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JADE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An old or over-worked horse

Synonyms:

hack; jade; nag; plug

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Derivation:

jade (exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress)

jade (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Synonyms:

jade; jade green

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

Derivation:

jade (of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A woman adulterer

Synonyms:

adulteress; fornicatress; hussy; jade; loose woman; slut; strumpet; trollop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite

Synonyms:

jade; jadestone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

opaque gem (a gemstone that is opaque)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Synonyms:

jade; jade-green

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

jade (a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "jade" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jade"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

jade (an old or over-worked horse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "jade" is one way to...):

degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jade"):

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)

retire; withdraw (lose interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

jade (an old or over-worked horse)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The boisterous impact of it on Martin's jaded mind was a hurt.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The storiettes were ground out, jaded, at the end of a long day of application to style.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)