单词 | tail |
例句 | tail noun 1.•the dog's tail:brush, scut, dock | tail feathers | hindquarters. ANT head, front. 2.•the tail of the plane:rear, end, back, extremity | bottom. ANT head, front. 3.•the tail of the hunting season:close, end, conclusion, tail end. ANT beginning, start. 4.informal •put a tail on that suspect:detective, investigator, shadow | informal sleuth, private eye, gumshoe.▶verb informal •the paparazzi tailed them:follow, shadow, stalk, trail, track, hunt, hound, dog, pursue, chase. PHRASES on someone's tail •a police car stayed on his tail:close behind, following closely, (hard) on someone's heels. tail off/away •her voice tailed off:fade, wane, ebb, dwindle, decrease, lessen, diminish, decline, subside, abate, drop off, peter out, taper off | let up, ease off, die away, die down, come to an end. turn tail •I was so shocked, I just turned tail:run away, flee, bolt, make off, take to one's heels, cut and run, beat a (hasty) retreat | informal scram, skedaddle, vamoose. WORD LINKS relating to an animal's tailWord Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms. |
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