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1 wasting
1. n слабость; упадок сил; исхудание2. n упадок, деградация3. n мед. атрофия4. a опустошительный, разорительный5. a изнурительныйСинонимический ряд:1. desolating (adj.) consumptive; desolating; ravaging2. blowing (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fooling away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; rioting away; throwing away; trifling away3. failing (verb) declining; deteriorating; fading; failing; flagging; languishing; waning; weakening4. missing (verb) losing; missing5. ravaging (verb) depredating; desecrating; desolating; despoiling; devastating; devouring; harrying; pillaging; ravaging; sacking; scourging; spoiling; spoliating; stripping6. wasting (verb) consuming; dissipating; fool away; fritter away; riot away; squandering; throw away; trifle away; wasting -
2 failing
1. n ошибка; слабость; недостаток2. n неудача, неуспех; провал3. n тех. отказ, перебой4. a недостающий5. a слабеющий6. prep за неимением, ввиду отсутствия; в случае отсутствияfailing his arrival we shall stay here — в случае, если он не приедет, мы останемся здесь
failing a purchaser, he let the house — так как покупателя не нашлось, он сдал дом в аренду
failing instructions I did what I thought best — не получив никаких указаний, я поступил по своему разумению
two members were pitched out of the club for failing to pay the money — два члена клуба были исключены за неуплату взносов
7. prep в случае неудачи; если это не удастсяfailing payment, we shall sue — если нам не заплатят, мы подадим в суд
Синонимический ряд:1. short (adj.) deficient; inadequate; insufficient; scant; scanty; scarce; scrimpy; short; shy; skimpy; slender; unsufficient; wanting2. deficiency (noun) defect; deficiency; fault; flaw; foible; frailty; imperfection; infirmity; shortcoming; vice; weakness3. failure (noun) abortion; defeat; downfall; failure; miscarriage4. breaking (verb) breaking; busting; crashing; folding; ruining5. failing (verb) collapsing; failing; fall through; flunking; go under; malfunctioning6. give out (verb) break down; conk out; give out; run out7. giving out (verb) giving out; running out8. neglecting (verb) blinking at; blinking away; defaulting; discounting; disregarding; eliding; forgetting; ignoring; missing; neglecting; omitting; overleaping; overlooking; passing; passing by; passing over; slighting; sloughing over; slurring over9. washing out (verb) washing out10. wasting (verb) declining; deteriorating; dwindling; fading; flagging; languishing; shrinking; waning; wasting; wasting away; weakening -
3 blowing
1. n дуновение2. n дыхание, сопение3. n разг. хвастовство4. n откладывание яиц мухами5. n дутьё6. n сдувание, обдувание7. n просачивание, утечка8. n фонтанирование9. n выдуваниеsoil blowing — выдувание почвы, ветровая эрозия, дефляция
10. n дефект11. a ветреный12. n цветение13. n расцвет14. a цветущийСинонимический ряд:1. movement of air (adj.) blasting; blustering; breathing; fanning; gasping; movement of air; panting; puffing; whisking2. moving in air (adj.) drifting; flapping; fluttering; flying; moving in air; straining; streaming; waving; whipping3. blossoming (verb) blooming; blossoming; burgeoning; efflorescing; flowering4. boasting (verb) boasting; bragging; crowing; gasconading; mouthing; prating; vaunting5. fanning (verb) fanning; ruffling; winding; winnowing6. firing (verb) blasting; blow up; bursting; detonating; exploding; firing; go off; touch off7. gasping (verb) flowing; gasping; heaving; huffing; panting; puffing8. treating (verb) setting up; standing; treating9. wasting (verb) blundering away; casting away; consuming; dissipating; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fooling away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; rioting away; squandering; throwing away; trifling away; wasting -
4 consuming
a всепоглощающийconsuming ambition — честолюбие, снедающее человека
Синонимический ряд:1. gripping (adj.) absorbing; engrossing; enthralling; gripping; monopolizing2. immoderate (adj.) devastating; exhausting; harmful; immoderate; wasteful3. absorbing (verb) absorbing; engrossing; monopolising; monopolizing; preoccupying; sewing up4. eating (verb) devouring; eating; eating up; feeding on; ingesting; partaking; partaking of; taking5. polishing off (verb) polishing off; punishing; putting away; putting down; shifting; swilling6. spending (verb) depleting; draining; exhausting; expending; finishing; going; play out; run through; running through; spending; use up; using up; washing up7. swallowing (verb) consuming; devouring; dispatching; eat up; put away; swallowing8. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; dissipating; 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 -
5 declining
1. a заходящий; меркнущий2. a преклонныйdeclining years — преклонный возраст, закат дней
3. a начинающий засыхать4. a клонящийся к упадкуdeclining industries — отрасли промышленности, находящиеся в кризисном состоянии
5. a исчезающийСинонимический ряд:1. dying (adj.) decaying; disappearing; disintegrating; dying; ebbing; fading; vanishing2. deteriorating (verb) degenerating; deteriorating; disintegrating; retrograding; rotting; worsening3. disapproving (verb) disapproving; dismissing; refusing; rejecting; reprobating; repudiating; spurning; turn down; turning down4. falling (verb) descending; dropping; fall off; falling5. setting (verb) dipping; going down; setting; sinking6. wasting (verb) fading; failing; flagging; languishing; waning; wasting; weakening7. from higher to lower (other) bottomward; descending; down; downhill; downward; downwardly; forward; from higher to lower; headlong -
6 fading
n радио затухание, федингСинонимический ряд:1. declining (adj.) curtailing; declining; dwindling; growing dimmer; hazy; obscure; paling; temporary; withering2. decline (noun) abatement; decline; ebb; sinking; slack; way3. dulling (verb) dimming; dulling; muddying; paling; tarnishing4. dying (verb) dying; fade out5. melting (verb) dispersing; dissipating; dissolving; melting; scattering6. vanishing (verb) clearing; disappearing; evanescing; evaporating; vanishing7. wasting (verb) declining; deteriorating; failing; flagging; languishing; waning; wasting; weakening -
7 waning
1. n затухание; отступание2. n ущерб3. a убывающий; ослабевающий; снижающийся; сокращающийся; затухающийСинонимический ряд:1. decline (noun) decay; declination; decline; deterioration; ebbing; failure; loss2. abating (verb) abating; dying; dying away or dieing away; dying down or dieing down; ease off; easing off; ebbing; fall off; falling; lapsing; let up; letting up; lulling; moderating; relenting; slackening; subsiding3. wasting (verb) declining; deteriorating; dwindling; fading; failing; flagging; languishing; shrinking; wasting; wasting away; weakening -
8 flagging
1. n маркировка, разметка2. n мощение плитняком3. n плитняк4. n мостовая или тротуар из плитняка5. n сникание, обвисание6. n ослабление, уменьшение7. a сникающий, свисающий8. a слабый, ослабевший9. a уменьшающийся; затухающийСинонимический ряд:1. slow (adj.) dilatory; dragging; laggard; lagging; slow; slow-paced; tardy2. flagging (verb) drooping; flagging; sagging; swagging; wilting3. signaling or signalling (verb) gesturing; motioning; signaling or signalling; signalizing; signing4. signalling (verb) semaphoring; signalling5. wasting (verb) declining; deteriorating; fading; failing; languishing; waning; wasting; weakening -
9 missing
1. n собир. без вести пропавшие2. n собир. отсутствующие3. a недостающий; отсутствующий; потерявшийсяthere is a page missing, a page is missing — здесь недостаёт страницы
4. a пропавший без вестиСинонимический ряд:1. absent (adj.) absent; away; deficient; disappeared; forfeited; gone; irrevocable; lacking; lost; omitted; passed; removed; wanting2. missing (verb) miscarrying; misfiring; missing3. misunderstanding (verb) misapprehending; misunderstanding4. neglecting (verb) blinking at; blinking away; discounting; disregarding; eliding; failing; forgetting; ignoring; neglecting; omitting; overleaping; overlooking; passing; passing by; passing over; slighting; sloughing over; slurring over5. wasting (verb) losing; wasting -
10 deteriorating
ухудшение; порчаСинонимический ряд:1. sinking (verb) declining; degenerating; descending; disintegrating; retrograding; sinking; worsening2. turning (verb) break down; decaying; decomposing; mouldering; rotting; spoiling; turning3. wasting (verb) fading; failing; flagging; languishing; waning; wasting; weakening4. becoming different (other) altering; becoming different; changing; changing color; degenerating; developing; growing; metamorphosing; shrinking -
11 drivelling
a несущий околёсицу, чепуху; выживший из умаhe is a drivelling idiot — он совсем выжил из ума, он несёт дикий бред
Синонимический ряд:1. babbling (verb) babbling; blabbering; blathering; prating; prattling; twaddling2. drooling (verb) dribbling; drooling; salivating; slavering; slobbering3. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; consuming; dissipating; dribbling away; fooling away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; rioting away; squandering; throwing away; trifling away; wasting -
12 dissipating
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 -
13 languishing
1. a томный, печально-нежный, меланхоличный, сентиментальный2. a слабый, слабеющий, вялый3. a медлительныйСинонимический ряд:1. ill (adj.) ailing; feeble; ill; indisposed; infirm; sick; sickly; unwell; weak2. languid (adj.) die-away; enervated; lackadaisical; languid; languorous; limp; listless; phlegmatic; spiritless3. grieving (noun) grieving; lamentation; lamenting; mourning; sorrowing4. pining (verb) languishing; pining; withering5. wasting (verb) declining; deteriorating; fading; failing; flagging; waning; wasting; weakening -
14 ravaging
разорять; разорениеСинонимический ряд:1. wasting (adj.) consumptive; desolating; wasting2. plunder (noun) depredation; despoilment; looting; piracy; plunder; theft3. depredating (verb) depredating; desecrating; desolating; despoiling; devastating; devouring; harrying; ravaging; scourging; spoiling; spoliating; stripping; wasting4. sacking (verb) harrowing; looting; pillaging; plundering; raping; sacking -
15 shirking
уклоняться; уклонение; уклоняющийсяСинонимический ряд:1. wasting time (adj.) evading; goofing off; letting down; letting up; loafing; putting in time; slacking; slowing down; wasting time2. dodging (verb) dodging; ducking; fencing; parrying; sidestepping3. lounging (verb) idling; lazing; loafing; loitering; lounging4. neglecting (verb) disregarding; neglecting5. sneaking (verb) creeping; gliding; lurking; pussyfooting; skulking; sliding; slinking; slipping; sneaking; stealing -
16 weakening
1. a ослабляющий2. a слабеющийСинонимический ряд:1. decline (noun) declination; decline; deterioration; ebbing; failure2. wearing down (noun) abrasion; attrition; disintegration; erosion; friction; grinding away; rubbing away; wearing away; wearing down3. failing (verb) declining; deteriorating; dwindling; fading; failing; flagging; languishing; shrinking; waning; wasting; wasting away4. watering (verb) attenuating; cutting; diluting; thinning; watering5. weakening (verb) attenuating; blunting; crippling; debilitating; disabling; enervating; enfeebling; sapping; undermining; undoing; unnerving; weakening6. yielding (verb) ease off; relenting; slackening; softening; yielding -
17 waste
1. n растрачивание, ненужная или излишняя трата; расточительство2. n потери, убыль; ущерб, убытокwaste of fuel — потеря топлива; перерасход топлива
3. n юр. повреждение, порча; небрежное отношение4. n отходы; обрезки, обрывки выжимки5. n концы, обтирочный материалwaste end — конец, отрезаемый в отходы
cotton waste — концы, обтирочный материал
6. n текст. угар; очёски; рваньthread waste — путанка, рвань пряжи
7. n металлический лом, скрап8. n полигр. макулатура; лишние листыpaper waste — бумажный брак; макулатура; отходы бумаги
9. n утильutility waste — утильсырье; утиль; отбросы
10. n мусор; отбросы11. n сточные воды12. n физиол. выделения13. n износ, изнашивание14. n потеря веса, исхудание15. n уменьшение; упадок16. n пустыня17. n пустынное пространствоa waste of waters — пустыня моря; морской простор
18. n пустошь, пустырь; бросовая земляwaste land — пустующий участок земли; пустошь
19. n юр. бесхозная земля20. n горн. пустая породаwaste pile — отвал породы, террикон
21. n геол. материал, уносимый потоком в мореlevel of waste removal — степень извлечения загрязняющих веществ; степень очистки сточных вод
22. a пустынный; незаселённый; невозделанный; непроизводительный, неплодородный; засушливый23. a опустошённыйto lay waste — опустошать, разорять
24. a излишний, ненужный; напрасный25. a негодный; бракованный26. a тех. отработанный27. v расточать, растрачивать, непроизводительно расходовать, напрасно тратить; терятьactor wasted on provincial audiences — актёр, загубивший свой талант в провинциальных театрах
run to waste — тратиться непроизводительно; тратиться попусту
28. v пропадать попусту; растрачиваться без пользы29. v упускать30. v опустошать; разорять; портить; разрушатьlay waste — опустошать; опустошить
31. v юр. портить арендованное имущество32. v истощаться, иссякать, приходить к концу33. v изнурять, истощатьframe wasted by disease — тело, истощённое болезнью
34. v чахнуть, умиратьto waste away, to pine away — чахнуть
35. v редк. идти, течь36. v амер. сл. избить до полусмерти37. v амер. сл. убить, уничтожить38. v амер. сл. спорт. терять в весе; сгонять весСинонимический ряд:1. barren (adj.) barren; desert; deserted; desolate; uninhabited; wild2. devastated (adj.) decayed; destroyed; devastated; ghost; laid waste; ravaged; ruined; sacked3. useless (adj.) extra; superfluous; unused; useless4. badland (noun) badland; barren; desert; wasteland; wild; wild land; wilderness; wildness5. devastation (noun) decay; decline; destruction; devastation; diminution; dissipation; loss; ruin; spoliation6. extravagance (noun) extravagance; extravagancy; lavishness; overdoing; prodigality; profligacy; squander; unthrift; wastefulness7. refuse (noun) debris; dreck; garbage; junk; kelter; litter; offal; outsweepings; refuse; riffraff; rubbish; spilth; sweepings; swill; trash8. blow (verb) blow; blunder; blunder away; cast away; consume; dissipate; dribble away; drivel; expend; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; misspend; muddle away; potter away; prodigalize; riot away; spend; squander; throw away; trifle away9. demolish (verb) demolish; destroy; devastate10. erode (verb) decay; diminish; dwindle; erode; reduce; wear away; wear down11. fail (verb) decline; deteriorate; fade; fail; flag; languish; wane; weaken; wither12. indulge (verb) indulge; lavish; splurge13. miss (verb) lose; miss14. ravage (verb) deflower; depredate; desecrate; desolate; despoil; devast; devour; harry; havoc; lay waste; pillage; plunder; ravage; ruin; sack; scourge; spoil; spoliate; stripАнтонимический ряд:abstain; acquire; augment; collect; conserve; develop; enrich; erect; establish; flourish; furnish; gain; get; preserve; thrift -
18 losing
1. n потеря, утрата, лишение; проигрышlosing the sight of — теряющий из виду; потеря из виду
losing sight of — теряющий из виду; потеря из виду
2. n проигрыш; потеря3. a проигрышныйСинонимический ряд:1. loss (noun) loss; mislaying; misplacement; misplacing2. depriving (verb) bereaving; depriving; disinheriting; dispossessing; divesting; ousting; robbing3. dropping (verb) dropping; forfeiting; losing out; sacrificing4. mislaying (verb) mislaying; misplacing5. missing (verb) missing; wasting6. ridding (verb) clearing; ridding; shaking off; unburdening7. shaking (verb) eluding; evading; shaking; slipping; throw off; throwing off -
19 spoiling
1. порча2. портить; порча; портящийСинонимический ряд:1. willful destruction (noun) defacement; demolition; destruction of property; disfiguration; marring; mutilation; spoliation; vandalism; willful destruction2. babying (verb) babying; cater to; catering to; coddling; cosseting; humoring; indulging; mollycoddling; overindulging; pampering3. decaying (verb) break down; breaking down; corrupting; crumbling; decaying; decomposing; deteriorating; disintegrating; moldering; mouldering; putrefying; rotting; tainting; turning4. fumbling (verb) blundering; boggling; botching; bungling; fumbling; mess up; mishandling; mismanaging; muck up; muddling; muffing5. injuring (verb) blemishing; damaging; harming; hurting; impairing; injuring; marring; prejudicing; tarnishing; vitiating6. raping (verb) defiling; forcing; outraging; raping; ravishing; violating7. ravaging (verb) depredating; desecrating; desolating; despoiling; devastating; devouring; harrying; pillaging; ravaging; sacking; scourging; spoliating; stripping; wasting -
20 devouring
поглощать; поглощающийСинонимический ряд:1. gluttonous (adj.) carnivorous; gluttonous; greedy; insatiable; omnivorous; ravenous; starved; voracious2. overwhelming (adj.) consuming; excessive; intense; overwhelming; powerful3. eating (verb) consuming; eating; exhausting; feeding on; ingesting; partaking; partaking of; taking; using up4. eating up (verb) dispatching; eating up; polishing off5. feasting (verb) feasting; relishing6. ravaging (verb) depredating; desecrating; desolating; despoiling; devastating; harrying; pillaging; ravaging; sacking; scourging; spoiling; spoliating; stripping; wasting7. swallowing (verb) consuming; eat up; put away; swallowing
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