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'stone' - used as an adjective
Synonyms for 'stone'
1. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

'stone' - used as a noun
2. United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
3. United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
4. United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
5. United States architect (1902-1978)
6. United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
7. United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
8. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
9. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
10. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
he wanted a special stone to mark the site
11. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
12. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
13. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
14. a lack of feeling or expression or movement
he must have a heart of stone
her face was as hard as stone

'stone' - used as a verb
15. kill by throwing stones at
People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
16. remove the pits from

derived forms
1. Stone / Plural
stones
2. Stone / Past
stoned
3. Stone / Third Person
stones
4. Stone / Present Participle
stoning
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