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Collins Primary Thesaurus

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A crowd is a large number of people watching an event.

audience

The concert audience clapped when the conductor took the stage.

gate

Fifty thousand were there – the biggest gate that United had had all season.

spectators

In the past, the spectators cheered as people were publicly executed.

cruel ADJECTIVE

Cruel people deliberately cause pain or distress to other people or to animals.

callous

The callous emperor made his slaves work their fingers to the bone.

hard-hearted

Hard-hearted Scrooge begrudged giving Cratchit a day off at Christmas.

heartless

The heartless landlord threw the poor widow into the street.

merciless

The merciless sniper picked off his victims one by one with precision.

ruthless

Anyone who disagreed with the ruthless dictator disappeared.

vicious

The vicious crocodile clamped its jaws on the unfortunate swimmer.

crumble VERB

When something crumbles, or you crumble it, it breaks into small pieces.

collapse

Weak foundations caused the apartment block to collapse.

decay

The beam had decayed, bringing the floor above it crashing down.

decompose

Plants, animals and humans begin to decompose when they die.

disintegrate

The agent disintegrated as Morpheus fired his phaser weapon.

cry (1) VERB

When you cry, tears come from your eyes because you are unhappy or hurt.

WORD POWER: This word tends to be used a lot. To make your writing more varied, try to use some of the alternative words suggested here instead.

bawl

The moment the baby’s bottle was put in its mouth it stopped bawling.

blubber

After being refused an ice cream, the toddler blubbered for the next half hour.

shed tears

Dad’s advice is not to shed tears over something that is in the past.

snivel

“Stop snivelling and you might get a lolly,” the girl’s mother snapped.

sob

Milly sobbed her heart out to think that her dog was dead.

weep

After her sisters had left for the ball, Cinderella wept silently as she swept.

cry (2) VERB

If you cry something, you shout it or say it loudly.

WORD POWER: This word tends to be used a lot. To make your writing more varied, try to use some of the alternative words suggested here instead.

bawl
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