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8. shape up a. take form, take shape, crystallize, develop, fall in, fall into place, fall into line, come together, b. improve, grow better, show improvement, look up, pick up; progress, make headway, gain ground, go forward, come along, go along.
shapeless, adj. 1. formless, unformed, without form, not formed, unshaped, unshapen; embryonic, undeveloped; unhewn, uncarved, rough, unfashioned; misshapen, ill-fashioned, ill-made, distorted, deformed, grotesque, disfigured, ill-proportioned.
2. amorphous, indeterminate, indefinite, vague, nebulous, characterless, nondescript; unorganized, confused, jumbled, chaotic, structureless, unstructured.
shard, n. fragment, part, particle, piece; chip, chink, smithereen, splinter, sliver; cut, cutting, paring; scale, flake, shaving, lamina; particle, scrap, bit, snip, snippet, wisp, tatter, corner; morsel, crumb, ort; modicum, iota, whit, mite, trifle, scantling; remnant, fraction, section, segment, remainder; snatch, shred, sample, specimen, dose, taste.
share, n. 1. allotment, allocation, appropriation, consignment, apportionment, allowance, grant; dispensation, donation, ration, pittance, dole, handout; endowment, inheritance; portion, part, division, lot, Inf. whack, dividend, helping, serving; percentage, measure, quota, stint; cut, SI. rake off, commission; a piece of the action, a piece of the pie or cake.
-v. 2. divide up, Inf. divvy up, subdivide, partition, adjust; apportion, allocate, allot, appropriate; ration, measure out, measure off, admeasure; mete out, portion out, divide and assign, parcel out, deal out, dole out; go halves, go fifty-fifty, split the difference, share and share alike, go Dutch treat, go Dutch.
3. Usu.
share in a. have a share or part in, have a stake in, have a percentage or piece of. b. take part in, participate, partake of or in.
shark, n. 1. swindler, cheat, cheater, fraud, highbinder, confidence man, SI. con man, SI. flimflam man, bunko artist, crook, chiseler; sharper, SI. city slicker, Inf. fast talker, Inf hawk. See - swindler.
2. Slang, expert, adept, master, professional, Inf. pro, Inf. ace, Inf. crackerjack, star, SI. no slouch.
-v. 3. steal, cheat, defraud, fleece, rook, gull, Archaic. chouse; overcharge, SI. soak, Inf. gyp, SI. chisel, SI. gaff, pluck, mulct; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, Inf. do, SI. burn.
sharp, adj. 1. thin-edged, razor-edged, knife-like; keen, acute, pointed, needle-sharp, edged, cutting, thin; sharp as a bayonet, sharp as a butcher knife.
2. pointed, toothed, dentiform, barbed, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidal; peaked, Bot. apiculate, Bot., Zool. acuminate; bristly, prickly, echinate, setaceous, spiculate; thorny, spinous; craggy, jagged, angular; notched, serrate; spear-shaped, sword-shaped, Anat. Zool. xiphoid, sagittate; tapering, Bot., Zool. subulate.
3. abrupt, sudden, rapid; steep, sheer, extreme, ac-clivitous, vertical, precipitous; stiff, arduous.
4. (of taste) pungent, biting, bitter, acid, acrid; keen, acute.
5. (of noise) piercing, shrill, strident, harsh; high-pitched, high-toned, ear-splitting.
6. (of pain) distressing, cutting, intense, acute, piercing, fierce, extreme; sudden, violent, crucial, critical, severe.
7. bitter, harsh, caustic, cutting, scathing; lashing, virulent, rancorous, galling, acrid, acrimonious; derisory, insulting, excoriating, invidious, mocking, satirical; merciless, brutal, cruel, unkind, hurtful, malicious, spiteful, malignant, mean, venomous, envenomed; curt, brusque, tart, blunt, gruff, abrupt, bearish; ungracious, uncordial, uncivil,
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