- story
- In.tale
1) to narrate, tell a story
2) to carry, circulate, print, run a story (all the newspapers carried the story about the fire)
3) to edit; rewrite; write a story
4) to concoct, fabricate, invent, make up a story
5) to change, revise; embellish, embroider a story
6) to cover up, hush up, kill, suppress a story
7) a boring; charming; cock-and-bull, farfetched; coherent; complicated, involved; dirty, off-color, risque (risqué); funny, humorous; gripping; implausible; improbable; juicy; likely, plausible; long; sob; true; ugly; untold story
8) a bedtime, children's, fairy; detective; ghost; hard-luck; love story
9) a breaking ('very new'); cover; exclusive; feature; front-page; human-interest story; the inside story
10) conflicting stories (they told conflicting stories to the police)
11) a shaggy dog story ('a long rambling joke with an illogical punch line')
12) a short story ('a short prose narrative')
13) the whole story (who knows the whole story of the incident?)
14) a story breaks ('becomes known'); circulates
15) a story about, of (she told charming stories about her travels; to narrate gripping stories of wartime heroism)
16) a story that + clause (have you heard the story that she intends to resign?)
background information17) to get the (whole) story
misc.18) the police could not make a coherent story out of his ravings; a success story ('a successful career')
IIstorey n.floor levela lower; top; upper story
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Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
