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kick aroundverb to give serious and careful thought tothe board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, eye, meditate, mull (over), perpend, ponder, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with) muse (upon), reflect (on or upon), reminisceanalyze, explore, reviewconclude, reasonsecond-guess, speculate (about)brood (about or over), dwell (on or upon), fixate (on or upon), fret (about or over), obsess (about or over)believe, conceive, opineabsorb, assimilate, digest, drink (in) beat one's brains out (about), chew on, cudgel one's brains (about), look at disregard, ignore, overlook, slightdismiss, pooh-pooh(also pooh), reject to spend time in aimless activityI really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang about(British), mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle dally, dawdle, dillydally, hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, loungeclown (around), horse arounddiddle (with), tinker buckle (down), knuckle down, set (to), settle (down) to spend time doing nothingspent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about(British), idle, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifledoze, estivate(also aestivate), hibernatelag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarryamble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swanfurlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant kill time, twiddle one's thumbs drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, workapply, buckle (down)exert, put out to move about from place to place aimlesslyafter spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home bat, cruise, drift, float, gad (about), gallivant(also galavant), knock (about), maunder, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, traipse, wander amble, saunter, strolldawdle, mopegypsy, hobo, tramp, vagabondmill (about or around)straggle, stray to inflict physical or emotional harm uponchildren who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around abuse, brutalize, bully, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, manhandle, mess over(slang), mishandle, mistreat, misuse molest, outrage, violateharass, harm, hurt, injure, oppress, persecute, torment, tortureburn, sandbag, victimize, wrongbeat (up), mess (up), rough (up), work (over) take apart care (for), cherish, foster, nurturebaby, cater (to), coddle, favor, gratify, humor, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil in 1839 |