Synonyms Dictionary
4. desolate, lay waste, ravage, ruin, Dial, ruinate, bring to ruin, bring to naught, lay in ruins; despoil, rob, plunder, pillage, ransack; vandalize, waste, SI. trash; annihilate, obliterate, extirpate, exterminate, stamp out. hawk1, n. falcon, caracara, buzzard, vulture, kite, osprey, kestrel, harrier, goshawk, eagle. hawk2, v. peddle, vend, market, sell; cry, Inf. bark; bargain, higgle, haggle, higgle-haggle, Scot. argle-bargle. hawker, n. peddler, huckster, vendor, salesman; pitchman, spieler, concessionaire; traveling salesman, door-to-door salesman, Fuller Brushman, colporteur; merchant, dealer, pushcart entrepreneur, come-on artist, sutler; bargainer, higgler, haggler, hawk-eyed, adj. sharp-sighted, gimlet-eyed, perceptive. See eagle-eyed.
hay, n. 1. straw; fodder, provender, feed, forage,
pasturage.
2. make hay while the sun shines seize the day, Latin, carpe diem, strike while the iron is hot, make the most of a situation; capitalize on, exploit, hayseed, n. 1. grass seed, grass, straw, chaff, grain; shuck, huck, shell, hull, pod, bran, wisp, bur.
2. Slang, rustic, peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, swain, gaffer, kern or kerne, son or tiller of the soil, Archaic, hind; yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hawbuck, Dial, lumpkin, Often Disparaging, hillbilly, Disparaging, bogtrotter, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer, SI. hick, SI. woodhick, SI. rube, SI. hoosier, Fr. SI. truffe. haystack, n. haycock, cock, stack, rick, Chiefly Brit. hayrick. haywire, adj. 1. Informal, in disorder, disordered, disorganized, disarranged, deranged, discomposed, disturbed, upset; in disrepair, out of order, Inf. out of commission, Inf. out of kilter, Inf out of whack, SI. on the blink, SI. on the fritz.
2. Informal, insane, crazy, mad, out of one's mind, Inf. out of one's head, Inf. psycho, SI. nuts, SI. loony, SI. bananas, SI. bonkers, SI. bughouse, SI. cuckoo, hazard, n. 1. danger, endangerment, risk, jeopardy, threat; peril, imperilment, insecurity, precariousness; crisis, predicament, dilemma.
2. chance, contingency, unpredictability, uncertainty, gamble, venture; accident, surprise, unintentional happening, unforeseen fortuity; occurrence, contretemps, mischance.
-v. 3. venture, submit, offer, volunteer, throw out, advance.
4. endanger, imperil, peril, expose to danger, risk, put in jeopardy; stake, pawn, invest, involve, sink.
5. dare, chance, gamble, run a risk, undertake against odds, attempt, adventure. hazardous, adj. 1. dangerous, fraught with danger, perilous, jeopardous, venturesome, dire, Archaic. parlous, SI. hairy; threatening, disquieting, menacing, minatory, ominous, inauspicious, unfavorable, boding ill; risky, insecure, precarious, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, shaky, rickety, slippery; exposed, unsheltered, vulnerable, defenseless; critical, difficult, ticklish, thorny.
2. chancy, haphazard, random, incidental, accidental, fortuitous, casual; unpredictable, dicey, Inf. fluky, speculative, undecided, undetermined, uncertain, unsettled, unforeseeable. haze1, n. 1. fog, mist, cloud, fogbank, cloudbank; smog, smaze, Inf. pea soup, Brit. Inf London special; gauze, film, vapor, frost.
2. vagueness, uncertainty, haziness, cloudiness, fogginess, nebulosity; obscurity, indistinctness, dimness;
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