deep six

deep six
Synonyms and related words:
abandon, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial at sea, burial chamber, burial mound, burying, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, castaway, castoff, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, chuck, cist, cist grave, cortege, cromlech, crypt, dead march, dice, dirge, discard, discarding, disposal, dispose of, ditch, dokhma, dolmen, dump, dumping, eighty-six, eliminate, elimination, funeral, funeral procession, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, grave, house of death, jettison, jilt, junk, junking, last home, last post, long home, low green tent, low house, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, muffled drum, mummy chamber, narrow house, ossuarium, ossuary, part with, passage grave, pit, pyramid, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, reliquary, removal, remove, resting place, scrap, scrapping, sepulcher, shaft grave, shrine, slough, stupa, taps, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throwaway, tomb, tope, toss overboard, tower of silence, tumulus, vault

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Deep Six — (album) Deep Six Album par Divers artistes Sortie Mars 1986 Enregistrement Août septembre 1985 Genre(s) Rock indépendant Grunge Producteur(s) Chris Hanzsek, Tina Casale …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Deep Six — Kompilationsalbum von Various Artists Veröffentlichung 1985 Label C/Z Records Format LP, CD …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Deep Six — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Deep Six Álbum recopilatorio de Varios Artistas Publicación Marzo de 1986 Grabación Agosto a Septiembre 1985 …   Wikipedia Español

  • deep-six — v. t. 1. to discard in a deep body of water; also used figuratively, to discard contemptuously. Syn: deep six, give it the deep six. [WordNet 1.5] 2. to throw from a boat into the water. Syn: deep six, throw overboard. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • deep-six — deep sixes, deep sixing, deep sixed VERB To deep six something means to get rid of it or destroy it. [mainly AM, INFORMAL] [V n] I d simply like to deep six this whole project …   English dictionary

  • deep-six — (someone/something) American, informal to get rid of someone or something. They want to deep six the project because it s costing too much money …   New idioms dictionary

  • deep-six — /deep siks /, v.t. Slang. 1. to throw overboard. 2. to get rid of; abandon; discard. 3. to reject, negate, or ruin: The team deep sixed the manager s attempt to call Sunday practice. [1950 55; v. use of DEEP SIX] * * * …   Universalium

  • deep six — (v.) discard, 1940s, originally from nautical slang, perhaps from earlier underworld noun sense of the grave (1929), perhaps a reference to the usual grave depth of six feet …   Etymology dictionary

  • deep-six — [dēp′siks′] Slang n. [from the custom of burial at sea in at least six fathoms] 1. Archaic burial at sea 2. a discarding or disposing of something vt. to get rid of, as by throwing overboard …   English World dictionary

  • deep six — v [T] AmE informal to decide not to use something such as a plan …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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