Thesaurus / be on
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synonyms for be on
- apprehensive
- careful
- cautious
- cognizant
- conscious
- conversant
- knowledgeable
- observant
- respectful
- solicitous
- vigilant
- wary
- watchful
- alert
- alive to
- au courant
- be up on
- cagey
- chary
- conscientious
- heedful
- in the know
- know all the answers
- know ins and outs
- knowing
- observative
- observing
- on one's toes
- on the ball
- on the job
- on to
- plugged in
- regardful
- sensible
- thoughtful
- tuned in
- with eyes peeled
- stretch
- belong
- remain
- spread
- exist
- prevail
- beset
- be
- reach
- extend
- occupy
- be beside
- be buried
- be established
- be even
- be fixed
- be found
- be interred
- be level
- be located
- be placed
- be seated
- be smooth
- have its seat in
- feed
- sip
- consume
- engage
- receive
- ingest
- sample
- savor
- devour
- take
- participate
- divide
- enter into
- be a party to
- be in on
- be into
- get in the act
- have a finger in
- sit in
- sit in on
- take part
- tune in
- represent
- play
- give
- show
- offer
- execute
- produce
- go on
- display
- present
- stage
- exhibit
- ham
- render
- dramatize
- emote
- discourse
- impersonate
- enact
- ham it up
- put on
- tread the boards
- personate
- playact
- act out
- appear as
- bring down the house
- do a number
- do a turn
- perform
- portray
- play
- enact
- represent
- feign
- rehearse
- ham
- personify
- characterize
- dramatize
- pretend
- stooge
- mug
- strut
- emote
- burlesque
- mimic
- mime
- simulate
- impersonate
- star
- parody
- go on
- go over
- ham it up
- tread the boards
- personate
- bring down the house
- do a turn
- lay an egg
- make debut
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- put it over
- take part
- say one's piece
- burlesque
- characterize
- do
- dramatize
- emote
- enact
- feign
- go on
- go over
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- mime
- mimic
- mug
- parody
- perform
- personify
- play
- portray
- pretend
- rehearse
- represent
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- tread the boards
- bring down the house
- do a turn
- lay an egg
- make debut
- personate
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- put it over
- take part
- say one's piece
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"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSEverything showed a rapid flight; even the would-be dinner of the guerrillas was found half cooked.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNI drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRNext night at dinner I proposed Sir Alister's health, and we all drank to him and his "bride-to-be."
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSWhile a one-step was in full swing some would-be wag suddenly turned off all the lights.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSAnd hand-painting it allus seemed to me, is really elocution in oils; for a be-yutiful picture is a silent talker.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDKingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERBesides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The fun, when the school broke up for the term, was of the never-to-be-forgotten variety.
THE MYSTERY AT PUTNAM HALLARTHUR M. WINFIELDMadame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEWORDS RELATED TO BE ON
- be on
- bring down the house
- burlesque
- characterize
- do a turn
- dramatize
- emote
- enact
- feign
- go on
- go over
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- lay an egg
- make debut
- mime
- mimic
- mug
- parody
- perform
- personate
- personify
- play
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- portray
- pretend
- put it over
- rehearse
- represent
- say one's piece
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- take part
- tread the boards
- accomplished
- achieved
- began
- carried on
- carried out
- consummated
- cooked
- created
- developed
- did
- did a number
- did one's thing
- enforced
- executed
- functioned
- got in there
- intruded
- knocked off
- labored
- made progress
- maneuvered
- moved
- officiated
- operated
- percolated
- perked
- perpetrated
- persevered
- persisted
- practiced
- presided
- pursued
- responded
- served
- took effect
- took part
- took steps
- took up
- transorted
- undertook
- went about
- went for broke
- went for it
- went in for
- went that route
- went to town
- worked out
- BBED
- been untruthful
- beguiled
- born false witness
- broken promise
- bulled
- concocted
- conned
- deceived
- deluded
- dissembled
- dissimulated
- distorted
- duped
- equivocated
- exaggerated
- fabricated
- faked
- falsified
- fibbed
- forsworn
- framed
- fudged
- gone back on
- invented
- make believed
- maligned
- misguided
- misinformed
- misinstructed
- misled
- misrepresented
- misspeaked
- misstated
- overdrawn
- paltered
- perjured
- perverted
- phonied
- planted
- prevaricated
- promoted
- put on
- put up a front
- snowed
- soft-soaped
- string along
- victimized
- BS
- bears false witness
- beguiles
- breaks promise
- bulls
- concocts
- cons
- deceives
- deludes
- dissembles
- dissimulates
- distorts
- dupes
- equivocates
- exaggerates
- fabricates
- fakes
- falsifies
- fibs
- forswears
- frames
- fudges
- goes back on
- invents
- is untruthful
- make believes
- maligns
- misguides
- misinforms
- misinstructs
- misleads
- misrepresents
- misspeaks
- misstates
- overdraws
- palters
- perjures
- perverts
- phonies
- plants
- prevaricates
- promotes
- puts on
- puts up a front
- snows
- soft-soaps
- string along
- victimizes
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