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mat

noun as in covering

verb as in plait

verb as in make interwoven mass

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Tormented by all-day nausea, I sought comfort in bed and on the yoga mat.

With an acupressure mat, you get acupressure, sans precision.

Each mat goes for a blitzkrieg-like concentration—my model has 7,992 spikes, each one-eighth inch long.

The best option to take care of your joints and your floors is a good yoga mat.

This coating is actually a mat of nanofibers with a very large surface area, which increases its energy storage capacity.

If they were well thought through, with a clear plan of execution, she was in, and ready to go to the mat.

Zalwar Khan returns quickly and begins his morning prayers, spreading out a plastic mat and folding his arms over his chest.

Besides, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are exactly rolling out the welcome mat for Kerry.

It would just throw himself onto a huge, soft mat covered in a bit of sand, and then it would get up right away.

By remarkable contrast, younger musicians who really go to the mat for political controversy can become superstars.

He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."

"Let me get the man something to eat," said Yung Pak as the monk seated himself upon a mat.

He went back to his praying mat and bent again toward the west, where the Holy Kaaba enshrines the ruby sent down from heaven.

We here saw an opium-eater, lying stretched out upon a mat on the floor.

The mat shop is beginning to affect my health: the dust has inflamed my throat, and my eyesight is weakening in the constant dusk.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mat, such as: place mat, doily, doormat, floor covering, place setting, and table mat.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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