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Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
1. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] something done (usually as opposed to something said).
Synonyms
- choice
- civility
- taking
- prohibition
- reference
- vampirism
- selection
- achievement
- transgression
- pickings
- thing
- carrying into action
- accenting
- application
- bruxism
- human action
- stupefaction
- accomplishment
- alienation
- engagement
- act
- destabilisation
- saving
- destabilization
- execution
- change
- course
- fetch
- consultation
- swordplay
- aggression
- option
- arrival
- play
- pick
- reverence
- jump-start
- hostility
- course of action
- economy
- transfusion
- forbiddance
- interaction
- benignity
- playing
- politeness
- inhibition
- human activity
- resistance
- opposition
- accentuation
- kindness
- jumpstart
- deed
- performance
- carrying out
- res gestae
- employment
- beatification
Antonyms
- stabilization
- disappearance
- activity
- active
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
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- dissatisfaction
- satisfaction
- liquefaction
- transaction
- subtraction
- extraction
- distraction
- contraction
- abstraction
- retraction
- infraction
- diffraction
- classaction
- telaction
- interaction
- exaction
- attraction
- traction
- reaction
- inaction
- fraction
- faction
2. police
noun. ['pəˈliːs'] the force of policemen and officers.
Synonyms
- police officer
- secret police
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- constabulary
- Europol
- force
- gendarmery
- SS
- RCMP
- posse
- Mutawa
- law
- Mutawa'een
- posse comitatus
- personnel
- police force
- gendarmerie
- New Scotland Yard
- Scotland Yard
- Schutzstaffel
- European Law Enforcement Organisation
- Mounties
- officer
- policeman
Antonyms
- pull
- attract
- centripetal force
- repulsion
Etymology
- police (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
- politia (Latin)
3. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] a military engagement.
Synonyms
- EW
- sortie
- police action
- battle
- encirclement
- engagement
- sally
- saber rattling
- defense
- defence
- warfare
- group action
- defensive measure
- conflict
- amphibious landing
- military action
- resistance
- blockade
- electronic warfare
- sabre rattling
- fight
Antonyms
- hold
- engage
- requisition
- confine
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
4. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] the state of being active.
Synonyms
- swing
- eruption
- state
- behaviour
- eructation
- behavior
- operation
- play
- activity
- agency
- overdrive
- extravasation
- hum
- active
- activeness
Antonyms
- inactivity
- inactiveness
- inaction
- disunion
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
5. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
Synonyms
- materialization
- sorption
- rigidifying
- pair creation
- natural action
- selection
- oxygenation
- extinction
- curing
- opacification
- dielectrolysis
- release
- softening
- magnetisation
- chemical change
- process
- pair production
- fossilization
- coagulation
- desorption
- distillation
- filtration
- materialisation
- magnetic induction
- natural selection
- stiffening
- chemical process
- stimulation
- antiredeposition
- concretion
- physical process
- diffusion
- set
- rigidification
- acidification
- geologic process
- inactivation
- chromatography
- drift
- demagnetization
- geological process
- curdling
- ion exchange
- synergy
- phase change
- leach
- phase transition
- natural process
- ecesis
- precession of the equinoxes
- decay
- centrifugation
- succession
- ionisation
- leaching
- transpiration
- state change
- survival of the fittest
- vitrification
- oscillation
- solidification
- soak
- soaking
- ionophoresis
- aeration
- effervescence
- condensation
- sericulture
- electrophoresis
- disintegration
- cataphoresis
- physical change
- scattering
- synergism
- nuclear reaction
- survival
- absorption
- soakage
- ecological succession
- fossilisation
- clotting
- source
- activity
- distillment
- magnetization
- hardening
- flocculation
- radiation
- formation
- chemical action
- temperature change
- establishment
- sink
- solidifying
- ionization
- transduction
- demagnetisation
- pair formation
- dissolution
- capture
- saltation
- flow
- feedback
- adiabatic process
- extraction
Antonyms
- sink
- source
- ride
- inactivation
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
6. police
verb. ['pəˈliːs'] maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol.
Synonyms
- guard
Antonyms
- centrifugal force
- adduct
Etymology
- police (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
- politia (Latin)
7. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism.
Synonyms
- keyboard
- movement
- gunlock
- slide action
- key
- action mechanism
- piano action
- gun
- pump action
- firing mechanism
Antonyms
- evolution
- increment
- irreversible process
- reversible process
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
8. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong.
Synonyms
- counterclaim
- custody case
- lis pendens
- legal action
- criminal prosecution
- prosecution
- proceedings
- proceeding
- test case
- antitrust case
- test suit
- legal proceeding
- civil action
Antonyms
- spell
- birth
- block
- recall
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
9. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] the trait of being active and energetic and forceful.
Antonyms
- increase
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
10. action
noun. ['ˈækʃən'] the series of events that form a plot.
Antonyms
- devolution
Etymology
- accion (Middle English (1100-1500))
- action (Old French (842-ca. 1400))