Antonyms for plug
plʌgplug

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1. • Advertize
   • Blockage
   • Electrical Device
   • Hit
   • Hydrant
   • Insert
   • Morsel
   • Persevere

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1. plug, stopper, stopplenoun

   blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

   Synonyms:
   chew, wad, showstopper, hype, conversation stopper, nag, spark plug, sparking plug, quid, hack, stopple, show-stopper, fireplug, ballyhoo, jade, chaw, cud, stopper, male plug, hoopla, fire hydrant

2. chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wadnoun

   a wad of something chewable as tobacco

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, pot, peck, quid, mastication, hype, lot, quid pro quo, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, hack, fire hydrant, chewing, pile, muckle, stack, rechewed food, mass, spark plug, good deal, male plug, mountain, sight, stopple, plenty, deal, mess, jade, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, fireplug, heap, great deal, pound, chaw, ballyhoo, mint, stopper, sparking plug, spate, chew, cud, pound sterling, nag, hoopla, manduction

3. ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, plugnoun

   blatant or sensational promotion

   Synonyms:
   chew, wad, hype, nag, spark plug, sparking plug, quid, hack, stopple, fireplug, ballyhoo, jade, chaw, cud, stopper, male plug, hoopla, fire hydrant

4. spark plug, sparking plug, plugnoun

   electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark

   Synonyms:
   chew, wad, cud, hype, nag, spark plug, sparking plug, hack, stopple, fireplug, ballyhoo, jade, chaw, quid, stopper, male plug, hoopla, fire hydrant

5. plug, male plugnoun

   an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection

   Synonyms:
   chew, wad, hype, nag, spark plug, sparking plug, quid, hack, stopple, fireplug, ballyhoo, jade, chaw, cud, stopper, male plug, hoopla, fire hydrant

6. fireplug, fire hydrant, plugnoun

   an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

   Synonyms:
   chew, wad, cud, hype, nag, spark plug, sparking plug, hack, stopple, fireplug, ballyhoo, jade, chaw, quid, stopper, male plug, hoopla, fire hydrant

7. hack, jade, nag, plugverb

   an old or over-worked horse

   Synonyms:
   common scold, quid, ballyhoo, hype, fornicatress, trollop, machine politician, drudge, hack, jadestone, fire hydrant, political hack, slut, taxicab, loose woman, adulteress, nagger, spark plug, cab, male plug, jade green, ward-heeler, stopple, hacker, jade, literary hack, fireplug, hack writer, strumpet, scolder, hussy, taxi, stopper, scold, sparking plug, wad, chaw, chew, cud, nag, hoopla

8. plug, stop up, secureverb

   fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

   "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"

   Synonyms:
   fasten, stop up, plug away, batten down, fix, procure, guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, batten, punch, secure

9. plug, plug awayverb

   persist in working hard

   "Students must plug away at this problem"

   Synonyms:
   stop up, plug away, slog, peg away, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, punch, secure, keep one's nose to the grindstone

10. punch, plugverb

    deliver a quick blow to

    "he punched me in the stomach"

    Synonyms:
    secure, perforate, punch, plug away, stop up

11. plugverb

    make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote

    Synonyms:
    stop up, secure, punch, plug away

12. plugverb

    insert a plug into

    "plug the wall"

    Synonyms:
    stop up, secure, punch, plug away

13. plugverb

    insert as a plug

    "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle"

    Synonyms:
    stop up, secure, punch, plug away

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1. plugnoun

   Synonyms:
   stopper, stopple, bung, tampoon, spile, tampion, spigot

How to use plug in a sentence?

1. Pamela Robey:

   My fellows, Songtao Shi and Stan Gronthos, did the work in my lab, songtao Shi is a dentist, and basically Songtao Shi observed that, when you get a cavity, you get what's called' reparative dentin.' In other words, the tooth is trying to protect itself from that cavity, so it makes a little bit of dentin to kind of plug the hole, so to speak.

2. Monica Brand Engel:

   Mexico has a lot of the key ingredients to succeed, but it's not plug and play.

3. Gero Farruggio:

   If they pull the plug on this, there's certainly questions if any project will go ahead in Australia.

4. Alan Woodward:

   Once inside a network it seeks out and affects any susceptible computer it can find on the network, the only sensible way to tackle it is to 'pull the plug' so that it can't spread any more until you can isolate the affected machines and work out a remediation plan.

5. Tanya Turner:

   At that time, I feel like a lot of journalists were writing stories where they lived, in big cities, and calling down here to plug in a name, if it were one or two, it would have been funny. But it became increasingly sad and offensive. And of course, we're not new to piss-poor narratives about Eastern Kentucky... but it was a pretty big onload for us to deal with.

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