Word Meanings - MONOPOLIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MONOPOLIZE)

• Absorb
• Swallow
• drown
• consume
• imbibe
• engross
• drink in
• suck up
• engulf
• monopolize
• exhaust

Related words: (words related to MONOPOLIZE)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• IMBIBE
  1. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture. 2. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. 3. To saturate; to
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• ENGULFMENT
  A swallowing up as if in a gulf.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• MONOPOLIZE
  To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.
• EXHAUSTIBILITY
  Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.
• ABSORB
  Etym: 1. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving. 2. To suck up; to drink
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• UNMONOPOLIZE
  To recover or release from the state of being monopolized. Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry. Milton.
• INEXHAUSTIVE
  Inexhaustible. Thomson.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• INEXHAUSTIBLE
  Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words. Dryden. An inexhaustible store of anecdotes. Macaulay. -- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness,