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following, escort, guard, attendants, retainers, followers,<br />

trail; staff, court, household: After the duke's coffin came a<br />

train of several hundred hangers-on. 3 line, queue, procession,<br />

succession, string, set, sequence, chain, progression, caravan,<br />

cavalcade, parade, column, file: The baggage train of the<br />

advancing army stretched for miles.<br />

--v. 4 discipline, exercise, tutor, teach, coach, drill,<br />

school, instruct, prepare, educate, edify, guide, bring up,<br />

indoctrinate, rear, raise: We had been trained to put things<br />

away and avoid clutter. 5 work out, exercise, practise: Hannah<br />

is training for the next Olympics.<br />

trait n. feature, characteristic, attribute, quality, peculiarity,<br />

idiosyncrasy, quirk, lineament, mark, property: He has some<br />

unpleasant traits, like spitting when he talks.<br />

traitor n. turncoat, Judas, quisling, betrayer, renegade,<br />

fifth-columnist, US Benedict Arnold, Colloq double-crosser,<br />

snake in the grass, double-dealer, two-timer: Some traitor in<br />

their midst had revealed their plans to the enemy.<br />

traitorous<br />

adj. treacherous, perfidious, seditious, subversive,<br />

insurrectionist, renegade, insurgent, disloyal, deceitful,<br />

untrue, unfaithful, faithless; treasonable, Colloq<br />

double-crossing, double-dealing, two-timing: They identified<br />

the traitorous wretch and hanged him. Consorting with the enemy<br />

is a traitorous act.<br />

trajectory<br />

n. flight path, course, track: The missile has a high<br />

trajectory.<br />

tram n. tramcar, trolley bus, US and Canadian streetcar,<br />

trolley(-car): Most cities with a traffic problem have replaced<br />

trams with buses.<br />

trammel n. 1 Usually, trammels. impediment(s), hindrance(s),<br />

shackle(s), handicap(s), check(s), restriction(s), restraint(s),<br />

curb(s), deterrent(s), constraint(s), hitch(es), snag(s),<br />

(stumbling) block(s), obstacle(s), bar: He managed to avoid the<br />

trammels of domesticity.

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