jade

jade
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n
nephrite, jadeite, jadestone, gemstone.
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n
1. hack, nag, padnag, crock, rosinante, whistler, roarer, Inf. bagabones or rackabones, Inf. rip, Sl. skate, Chiefly U.S. Sl. plug, Chiefly Brit. Sl. screw, (usu. a race horse) Sl. stiff.
2. hag, crone, witch, beldam, quean, harridan, Sl. bitch, Sl. old bag, Sl. old battle-ax; hussy, vixen, shrew; wench, trull, drab, baggage, loose woman, woman of easy virtue, pickup, Sl. chippy, Sl. floozy, Sl. broad, tart; prostitute, whore, harlot, strumpet, trollop, cocotte, scarlet woman, Archaic. doxy; call girl, streetwalker, Sl. hustler, Sl. hooker.
v
3. exhaust, enervate, wear out, wear down, do in; tire, weary, fatigue, Inf. tucker out; overwork, overtask, overtax; get tired, grow weary, flag, droop, wilt, burn out, Inf. peter out, Sl. poop out.
4. cloy, pall, glut, gorge; sate, satiate, slake, allay; have enough, have one's fill, have had it, have all one can stand or take, Inf. have a bellyful, Inf. be fed up, Inf. have it up to here, Sl. have a snootful.

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