.
2. Admit, assent to, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.
3. Estimate, regard, value.
Acceptable, a. Welcome, pleasing, pleasant, agreeable, grateful, gratifying.
Acceptance, n. 1. Accepting, taking, reception, receipt.
2. Favorable reception.
3. (Com.) Accepted bill (of exchange).
Acceptation, n. Meaning, signification, significance, sense, import.
Access, n. 1. Avenue, approach, passage, way, passage-way, way of approach.
2. Admission, admittance, means of approach, liberty to approach.
Accessary, a. Assisting, aiding, abetting, helping, accessory.
Accessary, n. Confederate, accomplice, abettor, accessory, associate (in a crime), particeps criminis, socius criminis.