Synonyms

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3. force, wrest, wring, wrench; extract, dig up, root up, grub up or out, uproot, excavate, dredge; drag out, tear out, pull out; separate, disunite, disjoin.

prying, adj. 1. peeking, peeping, peering; inspecting, surveying, scanning; studying, scrutinizing, examining; searching, prowling, investigating; snooping, snoopy, spying, eavesdropping; ogling, gaping, gawking, craning, goggling, Inf rubbernecking; agog, agape, all agog.
2. inquisitive, inquiring, questioning, probing, investigative; curious, eager, eager for knowledge, interested, burning with curiosity, dying to know; intrusive, obtrusive, officious, Inf. nosy; meddlesome, interfering, impertinent, persistent, forward.

psalm, n. 1. hymn, paean, alleluia, hallelujah, gloria, doxology, spiritual, religious song, Eccles. cantus firmus; chant, plainsong, plainchant, Both Eccles. an-tiphon, antiphony; song of praise, song, melody, tune, air, composition; ode, poem, verse, (in ancient Greece) chorus.
-v. 2. hymn, doxologize, carol, sing the praises of; chant, intone, cantillate, descant, Archaic, deacon; praise, laud, exalt, glorify, extol, celebrate.

pseudo, adj. counterfeit, fraudulent, imitation, forged, false, fake, faked, Inf. phony; not genuine, bogus, spurious, supposititious, bastardly; pretended, feigned, simulated, make-believe, sham, flash; unreal, mock, ersatz, synthetic; artificial, factitious, contrived, SI. hokey, fictitious; assumed, put-on; specious, theatrical, meretricious.

pseudonym, n. false name, assumed name, professional name, pen name, nom de plume, Fr. nom de guerre, stage name, Fr. nom de theatre; allonym, anonym, alias; familiar name, epithet; nickname, sobriquet, agnomen, cognomen, byname, moniker, handle, Chiefly Scot. to-name.

psych, v. Slang. 1. Usu.

psych out a. intimidate, make nervous or uncomfortable, put [s.o.] off balance; discompose, upset, unsettle, disturb; agitate, Inf. throw into a tizzy; frighten, scare, SI. spook, SI. bug.

b. understand, comprehend, know what makes [s.o.] tick.
2. Usu.

psych up a. excite, arouse, rouse, move; inspire, stimulate, impress, b. persuade, urge, prompt, talk [s.o.] into, goad, prod, push.
3. (of oneself) prepare, get ready, Inf. get up for, get in the mood for, get in the right frame of mind, change one's attitude; steel oneself, Literary, gird one's loins.

psyche, n. spirit, life force or energy, inner man, essential nature, true being, spiritual principle, vital spirit, pneuma, anima, divine spark, soul; mind, reason, intellect, intelligence, understanding, Gk. Philos, nous; self, personality, ego.

psychiatrist, n. psychopathologist, psychopathist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyzer, alienist, SI. shrink, SI. headshrinker, SI. couch doctor.

psychic, adj. 1. spiritual, mystical, soulful; psychological, subjective; mental, intellectual, cognitive, cerebral, philosophical, metaphysical.
2. otherworldly, unearthly, supermundane, extra-mundane; occult, magical, unreal, cabalistic, fey; mysterious, arcane, esoteric, unknown; immaterial, incorporeal, intangible, disembodied, insubstantial, Archaic. spiritous; supernatural, supernormal, preter-normal, preternatural, superhuman, superphysical, hyperphysical; extrasensory, supersensible, supersen-sory, supersensual, telepathic, clairvoyant, telekinetic; hallucinatory, spectral, ghostly, phantom; mediumis-tic, spiritualistic, spiritistic.

psychological, adj. 1. mental, cerebral, psychical, intellectual, of the mind; conceptual, inward, subliminal, subconscious; perceptual, cognitive, prehen-sive; sensory, percipient, psychometrical, psychometric.