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promote
Overview of verb promote
The verb promote has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (31) promote, advance, boost, further, encourage -- (contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom")
2. (5) promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate -- (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work")
3. (2) advertise, advertize, promote, push -- (make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops")
4. promote -- (be changed for a superior chess or checker piece)
5. promote -- (change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent)
Grep of noun promote
promoter
Antonyms of verb promote
1 of 5 senses of promote
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
Antonym of demote (Sense 1)
=>demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb promote
5 senses of promote
Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
=> support, back up
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
=> delegate, designate, depute, assign
=> appoint, charge
Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
=> praise
=> measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 4
promote
=> change
Sense 5
promote
=> play
=> use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb promote
5 senses of promote
Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
=> connive at, wink at
=> foster, further
=> spur
=> help
=> carry
=> feed
=> contribute, lead, conduce
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
=> tenure
=> bring up
=> spot promote
=> ennoble, gentle, entitle
=> prefer, favor, favour
=> brevet
Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
=> propagandize, propagandise
=> plug
=> bill
=> crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate
Sense 4
promote
=> queen
Sense 5
promote
=> queen
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb promote
5 senses of promote
Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
=> support, back up
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
=> delegate, designate, depute, assign
Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
=> praise
Sense 4
promote
=> change
Sense 5
promote
=> play
'Cause To' of verb promote
Derived Forms of verb promote
3 of 5 senses of promote
Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
RELATED TO>(adj) promotive#1
=> promotive
RELATED TO>(noun) promotion#3
=> promotion, furtherance, advancement
RELATED TO>(noun) promotion#4
=> forwarding, furtherance, promotion
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
RELATED TO>(noun) promotion#2
=> promotion
Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
RELATED TO>(noun) promoter#1
=> promoter, booster, plugger
RELATED TO>(noun) promotion#1
=> promotion, publicity, promotional material, packaging
Domain of verb promote
2 of 5 senses of promote
Sense 4
promote
TOPIC>(noun) board game#1
Sense 5
promote
TOPIC>(noun) chess#2, chess game#1
Domain Terms of verb promote
Familiarity of verb promote
promote used as a verb is common (polysemy count =5)
Sample Sentences of verb promote
5 senses of promote
Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
EX: Sam and Sue promote the movie
Sense 4
promote
*> Something ----s
Sense 5
promote
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb promote
5 senses of promote
Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
> support, back up
=> sponsor
=> patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor
=> help, assist, aid
=> promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
=> undergird
=> second, back, endorse, indorse
Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
> delegate, designate, depute, assign
=> mandate
=> cast
=> post
=> cast
=> devolve
=> task
=> place
=> regiment
=> transfer, reassign
=> delegate, depute
=> mandate
=> promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
=> demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
=> place
Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
> praise
=> troll
=> salute
=> applaud
=> laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim
=> flatter, blandish
=> eulogize, eulogise
=> compliment, congratulate
=> rave, gush
=> commend
=> commend, recommend
=> advertise, advertize, promote, push
=> puff, puff up
=> sonnet
Sense 4
promote
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 5
promote
> play
=> promote
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb promote
Sense 4
promote
=> change
Sense 5
promote
=> play
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Sense 1
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
=> support, back up
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Sense 2
promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
=> delegate, designate, depute, assign
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Sense 3
advertise, advertize, promote, push
=> praise
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Grep of verb promote
promote
spot promote
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