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noun
  1. An incision, a notch, or a slight cut made with or as if with a knife: scotch, scratch, slash. See marks
  2. The total number of points made by a contestant, side, or team in a game or contest: tally. See count
  3. A very large number of things grouped together. Used in plural: army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck 1, swarm, throng. See big, group
verb
  1. To gain (a point or points) in a game or contest: post 1, tally. Informal: notch. See do
  2. To evaluate and assign a grade to: grade, mark. See value
  3. To criticize harshly and devastatingly: blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify 1, scathe, scorch, scourge, slap, slash. Informal: roast. Slang: slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See praise
  4. Slang. To succeed in doing: accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, reach, realize. See do
  5. Slang. To do or fare well: boom, flourish, go, prosper, thrive. Idioms: get (or go) somewhere, go great guns, go strong. See thrive

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