Related Words:
- action,
- aerial combat,
- affray,
- agonize,
- altercation,
- argument,
- armored combat,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- bicker,
- blood feud,
- box,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brush,
- buffet,
- bullfight,
- clash,
- clash of arms,
- close,
- cockfight,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- conflict,
- contend,
- contention,
- contest,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dispute,
- dogfight,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- duel,
- embroilment,
- exchange blows,
- exchange of blows,
- fence,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- fire fight,
- fliting,
- fracas,
- fray,
- fuss,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- grapple,
- grapple with,
- ground combat,
- grunt and sweat,
- hand-to-hand combat,
- hand-to-hand fight,
- hassle,
- house-to-house combat,
- huff and puff,
- imbroglio,
- jostle,
- joust,
- logomachy,
- mix it up,
- naval combat,
- open quarrel,
- passage of arms,
- pitched battle,
- polemic,
- quarrel,
- rassle,
- riot,
- rumble,
- run a tilt,
- running fight,
- scramble,
- scrap,
- scrimmage,
- scuffle,
- sharp words,
- shoving match,
- skirmish,
- slanging match,
- snarl,
- spar,
- spat,
- squabble,
- stand-up fight,
- street fight,
- strife,
- strive,
- struggle,
- tauromachy,
- thrust and parry,
- tiff,
- tilt,
- tourney,
- tug-of-war,
- vendetta,
- wage war,
- war,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrestle
- flounder
collapse - any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college" related words >
- agonize over,
- alternate,
- back and fill,
- be all thumbs,
- be at sea,
- be hard put,
- be uncertain,
- beat about,
- blunder,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- boggle,
- botch,
- bumble,
- bungle,
- butcher,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- come a cropper,
- commit a gaffe,
- doubt,
- ebb and flow,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- falter,
- faux pas,
- feel unsure,
- flounce,
- fluctuate,
- fumble,
- get a cropper,
- go through phases,
- grope,
- grovel,
- have trouble,
- heave,
- hobbyhorse,
- labor,
- labor under difficulties,
- list,
- lumber,
- lurch,
- make heavy weather,
- mar,
- miscue,
- muddle,
- muff,
- murder,
- oscillate,
- pendulate,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- pitch and toss,
- play havoc with,
- plunge,
- pound,
- puzzle over,
- question,
- rear,
- reel,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- scend,
- seesaw,
- seethe,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- slip,
- spoil,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stagger,
- strive,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- sway,
- swing,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- toil,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- travail,
- trip,
- tumble,
- turn,
- turn turtle,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- volutation,
- walk on eggshells,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- welter,
- wobble,
- wonder,
- wonder whether,
- yaw
- fester
collapse
- a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
- ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" related words >
- abscess,
- afflict,
- agonize,
- ail,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- bite,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- break up,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- burn,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chafe,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chilblain,
- cold sore,
- convulse,
- corrupt,
- crucify,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- cut,
- decay,
- decompose,
- disintegrate,
- distress,
- eschar,
- excruciate,
- fall into decay,
- fall to pieces,
- felon,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- fret,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gall,
- gangrene,
- gathering,
- give pain,
- gnaw,
- go bad,
- go to pieces,
- grate,
- grind,
- gripe,
- gumboil,
- harrow,
- hemorrhoids,
- hurt,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- irritate,
- kibe,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- lesion,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- matter,
- mildew,
- mold,
- molder,
- mortify,
- necrose,
- nip,
- ooze,
- pain,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- petechia,
- pierce,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pinch,
- pock,
- polyp,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- pustule,
- put to torture,
- putrefy,
- putresce,
- rack,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- ripen,
- rising,
- rot,
- rub,
- run,
- scab,
- smoulder,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- sphacelate,
- spoil,
- stab,
- stigma,
- sting,
- sty,
- suppurate,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- torment,
- torture,
- tubercle,
- tweak,
- twist,
- ulcer,
- ulcerate,
- ulceration,
- wale,
- weep,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound,
- wring
- tingle
collapse
- cause a stinging or tingling sensation related words >
- ache,
- agonize,
- ail,
- anguish,
- bang,
- blanch,
- blench,
- boot,
- burn,
- burning,
- burning pain,
- change ringing,
- charge,
- chime,
- chiming,
- chink,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- clink,
- ding,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- dong,
- donging,
- feel pain,
- feel the pangs,
- fidget,
- fire,
- flip out,
- flush,
- flutter,
- freak out on,
- get high on,
- glow,
- go pitapat,
- gong,
- grimace,
- have a misery,
- have the fidgets,
- have the shakes,
- heave,
- hurt,
- itch,
- jangle,
- jerk,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jinglejangle,
- jingling,
- jollies,
- kick,
- knell,
- knelling,
- lift,
- palpitate,
- pant,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- plink,
- pound,
- prick,
- prickle,
- quake,
- quaver,
- quiver,
- ring,
- ring changes,
- ringing,
- rush,
- rush of emotion,
- scratch,
- sensation,
- shake,
- shiver,
- shoot,
- shrink,
- shudder,
- smart,
- smarting,
- sound,
- sound a knell,
- squirm,
- sting,
- stinging,
- suffer,
- surge of emotion,
- swell,
- swell with emotion,
- thrill,
- thrill to,
- throb,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle with excitement,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabulate,
- titillation,
- toll,
- tolling,
- toss,
- toss and turn,
- tremble,
- tremor,
- tremor of excitement,
- tumble,
- turn on to,
- twinge,
- twist and turn,
- twitch,
- twitter,
- urtication,
- wiggle,
- wince,
- wriggle,
- writhe
- bleed
collapse
- draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
- drain of liquid or steam; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine"
- get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!" related words >
- abridge,
- abuse,
- ache,
- agonize,
- anguish,
- be sorry for,
- bereave,
- bleed for,
- bleed white,
- bloody,
- broach,
- brood over,
- clip,
- commiserate,
- compassionate,
- condole with,
- cup,
- curtail,
- cut off,
- decant,
- denude,
- deplume,
- deprive,
- deprive of,
- despoil,
- discharge,
- disentitle,
- displume,
- divest,
- draft,
- draft off,
- drain,
- draw,
- draw from,
- draw off,
- dry,
- ease one of,
- ecchymose,
- effuse,
- emit,
- empty,
- excrete,
- exfiltrate,
- exhaust,
- exploit,
- extravasate,
- exudate,
- exude,
- feel for,
- feel sorrow for,
- feel sorry for,
- filter,
- filtrate,
- flay,
- fleece,
- fret,
- give a transfusion,
- give off,
- go hard with,
- gouge,
- grieve,
- hemorrhage,
- hold up,
- hurt,
- ill-use,
- impose upon,
- impoverish,
- lament for,
- leach,
- leech,
- let,
- let blood,
- let out,
- lighten one of,
- lixiviate,
- lose blood,
- make use of,
- manipulate,
- milk,
- mine,
- misuse,
- mope,
- mourn,
- mulct,
- ooze,
- overcharge,
- overprice,
- overtax,
- percolate,
- perfuse,
- phlebotomize,
- pick clean,
- pine,
- pine away,
- pipette,
- pity,
- play on,
- pluck,
- presume upon,
- profiteer,
- pump,
- pump out,
- reek,
- rook,
- screw,
- seep,
- sew,
- shear,
- shed blood,
- siphon off,
- skin,
- soak,
- sorrow,
- spill blood,
- stick,
- sting,
- strain,
- strip,
- strip bare,
- stroke,
- suck,
- suck dry,
- suck out,
- suffer,
- suffer anguish,
- surcharge,
- sweat,
- swindle,
- sympathize,
- sympathize with,
- take advantage of,
- take away from,
- take from,
- take on,
- tap,
- transfuse,
- transpire,
- transude,
- use,
- use ill,
- venesect,
- victimize,
- weep,
- weep for,
- work on,
- work upon,
- writhe
- wring
collapse
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels" related words >
- afflict,
- agonize,
- ail,
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- asymmetry,
- badger,
- bend,
- bite,
- blackmail,
- bloody,
- buckle,
- burn,
- chafe,
- claim,
- claw,
- concentrate,
- contort,
- contortion,
- convulse,
- corkscrew,
- crinkle,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crucify,
- crumple,
- cut,
- decoct,
- demand,
- detorsion,
- deviation,
- disproportion,
- distill,
- distort,
- distortion,
- distress,
- essentialize,
- exact,
- exaction,
- excruciate,
- express,
- extort,
- extortion,
- fester,
- force from,
- fret,
- gall,
- give pain,
- gnarl,
- gnaw,
- gouge,
- grate,
- grind,
- gripe,
- harrow,
- hurt,
- imbalance,
- impale,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- infuse,
- intort,
- irregularity,
- irritate,
- kill by inches,
- knot,
- lacerate,
- lancinate,
- levy blackmail,
- lopsidedness,
- macerate,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- meander,
- melt down,
- nip,
- pain,
- pierce,
- pinch,
- press,
- press out,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- pry loose from,
- punish,
- put to torture,
- quirk,
- rack,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- refine,
- rend,
- rend from,
- render,
- rending,
- rip,
- rip from,
- ripping,
- rub,
- savage,
- scallop,
- scarify,
- screw,
- serpentine,
- shake down,
- slink,
- snake,
- snatch from,
- soak,
- spring,
- squeeze,
- stab,
- steep,
- sting,
- swirl,
- tear from,
- tearing,
- torment,
- torsion,
- tortuosity,
- torture,
- try,
- turn,
- turn awry,
- tweak,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- unsymmetry,
- warp,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wind,
- worm,
- wound,
- wrench,
- wrench from,
- wrenching,
- wrest,
- wresting,
- wring from,
- wring out,
- wringing,
- writhe,
- wry
- afflict
collapse
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"
- cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents" related words >
- abuse,
- affect,
- aggrieve,
- agitate,
- agonize,
- ail,
- anguish,
- annoy,
- befoul,
- bewitch,
- bite,
- blight,
- bother,
- break down,
- bring to tears,
- burden,
- burn,
- chafe,
- condemn,
- convulse,
- corrupt,
- crucify,
- crush,
- curse,
- cut,
- cut up,
- damage,
- debilitate,
- defile,
- deprave,
- derange,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devitalize,
- disable,
- disadvantage,
- discomfort,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disserve,
- distress,
- disturb,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- draw tears,
- embitter,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- envenom,
- excruciate,
- fester,
- fret,
- gall,
- get into trouble,
- give pain,
- gnaw,
- grate,
- grieve,
- grind,
- gripe,
- harass,
- harm,
- harrow,
- harry,
- hex,
- hospitalize,
- hurt,
- impair,
- incapacitate,
- indispose,
- infect,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- injure,
- inundate,
- invalid,
- irk,
- irritate,
- jinx,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- lay up,
- load with care,
- maltreat,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- menace,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- nip,
- oppress,
- outrage,
- overwhelm,
- pain,
- persecute,
- perturb,
- pester,
- pierce,
- pinch,
- plague,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- press,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- prostrate,
- put to it,
- put to torture,
- rack,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- reduce,
- rub,
- savage,
- scathe,
- sicken,
- smite,
- sorrow,
- stab,
- sting,
- strike,
- taint,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- trouble,
- try,
- tweak,
- twist,
- upset,
- vex,
- violate,
- weaken,
- worry,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wring,
- wrong
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