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urgeon, flourish, grow, spring up, mushroom, develop: Owing to
the perfect weather, the corn shot up very quickly.
--n. 5 sprout, stem, bud, branch, offshoot, slip, scion,
sucker: If you want fruit, the new shoots have to be pinched
back.
shop n. 1 store, boutique, department store: Would you stop at the
shop and buy some lettuce? 2 workshop, machine shop: Henry
gained experience in operating a lathe at my father's shop.
--v. 3 betray, inform on or against, Slang peach on, rat on,
snitch on, blow the whistle on: The police persuaded Luke to
shop his accomplices in exchange for a lighter sentence. 4 shop
for. buy, purchase, seek, look for, research: I've been
shopping for a new dishwasher.
short adj. 1 small, little, slight, petite, diminutive, wee, tiny,
elfin, minuscule; midget, dwarfish, squat, dumpy, runty, stubby,
stunted, Colloq pint-sized, knee-high to a grasshopper,
sawn-off: Did you know that Queen Victoria was quite short? 2
shortened, brief, concise, compressed, compendious, compact,
pocket, US vest-pocket; abbreviated, abridged, cut: A short
version of the book was published in paperback. 3 laconic,
terse, succinct, pithy, sententious, epigrammatic: He made a
few short remarks that were very much to the point. 4 abrupt,
curt, terse, sharp, blunt, bluff, brusque, sharp, offhand,
gruff, testy, snappish, discourteous, uncivil, impolite: It is
unnecessary to be so short with the staff. 5 direct, straight,
straightforward, short and sweet: In reply to your request for
permission to leave early, the short answer is 'No'. 6 Usually,
short of. deficient (in), lacking (in), needful (of), wanting,
inadequate, shy (of), low (on): The hotel is short of clean
linen because the laundry failed to deliver. 7 brief, limited;
transitory, temporary, short-lived, momentary, quick, transient:
HQ had a short life but a happy one. I'll just make a short stop
in here and will join you in a moment. 8 impecunious,
straitened, pinched, underfunded, poor, penniless, deficient:
I'm a bit short today and wonder if you could lend me some
money? 9 in short supply. rare, scarce, scanty, unplentiful,
meagre, sparse, Colloq chiefly Brit thin on the ground: Good
editors are in short supply these days. 10 short of. before,
failing, excluding, exclusive of, barring, eliminating,