Thesaurus / take a shine to
other words for take a shine to
MOST RELEVANT
- covet
- crave
- enjoy
- aim
- choose
- fancy
- like
- pine
- thirst
- aspire to
- be smitten
- be turned on by
- cotton to
- desiderate
- die over
- fall for
- give eyeteeth for
- go for
- hanker after
- have eyes for
- have the hots for
- hunger for
- lust after
- make advances to
- partial to
- set heart on
- spoil for
- sweet on
- take a liking to
- take to
- wish for
- yearn for
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.
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And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
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Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.
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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.
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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
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WORDS RELATED TO TAKE A SHINE TO
- aim
- aspire to
- be smitten
- be turned on by
- choose
- cotton to
- covet
- crave
- desiderate
- die over
- enjoy
- fall for
- fancy
- give eyeteeth for
- go for
- hanker after
- have eyes for
- have the hots for
- hunger for
- like
- lust after
- make advances to
- partial to
- pine
- set heart on
- spoil for
- sweet on
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- thirst
- wish for
- yearn for
- aim
- aspire to
- be smitten
- be turned on by
- choose
- cotton to
- covet
- crave
- desiderate
- die over
- enjoy
- fall for
- fancy
- give eyeteeth for
- go for
- hanker after
- have eyes for
- have the hots for
- hunger for
- like
- lust after
- make advances to
- partial to
- pine
- set heart on
- spoil for
- sweet on
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- thirst
- wish for
- yearn for
- aim
- aspire to
- be smitten
- be turned on by
- choose
- cotton to
- covet
- crave
- desiderate
- die over
- enjoy
- fall for
- fancy
- give eyeteeth for
- go for
- hanker after
- have eyes for
- have the hots for
- hunger for
- like
- lust after
- make advances to
- partial to
- pine
- set heart on
- spoil for
- sweet on
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- thirst
- wish for
- yearn for
- accept
- advocate
- appreciate
- approbate
- approve
- back
- be in favor of
- buck for
- champion
- choose
- commend
- cotton to
- countenance
- encourage
- endorse
- esteem
- eulogize
- fancy
- flash on
- for
- go for
- hold with
- honor
- incline
- lean toward
- look up to
- opt for
- patronize
- pick
- praise
- prize
- regard highly
- root for
- sanction
- single out
- support
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- think well of
- tilt toward
- value
- accept
- advocate
- appreciate
- approbate
- approve
- back
- be in favor of
- buck for
- champion
- choose
- commend
- cotton to
- countenance
- encourage
- endorse
- esteem
- eulogize
- fancy
- flash on
- for
- go for
- hold with
- honor
- incline
- lean toward
- look up to
- opt for
- patronize
- pick
- praise
- prize
- regard highly
- root for
- sanction
- single out
- support
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- think well of
- tilt toward
- value
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.