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Synonyms for marrow
ˈmær oʊmar·row

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. marrow

    Synonyms:
    pith, gist, substance, essence, life, cream, kernel

    Antonyms:
    surplusage, redundancy, excrescence, superfluity, clothing, dressing, amplification, volume, mass, body

Princeton's WordNet3.7 / 3 votes

  1. marrow, bone marrownoun

    the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones

    Synonyms:
    marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

  2. marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrownoun

    any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

    Synonyms:
    marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

  3. marrow, bone marrownoun

    very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones

    Synonyms:
    marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

  4. marrow, vegetable marrownoun

    large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins

    Synonyms:
    marrow squash, nitty-gritty, meat, core, inwardness, bone marrow, sum, gist, heart and soul, substance, nub, center, centre, kernel, essence, heart, vegetable marrow, pith

  5. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

    the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

    "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

    Synonyms:
    affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, centre, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, core, totality, heart and soul, sum, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, essence, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middle

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. marrownoun

    Synonyms:
    medulla, pith

  2. marrownoun

    Synonyms:
    essence, quintessence, best part, essential part

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. marrownoun

    Synonyms:
    medulla, pith

PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "marrow":

    pith, spinal, cord, medullary, bone, medulla, bone-marrow

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How to use marrow in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Merton:

    Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

  2. Samual Rutherford:

    I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

  3. David Kronn:

    Over the years, we’ve become aware that a bone marrow transplant early in the disease can be life-saving for these patients, but we now know that it's only effective in the early stages of the disease.

  4. Mrinal Patnaik:

    I trained in the early 2000s, when there was not a single oral agent for the management of AML, one of my professors had told me that AML was akin to a warlike situation where sometimes, you had to bomb the village in order to save it. We would throw these drugs that would kill everything and hope patients would recover with normal bone marrow.

  5. David Brenner:

    One of the major things that happens if you’re exposed to a large dose of radiation is that your white blood cells get destroyed, so you need to be able to stimulate the bone marrow in your body to work doubly hard to generate new blood cells, and there are drugs that can be given to stimulate the bone marrow to work harder to create new blood cells.


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