Antonyms for Straw
strɔstraw

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1. • Cover
   • Plant Fiber
   • Plant Material
   • Spread

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1. strawnoun

   plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, husk

2. chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblenoun

   material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, angry walk, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, still hunt, stalking, stem, husk

3. pale yellow, straw, wheatnoun

   a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat berry, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, husk

4. straw, drinking strawadjective

   a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, husk

5. strawverb

   of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

6. strawverb

   cover or provide with or as if with straw

   "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   strew

7. strew, strawverb

   spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

   "strew toys all over the carpet"

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   straw, strew

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1. strawnoun

   Synonyms:
   stalk, culm, litter, mulch, sennet, platting

How to use Straw in a sentence?

1. Karla Villalon:

   Its the final straw, my kids classrooms have mold in them ...Theres just so much outrage thats been building over time.

2. Dawn Holman:

   The type of clothing matters, a white T-shirt is going to provide less protection than a darker fabric, and think of the weave of the fabric or the hat. Take a straw hat; if it's too loosely woven, you get too much sunlight.

3. Jim Jordan:

   I think the attorney general’s memo is maybe the last straw. Americans have had it with this attack on our First Amendment rights and our overall freedom. When you start telling moms and dads that government knows more about what’s best for your children than you do, I don’t think moms and dads are going to stand for that.

4. Channan Petrides:

   Cystic fibrosis feels like having a plastic bag over your head and breathing through a straw, so a lot of patients who have transplants have to learn to breathe again because they aren’t used to taking in that much air.

5. Elissa Slotkin:

   Something just broke for me. It was the absolute straw that broke the camel's back.

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