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attack, offensive, assailment; siege, besiegement, be-setment; brawl, feud, affray, broil, engaging, adj. 1. pleasing, delightful, enjoyable; charming, attractive, appealing, Inf. fetching, Inf. eyecatching; winning, taking, winsome; sweet, agreeable, likeable; lovely, pretty, fair, handsome, prepossessing, beautiful, exquisite; graceful, elegant, refined.
2. enticing, alluring, tempting, tantalizing, titillating; intriguing, diverting, beguiling, inducing, provocative, seductive, arousing; irresistible, magnetizing, electrifying, captivating, inflaming; fascinating, catching, hypnotizing, mesmerizing; enchanting, bewitching, entrancing, enthralling, enrapturing, engender, v. 1. cause, produce, effect, effectuate, bring about, bring to pass, give rise to, occasion; excite, provoke, rouse, arouse, work up.
2. beget, create, procreate, father, sire, sow the seeds of, conceive, give birth to; breed, propagate, reproduce, spawn.
3. arise, rise, dawn, come into existence, come to be, take birth, see the light of day, begin. engine, n. 1. motor, turbine, dynamo, generator, transformer, transducer.
2. machine, mechanism, apparatus, device, contrivance, Inf. contraption; tool, utensil, implement, appliance, convenience, facility, utility, mechanical aid. engineer, n. 1. operator, handler, conductor, driver, pilot; (on a streetcar or subway) motorman, (on a cable car) gripman, Brit, engine driver, Inf. Casey Jones, Railroad Sl. hogger or hog head.
2. combat engineer, pioneer, U.S. Navy. Seabee, Brit, sapper.
-v. 3. plan, devise, lay out, orchestrate, mastermind; manage, superintend, direct, conduct, handle, run, Inf. quarterback, Inf. call the shots; produce, perform, do, achieve, accomplish, effectuate, bring about.
4. arrange, negotiate, put through, Inf. swing, Sl. put over; scheme, intrigue, conspire, connive, plot; maneuver, machinate, manipulate, pull strings or wires, jockey, finesse, rig, Inf. wangle, Inf. finagle. engird, v. encircle, circle, surround, encompass, environ, outline, circumscribe, delineate; gird, begird, girdle, belt; circumvent, beset, entrap, trap, engorge, v. devour, raven, bolt, gobble, gulp down, wolf down, ingurgitate; glut, gorge, cram, stuff; gluttonize, gormandize, guttle, play a good knife and fork, engrave, v. 1. cut, carve, incise, grave, etch, chisel; chase, enchase, hatch, stipple; ornament, mark, blaze; print, imprint, stamp.
2. impress, fix, set, lodge, embed, infix, stamp, brand, engraver, n. lithographer, graver, etcher; lapidary, lapidarist, chalcographer, glyphographer, wood-engraver, xylographer, cerographist; carver, sculptor, engraving, n. 1. cutting, chiseling, incising, graving, chasing, hatching, stippling, ornamenting, marking, carving, sculpting; lithography, chromolithography, etching, drypoint; anaglyphy, chalcography, zincography, xylography; photoengraving, Obs. hiliogravure, glyphography.
2. device, relief, anaglyph, intaglio, cameo; Trademark. Graphotype, tailpiece.
3. plate, block, copperplate, cerograph.
4. print, impression, pull; lithograph, etching, dry-point, aquatint, mezzotint, chromolithograph, vignette, cut, woodcut, xylograph; half-tone, photogravure, rotogravure, illustration, picture, proof, positive, negative. engross, v. 1. absorb, immerse, preoccupy, obsess, consume, devour, take all one's time; keep one busy, engage, involve, occupy, employ, hold, hold one's attention; amuse, divert, distract; rivet, fix, fixate, arrest, attract.
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