hard usage



appliance, application, consumption, employ, employment, exercise, exertion, ill-use, misuse, usage ,









   out of tone - atonal, cracked, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, flat, grating, harsh, inharmonious, off, raucous, sharp, shrill, sour, strident,

   whipped up - agog, aroused, bursting, carried away, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, fluffy, high, hopped up, impassioned, inflamed, keyed up,

   suitable - acceptable, according to Hoyle, ad rem, adapted, adequate, admissible, advantageous, advisable, ample, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, auspicious,

   second youth - new birth, rebirth, recrudescence, refreshment, regeneration, rejuvenation, renaissance, renascence, renewal, resurgence, resurrection, revival, second wind ,

   belle - Miss America, bathing beauty, beau ideal, beaut, beauty, beauty contest winner, beauty queen, bunny, charmer, cover girl, dazzler, dream, enchantress, great beauty, knock-out,

   exchange blows - battle, box, brawl, broil, clash, close, collide, combat, contend, contest, duel, fence, feud, fight, grapple,

   jellied - adhesive, caked, clammy, clotted, coagulated, congealed, curded, curdled, doughy, gelatinous, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, heavy,

   under the table - blind, blotto, drunk, furtive, helpless, out, out cold, overcome, paralysed, stiff, stoned, unlawful ,

   in buckram - prim, rigid, starched, stiff, stilted ,

   elided - abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, capsule, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, docked, elliptic, elliptical, mowed, nipped,