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absolute contradiction
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disaffirmation
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related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
denial
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
impugnment
,
nullification
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
disproof
collapse
any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
impugnment
,
nullification
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
disavowal
collapse
denial of any connection with or knowledge of
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
expatriation
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
impugnment
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
unsaying
,
withdrawal
abrogation
collapse
the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
impugnment
,
invalidation
,
nullification
,
recall
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
renege
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
reversal
,
revocation
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
setting aside
,
suspension
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
write-off
revocation
collapse
the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done; "the revocation of a law"
the state of being cancelled or annulled
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
expatriation
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
impugnment
,
invalidation
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
recall
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
renege
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
reversal
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
setting aside
,
suspension
,
unsaying
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
write-off
disclaimer
collapse
(law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclamation
,
disobedience
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
dissent
,
expatriation
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
holding back
,
impugnment
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonobservance
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
retention
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
unsaying
,
unwillingness
,
withdrawal
,
withholding
disownment
collapse
refusal to acknowledge as one's own
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
declination
,
declining
,
denial
,
despisal
,
despising
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discounting
,
disendowment
,
disherison
,
disinheritance
,
dismissal
,
disowning
,
dispossession
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
disseisin
,
eviction
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
expropriation
,
foreclosure
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconsideration
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
reclaiming
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repossessing
,
repossession
,
repudiation
,
repulse
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
scouting
,
spurning
,
throwing out
,
turning out
,
unsaying
,
withdrawal
refutation
collapse
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it"
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
answer
,
argument
,
argumentum
,
case
,
complete answer
,
confounding
,
confutation
,
cons
,
consideration
,
contradiction
,
contraremonstrance
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
counteraccusation
,
counterblast
,
countercharge
,
counterclaim
,
countering
,
counterreply
,
counterstatement
,
crossing
,
defense
,
demolition
,
demurrer
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discrediting
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
effective rejoinder
,
elenchus
,
exception
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
ignoratio elenchi
,
impugnment
,
nullification
,
objection
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
plaidoyer
,
plea
,
pleading
,
pleadings
,
pros
,
pros and cons
,
reason
,
rebuttal
,
rebutter
,
recantation
,
refutal
,
rejoinder
,
renunciation
,
replication
,
reply
,
repudiation
,
response
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
riposte
,
special demurrer
,
special pleading
,
squelch
,
statement of defense
,
subversion
,
surrebuttal
,
surrebutter
,
surrejoinder
,
talking point
,
undermining
,
upset
,
upsetting
abjuration
collapse
related words >
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
cessation
,
cession
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
cold storage
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
declination
,
declining
,
denial
,
desistance
,
despisal
,
despising
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discontinuance
,
discounting
,
dismissal
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dropping out
,
dumping
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forbearance
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
handing over
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
letting go
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconsideration
,
nonexercise
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
repulse
,
resignation
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
scouting
,
spurning
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
throwing out
,
turning out
,
unsaying
,
waiver
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawing
,
yielding
annulment
collapse
(law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annihilation
,
broken home
,
broken marriage
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
choking
,
choking off
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
counterbalancing
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
decree of nullity
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
deracination
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
dissolution of marriage
,
divorce
,
divorcement
,
elimination
,
eradication
,
extermination
,
extinction
,
extinguishment
,
extirpation
,
forswearing
,
frustration
,
gainsaying
,
grasswidowhood
,
impugnment
,
interlocutory decree
,
invalidation
,
liquidation
,
negation
,
neutralization
,
nullification
,
offsetting
,
purge
,
recall
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
renege
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
reversal
,
revocation
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
rooting out
,
separate maintenance
,
separation
,
setting aside
,
silencing
,
snuffing out
,
stifling
,
strangulation
,
suffocation
,
suppression
,
suspension
,
thwarting
,
undoing
,
uprooting
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
vitiation
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
write-off
retraction
collapse
the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back; "the retraction of the landing gear"; "retraction of the foreskin"
a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
related words >
abandonment
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
attrition
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
cession
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
detraction
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disparagement
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
dumping
,
expatriation
,
extraction
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
impairment
,
impugnment
,
invalidation
,
lessening
,
letting go
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
recall
,
recantation
,
recedence
,
receding
,
recession
,
reduction
,
refutation
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
remission
,
renege
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
resignation
,
retirement
,
retractation
,
retractility
,
retreat
,
retrenchment
,
retrocedence
,
reversal
,
revocation
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
setting aside
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
truncation
,
unsaying
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
write-off
,
yielding
renunciation
collapse
the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
related words >
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
apostasy
,
breakoff
,
capitulation
,
cease
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
cession
,
close
,
closing
,
cold storage
,
constraint
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
crossing-over
,
defection
,
degeneration
,
denial
,
desertion
,
desinence
,
desistance
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discontinuance
,
discontinuation
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
dropping out
,
dumping
,
eschewing
,
expatriation
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
frugality
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving in
,
giving over
,
giving up
,
golden mean
,
handing over
,
impugnment
,
letting go
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
nonexercise
,
nothing in excess
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
recantation
,
recedence
,
recession
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
reoccupy
,
repossess
,
repudiation
,
resignation
,
restraint
,
retake
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
retreat
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
self-sacrifice
,
shutdown
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stopping
,
surcease
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
termination
,
treason
,
unsaying
,
waiver
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawing
,
yielding
nullification
collapse
the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annihilation
,
annulment
,
autarky
,
bimetallism
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
choking
,
choking off
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
counterbalancing
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
deracination
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
economic self-sufficiency
,
elimination
,
eradication
,
extermination
,
extinction
,
extinguishment
,
extirpation
,
forswearing
,
free enterprise
,
free trade
,
frustration
,
gainsaying
,
governmentalism
,
impugnment
,
invalidation
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
line
,
liquidation
,
localism
,
managed currency
,
negation
,
neutralization
,
noninterference
,
nonintervention
,
offsetting
,
party line
,
party principle
,
planned economy
,
policy
,
polity
,
position
,
price supports
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
public policy
,
pump-priming
,
purge
,
recall
,
recantation
,
refutation
,
renege
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
reversal
,
revocation
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
rooting out
,
sectionalism
,
setting aside
,
silencing
,
snuffing out
,
stifling
,
strangulation
,
suffocation
,
suppression
,
suspension
,
thwarting
,
undoing
,
uprooting
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
vitiation
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
write-off
paradox
collapse
(logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
related words >
Gordian knot
,
absurdity
,
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
antinomy
,
asymmetry
,
contradiction
,
crux
,
dilemma
,
disproportion
,
disproportionateness
,
enigma
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
hopelessness
,
impossibility
,
impossible
,
impossibleness
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
inconceivability
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
irony
,
irreconcilability
,
knot
,
knotty point
,
mystery
,
no chance
,
node
,
nodus
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformity
,
nonplus
,
oxymoron
,
perplexity
,
pons asinorum
,
poser
,
problem
,
puzzle
,
quandary
,
self-contradiction
,
teaser
,
the impossible
,
unconformability
,
unconformity
,
unimaginability
,
unorthodoxy
,
unthinkability
,
vexed question
,
what cannot be
,
what cannot happen
recantation
collapse
related words >
abandonment
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
cession
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
despisal
,
despising
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discounting
,
dismissal
,
disobedience
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissent
,
dumping
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
holding back
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
invalidation
,
letting go
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonconsideration
,
nonobservance
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recall
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renege
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
repulse
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
resignation
,
retention
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
reversal
,
revocation
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
scouting
,
setting aside
,
spurning
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
throwing out
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
turning out
,
unsaying
,
unwillingness
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
withholding
,
write-off
,
yielding
crossing
collapse
traveling across
a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
approach
,
asymptote
,
bottleneck
,
bucking
,
carrefour
,
challenge
,
cloverleaf
,
collision course
,
commutation
,
concentralization
,
concentration
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confluence
,
conflux
,
congress
,
contention
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
contraversion
,
controversion
,
convergence
,
converging
,
counteraction
,
countering
,
counterworking
,
course
,
crossbreeding
,
crosscurrent
,
crosspoint
,
crossroad
,
crosswalk
,
crossway
,
crosswise
,
cruise
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
flyover
,
focalization
,
focus
,
forswearing
,
funnel
,
gainsaying
,
globe-trotting
,
going
,
grade crossing
,
head wind
,
hub
,
hybridism
,
hybridization
,
impugnation
,
impugnment
,
interbreeding
,
intercrossing
,
intersection
,
journeying
,
leg
,
level crossing
,
locomotion
,
meeting
,
miscegenation
,
mongrelism
,
motion
,
movement
,
moving
,
mutual approach
,
narrowing gap
,
negation
,
nullification
,
ocean trip
,
opposing
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnation
,
overcrossing
,
overpass
,
passage
,
progress
,
radius
,
rebutment
,
rebuttal
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
resistance
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
rotary
,
run
,
sail
,
sea trip
,
shakedown cruise
,
spokes
,
standing against
,
tangent
,
thwart
,
tourism
,
touristry
,
traffic circle
,
traject
,
trajet
,
transit
,
transversal
,
travel
,
traveling
,
traversal
,
traverse
,
undercrossing
,
undercurrent
,
viaduct
,
voyage
autocrat
collapse
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
warlord
collapse
supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tyrant
,
usurper
martinet
collapse
someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
usurper
collapse
one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
pretender
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tyrant
,
warlord
disciplinarian
collapse
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
taskmaster
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
Simon Legree
collapse
the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
related words >
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
taskmaster
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
despot
collapse
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
strong man
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
repudiation
collapse
the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"
rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
annulment
,
apostasy
,
bad debt
,
ban
,
bar
,
barring
,
blockade
,
boycott
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
circumscription
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
counter-culture
,
countering
,
crossing
,
debarment
,
debarring
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
default
,
defection
,
delinquence
,
delinquency
,
demarcation
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
despisal
,
despising
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discounting
,
dishonor
,
dishonoring
,
dismissal
,
disobedience
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissidence
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
embargo
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
holding back
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
inadmissibility
,
injunction
,
lockout
,
minority opinion
,
narrowing
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonadmission
,
nonagreement
,
nonapproval
,
nonassent
,
noncompliance
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
nonconsideration
,
nondischarge of debts
,
nonobservance
,
nonpayment
,
nonremittal
,
nullification
,
omission
,
opposition
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
preclusion
,
prohibition
,
protest
,
protested bill
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
relegation
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repulse
,
restriction
,
retention
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
scouting
,
secession
,
spurning
,
taboo
,
throwing out
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
turning out
,
uncollectible
,
underground
,
unsaying
,
unwillingness
,
variance
,
withdrawal
,
withholding
tyrant
collapse
a cruel and oppressive dictator
any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
authoritarian
,
autocrat
,
bully
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
overlord
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
strong man
,
totalitarian
,
usurper
,
warlord
dictator
collapse
a ruler who is unconstrained by law
a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocrat
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
disciplinarian
,
doctrinaire
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
overlord
,
pharaoh
,
slave driver
,
stern
,
stickler
,
strong man
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
contradiction
collapse
the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
answer
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
argumentation
,
backlash
,
bucking
,
challenge
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
clashing
,
collision
,
complete answer
,
conflict
,
confounding
,
confrontation
,
confutation
,
contempt
,
contention
,
contradistinction
,
contraindication
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrary assertion
,
contrast
,
contravention
,
contraversion
,
controversion
,
controversy
,
counteraction
,
countering
,
counterposition
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
cross-purposes
,
crosscurrent
,
crossing
,
crotchetiness
,
declination
,
declining
,
demolition
,
denial
,
despisal
,
despising
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discounting
,
discrediting
,
discrepancy
,
disharmony
,
dismissal
,
disownment
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
effective rejoinder
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
faction
,
forswearing
,
friction
,
gainsaying
,
head wind
,
hostility
,
ignoring
,
impugnation
,
impugnment
,
inaccordance
,
inconsistency
,
inequality
,
inimicalness
,
interference
,
jarring
,
kick
,
negation
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsideration
,
nullification
,
opposing
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
oppugnation
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
passing by
,
perverseness
,
perversity
,
polarity
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
rebutment
,
rebuttal
,
recalcitrance
,
recantation
,
recoil
,
refusal
,
refutal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
renitency
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repercussion
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
resistance
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revolt
,
scouting
,
showdown
,
spurning
,
squelch
,
standing against
,
subversion
,
swimming upstream
,
throwing out
,
traversal
,
turning out
,
undercurrent
,
undermining
,
unharmoniousness
,
upset
,
upsetting
,
variance
oppressor
collapse
a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
bully
,
caesar
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
intimidator
,
iron hand
,
martinet
,
oligarch
,
overlord
,
persecutor
,
pharaoh
,
scourge
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
strong man
,
taskmaster
,
tormentor
,
torturer
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
Jehovah
collapse
related words >
Almighty God
,
Alpha and Omega
,
Demiourgos
,
Demiurge
,
God
,
God Almighty
,
Heaven
,
I Am
,
King of Kings
,
Lord
,
Lord of Lords
,
Lord of hosts
,
Omnipotence
,
Omniscience
,
Providence
,
the Absolute
,
the Absolute Being
,
the All-holy
,
the All-knowing
,
the All-merciful
,
the All-powerful
,
the All-wise
,
the Almighty
,
the Creator
,
the Deity
,
the Divinity
,
the Eternal
,
the Eternal Being
,
the First Cause
,
the Infinite
,
the Infinite Spirit
,
the Maker
,
the Omnipotent
,
the Omniscient
,
the Preserver
,
the Supreme Being
,
the Supreme Soul
undermining
collapse
related words >
answer
,
complete answer
,
confounding
,
confutation
,
contradiction
,
controversion
,
demolition
,
denial
,
discrediting
,
effective rejoinder
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
rebuttal
,
refutal
,
refutation
,
squelch
,
subversion
,
upset
,
upsetting
,
wreckage
,
wrecking
antinomy
collapse
a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
related words >
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
asymmetry
,
disproportion
,
disproportionateness
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
irony
,
irreconcilability
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformity
,
oxymoron
,
paradox
,
self-contradiction
,
unconformability
,
unconformity
,
unorthodoxy
caesar
collapse
conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)
United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922)
related words >
Dalai Lama
,
Holy Roman Emperor
,
Inca
,
Kaiser
,
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
ardri
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
bey
,
cacique
,
cham
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
kaid
,
khan
,
martinet
,
mikado
,
negus
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
padishah
,
pendragon
,
pharaoh
,
rig
,
sachem
,
sagamore
,
shah
,
sheikh
,
shogun
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tenno
,
tycoon
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
pharaoh
collapse
the title of the ancient Egyptian kings
related words >
Dalai Lama
,
Holy Roman Emperor
,
Inca
,
Kaiser
,
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
ardri
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
bey
,
cacique
,
caesar
,
cham
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
kaid
,
khan
,
martinet
,
mikado
,
negus
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
padishah
,
pendragon
,
rig
,
sachem
,
sagamore
,
shah
,
sheikh
,
shogun
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tenno
,
tycoon
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
czar
collapse
a person having great power
a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
related words >
Dalai Lama
,
Holy Roman Emperor
,
Inca
,
Kaiser
,
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
ardri
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
bey
,
cacique
,
caesar
,
cham
,
commissar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
hard master
,
kaid
,
khan
,
martinet
,
mikado
,
negus
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
padishah
,
pendragon
,
pharaoh
,
rig
,
sachem
,
sagamore
,
shah
,
sheikh
,
shogun
,
slave driver
,
stickler
,
tenno
,
tycoon
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
contraindication
collapse
(medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment
related words >
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
clashing
,
collision
,
conflict
,
confrontation
,
contradiction
,
contradistinction
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrast
,
counterposition
,
cross-purposes
,
disagreement
,
discrepancy
,
hostility
,
inconsistency
,
inimicalness
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
perversity
,
polarity
,
repugnance
,
showdown
stickler
collapse
someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"
related words >
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
ass
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
bigot
,
bitter-ender
,
bullethead
,
caesar
,
captious critic
,
commissar
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
diehard
,
disciplinarian
,
dogmatist
,
donkey
,
driver
,
duce
,
fanatic
,
hard master
,
hardnose
,
intransigeant
,
intransigent
,
last-ditcher
,
martinet
,
maverick
,
mule
,
nitpicker
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
perfectionist
,
perverse fool
,
pharaoh
,
pighead
,
positivist
,
precisian
,
precisianist
,
purist
,
slave driver
,
standpat
,
standpatter
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
showdown
collapse
related words >
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
clashing
,
climax
,
collision
,
conflict
,
confrontation
,
contradiction
,
contradistinction
,
contraindication
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrast
,
counterposition
,
cross-purposes
,
disagreement
,
discrepancy
,
hostility
,
inconsistency
,
inimicalness
,
moment of truth
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
perversity
,
polarity
,
repugnance
demolition
collapse
the act of demolishing
related words >
answer
,
complete answer
,
confounding
,
confutation
,
contradiction
,
controversion
,
demolishment
,
denial
,
disassembly
,
discrediting
,
dismantlement
,
effective rejoinder
,
flattening
,
leveling
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
razing
,
rebuttal
,
refutal
,
refutation
,
smashing
,
squelch
,
subversion
,
tearing down
,
undermining
,
unmaking
,
upset
,
upsetting
,
wreckage
,
wrecking
slave driver
collapse
a supervisor of slaves at work
a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees
related words >
Big Brother
,
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
auditor
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
boatswain
,
boss
,
caesar
,
chief
,
commissar
,
comptroller
,
controller
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
floor manager
,
floorman
,
floorwalker
,
foreman
,
gaffer
,
ganger
,
hard master
,
head
,
headman
,
inspector
,
martinet
,
monitor
,
noncommissioned officer
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
overman
,
overseer
,
pharaoh
,
proctor
,
sirdar
,
stickler
,
straw boss
,
subforeman
,
super
,
superintendent
,
supervisor
,
surveyor
,
taskmaster
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
visitor
,
warlord
fuhrer
collapse
related words >
Mahdi
,
Simon Legree
,
absolute monarch
,
absolute ruler
,
all-powerful ruler
,
arrogator
,
autarch
,
autocrat
,
bell cow
,
bell mare
,
bellwether
,
born leader
,
caesar
,
charismatic leader
,
choirmaster
,
choragus
,
commissar
,
conductor
,
coryphaeus
,
czar
,
despot
,
dictator
,
disciplinarian
,
driver
,
duce
,
file leader
,
forerunner
,
fugleman
,
hard master
,
inspired leader
,
leader
,
leader of men
,
martinet
,
messiah
,
oligarch
,
oppressor
,
pacemaker
,
pacesetter
,
pharaoh
,
precentor
,
ringleader
,
slave driver
,
standard-bearer
,
stickler
,
symphonic conductor
,
torchbearer
,
tyrant
,
usurper
,
warlord
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