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Synonyms for pawn
pɔnpawn
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pawn
Synonyms:
pledge, impignorate
Princeton's WordNet
pawnnoun
an article deposited as security
Synonyms:
instrument, cat's-pawinstrument, pawn, cat's-pawnoun
a person used by another to gain an end
Synonyms:
instrument, legal document, cat's-paw, official document, tool, musical instrument, instrumental role, legal instrumentpawnnoun
(chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
Synonyms:
instrument, cat's-pawpawnverb
borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
Synonyms:
instrument, cat's-pawpawn, soak, hockverb
leave as a guarantee in return for money
"pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
Synonyms:
fleece, hit it up, imbue, surcharge, dowse, inebriate, hook, overcharge, pluck, drench, souse, sop, soak, hock, gazump, intoxicate, rob, douse, plume
Dictionary of English Synonymes
pawnnoun
Synonyms:
pledge (of a chattel to secure a debt), gage, securitypawnverb
Synonyms:
pledge, offer or give as security
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1247 | tool | |
#3682 | instrument | |
#4158 | rob | |
#5613 | hook | |
#8886 | pledge | |
#8969 | fleece | |
#15375 | puppet | |
#17166 | surcharge | |
#19340 | soak | |
#22890 | plume | |
#23745 | pawn | |
#25667 | sop | |
#28085 | pluck | |
#44051 | prefect | |
#44575 | pion | |
#45906 | hock | |
#67252 | drench | |
#81012 | plaything | |
#85954 | overcharge | |
#96725 | imbue | |
#110802 | douse | |
#145615 | dowse | |
#227814 | intoxicate |
How to use pawn in a sentence?
Generally speaking Pawn Storm is known to have very goodsocial engineering skills.
You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little more than a pawn to their perception steering initiatives to get you to read, believe and buy what they put in front of you. The first step to breaking out of this faux reality matrix is to stop using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Comcast and Facebook.
The pope only heard one side of the story -- he didn’t see the crime, the drug trafficking and the negative economic impact the current policies have on the United States. He doesn’t see how Mexican leadership is outsmarting President Obama and our leadership in every aspect of negotiation, …They are using the pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so rampant.
Butina was another pawn on the chess board, lots of people were doing lots of different things, all with the same goal. Butina was... another pathway to possibly reach Donald Trump Donald Trump and influence the campaign.
He doesn't want to be taken for a fool and he doesn't want to be seen as a pawn or that he doesn't have his own independent constitutional role.
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