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1. n трата, затрата2. n расходыСинонимический ряд:1. expenditure (noun) allocation; disbursement; doling out; expenditure; expense; payment; spending outlay2. disbursing (verb) disbursing; expending; forking out; giving; lay out; laying out; outlaying; paying; shelling out3. finishing (verb) consuming; depleting; draining; eat up; exhausting; finishing; going; play out; run through; running through; use up; using up; washing up4. passing (verb) passing; put in; whiling away -
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рассеивать; рассеивающийСинонимический ряд:1. going by (adj.) crossing; departing; disappearing; flashing by; gliding by; going by; passing; speeding by2. melting (verb) dispelling; dispersing; dissolving; fading; melting; scattering3. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; consuming; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fool away; fooling away; fritter away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; riot away; rioting away; squandering; throw away; throwing away; trifle away; trifling away; wasting -
23 devastating
1. a опустошительный, разрушительный2. a эмоц. -усил. ужасающий, потрясающий, невероятныйСинонимический ряд:1. calamitous (adj.) calamitous; cataclysmic; catastrophic; disastrous; ruinous2. crushing (adj.) crushing; humiliating; mortifying; overwhelming3. desolating (adj.) desolating; destructive; harmful4. immoderate (adj.) consuming; exhausting; immoderate; wasteful5. ravaging (verb) depredating; desecrating; desolating; despoiling; devouring; harrying; pillaging; ravaging; sacking; scourging; spoiling; spoliating; stripping; wastingАнтонимический ряд:constructive; encouraging; helpful
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