Phrasal: alternatives and connections

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which…

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; pap…

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

To give the force or form of an adverb to.

In the manner of an adverb.

a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or f…

To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appea…

the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "‘faster’ is the comparative of the adjective ‘fast’"; "‘less famous’ is the comparati…

the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "‘faster’ is the comparative of the adjective ‘fast’"; "‘less famous’ is the comparati…

The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, lit…

A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many E…

(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…

a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…

Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.

To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, throu…

A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or loca…