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courageous man steadily encounters perils to which he may be keenly sensitive, at the call of duty; the gallant
are brave in a dashing, showy, and splendid way; the valiant not only dare great dangers, but achieve great
results; the heroic are nobly daring and dauntless, truly chivalrous, sublimely courageous. Compare
FORTITUDE.
Antonyms:
afraid, cringing, fearful, pusillanimous, timid, cowardly, faint-hearted, frightened, shrinking, timorous.
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BREAK.
Synonyms:
bankrupt, crack, destroy, rive, shatter, split, burst, crush, fracture, rupture, shiver, sunder, cashier, demolish,
rend, sever, smash, transgress.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
75
To break is to divide sharply, with severance of particles, as by a blow or strain. To burst is to break by
pressure from within, as a bombshell, but it is used also for the result of violent force otherwise exerted; as, to
burst in a door, where the door yields as if to an explosion. To crush is to break by pressure from without, as
an egg-shell. To crack is to break without complete severance of parts; a cracked cup or mirror may still hold
together. Fracture has a somewhat similar sense. In a fractured limb, the ends of the broken bone may be
separated, tho both portions are still retained within the common muscular tissue. A shattered object is broken
suddenly and in numerous directions; as, a vase is shattered by a blow, a building by an earthquake. A
shivered glass is broken into numerous minute, needle-like fragments. To smash is to break thoroughly to
pieces with a crashing sound by some sudden act of violence; a watch once smashed will scarcely be worth
repair. To split is to cause wood to crack or part in the way of the grain, and is applied to any other case where
a natural tendency to separation is enforced by an external cause; as, to split a convention or a party. To
demolish is to beat down, as a mound, building, fortress, etc.; to destroy is to put by any process beyond
restoration physically, mentally, or morally; to destroy an army is so to shatter and scatter it that it can not be
rallied or reassembled as a fighting force. Compare REND.
Antonyms:
attach, bind, fasten, join, mend, secure, solder, unite, weld.
Prepositions:
Break to pieces, or in pieces, into several pieces (when the object is thought of as divided rather than
shattered); break with a friend; from or away from a suppliant; break into a house; out of prison; break across
one's knee; break through a hedge; break in upon one's retirement; break over the rules; break on or upon the
shore, against the rocks.
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BRUTISH.
Synonyms:
animal, brutal, ignorant, sensual, swinish, base, brute, imbruted, sottish, unintellectual, beastly, carnal,
insensible, stolid, unspiritual, bestial, coarse, lascivious, stupid, vile.
A brutish man simply follows his animal instincts, without special inclination to do harm; the brutal have
always a spirit of malice and cruelty. Brute has no special character, except as indicating what a brute might
possess; much the same is true of animal, except that animal leans more to the side of sensuality, brute to that
of force, as appears in the familiar phrase "brute force." Hunger is an animal appetite; a brute impulse
suddenly prompts one to strike a blow in anger. Bestial, in modern usage, implies an intensified and degrading
animalism. Any supremacy of the animal or brute instincts over the intellectual and spiritual in man is base
and vile. Beastly refers largely to the outward and visible consequences of excess; as, beastly drunkenness.
Compare ANIMAL.
Antonyms:
elevated, exalted, great, intellectual, noble, enlightened, grand, humane, intelligent, refined.
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BURN.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
76
Synonyms:
blaze, char, flame, incinerate, set fire to, brand, consume, flash, kindle, set on fire, cauterize, cremate, ignite,
scorch, singe.
To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete
combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One
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