Synonyms for tar
tɑrtar

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1. pitch, tarnoun

   any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue

   Synonyms:
   seafarer, pitch, lurch, delivery, gob, pitch shot, old salt, auction pitch, mariner, pitching, sea dog, slant, rake, sales talk, sales pitch, seaman

2. mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dogverb

   a man who serves as a sailor

   Synonyms:
   seafarer, pitch, knave, diddlysquat, yap, jackass, maw, diddlyshit, shit, doodly-squat, old salt, hole, diddly-shit, mariner, laborer, diddley, labourer, sea dog, jak, jackstones, jackfruit, gob, manual laborer, diddly-squat, cakehole, trap, seaman, squat, diddly

3. tarverb

   coat with tar

   "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

Matched Categories

1. • Bitumen
   • Coat

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1. tarnoun

   Synonyms:
   sailor, seaman, mariner, seafarer, seafaring man

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1. List of paraphrases for "tar":

   bituminous, asphalt, bitumen, char, oil

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How to use tar in a sentence?

1. Joshua Axelrod:

   TransCanada's revised application would see a massive amount of tar sands oil shipped daily through the most productive and biodiverse waters on the East Coast.

2. Brandon Boldes:

   I have a new born that's eight months old and I felt that the school is safe for the fact that the school is built out of tar.

3. Suzanne Bissonnette:

   It really does look like somebody dripped tar on the leaf.

4. Petty Officer Michael Anderson:

   We have been in regular contact to with NOAA. The agency is analyzing the trajectory of the Manhattan beach tar and the Refugio Spill to see if there is any possible way this could have come from the Refugio Spill.

5. Lindsay LaSalle:

   In those parts of the country, you have a white powder heroin that you can mix fentanyl into pretty easily, whereas on the West Coast, you have a black tar heroin, which is very difficult to mix the white powder into. So you just don't see the same distribution of fentanyl on the West Coast as in these other places.