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shrill, a. piercing, acute, strident.
shrink, v. contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle; flinch, recoil, blench, wince, winch.
shrinkage, n. contraction; (Colloq.) depreciation.
shrinking, a. coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring.
shroud, n. winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements.
shroud, v. mask, screen, cloak, conceal.
shrub, n. bush; pl. shrubbery, thicket, boscage, bosket.
shuck, n. sh.e.l.l, husk, pod, shale.--v. sh.e.l.l, enucleate.
shudder, n. tremor.--v. tremble, shake, s.h.i.+ver, quake.
shuffle, v. jumble, intermix; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble, s.h.i.+ft; shamble.
shuffle, n. artifice, evasion, prevarication, trick, sophism, ruse.
shun, v. avoid, elude, evade, eschew.
shut, v. close; debar, exclude, preclude; (shut up) confine, imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure.
shy, a. timid, coy, backward, retiring, diffident, wary, cautious; (Slang) short, lacking.
shyness, n. diffidence, coyness, timidity, bashfulness.
shyster, n. (Slang) knave, impostor, rogue, cheat.
sick, a. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, diseased, morbid; nauseated, queasy, squeamish, qualmish; disgusted, surfeited, weary, palled, satiated.
sick, v. sick on, incite, urge.
sicken, v. nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish.
sickening, a. nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting.
sickle-shaped, a. falcate, falcated.
sickly, a. invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing; unwholesome; pale, languid, haggard, puny, peaked.
sickness, n. illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. a.s.sociated words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, dec.u.mbiture, convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic.
sickness of stomach. nausea, qualm, qualmishness.
side, n. flank; faction, sect, party. a.s.sociated Words: lateral, laterality, laterally, collateral, bilateral, equilateral, quadrilateral, longilateral, lopsided, multilateral, perimeter, ambidexter, ambidextrous, ambidexterity.
side, a. lateral, collateral, incidental.
side by side. in apposition. a.s.sociated Words: apposition, juxtaposition, juxtapose, juxtaposit.
side dish. entree, entremets.
sidehill, n. descent, declivity, decline, slope.
sidelong, a. lateral, oblique.
sidesman, n. partisan.
sidetrack, v. shunt; (Colloq.) switch off, divert.
sideways, adv., sidewise, askance, obliquely, laterally.
sidewise, adv., sideways, askance.
siding, n. sidetrack, turnout; clapboards, weatherboarding.
siege, n. investment, blockade, besiegement. a.s.sociated Words: obsidional, besiege, beleaguer, obsess, obsession, beset.
Siena marble. brocatel.
sieve, n. strainer, sifter, bolt, bolter, riddle, tammis, tammy.
sievelike, a. cribrate, cribrose, cribriform.
sift, v. bolt, cribble, riddle; investigate.
sifting, n. bolting; (Pharm.) cribration; investigation.
sigh, n. suspiration.--v. suspire.
sight, n. vision; seeing, view, perception; visibility; spectacle, phenomenon, panorama, vista, gapeseed, cynosure; (Colloq.) great number, many, mult.i.tude, great quant.i.ty. a.s.sociated Words: optics, optical, optic, ocular, optician, caligo, astigmatism, perimeter, perimetry, amaurosis, visual, visualize, apparition.
sightly, a. comely, attractive, handsome.
sign, n. omen, auspice, portent, prodigy, prognostic, augury, foretoken, presage; mark, token, indication, symptom, index, emblem, symbol; trace, vestige, ensign, signal, beacon; gesture, motion; signature. a.s.sociated Words: ominous, portentous, augurial, semeiology, semeiological, sematology, semiotic, semeiography.
sign, v. signify, mark, indicate, betoken; subscribe.
signal, n. sign, ensign, beacon. a.s.sociated Word: pharology.
signal, a. memorable, remarkable, noticeable, notable.
signature, n. autograph, sign-manual. a.s.sociated Word: signatory.
signer, n. subscriber, signatory.
