played out



all in, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, burned-out, bushed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, devitalized, disabled, dog-tired, dog-weary,

   illicit business - anarchy, anomie, ballot-box stuffing, cheat, cheating, cozenage, criminality, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, fishy transaction, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence,

   taffeta - corduroy, cotton, fabric, nylon ,

   sea-maid - Davy Jones, Neptune, deity, god, goddess, mermaid, naiad, nix, siren, water sprite ,

   on the shelf - abandoned, abjured, antiquated, antique, archaic, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, out,

   teasing - aggravating, alluring, annoying, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bantering, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, blandishment, booing, bothering, bothersome, buttonholing,

   berate - abuse, bark at, bawl out, blacken, castigate, chew out, chide, excoriate, execrate, fulminate against, harangue, jaw, load with reproaches, objurgate, rag,

   signalize - adorn, approve, argue, attest, beat the drum, bespeak, bestow honour upon, betoken, blow the trumpet, breathe, celebrate, commemorate, confer distinction on, connote, demonstrate,

   rafts - batch, deal, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mess, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, pot, raft, sight,

   thermometer - calorimeter, clinical thermometer, glass, mercury, pyrometer, thermocouple, thermostat ,

   compulsively - anally, automatically, complaisantly, compliantly, compulsorily, conventionally, flexibly, imperatively, imperiously, instinctively, involuntarily, mechanically, obediently, pedantically, pliantly,