7. devitalize, weaken, enervate; debilitate, enfeeble, deplete, sap, exhaust.
8. rob, loot, strip, pirate, plunder, sack, ransack; pillage, forage, maraud, raid, rifle, spoil, despoil, spoliate; rape, ravage, ravish, devastate, waste, lay waste, depredate, harry.
9. consume, annihilate, demolish; raze, level, fell; ruin, destroy.
-adj. 10. Informal, instinctive, intuitive, emotional, visceral.
11. relevant, key, essential, quintessential; fundamental, basic, Inf. meat-and-potatoes.
gutter, n. drain, sewer, cloaca, culvert, conduit; duct, Civ. Eng. aqueduct, watercourse, canal, channel, flume; trough, eaves-trough, open tube, trench, ditch, Brit, sough; shoot, hole, furrow, groove, race, rut, chase; spout, gargoyle, watersprout, outlet,
guttural, adj. throaty, thick, croaking, gravelly; harsh, raspy, rasping, hoarse, husky, gruff; raucous, roupy, grating,
guy, n. Informal, fellow, man, male, Inf. chap, Inf. dad, U.S. Inf. buddy, Inf. pal, SI. joe, SI. dude, SI. cat, SI. gazebo, SI. bozo, Fr. homme, Fr. type, Sp. hombre; blade, young man, Scot. chield, boy, Inf. kid; old man, gaffer, Inf. codger, SI. pops; mister, sir, Fr. monsieur, Ger. Herr, Sp. senor, It. signore; gentleman, Archaic, goodman, squire, esquire, don, hidalgo, cabellero; individual, person, Inf. customer, SI. cookie.
guzzle, v. swill, toss off, drink quickly, SI. chug-a-lug, SI. chug; swig, drink down, quaff, All Inf. put it down or away, soak it up, take it in, pack away or down, tuck it in; drain, empty, finish, finish off, SI. knock off, SI. polish off, SI. take care of, SI. do a job on, SI. do in; devour, consume, swallow up, gulp or gulp down.
gymnasium, n. gym, arena, rink; court, quadrangle, ring; hall, auditorium, stadium, coliseum, bowl; health spa, SI. fat farm or camp; Gk. Antiquity, palestra,
gymnast, n. acrobat, tumbler, somersaulter, high vaulter, gymnasiast; circus performer or artist; athlete; equilibrist, balancer; aerialist, aerial performer or artist.
gymnastics, n. tumbling, somersaulting, high-vaulting; acrobatics, acrobatic feats; athletics; calisthenics, exercises, gymnastic exercises,
gyp, v. Informal. 1. cheat, swindle, defraud, rob, rook. See - cheat (def. 3).
-n. 2. swindle, fraud, cheating, SI. ripoff. See - cheat (def. 2).
3. gypper, cheater, cheat, swindler. See - cheat (def. 1).
gypsy, n. Romany, Bohemian; nomad, Bedouin, Arab; wanderer, roamer, rover, rambler, gadabout; mover, rolling stone, migrant, Usu. Disparaging. Okie, migrator, bird of passage; drifter, Inf. floater, transient, fly-by-night; vagabond, tramp, hobo, beachcomber, Inf. bum, SI. bindlestiff.
gyrate, v. rotate, revolve, circumvolve, wheel, wheel around, turn round, circulate, roll, troll; whirl, pirouette, twirl, Archaic, trundle, swirl, spin, swivel; bump, grind.
gyration, n. rotation, circumrotation, revolution, circumgyration, gyre, circular motion, spiral motion; wheeling, turning around, circulation, rolling, roll, trolling, convolution, circumvolution; whirling, whirl, pirouette, swirl, swirling, twirl, twirling, spinning, swiveling.