Thesaurus / featherbed
FEEDBACKsynonyms for featherbed
synonyms for featherbed
- abate
- decrease
- diminish
- dodge
- drop off
- dwindle
- ease
- ease off
- flag
- goldbrick
- goof off
- idle
- lax
- lay back
- lessen
- let up
- lie down on job
- loose
- moderate
- neglect
- reduce
- relax
- release
- shirk
- slack off
- slow down
- taper
- tire
- untighten
- wane
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How to use featherbed in a sentence
Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean.
EARLY ENGLISH MEALS AND MANNERSVARIOUSA bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes a very cool bed for an infant.
A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMYCATHERINE ESTHER BEECHERGod becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCE“Now my featherbed,” says Aunt Elvira, and she has the porter jam it in alongside of me, which makes more or less of a full house.
ODD NUMBERSSEWELL FORDHe was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.
ESSAYS IN REBELLIONHENRY W. NEVINSONI have heard of one who used to get into the middle of a featherbed.
EXPOSITORY WRITINGMERVIN JAMES CURLComing home it was a gorgeous winter's night on the Featherbed Mountain.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCEI have a piece of mutton and a featherbed for you at all times; I pray make haste.
THE WORKS OF JOHN MARSTONJOHN MARSTONFeatherbed, as the sun peeped over a rise in the land, waited impatiently.
THE PRAIRIE SCHOONERWILLIAM FRANCIS HOOKERI shall not insist on the featherbed, but I shall close the shutters and turn on the lights and be as cowardly as I please.
EXPOSITORY WRITINGMERVIN JAMES CURLWORDS RELATED TO FEATHERBED
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.