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List of antonyms from "pessimistic" to antonyms from "petrifaction"
Discover our 207 antonyms available for the terms "petered out, pests, pester, pestered, pestilent/pestilential, petite" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Pessimistic (10 antonyms)
- Pessimistically (3 antonyms)
- Pest (12 antonyms)
- Pester (13 antonyms)
- Pestered (13 antonyms)
- Pesterer (15 antonyms)
- Pestering (3 antonyms)
- Pestilence (2 antonyms)
- Pestilent/pestilential (5 antonyms)
- Pestle (11 antonyms)
- Pests (12 antonyms)
- Pet (8 antonyms)
- Pet project (23 antonyms)
- Pet topic (7 antonyms)
- Peter (17 antonyms)
- Peter out (5 antonyms)
- Petered out (11 antonyms)
- Petering out (5 antonyms)
- Petering outs (10 antonyms)
- Petiole (1 antonym)
- Petite (8 antonyms)
- Petition (3 antonyms)
- Petitioned (3 antonyms)
- Petrifaction (7 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « pestle »
- As in pound : verb crush; beat rhythmically
- As in powder : verb crush into fine grains; sprinkle fine grains
- As in pulverize : verb smash by beating, crushing
- As in grind : verb crush, pulverize
- He let the pestle fall from his hand and jumped as if he had been stuck with a pin.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- They did not see his divine informants, the axe, the tray, and the pestle.
- Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain
- But at this moment the doctor's pestle was heard in the silence, with its continued rhythm.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- It may be, as it is elsewhere, the pestle and mortar system.
- Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst
- He resolved then to try to make a mortar and pestle of hard wood.
- Extract from : « An American Robinson Crusoe » by Samuel. B. Allison
- Rub the residue with a pestle into a paste with boiling water.
- Extract from : « All About Coffee » by William H. Ukers
- While hot, it is placed in a mortar, and pounded with a pestle.
- Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
- "You should let Pestle see her," replied the sympathizing squire.
- Extract from : « The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) » by Charles James Wills
- This may have been made to cut it into the length desired for a pestle.
- Extract from : « The Archaeology of the Yakima Valley » by Harlan Ingersoll Smith
- Fig. 25 illustrates a pestle, the top of which is broken off.
- Extract from : « The Archaeology of the Yakima Valley » by Harlan Ingersoll Smith