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aspiring, adj. ambitious, hopeful, dreaming, wishful, yearning, longing; desirous, craving, hungry; enterprising, hard-working, enthusiastic; expectant, optimistic, sanguine, vaulting, high-flying; zealous, ardent, fervent, fervid, avid, earnest, eager, spirited.
asquint, adv. 1. awry, askance, askew; sidelong,
sideways, obliquely, deviously.
2. slyly, furtively, surreptitiously, secretively, shiftily, sneakingly, on the sly. ass, n. 1. donkey, burro, dickey, Chiefly Scot. cuddy, Brit. SI. moke; jackass, jack, jenny, jennet; mule, hinny; beast of burden, pack or draft animal, Archaic, sumpter; wild ass, kiang, onager.
2. fool, tomfool, dope, nincompoop, ninny, lightweight; dunce, blockhead, lunkhead, bonehead, knucklehead, meathead, fathead, pinhead, numskull, addlepate; oaf, boor, lout, dolt, dullard, lummox, lubber, looby; idiot, simpleton, half-wit, lamebrain, pin-brain, moron, cretin, imbecile; All SI. chump, sap, dumbbell, dingbat, ding-a-ling, jerk, booby, boob, noodle, nudnik, schmuck, schlemiel, U.S. schmo. assail, v. 1. attack, assault, raid, storm, charge; rush, blitz, blitzkrieg, set upon, descend upon, spring upon, pounce upon, begin hostilities, SI. zap, SI. jump, Archaic, insult; pelt, bombard, pepper, strafe, open fire upon; beset, besiege, importune, harass, harry; plague, molest, worry, trouble, Scot. fash.
2. revile, vituperate, abuse, belabor, lash, rail against, inveigh against, light into, Inf sail into, Inf. tear into, Inf. rip into, Inf. lace into, Inf. jump down [s.o.'s] throat, Archaic, clapperclaw; scold, tongue-lash, rate, slate, harangue, rant, curse, execrate, imprecate, anathematize; upbraid, objurgate, excoriate, lambaste, flay, fulminate against; castigate, chastise, berate, censure, criticize, reproach, rebuke, reprove, Inf. jump on, Inf. dress down, Inf. slam, SI. jump all over, SI. strafe.
3. vilify, traduce, asperse, calumniate, impugn, slur, malign, defame, denigrate, slander, libel, backbite, bespatter; denounce, decry, disparage, discredit, depreciate, deprecate, belittle, minimize, run or put down, Inf. knock, SI. badmouth; gibbet, scorn, deride, ridicule, scoff or jeer at, sneer at, mock, lampoon, pasquinade, make fun of.
4. affect, have an affect on, influence, make an impact or impression on, impinge upon, leave a mark on. assailable, adj. attackable, assaultable, impugnable; vulnerable, weak, unsound, open to attack, lame; un-supportable, defenseless, unprotected. assailant, n. assaulter, attacker, accoster, assailer, aggressor; antagonist, foe, enemy, opponent, adversary, challenger; accuser, reviler, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, abuser. assassin, n. 1. murderer, killer, slayer, manslayer, man-killer, cutthroat, thug, poisoner, strangler; liquidator, bravo, sniper, gunman, knifer, throttler, Rare, sicarian, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; All SI. gun, hired gun, hit man, triggerman, torpedo, hatchet man.
2. executioner, executionist, SI. Jack Ketch, garrotter, burker, burkist; butcher, slaughterer, Bluebeard, ripper, bloodspiller, bloodshedder, bloodletter.
3. homicide, patricide, matricide. See murderer (def. 2). assassinate, v. 1. kill, slay, morganize, poison, do to death, liquidate, blot or wipe out, put an end to, get rid of, do away with, put away, put out of the way, silence, dispatch, finish, finish off, do for, fix, settle, lay [s.o.] out, lay [s.o.] low, Inf. put the kibosh on, Inf. nip in the bud; All SI. off, hit, zap, waste, croak, eighty six, take off, rub out, bump off, knock off, polish off, give [s.o.] the works or the business; All
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