Letter: a
- abort, abandon, belay, cancel, cease, close, conclude, cut it out, desist, determine, discontinue, drop it, end, finish, finish up, give over
- abortion, birth, dud, fiasco, freak, miscarriage, misfire, monster, monstrosity, prevention, termination
- abortive attempt, dud, miscarriage, misfire
- abortive, barren, bootless, failed, failing, fruitless, futile, immature, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, lame, miscarried, miscarrying, of no effect, otiose
- abound with, abound, bristle with, clutter, crawl with, creep with, crowd, jam, multiply, pack, swarm, swarm with, teem, throng
- abound, abound with, be alive with, bristle with, burst with, clutter, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crowded, filled, flourish, flow, gush, jam
- abounding in riches, affluent, comfortable, fat, flush, independent, loaded, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, prosperous, rich, warm, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do
- abounding, abundant, affluent, alive, ample, aplenty, bottomless, bountiful, copious, diffuse, effuse, epidemic, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile
- about ship, back and fill, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course
- about the bush, beg the question, dodge, duck, equivocate, fence, hedge, hem and haw, parry, pull back, pussyfoot, put off, recoil, sheer off, shift, shrink
- about to be, approaching, at hand, brewing, close, coming, forthcoming, future, immediate, imminent, impending, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the wind, in view
- about, again, aimlessly, all but, all over, all round, almost, along toward, alongside, any which way, anyhow, approximately, apropos, apropos of, around, as for
- about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, afterthought, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, avert, backing, backsliding, backup, betterment
- about-turn, backing, backup, reversal, reverse, reversion, right-about-face, turnabout, turnaround
- above all that, Olympian, aloof, chilly, cool, distant, offish, remote, standoffish
- above all, a fortiori, all the more, chiefly, dominantly, especially, even, ever so, first of all, in chief, in the main, indeed, mainly, more than ever, mostly, never so
- above and beyond, above, besides, beyond, over, over and above, past
- above suspicion, innocent, irreproachable, pure, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unobjectionable
- above water, all clear, all straight, at anchor, clear, free and clear, high and dry, in harbour, in safety, in the clear, on, out of danger, out of debt, past danger, solvent, terra firma
- above, a cut above, above all, above and beyond, additionally, again, ahead, all included, aloft, aloof, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so
- aboveboard, artless, authentic, before one, face to face, fair and square, forthright, four-square, genuine, good-faith, in broad daylight, in open court, in plain sight, in plain view, in public, in public view
- aboveground, alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, conscious, enlivened, existent, live, living, quick, viable, vital
- abracadabra, conjuration, gibberish, hocus-pocus, incantation, jargon, magic, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, mummery, open sesame
- abrade, abate, ablate, abstract, atomize, bark, bate, beat, blemish, bloody, bother, bray, break, bug, burn, chafe
- abrasion, ablation, abrasive, abstraction, atomization, attrition, beating, blemish, break, buffing, burn, burnishing, chafe, chafing, check, chip
- abrasive, ablation, ablative, abrasion, aluminium oxide, attrition, auto polish, buffing, burnish, burnishing, chafe, chafing, corundum, crocus, dressing, emery
- abreaction, catharsis, outlet, psychodrama, purgation
- abreast of, briefed, educated, enlightened, informed, posted, primed, trained, up on, well-versed
- abreast, abeam, acquainted, alongside, au fait, beside, by, coextensively, contemporary, conversant, informed, red-hot, side-by-side, up, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute
- abridge, abbreviate, abstract, bereave, bleed, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, boil down, bowdlerize, brief, cancel, capsule, capsulize, censor, clip
