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minutiae
collapse
related words >
ace
,
article
,
aspect
,
atom
,
bit
,
bric-a-brac
,
case
,
chaff
,
chicken feed
,
chickenshit
,
count
,
crumb
,
dab
,
datum
,
detail
,
details
,
dole
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
drop
,
droplet
,
dwarf
,
element
,
facet
,
fact
,
factor
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
froth
,
gimcrackery
,
gnat
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
incidental
,
instance
,
iota
,
item
,
jot
,
knickknackery
,
little
,
little bit
,
matter
,
microbe
,
microorganism
,
midge
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minor detail
,
minutia
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
ounce
,
particle
,
particular
,
peanuts
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
pinhead
,
pinpoint
,
pittance
,
point
,
regard
,
respect
,
rubbish
,
scrap
,
scruple
,
small beer
,
small change
,
small potatoes
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
snip
,
snippet
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
thimbleful
,
thing
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trash
,
trifles
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
triviality
,
trumpery
,
vanishing point
,
whit
slum
collapse
a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity
related words >
Augean stables
,
Bowery
,
Chinatown
,
East End
,
East Side
,
Little Hungary
,
Little Italy
,
West End
,
West Side
,
barrio
,
black ghetto
,
blighted area
,
business district
,
central city
,
city center
,
core
,
downtown
,
dump
,
ghetto
,
greenbelt
,
hole
,
hovel
,
inner city
,
midtown
,
muck
,
outskirts
,
pesthole
,
pigpen
,
pigsty
,
plague spot
,
red-light district
,
residential district
,
rookery
,
run-down neighborhood
,
shopping center
,
skid
,
skid road
,
skid row
,
slab
,
slums
,
stable
,
stew
,
sty
,
suburbia
,
suburbs
,
tenderloin
,
tenement
,
tenement district
,
the slums
,
uptown
,
urban blight
,
warren
tenement
collapse
a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
related words >
Augean stables
,
acres
,
apartment
,
apartment house
,
chambers
,
chattels real
,
cold-water flat
,
condominium
,
cooperative apartment house
,
demesne
,
domain
,
dump
,
duplex
,
duplex apartment
,
duplex house
,
flat
,
flats
,
garden apartment
,
grounds
,
high-rise apartment building
,
hole
,
honor
,
hovel
,
land
,
landed property
,
lands
,
lodgings
,
lot
,
lots
,
manor
,
messuage
,
parcel
,
penthouse
,
pesthole
,
pigpen
,
pigsty
,
plague spot
,
plat
,
plot
,
praedium
,
property
,
quadrat
,
railroad flat
,
real estate
,
real property
,
realty
,
rental
,
rookery
,
rooms
,
set of rooms
,
slum
,
stable
,
sty
,
suite
,
tenements
,
the slums
,
toft
,
warren
groat
collapse
related words >
ace
,
air pollution
,
atom
,
attritus
,
bawbee
,
bit
,
bran
,
cosmic dust
,
crown
,
crumb
,
crumble
,
dab
,
dole
,
dollar
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dust
,
dust ball
,
dwarf
,
efflorescence
,
fallout
,
farina
,
farthing
,
filings
,
fiver
,
fleck
,
florin
,
flour
,
flyspeck
,
fourpence
,
fourpenny
,
fragment
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
grits
,
groats
,
guinea
,
hair
,
half crown
,
half dollar
,
halfpenny
,
handful
,
iota
,
jot
,
kittens
,
lint
,
little
,
little bit
,
mag
,
meal
,
meg
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
monkey
,
mote
,
new pence
,
np
,
nutshell
,
ounce
,
p
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pence
,
penny
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
pony
,
pound
,
powder
,
pussies
,
quid
,
raspings
,
sawdust
,
scruple
,
shilling
,
sixpence
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
smut
,
soot
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
tenner
,
thimbleful
,
threepence
,
threepenny bit
,
thrippence
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
tuppence
,
twopence
,
whit
back stairs
collapse
related words >
back door
,
back road
,
back street
,
back way
,
bolt-hole
,
by-lane
,
bypass
,
bypath
,
byroad
,
bystreet
,
byway
,
companion
,
companionway
,
covert way
,
detour
,
escalier
,
escalier derobe
,
escape hatch
,
escape route
,
fire escape
,
flight of steps
,
incline
,
landing
,
landing stage
,
perron
,
ramp
,
roundabout way
,
secret exit
,
secret passage
,
secret staircase
,
side door
,
side road
,
side street
,
spiral staircase
,
staircase
,
stairs
,
stairway
,
stepping-stones
,
steps
,
stile
,
treads and risers
,
underground
,
underground railroad
,
underground route
col
collapse
a pass between mountain peaks
related words >
abysm
,
abyss
,
arroyo
,
box canyon
,
breach
,
break
,
canyon
,
cavity
,
chap
,
chasm
,
check
,
chimney
,
chine
,
chink
,
cleft
,
cleuch
,
clough
,
comb
,
coulee
,
couloir
,
crack
,
cranny
,
crevasse
,
crevice
,
cut
,
cwm
,
defile
,
dell
,
dike
,
ditch
,
donga
,
draw
,
esker
,
excavation
,
fault
,
fissure
,
flaw
,
flume
,
fracture
,
furrow
,
gap
,
gape
,
gash
,
gorge
,
groove
,
gulch
,
gulf
,
gully
,
hogback
,
hole
,
horseback
,
incision
,
joint
,
kame
,
kloof
,
leak
,
moat
,
notch
,
nullah
,
opening
,
pass
,
passage
,
ravine
,
rent
,
ridge
,
rift
,
rime
,
rupture
,
saddle
,
saddleback
,
scissure
,
seam
,
slit
,
slot
,
spine
,
split
,
trench
,
valley
,
void
,
wadi
ruff
collapse
(card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season
related words >
ace
,
barrage
,
beat
,
beating
,
best bower
,
bower
,
cards
,
clubs
,
crease
,
crimp
,
crisp
,
deck
,
deuce
,
diamonds
,
dog-ear
,
double
,
double over
,
drum
,
drum music
,
drumbeat
,
drumfire
,
drumming
,
dummy
,
enfold
,
face cards
,
flounce
,
flush
,
flute
,
flutter
,
fold
,
fold over
,
frill
,
full house
,
gather
,
hand
,
hearts
,
infold
,
interfold
,
jack
,
joker
,
king
,
knave
,
lap over
,
left bower
,
pack
,
pair
,
palpitation
,
paradiddle
,
patter
,
picture cards
,
pitapat
,
pitter-patter
,
plait
,
plat
,
playing cards
,
pleat
,
plicate
,
ply
,
pound
,
pounding
,
pulsation
,
queen
,
quill
,
rat-a-tat
,
rat-tat
,
rat-tat-tat
,
rataplan
,
rattattoo
,
roll
,
round
,
royal flush
,
rub-a-dub
,
rubber
,
ruffle
,
singleton
,
spades
,
spatter
,
splutter
,
sputter
,
staccato
,
straight
,
tat-tat
,
tattoo
,
throb
,
throbbing
,
thrum
,
thumping
,
tom-tom
,
trey
,
trick
,
trump
,
tuck
,
turn over
,
twill
prodigy
collapse
an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality; "the Marines are expected to perform prodigies of valor"
an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration; "she is a chess prodigy"
related words >
A per se
,
abnormality
,
ace
,
amazement
,
anomaly
,
astonishing thing
,
astonishment
,
boss
,
brain
,
champion
,
chief
,
child prodigy
,
commander
,
conversation piece
,
crackerjack
,
curio
,
curiosity
,
dean
,
enchantment
,
exception
,
fantasy
,
ferlie
,
first-rater
,
fugleman
,
gazingstock
,
genius
,
gifted child
,
gifted person
,
good hand
,
great
,
head
,
higher-up
,
improbability
,
intellect
,
intellectual genius
,
intellectual prodigy
,
laureate
,
leader
,
leading light
,
luminary
,
magician
,
mahatma
,
man of genius
,
man of parts
,
marvel
,
marvelment
,
master
,
master hand
,
mastermind
,
mental genius
,
mental giant
,
miracle
,
museum piece
,
natural
,
nonesuch
,
nonpareil
,
oddity
,
paragon
,
past master
,
phenomenon
,
practiced hand
,
principal
,
prodigiosity
,
quite a thing
,
rarity
,
ruler
,
sage
,
senior
,
sensation
,
sight
,
sign
,
skilled hand
,
something else
,
spectacle
,
star
,
strange thing
,
stunner
,
superior
,
superman
,
superstar
,
talent
,
the greatest
,
the most
,
top dog
,
topnotcher
,
virtuoso
,
whiz
,
wizard
,
wonder
,
wonderful thing
,
wonderment
,
wonderwork
drawer
collapse
a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
related words >
architectural draftsman
,
archives
,
armory
,
arsenal
,
attic
,
bank
,
basement
,
bay
,
bin
,
bonded warehouse
,
bookcase
,
box
,
bunker
,
buttery
,
cargo dock
,
caricaturist
,
cartoonist
,
cellar
,
chest
,
closet
,
conservatory
,
crate
,
crayonist
,
crib
,
cupboard
,
delineator
,
depository
,
depot
,
dock
,
draftsman
,
dump
,
exchequer
,
glory hole
,
godown
,
hold
,
hutch
,
library
,
locker
,
lumber room
,
lumberyard
,
magasin
,
magazine
,
pastelist
,
rack
,
repertory
,
repository
,
reservoir
,
rick
,
shelf
,
stack
,
stack room
,
stock room
,
storage
,
store
,
storehouse
,
storeroom
,
supply base
,
supply depot
,
tank
,
treasure house
,
treasure room
,
treasury
,
vat
,
vault
,
warehouse
,
wine cellar
comrade
collapse
a fellow member of the Communist Party
related words >
Bolshevik
,
Bolshie
,
Greek
,
Red
,
ace
,
adjunct
,
affiliate
,
ally
,
amigo
,
associate
,
auxiliary
,
bedfellow
,
bedmate
,
belonger
,
bosom buddy
,
brother
,
brother-in-arms
,
buddy
,
bunkie
,
bunkmate
,
butty
,
camarade
,
card-carrier
,
card-carrying member
,
cardholder
,
chamberfellow
,
charter member
,
chum
,
classmate
,
clubber
,
clubman
,
clubwoman
,
coadjutor
,
cohort
,
colleague
,
comate
,
commie
,
committeeman
,
companion
,
company
,
compatriot
,
compeer
,
confederate
,
confrere
,
consociate
,
consort
,
conventioneer
,
conventioner
,
conventionist
,
copartner
,
crony
,
dues-paying member
,
enlistee
,
enrollee
,
fellow
,
fellow member
,
fellow student
,
fraternity man
,
friend
,
girl friend
,
gossip
,
guildsman
,
honorary member
,
initiate
,
insider
,
joiner
,
life member
,
mate
,
member
,
messmate
,
old crony
,
one of us
,
pal
,
pard
,
pardner
,
partner
,
playfellow
,
playmate
,
pledge
,
roommate
,
running mate
,
schoolfellow
,
schoolmate
,
shipmate
,
side partner
,
sidekick
,
sister
,
socius
,
sorority girl
,
sorority woman
,
teammate
,
workfellow
,
yokefellow
,
yokemate
attic
collapse
(architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
informal terms for a human head
the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens
of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times; "Attic Greek"
related words >
archives
,
armory
,
arsenal
,
attic room
,
bank
,
basement
,
bay
,
bin
,
bonded warehouse
,
bookcase
,
box
,
bunker
,
buttery
,
cargo dock
,
cellar
,
chest
,
closet
,
cockloft
,
conservatory
,
crate
,
crib
,
cupboard
,
depository
,
depot
,
dock
,
drawer
,
dump
,
exchequer
,
garret
,
glory hole
,
godown
,
hayloft
,
hold
,
hutch
,
junk room
,
library
,
locker
,
loft
,
lumber room
,
lumberyard
,
magasin
,
magazine
,
rack
,
repertory
,
repository
,
reservoir
,
rick
,
shelf
,
sky parlor
,
stack
,
stack room
,
stock room
,
storage
,
store
,
storehouse
,
storeroom
,
supply base
,
supply depot
,
tank
,
treasure house
,
treasure room
,
treasury
,
vat
,
vault
,
warehouse
,
wine cellar
nifty
collapse
related words >
OK
,
ace-high
,
agile
,
apt
,
bad
,
bang-up
,
bonzer
,
boss
,
braw
,
bully
,
but good
,
chic
,
classy
,
clever
,
clothes-conscious
,
considerable
,
cool
,
corker
,
corking
,
cosmopolitan
,
crackerjack
,
daisy
,
dandy
,
dapper
,
dashing
,
delicious
,
dressed to advantage
,
dressed to kill
,
ducky
,
elegant
,
energetic
,
excellent
,
exquisite
,
fab
,
fine
,
fine and dandy
,
gear
,
genteel
,
good
,
great
,
groovy
,
healthy
,
heavy
,
hot
,
humdinger
,
hunky-dory
,
in good form
,
jam-up
,
jaunty
,
just dandy
,
keen
,
knockout
,
marvy
,
mean
,
modish
,
natty
,
neat
,
nobby
,
okay
,
out of sight
,
peach
,
peachy
,
peachy-keen
,
posh
,
profitable
,
quick
,
recherche
,
ripping
,
ritzy
,
rum
,
satisfactory
,
satisfying
,
scrumptious
,
sharp
,
slap-up
,
sleek
,
smart
,
smashing
,
smug
,
snazzy
,
soigne
,
soignee
,
solid
,
something else
,
sophisticated
,
spiffing
,
spiffy
,
splendid
,
spruce
,
spry
,
stunning
,
style-conscious
,
stylish
,
substantial
,
suitable
,
super
,
swank
,
swanky
,
swell
,
terrific
,
tough
,
tricksy
,
trig
,
trim
,
well-dressed
,
well-groomed
,
wizard
turbulence
collapse
unstable flow of a liquid or gas
a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
instability in the atmosphere
related words >
CAT
,
ado
,
aerospace
,
aerosphere
,
agitation
,
air flow
,
air hole
,
air pocket
,
airspace
,
asperity
,
babel
,
bluster
,
bobbery
,
boil
,
boiling
,
brawl
,
broil
,
brouhaha
,
bump
,
bumpiness
,
burble
,
bustle
,
cacophony
,
ceiling
,
chaos
,
choppiness
,
churn
,
commotion
,
confusion
,
conturbation
,
cragginess
,
crosswind
,
derangement
,
din
,
disarrangement
,
disarray
,
disarticulation
,
discomfiture
,
discomposure
,
disconcertedness
,
disharmony
,
dishevelment
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorganization
,
disproportion
,
disquiet
,
disquietude
,
disruption
,
disturbance
,
dither
,
ebullience
,
ebullition
,
eddy
,
effervescence
,
embroilment
,
empty space
,
entropy
,
excitement
,
fanaticism
,
favorable wind
,
feery-fary
,
ferment
,
fermentation
,
fever
,
feverishness
,
fidgets
,
fight
,
flap
,
flow
,
flurry
,
fluster
,
flutteration
,
fog
,
foment
,
fomentation
,
foofaraw
,
fracas
,
frenzy
,
front
,
fume
,
furor
,
furore
,
fury
,
fuss
,
granulation
,
haphazardness
,
harshness
,
head wind
,
high-pressure area
,
hispidity
,
hole
,
hubbub
,
hurly-burly
,
hurry
,
hurry-scurry
,
incoherence
,
indiscriminateness
,
inequality
,
inharmonious harmony
,
inquietude
,
ionosphere
,
irregularity
,
jaggedness
,
jetstream
,
jitters
,
joltiness
,
jumpiness
,
lather
,
low-pressure area
,
maelstrom
,
malaise
,
moil
,
most admired disorder
,
nerviness
,
nervosity
,
nervousness
,
nonsymmetry
,
nonuniformity
,
overcast
,
pandemonium
,
passion
,
pell-mell
,
perturbation
,
pocket
,
pother
,
promiscuity
,
promiscuousness
,
racket
,
rage
,
raggedness
,
randomness
,
restlessness
,
roil
,
rough air
,
roughness
,
rout
,
row
,
ruckus
,
ruffle
,
ruggedness
,
rugosity
,
rumpus
,
scraggliness
,
seethe
,
seething
,
soup
,
space
,
stew
,
stir
,
storminess
,
stratosphere
,
substratosphere
,
swirl
,
swirling
,
tail wind
,
tempestuousness
,
to-do
,
tooth
,
trepidation
,
trepidity
,
tropopause
,
troposphere
,
trough
,
tumult
,
tumultuation
,
tumultuousness
,
turbidity
,
turmoil
,
twitter
,
unease
,
unevenness
,
unrest
,
unruliness
,
unsmoothness
,
unsymmetry
,
ununiformity
,
uproar
,
upset
,
visibility
,
visibility zero
,
vortex
,
whirl
,
wildness
,
yeastiness
,
zeal
,
zealousness
ream
collapse
a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"
enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"
remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"
squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"
related words >
auger
,
bawl out
,
beat
,
bilk
,
bite
,
bore
,
broach
,
bugger
,
cardboard
,
chew
,
chew ass
,
chew out
,
chisel
,
countersink
,
cozen
,
cuss out
,
diddle
,
do
,
drill
,
empierce
,
fellate
,
fix
,
give a going-over
,
give hail Columbia
,
give hell
,
give the deuce
,
give what-for
,
gobs
,
gore
,
gouge
,
gouge out
,
gyp
,
heap
,
hole
,
honeycomb
,
impale
,
jack up
,
lambaste
,
lance
,
leaf
,
loads
,
mace
,
masturbate
,
needle
,
oodles
,
open up
,
page
,
paper
,
penetrate
,
perforate
,
pierce
,
pink
,
prick
,
punch
,
puncture
,
quantities
,
quire
,
ream ass
,
ream out
,
riddle
,
run through
,
screw
,
sheet
,
sit on
,
skewer
,
slew
,
sodomize
,
spear
,
spike
,
spit
,
stab
,
stationery
,
stick
,
tap
,
transfix
,
transpierce
,
trepan
,
trephine
,
wads
storeroom
collapse
a room in which things are stored
related words >
archives
,
armory
,
arsenal
,
attic
,
attic room
,
bank
,
basement
,
bay
,
bin
,
bonded warehouse
,
bookcase
,
box
,
bunker
,
buttery
,
cargo dock
,
cellar
,
chest
,
closet
,
cockloft
,
conservatory
,
crate
,
crib
,
cupboard
,
depository
,
depot
,
dock
,
drawer
,
dump
,
exchequer
,
garret
,
glory hole
,
godown
,
hayloft
,
hold
,
hutch
,
junk room
,
kitchen
,
library
,
locker
,
loft
,
lumber room
,
lumberyard
,
magasin
,
magazine
,
rack
,
repertory
,
repository
,
reservoir
,
rick
,
shelf
,
sky parlor
,
smoking room
,
stack
,
stack room
,
stock room
,
storage
,
store
,
storehouse
,
supply base
,
supply depot
,
tank
,
treasure house
,
treasure room
,
treasury
,
vat
,
vault
,
warehouse
,
wine cellar
shadowing
collapse
the act of following someone secretly
following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines"
related words >
ambuscade
,
ambush
,
ambushment
,
blackening
,
blind
,
blocking the light
,
booby trap
,
bugging
,
chase
,
chasing
,
cloak-and-dagger work
,
clouding
,
counterespionage
,
counterintelligence
,
darkening
,
dimming
,
dogging
,
eclipsing
,
electronic surveillance
,
espial
,
espionage
,
extinguishment
,
follow
,
follow-up
,
following
,
heeling
,
hounding
,
hue and cry
,
hunting
,
intelligence
,
intelligence work
,
lurking hole
,
military intelligence
,
obfuscation
,
obnubilation
,
obscuration
,
obscurement
,
observation
,
obumbration
,
occulting
,
overcast
,
overclouding
,
overshading
,
overshadowing
,
overshadowment
,
prosecution
,
pursual
,
pursuance
,
pursuing
,
pursuit
,
quest
,
searching
,
secret police
,
secret service
,
seeking
,
sequel
,
sequence
,
series
,
shading
,
spying
,
stakeout
,
stalking
,
stalking-horse
,
surveillance
,
tailing
,
tracking
,
tracking down
,
trailing
,
trap
,
wiretap
,
wiretapping
side door
collapse
an exterior door at one side of a building
related words >
French door
,
archway
,
back door
,
back road
,
back stairs
,
back street
,
back way
,
barway
,
bolt-hole
,
bulkhead
,
by-lane
,
bypass
,
bypath
,
byroad
,
bystreet
,
byway
,
carriage entrance
,
cellar door
,
cellarway
,
covert way
,
detour
,
door
,
doorjamb
,
doorpost
,
doorway
,
escalier derobe
,
escape hatch
,
escape route
,
front door
,
gate
,
gatepost
,
gateway
,
hatch
,
hatchway
,
lintel
,
porch
,
portal
,
porte cochere
,
postern
,
propylaeum
,
pylon
,
roundabout way
,
scuttle
,
secret exit
,
secret passage
,
secret staircase
,
side road
,
side street
,
stile
,
storm door
,
threshold
,
tollgate
,
trap
,
trap door
,
turnpike
,
turnstile
,
underground
,
underground railroad
,
underground route
dell
collapse
a small wooded hollow
related words >
abysm
,
abyss
,
arroyo
,
bottom
,
bottom glade
,
bottoms
,
box canyon
,
breach
,
break
,
canyon
,
cavity
,
chap
,
chasm
,
check
,
chimney
,
chink
,
cleft
,
cleuch
,
clough
,
col
,
coulee
,
couloir
,
crack
,
cranny
,
crevasse
,
crevice
,
cut
,
cwm
,
dale
,
defile
,
dike
,
dingle
,
ditch
,
donga
,
draw
,
excavation
,
fault
,
fissure
,
flaw
,
flume
,
fracture
,
furrow
,
gap
,
gape
,
gash
,
gill
,
glen
,
gorge
,
groove
,
grove
,
gulch
,
gulf
,
gully
,
hole
,
incision
,
intervale
,
joint
,
kloof
,
leak
,
lunar rill
,
moat
,
notch
,
nullah
,
opening
,
pass
,
passage
,
ravine
,
rent
,
rift
,
rime
,
rupture
,
scissure
,
seam
,
slit
,
slot
,
split
,
strath
,
trench
,
trough
,
vale
,
valley
,
void
,
wadi
ambush
collapse
the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
wait in hiding to attack
related words >
ambuscade
,
ambushment
,
assail
,
assault
,
astonish
,
attack
,
blind
,
blitz
,
booby trap
,
bushwhack
,
catch off-guard
,
catch unawares
,
come at
,
come down on
,
come from behind
,
come upon unexpectedly
,
cover
,
crack down on
,
descend on
,
descend upon
,
do the unexpected
,
drop in on
,
ensnare
,
entrap
,
fall on
,
fall upon
,
gang up on
,
go at
,
go for
,
harry
,
have at
,
hideout
,
hit
,
hit like lightning
,
intercept
,
jump
,
land on
,
lay at
,
lay for
,
lay hands on
,
lay into
,
lay wait for
,
lie in ambush
,
lie in wait
,
light into
,
lure
,
lurk
,
lurking hole
,
mug
,
pitch into
,
pounce upon
,
pound
,
pull up short
,
retreat
,
sail into
,
set on
,
set upon
,
shadowing
,
snare
,
spring a surprise
,
spring upon
,
stalking-horse
,
strike
,
surprise
,
surveillance
,
swoop down on
,
take by surprise
,
take short
,
take the offensive
,
take unawares
,
trap
,
wade into
,
waylay
surveillance
collapse
close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
related words >
accountability
,
ambuscade
,
ambush
,
ambushment
,
auspices
,
blind
,
booby trap
,
bossing
,
bugging
,
care
,
charge
,
cloak-and-dagger work
,
counterespionage
,
counterintelligence
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
eagle eye
,
electronic surveillance
,
espial
,
espionage
,
eye
,
following
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
intelligence
,
intelligence work
,
intendance
,
invigilation
,
jurisdiction
,
lookout
,
lurking hole
,
military intelligence
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
observation
,
oversight
,
peeled eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
reconnaissance
,
responsibility
,
scrutiny
,
secret police
,
secret service
,
shadowing
,
sharp eye
,
spying
,
stakeout
,
stalking-horse
,
stewardship
,
superintendence
,
supervision
,
tab
,
tailing
,
tout
,
trailing
,
trap
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
,
wiretap
,
wiretapping
punch bowl
collapse
a large bowl for serving beverages; usually with a ladle
related words >
John Barleycorn
,
alcohol
,
alcoholic beverage
,
alcoholic drink
,
alveolation
,
alveolus
,
antrum
,
aqua vitae
,
ardent spirits
,
armpit
,
basin
,
beverage
,
booze
,
bowl
,
brew
,
cavity
,
concave
,
concavity
,
crater
,
crypt
,
cup
,
depression
,
dip
,
drink
,
fold
,
follicle
,
funnel chest
,
grog
,
hard liquor
,
hole
,
hollow
,
hollow shell
,
inebriant
,
intoxicant
,
intoxicating liquor
,
lacuna
,
liquor
,
little brown jug
,
pit
,
pocket
,
potable
,
potation
,
rum
,
schnapps
,
scoop
,
shell
,
sink
,
sinus
,
social lubricant
,
socket
,
spirits
,
strong drink
,
strong waters
,
the Demon Rum
,
the bottle
,
the cup
,
the flowing bowl
,
the luscious liquor
,
the ruddy cup
,
toxicant
,
trough
,
vug
,
water of life
binder
collapse
something used to tie or bind
holds loose papers or magazines
a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves
something used to bind separate particles together or facilitate adhesion to a surface
related words >
Ace bandage
,
Band-Aid
,
acquitment
,
acquittal
,
acquittance
,
adhesive tape
,
amortization
,
amortizement
,
application
,
band
,
bandage
,
bandaging
,
binding
,
brace
,
cash
,
cash payment
,
cast
,
cataplasm
,
clearance
,
compress
,
cotton
,
court plaster
,
cravat
,
debt service
,
defrayal
,
defrayment
,
deposit
,
disbursal
,
discharge
,
doling out
,
down payment
,
dressing
,
dust jacket
,
earnest
,
earnest money
,
elastic bandage
,
envelope
,
envelopment
,
epithem
,
four-tailed bandage
,
gauze
,
gift wrapping
,
hire purchase
,
hire purchase plan
,
installment
,
installment plan
,
interest payment
,
jacket
,
lint
,
liquidation
,
monthly payments
,
never-never
,
paying
,
paying off
,
paying out
,
paying up
,
payment
,
payment in kind
,
payoff
,
plaster
,
plaster cast
,
pledget
,
poultice
,
prepayment
,
quarterly payments
,
quittance
,
regular payments
,
remittance
,
retirement
,
roller
,
roller bandage
,
rubber bandage
,
satisfaction
,
settlement
,
sinking-fund payment
,
sling
,
splint
,
sponge
,
spot cash
,
stupe
,
tampon
,
tape
,
tent
,
tourniquet
,
triangular bandage
,
weekly payments
,
wrap
,
wrapper
,
wrapping
disrupt
collapse
throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"
related words >
agitate
,
atomize
,
baffle
,
balk
,
blast
,
brave
,
breach
,
break in
,
break into
,
break into pieces
,
break to pieces
,
break up
,
challenge
,
checkmate
,
circumvent
,
confound
,
confront
,
contravene
,
counter
,
counteract
,
countermand
,
counterwork
,
crash
,
cross
,
crunch
,
crush
,
cut to pieces
,
dash
,
defeat
,
defy
,
demolish
,
destroy
,
diffuse
,
disarray
,
discomfit
,
discompose
,
disconcert
,
discountenance
,
dish
,
disorder
,
disorganize
,
disperse
,
disturb
,
elude
,
fission
,
flummox
,
foil
,
fragment
,
frustrate
,
grind
,
hole
,
interfere with
,
interrupt
,
knock the chocks
,
make mincemeat of
,
mess up
,
mince
,
muddle
,
nonplus
,
open
,
perplex
,
pulverize
,
ruin
,
rummage
,
rupture
,
sabotage
,
scatter
,
scotch
,
shake up
,
shatter
,
shiver
,
smash
,
smash up
,
spike
,
splinter
,
spoil
,
squash
,
squish
,
stonewall
,
stump
,
thwart
,
unsettle
,
upset
loch
collapse
Scottish word for a lake
a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
related words >
arm
,
armlet
,
artificial lake
,
bay
,
bayou
,
bayou lake
,
belt
,
bight
,
boca
,
cistern
,
cove
,
creek
,
dam
,
dead water
,
dike
,
estuary
,
etang
,
euripus
,
farm pond
,
fishpond
,
fjord
,
freshwater lake
,
frith
,
glacial lake
,
gulf
,
gut
,
harbor
,
inland sea
,
inlet
,
kyle
,
lagoon
,
laguna
,
lake
,
lakelet
,
landlocked water
,
linn
,
lough
,
mere
,
millpond
,
millpool
,
mouth
,
narrow
,
narrow seas
,
narrows
,
natural harbor
,
nyanza
,
oxbow lake
,
plash
,
pond
,
pondlet
,
pool
,
puddle
,
reach
,
reservoir
,
road
,
roads
,
roadstead
,
salina
,
salt pond
,
sound
,
stagnant water
,
standing water
,
still water
,
strait
,
straits
,
sump
,
tank
,
tarn
,
tidal pond
,
volcanic lake
,
water hole
,
water pocket
,
well
troika
collapse
a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast
a modern Russian triumvirate
related words >
bipartisanship
,
clover
,
coaction
,
coadjuvancy
,
coadministration
,
coagency
,
cochairmanship
,
codirectorship
,
collaboration
,
collaborativeness
,
collectivism
,
collusion
,
commensalism
,
common effort
,
common enterprise
,
communalism
,
communism
,
communitarianism
,
community
,
complicity
,
concert
,
concord
,
concordance
,
concurrence
,
cooperation
,
cooperativeness
,
deuce-ace
,
duet
,
duumvirate
,
ecumenicalism
,
ecumenicism
,
ecumenism
,
esprit
,
esprit de corps
,
fellow feeling
,
fellowship
,
harmony
,
joining of forces
,
joint effort
,
joint operation
,
leash
,
mass action
,
morale
,
mutual assistance
,
mutualism
,
mutuality
,
octet
,
pooling
,
pooling of resources
,
pulling together
,
quartet
,
quintet
,
reciprocity
,
septet
,
set of three
,
sextet
,
shamrock
,
solidarity
,
symbiosis
,
synergism
,
synergy
,
team spirit
,
teamwork
,
tercet
,
ternary
,
ternion
,
terzetto
,
three
,
threesome
,
tierce
,
trefoil
,
trey
,
triad
,
trialogue
,
triangle
,
tricorn
,
trident
,
triennium
,
trihedron
,
trilogy
,
trimester
,
trine
,
trinity
,
trinomial
,
trio
,
triphthong
,
triple
,
triple crown
,
triple threat
,
triplet
,
triplopy
,
tripod
,
triptych
,
trireme
,
triseme
,
triskelion
,
trisul
,
triumvirate
,
triune
,
triunity
,
trivet
,
united action
gobbet
collapse
a lump or chunk of raw meat
related words >
ace
,
atom
,
ball
,
balloon
,
bit
,
bladder
,
blob
,
boll
,
bolus
,
bubble
,
bulb
,
bulbil
,
bulblet
,
butt
,
chip
,
chunk
,
clip
,
clipping
,
collop
,
crumb
,
cut
,
cutting
,
dab
,
dole
,
dollop
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
droplet
,
dwarf
,
ellipsoid
,
end
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
geoid
,
globe
,
globelet
,
globoid
,
globule
,
glomerulus
,
gob
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
hunk
,
iota
,
jot
,
knob
,
knot
,
little
,
little bit
,
lump
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
moiety
,
molecule
,
morsel
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
oblate spheroid
,
orb
,
orbit
,
orblet
,
ounce
,
paring
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pellet
,
piece
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
prolate spheroid
,
rasher
,
rondure
,
scoop
,
scrap
,
scruple
,
shard
,
shaving
,
shiver
,
shred
,
slice
,
sliver
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
smithereen
,
snack
,
snatch
,
snip
,
snippet
,
speck
,
sphere
,
spheroid
,
spherule
,
splinter
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
stitch
,
stump
,
tatter
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
whit
hiatus
collapse
a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
related words >
aperture
,
arrearage
,
breach
,
break
,
broaching
,
caesura
,
cavity
,
cessation
,
chasm
,
check
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
cleft
,
crack
,
defalcation
,
defect
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
disclosure
,
discontinuity
,
distance between
,
double space
,
em space
,
en space
,
fenestra
,
fissure
,
fistula
,
fontanel
,
foramen
,
freeboard
,
gap
,
gape
,
gat
,
gulf
,
hair space
,
half space
,
hole
,
hollow
,
inlet
,
interim
,
intermediate space
,
intermission
,
interruption
,
interspace
,
interstice
,
interval
,
jump
,
lack
,
lacuna
,
laying open
,
leak
,
leap
,
leeway
,
letup
,
lull
,
margin
,
missing link
,
need
,
omission
,
opening
,
opening up
,
orifice
,
outage
,
outlet
,
passageway
,
pause
,
pore
,
room
,
shortage
,
single space
,
slot
,
space
,
space between
,
split
,
stoma
,
suspension
,
throwing open
,
time interval
,
ullage
,
uncorking
,
unstopping
,
want
,
wantage
,
yawn
slinky
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
back-door
,
backstairs
,
boyish
,
clandestine
,
covert
,
cowering
,
cringing
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
feline
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
furtive
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
hidlings
,
hole-and-corner
,
hugger-mugger
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
privy
,
quailing
,
quiet
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
shifty
,
skulking
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinking
,
sly
,
small
,
sneaking
,
sneaky
,
stealthy
,
subtle
,
surreptitious
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
under-the-counter
,
under-the-table
,
undercover
,
underground
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
unobtrusive
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
rime
collapse
related words >
Jack Frost
,
abysm
,
abyss
,
arroyo
,
black frost
,
box canyon
,
breach
,
break
,
canyon
,
cavity
,
chap
,
chasm
,
check
,
chimney
,
chink
,
cleft
,
cleuch
,
clough
,
col
,
coulee
,
couloir
,
crack
,
cranny
,
crevasse
,
crevice
,
crust
,
cut
,
cwm
,
defile
,
dell
,
dike
,
ditch
,
donga
,
draw
,
encrust
,
excavation
,
fault
,
fissure
,
flaw
,
flume
,
fracture
,
frost
,
frost line
,
frost smoke
,
furrow
,
gap
,
gape
,
gash
,
gorge
,
groove
,
gulch
,
gulf
,
gully
,
hoar
,
hoarfrost
,
hole
,
incision
,
joint
,
killing frost
,
kloof
,
leak
,
moat
,
notch
,
nullah
,
opening
,
pass
,
passage
,
ravine
,
rent
,
rift
,
rime frost
,
rupture
,
scissure
,
seam
,
sharp frost
,
slit
,
slot
,
split
,
trench
,
valley
,
void
,
wadi
,
white frost
minim
collapse
a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
related words >
accidental
,
ace
,
atom
,
bit
,
breve
,
breve rest
,
crotchet
,
crumb
,
dab
,
demisemiquaver
,
dole
,
dominant
,
dominant note
,
dot
,
double whole note
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
drop
,
droplet
,
dwarf
,
eighth note
,
eighth rest
,
enharmonic
,
enharmonic note
,
farthing
,
flat
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
gnat
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
half note
,
half rest
,
handful
,
hemidemisemiquaver
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
lota
,
microbe
,
microorganism
,
midge
,
minimum
,
minutia
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
musical note
,
natural
,
note
,
nutshell
,
ounce
,
particle
,
patent note
,
pause
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
pinhead
,
pinpoint
,
pittance
,
point
,
quarter note
,
quarter rest
,
quaver
,
report
,
responding note
,
rest
,
scrap
,
scruple
,
semibreve
,
semiquaver
,
shaped note
,
sharp
,
sixteenth note
,
sixteenth rest
,
sixty-fourth note
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
snip
,
snippet
,
speck
,
spiccato
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
staccato
,
sustained note
,
tercet
,
thimbleful
,
thirty-second note
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
tone
,
trifling amount
,
triplet
,
trivia
,
vanishing point
,
whit
,
whole note
superstar
collapse
related words >
A per se
,
ace
,
big name
,
boss
,
celebrity
,
champion
,
chief
,
commander
,
constellation
,
crackerjack
,
cynosure
,
danseur noble
,
dean
,
diva
,
electronics king
,
feature attraction
,
figure
,
first tragedian
,
first-rater
,
folk hero
,
fugleman
,
galaxy
,
genius
,
good hand
,
great
,
great man
,
head
,
headliner
,
heavy lead
,
hero
,
heroine
,
higher-up
,
honcho
,
idol
,
immortal
,
important person
,
jeune premier
,
king
,
laureate
,
lead
,
leader
,
leading lady
,
leading light
,
leading man
,
lion
,
luminaries
,
luminary
,
magician
,
mahatma
,
man of genius
,
man of mark
,
master
,
master hand
,
master spirit
,
mastermind
,
name
,
nonpareil
,
notability
,
notable
,
paragon
,
paramount
,
past master
,
person of note
,
personage
,
pleiad
,
pop hero
,
popular hero
,
popular idol
,
practiced hand
,
prima ballerina
,
prima donna
,
principal
,
prodigy
,
protagonist
,
public figure
,
ruler
,
sage
,
senior
,
singer
,
skilled hand
,
social lion
,
somebody
,
star
,
superior
,
superman
,
the greatest
,
the most
,
top dog
,
topnotcher
,
virtuoso
,
whiz
,
wizard
,
wonder
,
worthy
tip top
collapse
related words >
acmatic
,
acme
,
apex
,
apical
,
apogee
,
best
,
brow
,
cap
,
capital
,
chief
,
climax
,
cloud nine
,
consummate
,
crest
,
crown
,
culmen
,
culmination
,
edge
,
extreme limit
,
extremity
,
first-chop
,
first-class
,
first-rate
,
greatest
,
head
,
headmost
,
heaven
,
heavens
,
height
,
high noon
,
highest
,
highest pitch
,
highest point
,
limit
,
maximal
,
maximum
,
meridian
,
meridional
,
most
,
mountaintop
,
ne plus ultra
,
no place higher
,
noon
,
overmost
,
paramount
,
peak
,
pinnacle
,
pitch
,
point
,
pole
,
preeminent
,
ridge
,
seventh heaven
,
sky
,
spire
,
summit
,
summital
,
superlative
,
supreme
,
tip
,
top
,
top-drawer
,
top-hole
,
top-notch
,
topflight
,
topmost
,
topping
,
tops
,
ultimate
,
upmost
,
upper extremity
,
uppermost
,
utmost
,
vertex
,
vertical
,
very top
,
zenith
,
zenithal
bore
collapse
a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
diameter of a tube or gun barrel
a person who evokes boredom
make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"
cause to be bored
related words >
acupunctuation
,
acupuncture
,
aggravation
,
annoyance
,
auger
,
bad news
,
be tedious
,
bedevilment
,
billow
,
bite
,
bore stiff
,
bore to death
,
bore to distraction
,
bore to tears
,
boring
,
bother
,
botheration
,
bothersomeness
,
breakers
,
broach
,
burrow
,
buttonhole
,
buttonholer
,
caliber
,
chop
,
choppiness
,
chopping sea
,
comb
,
comber
,
countersink
,
crashing bore
,
delve
,
devilment
,
diameter
,
difficulty
,
dig
,
dig out
,
dike
,
dirty water
,
discompose
,
discontent
,
disquiet
,
dogging
,
downer
,
drag
,
dredge
,
drill
,
drill hole
,
drip
,
drive
,
dryasdust
,
dusty
,
eagre
,
empierce
,
empiercement
,
ennui
,
exasperation
,
excavate
,
exhaust
,
fix
,
fixing
,
flat tire
,
frightful bore
,
furrow
,
gape
,
gaup
,
gawk
,
glare
,
gloat
,
goggle
,
gore
,
goring
,
gouge
,
gouge out
,
gravity wave
,
groove
,
ground swell
,
grub
,
harassment
,
harrying
,
headache
,
heave
,
heavy sea
,
heavy swell
,
hole
,
hollow out
,
honeycomb
,
hounding
,
humdrum
,
impale
,
impalement
,
jade
,
lance
,
lancing
,
leave unsatisfied
,
lift
,
lop
,
lower
,
mine
,
molestation
,
needle
,
nuisance
,
pall
,
peak
,
peer
,
penetrate
,
penetration
,
perforate
,
perforation
,
persecution
,
pest
,
pierce
,
piercing
,
pill
,
pink
,
popple
,
prick
,
pricking
,
problem
,
proser
,
punch
,
punching
,
puncture
,
puncturing
,
quarry
,
radius
,
ream
,
ream out
,
riddle
,
riffle
,
ripple
,
rise
,
roll
,
roller
,
rough water
,
run through
,
sap
,
scend
,
scoop
,
scoop out
,
scrabble
,
scrape
,
scratch
,
sea
,
semidiameter
,
send
,
send to sleep
,
shovel
,
sink
,
skewer
,
skewering
,
spade
,
spear
,
spike
,
spit
,
stab
,
stare
,
stick
,
surf
,
surge
,
swell
,
tap
,
terebration
,
tidal bore
,
tidal wave
,
tide wave
,
tire
,
transfix
,
transfixation
,
transfixion
,
transforation
,
transpierce
,
trench
,
trepan
,
trepanning
,
trephine
,
trephining
,
trial
,
trouble
,
trough
,
tsunami
,
tunnel
,
twaddler
,
undulation
,
vexation
,
vexatiousness
,
water wave
,
wave
,
wavelet
,
wear out
,
weary
,
wet blanket
,
white horses
,
whitecaps
,
worriment
,
worry
fugleman
collapse
a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader); "a fugleman for the radical right"
related words >
A per se
,
Mahdi
,
ace
,
ancestor
,
announcer
,
antecedent
,
antetype
,
antitype
,
archetype
,
avant-garde
,
bell cow
,
bell mare
,
bellwether
,
biotype
,
born leader
,
boss
,
buccinator
,
bushwhacker
,
champion
,
charismatic leader
,
chief
,
choirmaster
,
choragus
,
classic example
,
commander
,
conductor
,
coryphaeus
,
criterion
,
dean
,
duce
,
epitome
,
explorer
,
file leader
,
forebear
,
foregoer
,
forerunner
,
front runner
,
frontiersman
,
fugler
,
genius
,
genotype
,
groundbreaker
,
guide
,
harbinger
,
head
,
herald
,
higher-up
,
imitatee
,
innovator
,
inspired leader
,
laureate
,
lead
,
lead runner
,
leader
,
leader of men
,
master
,
messenger
,
messiah
,
mirror
,
model
,
nonpareil
,
original
,
pacemaker
,
pacesetter
,
paradigm
,
paragon
,
pathfinder
,
pattern
,
pioneer
,
point
,
precedent
,
precentor
,
precursor
,
predecessor
,
principal
,
prodigy
,
prototype
,
representative
,
ringleader
,
rule
,
ruler
,
scout
,
senior
,
standard
,
standard-bearer
,
star
,
stormy petrel
,
superior
,
superman
,
superstar
,
symphonic conductor
,
the greatest
,
the most
,
top dog
,
torchbearer
,
trailblazer
,
trailbreaker
,
type
,
type species
,
type specimen
,
urtext
,
vanguard
,
vaunt-courier
,
virtuoso
,
voortrekker
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