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adj

1. quick, rapid, swift, speedy, express, expeditious, accelerated, Music. mosso; fleet, nimble, light-footed, spry, brisk.

2. wild, dissipated, rakish, unconventional, unrestrained, loose; immoral, wanton, promiscuous, licentious, lecherous, lustful, lewd; libidinious, pleasure-seeking, sybaritic, carnal; intemperate, drunken, sottish; self-indulgent, dissolute, profligate.

3. fastened, tied, tight, taut, knotted; closed, secure, secured, adhering, stationary, immovable, firm, firmly fixed, indissoluble; inextricable, trapped, caught; fortified, resistant, impregnable, impervious, strong, rigid, invulnerable, invincible.

4. loyal, steadfast, devoted, faithful; permanent, enduring, lasting, abiding, durable; unchangeable, ineradicable, sure.

5. pull a fast one

delude, deceive, mislead; Sl. con, bamboozle, hoodwink, cheat, swindle, defraud, trick, put one over on [s.o.].

adv

6. tightly, firmly, securely, fixedly, immovably, tenaciously, closely.

7. quickly, swiftly, speedily, rapidly, hastily, posthaste, expeditiously, with dispatch, Inf. lickety-split.

8. wildly, uncontrollably, recklessly, prodigally, profligately, unrestrainedly, loosely, extravagantly, wantonly.

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v

1. abstain, go hungry, starve, famish; reduce, diet, lose weight, Med. bant; live on air, eat nothing, give up.

n

2. abstinence, starvation, famishment, Psychiatry. anorexia; xerophagy, bread and water, short commons, iron rations; dieting, Med. banting, Med.Bantingism; hunger-strike.

3. fast day, Lent, day of abstinence, day of fasting, Quadragesima; fish-day, meatless day, Friday