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work done. 19 never mind. ignore, disregard, forget, pay no<br />

attention to, do not think twice about, do not give a second<br />

thought to, erase or obliterate or cancel from the mind, slough<br />

off: Never mind what that naughty boy calls you!<br />

minder n. 1 child-minder, babysitter, sitter, nanny, nurse, governess:<br />

The minder will put the children to bed. 2 bodyguard, escort,<br />

protector: Arthur hired an ex-fighter as his minder.<br />

mindful adj. Often, mindful of. aware, alert, attentive to, alive,<br />

conscious, heedful, conscientious, watchful, vigilant, on the<br />

qui vive, on the lookout, circumspect, cautious: I am ever<br />

mindful of the way you like things done. She was always mindful<br />

of keeping the plants well watered.<br />

mindless adj. 1 stupid, asinine, thick, thickheaded, obtuse, idiotic,<br />

imbecilic, moronic, thoughtless, witless, senseless, brainless,<br />

feeble-minded, fatuous, addle-brained, addle-pated,<br />

feather-brained, Colloq Brit gormless: Many of the programmes<br />

on television are mindless twaddle. 2 inattentive, unthinking,<br />

thoughtless, unaware: He plunged into the pool, mindless of any<br />

of the perils that awaited him.<br />

mine<br />

n. 1 pit, excavation, lode, vein; colliery, coalfield: My<br />

father worked in a mine from the age of 14. 2 source,<br />

mother-lode, vein, store, storehouse, supply, deposit,<br />

depository or depositary, repository, reserve, hoard, treasure<br />

trove, reservoir, well-spring; abundance, fund, gold-mine,<br />

wealth, treasury: This encyclopedia is a rich mine of<br />

information.<br />

--v. 3 excavate, dig, quarry, extract, scoop out or up, remove,<br />

unearth; derive, extract, draw: He claims to have mined coal in<br />

Wales and gold in South Africa. Analysis shows this ore was<br />

mined in Pennsylvania. 4 ransack, search, rake through, scour,<br />

scan, read, survey, look through, probe: Several directories<br />

were mined to compile our list of sales prospects.<br />

mingle v. 1 mix, blend, intermingle, commingle, intermix, combine,<br />

amalgamate, merge, compound, marry, join, unite: The stories<br />

cleverly mingle gravity and levity, the mundane and the magical.<br />

There was loud applause, mingled with a few chuckles and gasps.<br />

2 mix, socialize, associate, join, circulate, fraternize,

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