Part 22
make headway. advance, progress, thrive, prosper.
make known. declare, announce, publish, report, proclaim.
make little of. belittle, decry, disparage.
make love to. court, woo, spark.
make out. decipher.
make over, transfer, alienate, convey; remodel, rebuild, reconstruct, revamp.
make peace between, mediate, intercede, reconcile, propitiate, pacify, conciliate.
maker, n. manufacturer, constructor, producer.
makeshift, n. expedient, substitute.
make sport of. deride, ridicule, jeer.
make unfriendly. disaffect, alienate, estrange.
make up. reconcile, adjust, compose, settle; collect, amass, accumulate; supply, complete, provide.
make up for. See make good.
make up to. accost, address, salute, speak to.
make up with. become reconciled.
make up a face. grimace.
make way. advance, proceed, progress.
making, n. construction, fabrication, workmanship, invention.
malady, n. disorder, distemper, ailment, complaint, disease.
malaria, n. miasma, miasm; fever and ague.
malarious, a. malarial, miasmatic.
male, a. masculine; staminate (Bot.).
malice, n. hatred, rancor, malevolence, animosity.
malicious, a. hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant.
malpractice, n. evil practice, misdoing, misbehavior.
maltreat, v. See abuse.
maltreatment, n. See abuse.
mammoth, a. colossal, gigantic, monstrous.
man, n. mortal, person, individual, adult, someone; mankind, humanity; valet; Primates, Anthropidæ. Associated Words: anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthropolite, anthropoid, anthropometry, anthropometric, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, android, manikin, écorché, pithecanthrope, androphobia.
manacle, n. handcuff, fetter, shackle.
manacle, v. handcuff, shackle, restrain, fetter.
manage, v. conduct, administer, supervise, manipulate, superintend, engineer; contrive, husband, economize.
manageable, a. governable, tractable, docile, controllable, sequacious.
management, n. administration, conduct, guidance, regulation, superintendence, direction, procuracy, negotiation, contrivance, intrigue, economy, manipulation.
manager, n. conductor, administrator, superintendent, proctor, comptroller, economist, engineer, director.
managing, a. ruling, directing, managerial.
mandate, n. command, edict, order, injunction, precept.
mandatory, a. directory, commandatory, preceptive.
mandrake, n. mandragora; May apple.
mane, n.Associated Word: roach.
man-eater, n. cannibal, anthropophagite.
man-eating, a. cannibal, anthropophagous.
man-eating, n. cannibalism, anthropophagy.
manège, n. horsemanship, equestrianism; riding school.
maneuver, n. management, ruse, stratagem, artifice, trick, finesse.
maneuver, v. scheme, finesse, plan.
maneuverer, n. strategist, tactician.
manful, a. manly, resolute, brave.
mangel-wurtzel, n. mangold-wurtzel, scarcity-root.
mangle, v. mutilate, maim, dismember, hack; smooth, calender.
mangling, n. mutilation.
mangy, a. scabby, scurvy.
mangy creature. ronion, ronyon.
man-hater, n. misanthrope.
man-hating, a. misanthropic.
manhood, n. maturity, majority, man's estate; manliness, fortitude, resolution, manfulness; virility; humanity, men.
mania, n. madness, insanity, craziness. See insanity.
maniac, n. madman, bedlamite.
maniacal, a. raving, mad, insane, delirious.
manifest, v. show, exhibit, reveal, disclose.
manifest, a. apparent, obvious, patent.
manifestation, n. show, exhibition, revelation, disclosure.
manifold, a. many, various, sundry, diverse, multifarious, multitudinous, multiplex.
manikin, n. dwarf, pygmy, homunculus.
manipulate, v. handle, operate, manage.
manipulation, n. handling, management.
manly, a. manlike, resolute, brave, strong, dignified.
man-midwife, n. obstetrician, accoucheur.
manner, n. mode, method, style, fashion, way; bearing, demeanor, mien, air, carriage, deportment; mannerism, affectation, peculiarity; sort, kind, style; pl. civility, courtesy, politeness.
manners, n. pl. Associated Word: etiquette.
mannish, a. masculine, vigorous, bold. Antonyms: effeminate, feminine.
man of all work. factotum.
man-of-war, n. warship, battleship, cruiser.
mansion, n. palace; manor-house, hall.
man-stealer, n. kidnapper, abductor.
man-stealing, n. kidnapping, abduction.
mantle, n. cape, cloak; pallium; mantel-piece, mantel-shelf.
mantle, v. sparkle, foam, bubble, effervesce.
manual, n. handbook.
manufactory, n. factory, shop.
manufacture, n. making, fabrication, construction.
manufacture, v. make, fabricate, construct.
manufacturing, a. industrial.
manure, n. fertilizer, dung, compost, guano. Associated Word: fire-fanged.
manure, v. fertilize, enrich.
manuscript, n. copy; paleograph (an ancient manuscript).
man worship. anthropolatry.
many, a. various, numerous, sundry, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad, multiple, innumerable.
many-sided, a. versatile; polyhedral, polyhedrical.
many-sidedness, n. versatility.
many-times, adv. frequently, oftentimes, often, repeatedly.
many-ways, adv. variously, multifariously, diversely.
map, n. chart. Associated Words: cartography, cartographer, chorography, chorographer, atlas, hachure, contour line, culture.
map, v. sketch, plan, delineate, picture.
maple, n. Associated Words: aceric, spile.
mar, n. defacement, disfigurement, blemish, injury, defect.
mar, v. deface, damage, injure, impair.
marauder, n. See robber.
marble, n. brocatel (in a literary sense, granite-flint). Associated words: marmoreal, marmorean.
margin, n. confine, border, edge, limit, skirt, brink, rim, brim, verge. Associated Words: emarginate, emargination.
marine, a. maritime, naval, nautical, oceanic.
mariner, n. sailor, seaman.
marionette, n. puppet.
maritime, a. marine, naval, nautical.
mark, v. note, notice, remark, observe, see; indicate, betoken, characterize, stamp, imprint, impress, brand, stigmatize, label.
mark, n. characteristic, impress, impression, stamp, sign, trace, vestige, symptom, token, symbol, indication, brand, stigma; badge, cognizance; trademark, idiograph; target, bull's-eye; preëminence, distinction, prominence, earmark; wheal, weal, whelk.
marked, a. designated, noticeable, conspicuous, notable, salient.
market, n. mart, emporium, exchange, market-place.
marketable, a. salable, vendible. Antonyms: unmarketable, unsalable.
marl, n. greensand.
marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial rites. Antonyms: celibacy, divorce, bachelorhood, maidenhood. Associated Words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiancé, Hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial.
marriageability, n. nubility.
marriageable, a. nubile.
marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium.
marrow, n. medulla, pith.
marrow-bones, n. pl. knees.
marry, v. wed, espouse.
Mars, n. Associated Word: Martian.
marsh, n. swamp, morass, fen, slough, bog, quagmire. See swamp.
marshal, v. arrange, range.
marsh gas. firedamp.
marsh grass. sedge.
marshy, a. boggy, fenny, swampy, sloughy, palustrine, paludine.
mart, n. market, emporium.
martial, a. military.
martinet, n. disciplinarian.
marvel, n. wonder, prodigy; amazement.
marvel, v. wonder.
marvelous, a. wonderful, amazing, stupendous, astonishing.
masculine, a. male; manly, virile, manful. Antonym: feminine.
masculineness, n. masculinity.
mask, n. disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse, feint, blind; domino; maskoid; masquerade; mascaron.
mask, v. disguise, masquerade, veil.
masker, n. masquerader, mummer.
masquerade, n. mask, revel; disguise.
mass, n. aggregate, aggregation, totality, lump, heap, assemblage, collection, accumulation; majority; size, bigness, bulk, dimensions, magnitude; conglomeration, agglomeration.
mass, v. amass, assemble, accumulate, agglomerate, conglomerate.
massacre, n. carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc.
massacre, v. butcher, slaughter.
massage, n. Associated Words: masseuse, masseur, massotherapeutics, massotherapy.
Mass book. missal.
massive, a. ponderous, bulky, immense, huge, cumbersome, massy.
massy, a. massive, compacted.
mast, n. nuts, acorns.
master, n. director, lord, commander, ruler, manager, governor; employer; leader, chief; owner, possessor, proprietor; padrone. Associated Word: dominicide.
master, v. conquer, overpower, subject, subjugate, overcome, subdue, vanquish.
masterful, a. domineering, imperious, arbitrary.
master-hand, n. expert, adept, dabster.
masterly, a. skillful, proficient, adroit, dexterous, finished.
masterpiece, n. masterstroke, _chef-d'œuvre_.
mastery, n. dominion, command, supremacy, superiority, rule, sway, mastership, preëminence, leadership, influence; victory, triumph; acquirement, acquisition, attainment, dexterity, skill.
masturbation, n. onanism, self-abuse, self-pollution.
mat, n. rug; matting; petate.
mat, v. felt together, entangle, twist, interweave, snarl.
match, n. tally, mate, equal, peer; contest, competition, tournament, tourney; lucifer match, locofoco.
match, v. rival, equal, cope with; contend, pit, oppose; tally, correspond, be proportionate; adapt, fit, proportion, comport, harmonize; mate, couple, combine, sort, join.
matchable, a. comparable, proportionable, correspondent, similar.
matchless, a. peerless, incomparable, inimitable, unequalled, transcendent, surpassing.
mate, n. companion, associate, friend, chum, crony, compeer, intimate, partner, colleague; match, equal; assistant, subordinate; checkmate.
mate, v. oppose, cope with, vie with, compete with; match, marry.
material, n. substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple; plasma.
material, a. corporeal, bodily, physical; important, essential, momentous.
materiality, n. corporeity, material existence; importance.
materially, adv. substantially; essentially, vitally.
materia medica. medicines; acology.
matrimonial, a. connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal.
matrimony, n. marriage, wedlock.
matron, n. dame.
matronly, a. elderly, dignified, matronal.
matted, a. tangled, snarled, entangled.
matter, n. substance, material, body; essence, pith, embodiment, elements; importance, significance, moment, consequence, weight, materiality; pus, purulence; manuscript, copy. Associated Words: material, immaterial, materiality, immateriality, atom, molecule, chemistry, hylism, hylotheism, hylopathism, hylogenesis, materialism, physics, somatics, somatology.
matter, v. import, signify, be of importance; maturate, suppurate.
matter-of-fact, a. practical, pragmatical, unimaginative, commonplace, prosaic.
maturate, v. suppurate; mature.
maturation, n. suppuration; maturing.
mature, a. full-grown, ripe, developed, perfect; prepared, finished. Antonyms: See immature.
mature, v. ripen, develop, perfect, season.
maturity, n. development, ripeness, perfection, completion. Antonym: immaturity.
maudlin, a. over-emotional, tearful; tipsy, fuddled, intoxicated.
maul, v. pound, pommel, beat, club, cudgel.
maul, n. beetle, mall.
mauling, n. pounding, beating, clubbing, cudgelling.
maw, n. stomach; craw, crop.
mawkish, a. nauseous, sickening, loathful, disgusting; squeamish, fastidious.
maxim, n. axiom, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, saw, precept.
maybe, adv. perhaps, possibly, peradventure, haply.
Mayflower, n. hawthorn, white thorn; trailing arbutus.
maze, n. perplexity, bewilderment; labyrinth, intricacy.
maze, v. perplex, bewilder, confuse, puzzle.
mazy, a. intricate, labyrinthian, confusing.
mead, n. metheglin, hydromel; meadow, lea.
meadow, n. mead, lea.
meadow mice. Arvicola. Associated Words: arvicoline, arvicolous.
meager, a. poor, emaciated, gaunt; barren, sterile, unproductive, arid.
meal, n. repast.
mealy, a. farinaceous.
mean, v. intend, purpose, design, contemplate; signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate.
mean, a. contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous; obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar; penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous; midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre; intermediate, mediate, intervening; insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor.
mean, n. middle, medium.
meander, v. wind, turn.
meandering, a. winding, tortuous, crooked, serpentine, meandrous.
meaning, n. signification, significance, import, acceptation, intent. Associated Words: lexicology, semasiology.
meaningly, adv. significantly.
meanly, adv. dishonorably, basely, ungenerously.
means, n. property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate; instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility; expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice.
meantime, n. interval, interim, meanwhile.
meantime, adv. meanwhile.
meanwhile, adv. meantime, during the interval.
measles, n. rubeola.
measurable, a. mensurable, computable.
measure, n. gauge, rule; dimensions, capacity, size, extent, degree, limit; quantity, amount; proportion, allotment, share; metre; act, step, means.
measure, v. gauge, mete; appraise, estimate, compute, adjust; allot, mete out, apportion, distribute.
measureless, a. immeasurable.
measurement, n. mensuration; dimensions, size, extent, area, capacity, bulk.
meat, n. flesh (of _animals_). See flesh.
meat pie. mince pie; pasty.
mechanic, n. mechanician, artisan, artificer, handicraftsman, craftsman.
mechanical, a. automatic, involuntary.
mechanician, n. machinist.
medal, n. medallion.
meddle, v. interfere, interpose, intermeddle, obtrude.
meddlesome, a. officious, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, intermeddling.
meddling, n. interference, intrusion, intermeddling.
mediation, n. intercession.
mediator, n. intercessor. See peacemaker.
mediatorial, a. intercessory, mediatory, propitiatory.
medical, a. medicinal, therapeutical, therapeutic, curative.
medicinal, a. medicative, medical, therapeutic.
medicine, n. materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative, corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea; nostrum.
mediocre, a. middling, ordinary, medium, commonplace.
mediocrity, n. commonplaceness, indifference, middle state.
meditate, v. contemplate, muse, ponder, cogitate, reflect, think.
meditation, n. contemplation, musing, cogitation, reflection, thought.
meditative, a. thoughtful, contemplative, reflective.
Mediterranean Sea. Associated Word: Levant.
medium, a. intermediate, middling, mean, average, médiocre.
medium, n. middle; means, instrumentality, agency; menstruum; psychic.
medley, n. mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, potpourri, olio, mélange, farrago.
meed, n. reward, recompense, prize; merit, desert, worth.
meek, a. humble, unassuming, modest, retiring, docile, lowly.
meerschaum, n. magnesite, seafoam, sepiolite.
meet, v. encounter, confront, collide, converge, engage; intercept; assemble, congregate, convene, collect, muster; agree, harmonize, unite; equal, satisfy, fulfill, match. Antonyms: avoid, elude, escape, disperse, scatter.
meet, a. suitable, proper, befitting, seemly, appropriate.
meeting, n. assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, convocation, conference, synod, mall, concourse, gathering, mustering; juncture, convergence, crossing, junction, confluence; encounter; collision, clash; interception; interview; tryst, rendezvous.
melancholia, n. hypochondria, hypochondriasis.
melancholy, n. despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia.
melancholy, a. despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited.
mêlée, n. affray, scuffle, set-to, brawl, fight (hand to hand).
melodious, a. tuneful, harmonious, dulcet, musical, sweet, euphonious, ariose, mellifluous.
melody, n. music; descant, tune, song, air, theme. Antonyms: discord, dissonance.
melt, v. dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale, colliquate.
meltable, a. dissolvable, soluble, liquefiable, fusible.
melted, a. molten.
melting, a. dissolving, thawing; affecting, touching.
melting, n. dissolution, liquefaction, fusion, thawing, inteneration, dissipation, colliquation.
melting-pot, n. crucible.
member, n. part, organ, limb; constituent, component, part.
memento, n. souvenir, keepsake, memorial.
memoir, n. biography, autobiography.
memorandum, n. record, minute, note.
memorial, a. commemorative.
memory, n. remembrance, recollection, reminiscence; retrospection. Antonyms: oblivion, forgetfulness, Lethe, amnesia, ecmnesia. Associated words: mnemonics, mnemonic, mnemonician, mnemotechny, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, immortalize, immemorial, memorable, memorabilia, memorize, remember, amnesic.
menace, n. threat, threatening.
menace, v. threaten.
menacing, a. threatening, minatory.
ménage, n. household, family.
mend, v. repair, patch; improve.
mendacious, a. lying, untruthful, false, deceitful.
mendacity, n. untruthfulness, lying, falsehood, lie, untruth.
mendicant, n. beggar.--a. begging.
mending, n. repairing, patching, restoration; improvement.
menial, a. serving; low, servile.
mental, a. intellectual.
mentality, n. intellectuality.
mentor, n. monitor, counselor, guide.
mentorial, a. admonitory, monitory.
mercantile, a. trading, commercial.
mercenary, a. hired, hireling, purchased; greedy, sordid, avaricious, grasping.
mercenary, n. hireling.
merchandise, n. wares, goods, commodities.
merchant, n. trader, dealer, trafficker, shopkeeper, tradesman.
merchantable, a. salable, vendible, marketable.
merciful, a. pitiful, lenient, clement, compassionate, benignant, indulgent, kind, gracious, forgiving.
merciless, a. unmerciful, remorseless, cruel, pitiless, ruthless, inexorable, implacable.
Mercury, n. Hermes; quicksilver; messenger.
Mercury's staff. caduceus.
mercy, n. clemency, pity, lenity, leniency, lenience, compassion, forgiveness, placability; discretion, disposal; blessing, favor. Antonyms: revenge, implacability, inclemency, incompassion.
mercy seat. propitiatory.
merely, a. purely, absolutely; simply, barely, only.
merge, v. swallow up, absorb, immerse, take in; be swallowed up, be absorbed.
merger, n. absorption.
meridian, n. noon, midday; culmination, zenith, pinnacle, apex. Antonym: nadir.
meridian, a. midday, meridional.
merit, n. desert, worth, meed, worthiness; worth, excellence, goodness; reward; pl. claim, right. Antonym: demerit.
merit, v. deserve, earn.
meritorious, a. worthy, commendable, meedful, deserving.
merriment, n. mirth, gayety, glee, levity, laughter, sportiveness, jocularity.
merry, a. mirthful, gay, jolly, gleeful, jovial, sportive, jocular, bonny.
mesa, n. tableland, plateau.
mesh, n. net, network.
mess, n. rations, food; mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge, jumble, mélange.
message, n. communication, notice, word; telegram, despatch, cablegram.
messenger, n. courier, herald, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, mercury, emissary.
metaphor, n. simile.
meteor, n. fireball, shooting star; bolis, bolide.
meteoric stone. meteorite, aërolite.
methodical, a. systematic, orderly, methodic. Antonyms: immethodical, unsystematic.
meticulous, a. timid, fearful, diffident.
mettle, n. spirit, disposition; pluck, nerve, hardihood, stamina, spirit.
mettled, a. high-spirited, mettlesome, fiery, ardent.
mettlesome, a. spirited, mettled.
mew, v. moult.
mew, n. cage, coop; sea-mew, gull, cob.
miasma, n. malaria.
miaul, n. mew, caterwaul.
midbrain, n. mesencephalon.
midday, n. noon, meridian, noontide.
middle, a. mean, medial; intermediate, intervening.
middle, n. center, midst.
Middle Ages. Associated Words: medieval, medievalism, medievalist, medievals.
middle class. _bourgeoisie_.
middleman, n. factor, go-between, agent, broker, commissioner.
middling, a. mediocre, medium, passable, tolerable, average, so-so, ordinary.
midwife, n. accoucheuse, obstetrician (female).
midwifery, n. obstetrics, tocology.
mien, n. aspect, air, manner, demeanor, appearance, bearing, deportment.
miff, n. pique, pet, tiff, displeasure.
miff, v. displease, vex, offend (slightly).
miffed, a. offended, displeased, piqued, provoked.
might, n. strength, power, force, puissance, potency.
mighty, a. strong, powerful, potent, invincible.
mighty, adv. (Colloq.) very.
migratory, a. roving, wandering, nomadic, unsettled.
Mikado, n. Emperor of Japan.
mild, a. gentle, indulgent, tender, merciful, clement, lenient, bland, demulcent, lenitive, emollient, mitigative. Antonyms: severe, drastic, rigorous, violent, harsh.
mildew, n. mould, mustiness, must, blight.
military, a. martial.
military command. strategy, generalship, tactics, logistics.
military dress. regimentals, uniform.
military rule. stratocracy.
militia, n. troops, military; trainband.
milk, n. Associated Words: emulsion, emulsify, lacteal, lactiferous, lactation milch, lactometer lactic, lactivorous, koumiss, whey, curd, serum, lactage, rennet, clabber, lactifuge, casein, curdle, posset.
milkiness, n. lactescence.
milkmaid, n. dairymaid.
milkman, n. dairyman.
milk room. dairy.
milky, a. lacteal, lactean, emulsive.
Milky Way. Galaxy.
milt, n. spleen.
mimic, n. mime, mimicker, imitator, personator.
mimic, v. personate, ape, imitate, mock.
mimicry, n. mocking; imitation, mimesis.
mince, v. hash.
mind, v. obey, regard; consider, heed, mark, note; purpose, intend, design. Antonyms: disobey, disregard, ignore.
mind, n. intellect, faculties; opinion, judgment; temperament, humor, disposition. Associated Words: mental, mentality, mentally, intellectual, intellectuality, intellectually, psychic, psychical, psychiatry, psychography, psychology, psychologist, menticulture, alienist, alienism, telepathy, telepathic, noemics, nomology, noölogy metaphysics, psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, psychodynamic, psychopathology, psychopathic, psychological, psychopathy, psychosis, noetic, subliminal, _compos mentis, non compos mentis_.
mindful, a. heedful, regardful, observant.
mindless, a. irrational; unmindful, heedless, inattentive.
mingle, v. blend, mix, intermix, amalgamate, intermingle, incorporate; consort, associate, fraternize.
mingling, n. blending, mixture, intermixture, amalgamation.
minister, n. ambassador, envoy, plenipotentiary, delegate: ecclesiastic, parson, divine, rector. See clergyman.
minister, v. administer, serve; officiate.
ministerial, a. clerical; ambassadorial.
ministration, n. officiating, ministry.
ministry, n. ministration; cabinet, administration.
minnow, n. minim, minny.
minny, n. minnow.
minor, a. subordinate, secondary, less, smaller.
minority, n. nonage, pupilage.
minstrel, n. gleeman, bard.
mint, v. coin.
minute, a. little, tiny, microscopic, diminutive; critical, precise, particular, circumstantial.
minute, n. moment; memorandum, record, item, note.
minutiæ, n. pl. details.
miraculous, a. supernatural, hyperphysical, incredible.
mire, n. slough, ooze, mud, slime.
mirror, n. reflector, looking-glass, speculum; cheval glass.
mirror, v. reflect.
mirth, n. merriment, jollity, glee, gayety, fun.
mirthful, a. merry, jolly, gleeful, gay, sportive.
miry, a. oozy, slimy, muddy.
misapply, v. misemploy, pervert, misuse.
miscarriage, n. frustration, failure; abortion.
miscellaneous, a. mixed, diversified, promiscuous, heterogeneous, diverse, multifarious.
miscellany, n. medley, mixture; symposium, anthology.
misdeed, n. offense, misdemeanor.
misdemeanor, n. offense, transgression.
misdoer, n. malefactor, offender, delinquent.
misdoing, n. See wrong-doing.
misemploy, v. pervert, misuse, misapply, prostitute.
misemployment, n. misapplication, misuse, perversion, prostitution.
miser, n. niggard, muckworm, curmudgeon, skinflint, hunks, lickpenny, pinchfist, screw, scrimp.