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单词 kicking around
释义

kick around

verb

kicked around; kicking around; kicks around

intransitive verb

1
: to wander or pass time aimlessly
2
a
: to lie about mostly unnoticed or forgotten
b
: to undergo consideration usually intermittently over a period of time
ideas that have been kicking around for years

transitive verb

1
: to treat in an inconsiderate or high-handed fashion
2
: to consider, examine, or discuss from various angles

Synonyms

  • 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)
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Example Sentences

the board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office I really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions.
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Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

kicking around

verb

present participle of kick around
1
as in entertaining
to give serious and careful thought to the board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • entertaining
  • debating
  • pondering
  • contemplating
  • looking at
  • considering
  • chewing on
  • chewing over
  • studying
  • questioning
  • weighing
  • perpending
  • exploring
  • eyeing
  • reviewing
  • mulling (over)
  • analyzing
  • wrestling (with)
  • poring (over)
  • thinking (about or over)
  • beating one's brains out (about)
  • cudgeling one's brains (about)
  • eying
  • deliberating
  • ruminating
  • revolving
  • meditating
  • cogitating
  • turning
  • reflecting (on or upon)
  • musing (upon)
  • digesting
  • reasoning
  • fixating (on or upon)
  • reminiscing
  • dwelling (on or upon)
  • obsessing (about or over)
  • fretting (about or over)
  • brooding (about or over)
  • speculating (about)
  • believing
  • drinking (in)
  • concluding
  • absorbing
  • opining
  • conceiving
  • assimilating
  • second-guessing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • ignoring
  • disregarding
  • overlooking
  • rejecting
  • dismissing
  • slighting
  • poohing
  • pooh-poohing
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2
as in fooling around
to spend time in aimless activity I really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • fooling around
  • playing
  • messing around
  • hanging about
  • fribbling
  • fiddling (around)
  • puttering (around)
  • goofing (around)
  • pottering (around)
  • monkeying (around)
  • doodling
  • trifling
  • horsing around
  • lounging
  • hanging (around or out)
  • idling
  • loafing
  • clowning (around)
  • dawdling
  • diddling (with)
  • dillydallying
  • tinkering
  • lolling
  • dallying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • settling (down)
  • setting (to)
  • buckling (down)
  • knuckling down
3
as in killing time
to spend time doing nothing spent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • killing time
  • kicking back
  • hanging about
  • vegging out
  • hacking (around)
  • goofing (off)
  • twiddling one's thumbs
  • hanging (around or out)
  • lounging
  • chilling
  • resting
  • playing
  • idling
  • loafing
  • bumming
  • relaxing
  • strolling
  • lazing
  • poking
  • dawdling
  • droning
  • footling
  • dillydallying
  • messing
  • mucking
  • lolling
  • lazying
  • fiddling (around)
  • puttering (around)
  • lingering
  • estivating
  • pottering (around)
  • dallying
  • monkeying
  • fooling
  • piddling
  • trifling
  • hibernating
  • dozing
  • loitering
  • lagging
  • sauntering
  • ambling
  • moseying
  • aestivating
  • malingering
  • goldbricking
  • truanting
  • swanning
  • tarrying
  • furloughing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • working
  • buckling (down)
  • laboring
  • plowing
  • grinding
  • sweating
  • plugging
  • toiling
  • plodding
  • grubbing
  • hustling
  • humping
  • slaving
  • pegging
  • applying
  • drudging
  • moiling
  • travailing
  • exerting
  • putting out
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4
as in roaming
to move about from place to place aimlessly after spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • roaming
  • wandering
  • drifting
  • strolling
  • cruising
  • knocking (about)
  • floating
  • gadding (about)
  • meandering
  • ranging
  • roving
  • gallivanting
  • traipsing
  • rambling
  • galavanting
  • batting
  • sauntering
  • gypsying
  • mooching
  • maundering
  • ambling
  • milling (about or around)
  • dawdling
  • hoboing
  • moping
  • vagabonding
  • straggling
  • straying
  • tramping
5
as in abusing
to inflict physical or emotional harm upon children who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • abusing
  • taking apart
  • bullying
  • messing over
  • torturing
  • violating
  • injuring
  • oppressing
  • ill-using
  • mistreating
  • hurting
  • manhandling
  • misusing
  • brutalizing
  • mishandling
  • persecuting
  • maltreating
  • ill-treating
  • harassing
  • tormenting
  • working (over)
  • molesting
  • harming
  • outraging
  • beating (up)
  • victimizing
  • wronging
  • burning
  • roughing (up)
  • sandbagging
  • messing (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • caring (for)
  • fostering
  • catering (to)
  • nurturing
  • cherishing
  • gratifying
  • favoring
  • indulging
  • spoiling
  • pampering
  • coddling
  • humoring
  • babying
  • mollycoddling
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