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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.

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Hanging, drawing and quartering was a punishment for the worst crimes in England from 1241. The prisoner was nearly strangled by hanging, then cut open and had his innards removed and cooked in front of him, and finally chopped into four pieces. By the mid-1700s, prisoners were killed before the drawing and quartering.      .. More >>
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