Related Words:
- compress
collapse - a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
- squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
- make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- adhesive tape,
- application,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- bear,
- binder,
- bob,
- boil down,
- brace,
- capsulize,
- cast,
- cataplasm,
- circumscribe,
- clamp,
- clip,
- coarct,
- compact,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- congest,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cram,
- cramp,
- cravat,
- crop,
- crowd,
- crush,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- densen,
- densify,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- diminish,
- dock,
- downgrade,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- dressing,
- elastic bandage,
- elide,
- ensphere,
- epithem,
- epitomize,
- foreshorten,
- four-tailed bandage,
- gauze,
- jam,
- knit,
- lessen,
- lint,
- lower,
- mow,
- narrow,
- nip,
- pare,
- pinch,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- pledget,
- poll,
- pollard,
- poultice,
- press,
- prune,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- push,
- ram down,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- roller,
- roller bandage,
- rubber bandage,
- scale down,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- shrink,
- simplify,
- sling,
- snub,
- solidify,
- splint,
- sponge,
- squab,
- squash,
- squeeze,
- squish,
- step down,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- stunt,
- stupe,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take from,
- take in,
- tampon,
- tape,
- telescope,
- tent,
- tighten,
- tourniquet,
- triangular bandage,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- tweak,
- wad up,
- wrinkle
- consolidate
collapse
- make firm or secure; strengthen; "consolidate one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place"
- make or form into a solid or hardened mass; "consolidate fibers into boards"
- form into a solid mass or whole; "The mud had consolidated overnight"
- unite into one; "The companies consolidated"
- bring together into a single whole or system; "The town and county schools are being consolidated" related words >
- abbreviate,
- accelerate,
- act in concert,
- act together,
- add,
- affiliate,
- aggravate,
- ally,
- amalgamate,
- assimilate,
- associate,
- band,
- band together,
- be in league,
- beef up,
- blend,
- blow up,
- circumscribe,
- club together,
- coact,
- coalesce,
- coarct,
- collaborate,
- collude,
- combine,
- come together,
- compact,
- complicate,
- compound,
- compress,
- comprise,
- concentrate,
- concert,
- concord,
- concur,
- condense,
- confederate,
- congest,
- connect,
- conspire,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- cooperate,
- cram,
- cramp,
- crowd,
- curtail,
- decrease,
- deepen,
- densen,
- densify,
- do business with,
- double,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- embody,
- encompass,
- enhance,
- exacerbate,
- exaggerate,
- federate,
- flux,
- fuse,
- get heads together,
- get together,
- go partners,
- hang together,
- harmonize,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hold together,
- hook up,
- hop up,
- hot up,
- include,
- incorporate,
- integrate,
- intensify,
- interblend,
- interfuse,
- jam,
- jazz up,
- join,
- join in,
- join together,
- keep together,
- key up,
- knit,
- league,
- league together,
- lump together,
- magnify,
- make common cause,
- make complex,
- make one,
- meld,
- melt into one,
- merge,
- mix,
- narrow,
- partner,
- play ball,
- press,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- pull together,
- purse,
- put heads together,
- put together,
- ram down,
- ramify,
- reciprocate,
- redouble,
- reduce,
- reembody,
- reinforce,
- roll into one,
- set,
- shade into,
- sharpen,
- shorten,
- solidify,
- soup up,
- squeeze,
- stand together,
- step up,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- strengthen,
- syncretize,
- syndicate,
- synthesize,
- team up,
- throw in together,
- tie in,
- tie up,
- triple,
- unify,
- unite,
- unite efforts,
- whet,
- work together,
- wrinkle
- abbreviate,
- abbreviation,
- abridge,
- abridgment,
- abstract,
- add up,
- apocope,
- bob,
- boil down,
- capsulize,
- cast up,
- cipher up,
- clip,
- cobble,
- commission,
- compress,
- compression,
- condensation,
- condense,
- condition,
- conspectus,
- contract,
- copy,
- core,
- count up,
- critique,
- crop,
- curtail,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- darn,
- detail,
- do up,
- dock,
- doctor,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- elide,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- epitome,
- epitomize,
- essence,
- figure up,
- fix,
- fix up,
- foot up,
- foreshorten,
- foreshortening,
- gist,
- going over,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- iteration,
- main point,
- meat,
- mend,
- mow,
- nip,
- overhaul,
- patch,
- patch up,
- pith,
- poll,
- pollard,
- practicing,
- precis,
- prune,
- put in commission,
- put in order,
- put in repair,
- put in shape,
- re-cover,
- ready,
- reaffirmation,
- reap,
- recapitulate,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- recite,
- reckon up,
- recondition,
- recount,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- reduce,
- reduction,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- relate,
- repair,
- reprint,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- retread,
- retrench,
- retrenchment,
- reupholster,
- review,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- score up,
- service,
- set to rights,
- sew up,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- shortening,
- snub,
- stunt,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summary,
- summate,
- summation,
- summing up,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- tally up,
- telescope,
- telescoping,
- tinker,
- tinker up,
- tot up,
- total,
- total up,
- tote up,
- trim,
- truncate,
- truncation
- wrinkle
collapse
- a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
- a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
- a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
- make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" related words >
- abbreviate,
- age,
- bezel,
- bonus,
- bristle,
- canal,
- canalize,
- carve,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chase,
- cheat the undertaker,
- chink,
- chisel,
- circumscribe,
- coarct,
- cocker,
- cockle,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- crack,
- cramp,
- crankle,
- cranny,
- craze,
- crease,
- crimp,
- crimple,
- crinkle,
- crumple,
- curtail,
- cut,
- dado,
- decline,
- decoration,
- decrease,
- dike,
- ditch,
- dodder,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- engrave,
- engraving,
- extra,
- extra added attraction,
- extra dash,
- fad,
- faddiness,
- faddishness,
- faddism,
- faddist,
- fade,
- fail,
- filigree,
- filling,
- fillip,
- flourish,
- flute,
- fluting,
- fold,
- frill,
- furrow,
- gash,
- get along,
- get on,
- goffer,
- gouge,
- groove,
- grow old,
- gully,
- incise,
- incision,
- knit,
- knot,
- lagniappe,
- microgroove,
- narrow,
- novelty,
- ornament,
- padding,
- pleat,
- plica,
- plow,
- premium,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- rabbet,
- rage,
- reduce,
- ridge,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rimple,
- ripple,
- rivel,
- ruck,
- ruckle,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- rut,
- score,
- scratch,
- screw,
- scrunch,
- set on edge,
- shake,
- shirr,
- shorten,
- shrivel,
- sink,
- slit,
- solidify,
- something extra,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- streak,
- stria,
- striate,
- striation,
- stuffing,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- superaddition,
- totter,
- trench,
- trimming,
- trough,
- turn gray,
- turn white,
- twist,
- wane,
- waste away,
- well-worn groove,
- wimple,
- wither,
- wizen
- abate,
- abbreviate,
- abrade,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- arrest,
- bate,
- bereave,
- bleed,
- bob,
- boil down,
- bridle,
- capsulize,
- check,
- circumscribe,
- clip,
- coarct,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- constrain,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contain,
- contract,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- cramp,
- crop,
- curb,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decelerate,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- deprive,
- deprive of,
- derogate,
- detract,
- diminish,
- disentitle,
- disparage,
- divest,
- dock,
- dompt,
- downgrade,
- drain,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- ease one of,
- eat away,
- elide,
- enjoin,
- epitomize,
- erode,
- extract,
- file away,
- foreshorten,
- govern,
- guard,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- impair,
- inhibit,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- knit,
- lay under restraint,
- leach,
- lessen,
- lighten one of,
- lower,
- milk,
- mine,
- minify,
- mow,
- narrow,
- nip,
- pare,
- poll,
- pollard,
- prohibit,
- prune,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- pull,
- pull in,
- purify,
- purse,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- refine,
- rein,
- rein in,
- remove,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- rub away,
- scale down,
- set back,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- simplify,
- slash,
- slow down,
- snub,
- solidify,
- step down,
- straiten,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- stunt,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take away,
- take away from,
- take from,
- take in,
- tap,
- telescope,
- thin,
- thin out,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- wear away,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- withhold,
- wrinkle
- pucker
collapse
- an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
- become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" related words >
- abbreviate,
- agitation,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bother,
- botheration,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- chaos,
- circumscribe,
- cloud,
- coarct,
- cocker,
- cockle,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- concern,
- concernment,
- condense,
- confusion,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- cramp,
- crankle,
- crease,
- crimp,
- crimple,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- crumple,
- curtail,
- daze,
- decrease,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertion,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dither,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- dread,
- embarrassment,
- fear,
- flap,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flusteration,
- flustration,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fold,
- foofaraw,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- furrow,
- fuss,
- gather,
- haze,
- inquietude,
- jumble,
- knit,
- knot,
- lather,
- malaise,
- maze,
- mess,
- misgiving,
- mist,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- narrow,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- overanxiety,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pins and needles,
- pleat,
- pother,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- reduce,
- ridge,
- rimple,
- ripple,
- rivel,
- ruche,
- ruck,
- ruckle,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- screw up,
- shirr,
- shirring,
- shorten,
- shuffle,
- solicitude,
- solidify,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- strain,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- suspense,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tension,
- tighten,
- tizzy,
- trouble,
- tuck,
- twitter,
- twitteration,
- uneasiness,
- unquietness,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vexation,
- wimple,
- wrinkle,
- wrinkling,
- zeal
- stunt
collapse
- a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
- a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
- perform a stunt or stunts
- check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- acting,
- action,
- adventure,
- arrest,
- bank,
- blow,
- bob,
- boil down,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- caper,
- capsulize,
- characterization,
- check,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- coup,
- crab,
- crop,
- curb,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- dealings,
- deed,
- delimit,
- dido,
- dip,
- dock,
- doing,
- doings,
- dwarf,
- effort,
- elide,
- end,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- epitomize,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- feather,
- fishtail,
- foreshorten,
- gag,
- gest,
- go,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hamper,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- hinder,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hold back,
- impair,
- impede,
- impersonation,
- job,
- limit,
- loop,
- maneuver,
- measure,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- move,
- mow,
- mummery,
- nip,
- operation,
- overacting,
- overt act,
- pantomiming,
- passage,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playacting,
- playing,
- plow,
- poll,
- pollard,
- porpoise,
- portrayal,
- proceeding,
- production,
- projection,
- prune,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- push down,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- representation,
- res gestae,
- restrict,
- retard,
- retrench,
- roll,
- runty,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- sideslip,
- skid,
- slapstick,
- slow,
- snub,
- spin,
- spiral,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- step,
- stop,
- stroke,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- suppress,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- taking a role,
- telescope,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trick,
- trim,
- truncate,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- undulate,
- work,
- works,
- yaw
- strangle
collapse
- die from strangulation
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" related words >
- OD,
- abbreviate,
- asphyxiate,
- bang,
- bar,
- barricade,
- batten,
- batten down,
- be killed,
- behead,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- bolt,
- bottle up,
- bowstring,
- burke,
- burn,
- button,
- button up,
- censor,
- chock,
- choke,
- choke off,
- circumscribe,
- clamp down on,
- clap,
- close,
- close off,
- close tight,
- close up,
- coarct,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contain,
- contract,
- cork,
- cork up,
- cover,
- crack down on,
- cramp,
- crowd,
- crucify,
- crush,
- curtail,
- damp down,
- debar,
- decapitate,
- decollate,
- decrease,
- defenestrate,
- deflate,
- disarm,
- dog,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- drown,
- electrocute,
- enchain,
- execute,
- extinguish,
- famish,
- fasten,
- fold,
- fold up,
- gag,
- garrote,
- guillotine,
- hamstring,
- handcuff,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hold down,
- inflict capital punishment,
- jam,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- key,
- kill,
- knit,
- knock out,
- lapidate,
- latch,
- lock,
- lock out,
- lock up,
- manacle,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- narrow,
- obstruct,
- occlude,
- pack,
- padlock,
- paralyze,
- plumb,
- pour water on,
- prostrate,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to death,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- reduce,
- repress,
- seal,
- seal off,
- seal up,
- secure,
- shoot,
- shorten,
- shush,
- shut,
- shut down on,
- shut off,
- shut out,
- shut the door,
- shut tight,
- shut up,
- silence,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- slam,
- smash,
- smother,
- snap,
- snuff out,
- solidify,
- squash,
- squeeze,
- squeeze shut,
- squelch,
- stamp out,
- stanch,
- starve,
- stifle,
- stone,
- stop the breath,
- stop up,
- strangulate,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- suffocate,
- suppress,
- throttle,
- trample out,
- trample underfoot,
- truss up,
- wrinkle,
- zip up,
- zipper
- strike out
collapse
- set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own"
- put out or be put out by a strikeout; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning"
- make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body
- be unsuccessful in an endeavor; "The candidate struck out with his health care plan" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- be off,
- bear,
- bear for,
- bear up for,
- bear up to,
- beget,
- blot,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bomb,
- bowdlerize,
- break for,
- breed,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- call into being,
- cancel,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- censor,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- coin,
- conceive,
- concoct,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- crap out,
- cross out,
- cut,
- cut and thrust,
- cut out,
- dash for,
- dele,
- delete,
- deport,
- design,
- develop,
- devise,
- discover,
- dispose of,
- draw a blank,
- dream up,
- drop a bomb,
- drop the ball,
- edit,
- edit out,
- efface,
- eject,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- engender,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- evolve,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- fabricate,
- fan,
- feint,
- flail at,
- flail away at,
- flop,
- flummox,
- fold,
- fold up,
- frame,
- generate,
- get left,
- get off,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- go for,
- go forth,
- hatch,
- head,
- hit at,
- hit for,
- improvise,
- invent,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- kill,
- lash out at,
- lay an egg,
- lay for,
- let drive at,
- let fly at,
- light out,
- liquidate,
- lose out,
- lunge at,
- make,
- make do with,
- make for,
- make up,
- make up to,
- mature,
- mint,
- not hack it,
- not make it,
- obliterate,
- omit,
- originate,
- outlaw,
- outset,
- outstart,
- pick out,
- plan,
- poke at,
- procreate,
- purge,
- put forth,
- raze,
- remove,
- rescind,
- root out,
- root up,
- rub out,
- rule out,
- run for,
- sail for,
- sally,
- sally forth,
- scratch,
- scratch out,
- set,
- set forth,
- set forward,
- set off,
- set out,
- set out for,
- spawn,
- sponge,
- sponge out,
- start,
- start off,
- start out,
- steer for,
- strike,
- strike at,
- strike off,
- strike out at,
- swing at,
- swing on,
- take off,
- take the count,
- think out,
- think up,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- thrust at,
- void,
- weed out,
- whiff,
- wipe out
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