3. (of a partnership or business) break up, part company, split up, disband, go separate ways; abolish, dissolve.
4. kill, slay, assassinate, poison, do to death, blot or wipe out, put an end to, get rid of, put away, put out of the way, silence; dispatch, finish, finish off, settle, Inf. put the kibosh on; Ail SI. hit, zap, snuff out, rub out, bump off, polish off, give [s.o.] the works or the business; All Euph. let the daylight in, send west, take for a ride, put [s.o.] out of his misery.
5. cut down, run through, put to the sword; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate, burke; execute, put to death, garrotte, behead, decapitate, guillotine, hang, gibbet, lynch, SI. string up.
6. annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, discreate, reduce to nothing, destroy totally, eradicate, erase, extirpate, extinguish; massacre, decimate, destroy, wipe off the face of the earth. liquor, n. 1. spirits, intoxicant, inebriant, alcohol, John Barleycorn, the demon rum, whiskey, schnapps, grog, brandy; drink, bouse, strong drink, Inf. booze, Inf. hard stuff, SI. likker, SI. hooch, SI. sauce, SI. juice, SI. medicine; moonshine, home brew, SI. sneaky pete; firewater, SI. red-eye, SI. rot-gut, SI. blue-ruin, SI. mountain dew, SI. white lightning; the bottle, the cup, the cup that cheers; potation, beverage, liquid refreshment; bracer, refresher, Inf. pick-me-up, Inf. pickup.
2. broth, bouillon, stock, juice, Fr. jus; extract, essence, distillate, concentrate. lisp, n. 1. sibilation, sibilance, assibilation, indistinct speech, Inf. baby talk; hiss, hissing, siss, siss-ing, shush, shushing, hush, hushing, sizzle, sizzling, fizz, fizzing; speech impediment or defect, Pathol. dyslexia, lisping.
-v. 2. sibilate, assibilate, hiss, siss, hush, shush, mispronounce, speak indistinctly, Inf. talk like a baby or talk baby talk. lissome, adj. lithe, lithesome, pliant, bendable, flexible, flexile; plastic, moldable, adaptable, compliant, tractable, malleable, ductile, fictile; limber, supple, Archaic, lithy, loose-limbed, loose; nimble, agile, quick, light. list¹, n. 1. list of names, roll, attendance, muster or muster roll, roster, Sports, line-up, beadroll, slate, docket; listing, enumeration, shopping list, inventory, catalog; Library Science, card or union catalog, file, index, table of contents, directory, telephone book, yellow pages; register, social register, Who's Who, record, chartulary; schedule, social calendar, program, reading list, syllabus.
-v. 2. record, write down, chronicle, Law. docket; catalog, file, alphabetize, tabulate; arrange, classify, codify, group.
3. enroll, enter, register, sign up or sign up for, enlist, join.
list², n. 1. border, bordering strip, panel.
2. selvage, edge, finished edge.
3. band, strip, stripe, streak, striation; stroke, line, dash, bar, tape, tag, label; fillet, fascia, ribbon, headband, frontlet; wristband, Eccles. maniple; belt, baldric, cord, cordon, braid, thong; sash, cummerbund, girdle, waistband. list³, v. (all of a vessel) incline, slant, slope, lean, heel or heel over, careen, cant, tilt, tip. listen, v. 1. harken, hark, Archaic, list; Med. auscultate, listen to [s.o.'s] heartbeat; pay attention, Inf listen up, attend to, give heed, listen hard or good, prick up one's ears, listen carefully, keep one's ears open; listen to, give an ear to, lend an ear to, bend an ear to, be attentive to, give [s.o.] one's full attention, be all ears, hang on [s.o.'s] every word.