Thesaurus / tan
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synonyms for tan
- beige
- brownish
- drab
- khaki
- biscuit
- bronze
- brown
- buff
- cream
- ecru
- gold
- olive
- saddle
- sand
- suntan
- umber
- olive-brown
- baste
- beat
- belt
- cane
- flay
- hide
- hit
- lambaste
- lash
- leather
- paddle
- punish
- spank
- strap
- strike
- switch
- thrash
- wax
- whack
- whale
- whomp
- dust someone's britches
- paddlewhack
- tan one's hide
- warm someone's seat
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How to use tan in a sentence
She wore soiled Burberry, high-legged tan boots, and a peaked cap of distinctly military appearance.
DOPESAX ROHMERThe corporal, rather chalky-looking under his tan, stepped forward and laid a hand on MacRae's shoulder.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRWoollen rags are mixed with cotton which has no manurial value, and the skin refuse from tan-works contains much lime.
ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRYTHOMAS ANDERSONI recognized the reddish tan that comes from facing a hot wind on the top of a moving boxcar.
NINE MEN IN TIMENOEL MILLER LOOMISHe was as well groomed as usual, but he was unmistakably pale beneath his new coat of tan.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONHere was a light-blue pair; there were some lavender, some all black and various shades of tan and gray.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINDavis and Moulton were drawing leather through a tan trough, and I turned aside to speak with them.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERThe thick tan of exposure to wind and sun gave her a gipsy swarthiness beneath which glowed the rich colour of health.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKETannin is also important and is employed to some extent in the Philippines, being generally obtained from the mangrove tan barks.
PHILIPPINE MATSHUGO H. MILLERHe pulled up his creased trousers when he sat down, and the socks thus disclosed above his tan Oxfords proved to be blue also.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONWORDS RELATED TO TAN
- KO
- beat
- beat up
- better
- blank
- blast
- bulldoze
- clobber
- conquer
- cream
- deck
- drub
- exceed
- excel
- flax
- floor
- get the better of
- knock off
- lambaste
- let have it
- lick
- master
- outclass
- outdo
- outshine
- outstrip
- overcome
- prevail
- put away
- shoot down
- shut down
- surpass
- take care of
- take down
- tan
- thrash
- top
- total
- transcend
- trash
- triumph
- triumph over
- trounce
- wallop
- waste
- wax
- whip
- whomp
- whop
- wipe
- wipe out
- wipe the floor with
- zap
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.