Antonyms for beetle
Grammar : Adj, noun, verb |
Spell : beet-l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbit l |
- abandon
- abbreviate
- abridge
- aid
- ascend
- assist
- be active
- cave in
- compress
- contract
- deflate
- depress
- detach
- dislike
- disregard
- do
- energize
- forget
- help
- increase
- indent
- keep
- lessen
- let go
- loosen
- lower
- not like
- obscure
- recede
- reduce
- release
- remove
- rise
- save
- separate
- shorten
- shrink
- sink
- straighten
- tighten
- unfasten
Definition of beetle
Origin :- type of insect, Old English bitela "beetle," literally "little biter," from bitel "biting," related to bitan "to bite" (see bite). As a nickname for the original Volkswagen car, 1946, translating German Käfer.
- As in oversized : adj bulky
- As in insect : noun bug
- As in bug : noun insect
- As in jut : verb extend
- As in lean : verb bend, angle toward
- As in overhang : verb bulge, hang over
- As in project : verb bulge, hang out
- As in protrude : verb stick out
- As in stand out : verb be conspicuous, prominent
- As in stick out : verb bulge
- As in bulge : verb project outward
- As in protuberate : verb bulge
- As in hang : verb suspend or be suspended
- I don't care whether you're deef or dumb, or whether you're nummer'n a beetle!
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- Is not the author and parent of all our love, Cupid, as blind as a beetle?
- Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus
- He had drawn the beetle with whom he was talking to a position where they were behind the rest.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
- By the way, did he mention the name of the beetle that's going to do all this heavy work?
- Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
- It is a representation of an Egyptian beetle, Ateuchus Sacer, you know.
- Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- There, as the beetle resumed its flight, the novelist spread his wings.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- The Spider came, and there he found a cricket, a beetle, and a bug.
- Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
- It bears no mark which would indicate a future metamorphosis into a beetle.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 » by Various
- Give me some wedges, a beetle, and a few men of my own choice.
- Extract from : « Captains of Industry » by James Parton
- The scarab Madge knew to be a beetle sacred to the Egyptians.
- Extract from : « Madge Morton's Secret » by Amy D. V. Chalmers
Synonyms for beetle
- adhere
- ant
- aphid
- arachnid
- arthropod
- attach
- attract attention
- bag
- balloon
- be conspicuous
- be distinct
- be fastened
- be highlighted
- be imminent
- be in mid-air
- be loose
- be off
- be pendent
- be poised
- be prominent
- be slanted
- be striking
- be suspended
- bear on
- bedbug
- bee
- beetle
- belly
- bend
- bilge
- billow
- bloat
- blob
- bow
- bug out
- bulge
- bulk
- bumblebee
- butt out
- butterfly
- cant
- careen
- cast a shadow
- catch the eye
- cling
- cock
- cockroach
- come through
- command
- cootie
- cover
- curve
- daddy longlegs
- dangle
- dangle over
- deck
- decline
- decorate
- deflect
- depend
- dilate
- dip
- distend
- divert
- dragonfly
- drape
- drift
- droop
- droop over
- drop
- elongate
- emerge
- endanger
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- extrude
- fasten
- fasten on
- fix
- flap
- flap over
- flea
- float
- flop
- fly
- fruit fly
- furnish
- gnat
- grasshopper
- hang on
- hang over
- heel
- hold
- hornet
- hover
- impend
- incline
- jut
- jut out
- ladybug
- lean
- lengthen
- list
- loll
- loom
- lop
- louse
- lower
- massive
- menace
- mite
- mosquito
- moth
- nail
- nod
- obtrude
- outthrust
- overhang
- oversize
- overtop
- pest
- pin
- pitch
- place
- point
- poke
- pop
- pop out
- portend
- pouch
- pout
- praying mantis
- project
- prolong
- prop
- protend
- protrude
- protuberate
- puff out
- push
- push out
- put weight on
- recline
- remain
- repose
- rest
- rest on
- rise above
- roll
- sag
- sheer
- shoot out
- show
- sink
- slant
- slope
- spider
- stand out
- start
- stay up
- stick
- stick out
- stick up
- stretch out
- swell
- swing
- swing over
- tack
- termite
- threaten
- thrust out
- tick
- tilt
- tip
- tower above
- trail
- turn
- twist
- veer
- vermin
- wave
- yellowjacket
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