Synonyms for gad
gædgad

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1. generalized anxiety disorder, GAD, anxiety reactionnoun

   an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months

   Synonyms:
   anxiety reaction, spur, generalized anxiety disorder

2. spur, gadverb

   a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

   "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on"

   Synonyms:
   generalized anxiety disorder, spur track, goading, spurring, prod, prodding, spine, urging, acantha, branch line, goad, spur, anxiety reaction

3. gallivant, gad, jazz aroundverb

   wander aimlessly in search of pleasure

   Synonyms:
   jazz around, gallivant

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1. • Anxiety Disorder
   • Wander

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1. gadverb

   Synonyms:
   rove about idly, ramble without definite purpose

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1. gadnoun

   Synonyms:
   goad

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1. List of paraphrases for "gad":

   dsm, jad, gol

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How to use gad in a sentence?

1. Bill Condon:

   …Josh [Gad] makes something really subtle and delicious out it said, and that’s what has its pay-off at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But it’s a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie.

2. Johnny Ludvigsson:

   Treatment with GAD-alum seems to be a promising, simple and safe way to preserve insulin production in around half of patients with type 1 diabetes, the ones who have the right type of HLA, this is why we are looking forward to carrying out larger studies, and we hope these will lead to a drug that can change the progress of type 1 diabetes.