- Battologize
- Battologize Bat*tol"o*gize (b[a^]t*t[o^]l"l[-o]*j[imac]z), v. t. To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. --Sir T. Herbert. [1913 Webster]
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Battologize
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battologize — /beuh tol euh juyz /, v., battologized, battologizing. v.t. 1. to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively. v.i. 2. (of writing or speaking) to repeat words, phrases, etc., to an excessive and tiresome degree. Also, esp. Brit.,… … Universalium
battologize — /beuh tol euh juyz /, v., battologized, battologizing. v.t. 1. to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively. v.i. 2. (of writing or speaking) to repeat words, phrases, etc., to an excessive and tiresome degree. Also, esp. Brit.,… … Useful english dictionary
Diffuseness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Diffuseness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 diffuseness diffuseness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 amplification amplification &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 dilating dilating &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 verbosity verbosity verbiage … English dictionary for students
fill — Synonyms and related words: abide by, accommodate, act up to, adhere to, admit, advise, afford, allay, answer, assimilate, attend to, bag, bar, barrel, battologize, be enfeoffed of, be faithful to, be possessed of, be seized of, bellyful,… … Moby Thesaurus
go over — Synonyms and related words: apostacize, apostatize, autopsy, battologize, be blooded, be successful, bolt, bone, break away, canvass, catch on, change sides, check, check out, check over, check up on, click, come off, con, connect, contemplate,… … Moby Thesaurus
go through — Synonyms and related words: battologize, be exposed to, be subjected to, beat the bushes, benumb, bite, blow, bring off, budget, burrow, carry into effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, chill, come through, cost, cost … Moby Thesaurus
iterate — Synonyms and related words: battologize, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, ingeminate, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, renew, reprint, reprise, resay, restate,… … Moby Thesaurus
pad — Synonyms and related words: Domesday Book, abate, abiding place, abode, account book, address, address book, adversaria, aegis, air mattress, album, allay, alleviate, ambler, ambulate, anesthetize, ankle, annual, appease, appointment calendar,… … Moby Thesaurus
practice — Synonyms and related words: Gedankenexperiment, MO, accordance, acquittal, acquittance, act, acting, action, actions, activism, activity, acts, actually, addition, address, adherence, affectation, agency, air, algorithm, application, apprentice,… … Moby Thesaurus
recapitulate — Synonyms and related words: abbreviate, abridge, abstract, add up, battologize, bob, boil down, capsulize, cast up, cipher up, clip, compress, condense, contract, count up, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, detail … Moby Thesaurus
