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deep-sixed

verb , past tense of deep-six

Synonyms and Antonyms of deep-sixed

to get rid of as useless or unwanted

deep-sixed the documents with the incriminating evidence

Synonyms of deep-sixed

cashiered, cast (off), chucked, discarded, ditched, dumped, eighty-sixed (or 86'd), exorcised (also exorcized), flung (off or away), jettisoned, junked, laid by, lost, pitched, rejected, scrapped, shed, shucked (off), sloughed (off) also sluffed (off) , threw away, threw out, tossed, unloaded

Words Related to deep-sixed

abandoned, abdicated, deserted, forsook

dismissed, kicked out

abolished, annihilated, eliminated, eradicated, expunged, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, liquidated, removed, rooted (out), stamped (out), wiped out

Phrases Synonymous with deep-sixed

disposed of, set aside

Near Antonyms of deep-sixed

adopted, embraced, took on

employed, used, utilized

held, held back, kept, retained

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