Related Words:
- withhold
collapse - hold back; refuse to hand over or share; "The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room"
- retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes" related words >
- abstain,
- abstain from,
- arrest,
- avoid,
- begrudge,
- bit,
- bosom,
- bridle,
- check,
- classify,
- close the hand,
- conceal,
- conserve,
- constrain,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- curb,
- curtail,
- decelerate,
- deny,
- detain,
- disallow,
- do without,
- dompt,
- enjoin,
- eschew,
- file and forget,
- forbear,
- forgo,
- govern,
- grudge,
- guard,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold aloof from,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold down,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold out on,
- hold up,
- husband,
- in petto,
- inhibit,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep by one,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep in reserve,
- keep in store,
- keep mum,
- keep on hand,
- keep out,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under control,
- keep under wraps,
- lay by,
- lay under restraint,
- let alone,
- let go by,
- make no sign,
- never let on,
- never touch,
- not give away,
- not tell,
- not touch,
- pass up,
- play dumb,
- preserve,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- pull in,
- put apart,
- put aside,
- put by,
- refrain,
- refrain from,
- refuse,
- rein,
- rein in,
- reserve,
- restrain,
- retain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- save,
- save up,
- secrete,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set back,
- set by,
- shun,
- slow down,
- snub,
- spare,
- stand aloof from,
- straiten,
- veil
- protestation
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- a strong declaration of protest related words >
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- alibi,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- apology,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blind,
- boycott,
- challenge,
- cloak,
- color,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- conclusion,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- creed,
- declaration,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- device,
- dictum,
- enunciation,
- exception,
- excuse,
- expostulation,
- facade,
- feint,
- front,
- gloss,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- guise,
- handle,
- howl,
- indignation meeting,
- ipse dixit,
- kick,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- manifesto,
- march,
- mask,
- nonviolent protest,
- objection,
- ostensible motive,
- picketing,
- poor excuse,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- predicate,
- predication,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- qualm,
- rally,
- refuge,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- screen,
- scruple,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- sit-in,
- smoke screen,
- squawk,
- stalking-horse,
- stance,
- stand,
- statement,
- stratagem,
- strike,
- subterfuge,
- teach-in,
- trick,
- utterance,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vouch,
- word
- shut
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- not open; "the door slammed shut" related words >
- ban,
- bang,
- bar,
- barricade,
- batten,
- batten down,
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- block out,
- bolt,
- bolted,
- bottle up,
- box in,
- button,
- button up,
- cease,
- cecal,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choked,
- choked off,
- clap,
- close,
- close down,
- close off,
- close up,
- closed,
- conceal,
- confine,
- constrict,
- constricted,
- contain,
- contract,
- contracted,
- coop up,
- cover,
- cut,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- debar,
- disallow,
- discontinue,
- douse,
- eliminate,
- exclude,
- fasten,
- fastened,
- fence in,
- fold,
- fold up,
- gag,
- halt,
- hide,
- immure,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- intern,
- isolate,
- jail,
- keep away,
- keep in,
- keep out,
- keep quiet,
- key,
- kill,
- latch,
- leave off,
- lock,
- lock out,
- lock up,
- locked up,
- mask,
- mute,
- occlude,
- padlock,
- pen,
- plumb,
- prohibit,
- put to,
- quieten,
- screen,
- seal,
- seal off,
- seal up,
- seclude,
- secure,
- segregate,
- send to Coventry,
- separate,
- sequester,
- shush,
- shut down,
- shut in,
- shut off,
- shut out,
- shut the door,
- shut up,
- silence,
- slam,
- snap,
- squeeze shut,
- squeezed shut,
- stifle,
- stop,
- strangle,
- strangulated,
- suspend,
- switch off,
- turn off,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- veil,
- zip up,
- zipper
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- ball up,
- bedarken,
- bedazzle,
- bedim,
- befog,
- befuddle,
- begloom,
- bemist,
- bewilder,
- black,
- black out,
- blacken,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block the light,
- blot out,
- blur,
- bother,
- brown,
- bug,
- camouflage,
- cast a shadow,
- clabber up,
- cloak,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloud up,
- conceal,
- confuse,
- cover,
- cover up,
- curtain,
- darken,
- darken over,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- dim,
- dim out,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disguise,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- dissemble,
- distract attention from,
- disturb,
- eclipse,
- embarrass,
- encloud,
- encompass with shadow,
- enmist,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- entangle,
- envelop,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fuddle,
- fuss,
- gloom,
- gloss over,
- haze,
- hide,
- keep under cover,
- mask,
- maze,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- muddle,
- muddy,
- murk,
- nubilate,
- obfuscate,
- obnubilate,
- obscure,
- obumbrate,
- occult,
- occultate,
- opaque,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overshadow,
- oversmoke,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pother,
- put out,
- puzzle,
- raise hell,
- rattle,
- ruffle,
- screen,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shroud,
- slur over,
- smog,
- smoke,
- somber,
- throw into confusion,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- alibi,
- apology,
- apply to,
- assume,
- be the goat,
- becloud,
- befog,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- bluff,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- cope,
- counterfeit,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cowl,
- curtain,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distract attention from,
- eclipse,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- excuse,
- facade,
- fake,
- feign,
- feint,
- film,
- four-flush,
- front,
- front for,
- gammon,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- handle,
- hide,
- hood,
- keep under cover,
- lame excuse,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- let on,
- let on like,
- locus standi,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- mantle,
- mask,
- muffle,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- ostensible motive,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- poor excuse,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- profess,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put on,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- screen,
- scum,
- semblance,
- shade,
- sham,
- shield,
- show,
- shroud,
- simulate,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- spread over,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash
- camouflage
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- device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
- fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
- disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory" related words >
- bad copy,
- bad likeness,
- becloud,
- befog,
- belie,
- blanket,
- blind,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- cloak,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- concealment,
- contrast,
- cover,
- cover up,
- cover-up,
- curtain,
- deception,
- difference,
- dim,
- disguise,
- disparity,
- dissemblance,
- dissemble,
- dissimilarity,
- dissimilate,
- dissimilation,
- dissimilitude,
- dissimulate,
- distort,
- distract attention from,
- divergence,
- diversity,
- domino,
- dress up,
- eclipse,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- exaggerate,
- facade,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false front,
- falsify,
- fudge,
- garble,
- gild,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- hide,
- incognito,
- incommensurability,
- incomparability,
- keep under cover,
- makeup,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere caricature,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mummery,
- nonuniformity,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- parody,
- pervert,
- poor imitation,
- protective coloration,
- screen,
- shade,
- show,
- shroud,
- slant,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- strain,
- titivate,
- travesty,
- trick out,
- trickery,
- twist,
- understate,
- unlikeness,
- unresemblance,
- unsameness,
- unsimilarity,
- varnish,
- vary,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- warp,
- whitewash,
- wrench
- refuge
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- a shelter from danger or hardship related words >
- alibi,
- apology,
- asylum,
- blind,
- bolt-hole,
- cache,
- citadel,
- cloak,
- color,
- concealment,
- corner,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covert,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- dark corner,
- defense,
- den,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- dodge,
- dugout,
- evasion,
- excuse,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- eye,
- facade,
- feint,
- foxhole,
- front,
- funk hole,
- gloss,
- guard,
- guise,
- handle,
- harbor,
- harborage,
- haven,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- immunity,
- lair,
- lame excuse,
- lee,
- locus standi,
- makeshift,
- mask,
- niche,
- nook,
- ostensible motive,
- poor excuse,
- port,
- preservation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protection,
- protective custody,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- receipt,
- receiving,
- reception,
- recess,
- recourse,
- resort,
- retreat,
- ruse,
- safekeeping,
- safety,
- sanctuary,
- screen,
- secret place,
- security,
- semblance,
- shade,
- shadow,
- sham,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shift,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- stalking-horse,
- stash,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stronghold,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- taking in,
- trick,
- undercovert,
- varnish,
- veil,
- watchful eye,
- welcome,
- welcoming
- alibi,
- also-ran,
- ambuscade,
- ambush,
- ambushment,
- apology,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bidet,
- blind,
- booby trap,
- candidate,
- carriage horse,
- cart horse,
- cavalry horse,
- cloak,
- color,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- device,
- draft horse,
- dray horse,
- driving horse,
- dud,
- excuse,
- facade,
- favorite son,
- feint,
- fill horse,
- filler,
- front,
- gigster,
- gloss,
- guise,
- hack,
- hackney,
- handle,
- hopeful,
- hunter,
- jument,
- lame duck,
- lame excuse,
- lead,
- leader,
- locus standi,
- lurking hole,
- mask,
- mount,
- office seeker,
- ostensible motive,
- pack horse,
- palfrey,
- plow horse,
- pole horse,
- political hopeful,
- polo pony,
- poor excuse,
- post-horse,
- presidential timber,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- remount,
- rider,
- riding horse,
- road horse,
- roadster,
- rouncy,
- running mate,
- saddle horse,
- saddler,
- screen,
- semblance,
- shadowing,
- shaft horse,
- sham,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- sumpter,
- sumpter horse,
- surveillance,
- thill horse,
- thiller,
- trap,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- wheeler,
- wheelhorse,
- workhorse
- abstain,
- abstain from,
- anticipate,
- arrest,
- avert,
- avoid,
- bar,
- bosom,
- bridle,
- check,
- classify,
- conceal,
- constrain,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- curb,
- curtail,
- debar,
- decelerate,
- deflect,
- deter,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- do without,
- dompt,
- enjoin,
- eschew,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- fight shy of,
- file and forget,
- forbear,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- forgo,
- give place to,
- govern,
- guard,
- help,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold aloof,
- hold aloof from,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold out on,
- hold up,
- in petto,
- inhibit,
- keep,
- keep aloof,
- keep away from,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep clear of,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep hands off,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep mum,
- keep off,
- keep remote from,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under control,
- keep under wraps,
- lay under restraint,
- let alone,
- let go by,
- make no sign,
- make way for,
- never let on,
- never touch,
- not give away,
- not meddle with,
- not tell,
- not touch,
- obviate,
- pass up,
- play dumb,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- pull in,
- refrain,
- refrain from,
- rein,
- rein in,
- repel,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- rule out,
- save,
- secrete,
- set back,
- shun,
- slow down,
- snub,
- spare,
- stand aloof,
- stand aloof from,
- stave off,
- stay detached from,
- steer clear of,
- straiten,
- turn aside,
- turn away from,
- veil,
- ward off,
- withhold
- abatement of differences,
- abstain,
- abstention,
- accommodate,
- accommodation,
- adjust,
- adjustment,
- alibi,
- anythingarianism,
- arrangement,
- bargain,
- cash in,
- check out,
- compose,
- composition,
- compound,
- compromise,
- concession,
- conk,
- cop a plea,
- croak,
- deal,
- desertion of principle,
- die,
- drop,
- duck responsibility,
- duck the issue,
- escape without penalty,
- evade,
- evade responsibility,
- evade the issue,
- evasion,
- evasion of responsibility,
- excuse,
- fence-sitting,
- forsake the world,
- get away with,
- get by,
- get off,
- get off cheap,
- give and take,
- give way,
- give-and-take,
- giving way,
- go,
- go at liberty,
- go fifty-fifty,
- go free,
- go into retirement,
- go scot free,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- kick in,
- kick off,
- lame excuse,
- likely story,
- live alone,
- live apart,
- live in retirement,
- make a deal,
- make an adjustment,
- make concessions,
- meet halfway,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- mutual concession,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nothingarianism,
- out,
- peg out,
- play politics,
- poor excuse,
- reach a compromise,
- remain incommunicado,
- retire,
- rusticate,
- settle,
- settlement,
- sit it out,
- split the difference,
- stand neuter,
- stay at home,
- straddle,
- strict neutrality,
- strike a balance,
- strike a bargain,
- surrender,
- take the mean,
- take the veil,
- trim,
- understanding,
- win freedom,
- yield,
- yielding
- transparency
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- the quality of being clear and transparent
- permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation related words >
- Celluloid,
- Lucite,
- Perspex,
- Photostat,
- Plexiglas,
- Telephoto,
- Wirephoto,
- Xerox,
- Xerox copy,
- aerial photograph,
- aquamarine,
- beryl,
- black-and-white photograph,
- blowup,
- blueprint,
- candid photograph,
- carnelian,
- cellophane,
- chalcedony,
- cheesecake,
- chiffon,
- chronophotograph,
- chrysolite,
- citrine,
- clarity,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- contact printing,
- crystal,
- crystallinity,
- cyanotype,
- definition,
- diamond,
- diaphane,
- diapositive,
- directness,
- distinctness,
- emerald,
- enlargement,
- explicitness,
- glossy,
- gossamer,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- hologram,
- hyaline,
- lantern slide,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- matte,
- mica,
- microcopy,
- microprint,
- montage,
- moonstone,
- morganite,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- onionskin,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photocopy,
- photograph,
- photogravure,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- photostatic copy,
- picture,
- pinup,
- plain English,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- portrait,
- positive,
- print,
- projection printing,
- quartz,
- semi-matte,
- sheers,
- shot,
- simplicity,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- still,
- still photograph,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- telephotograph,
- tissue,
- tissue paper,
- transparent things,
- transpicuity,
- unadorned style,
- unambiguousness,
- unequivocalness,
- unmistakableness,
- veil,
- voile,
- water,
- window
- canopy
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- a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather
- the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
- the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
- cover with a canopy related words >
- Caelus,
- air,
- altar carpet,
- altar cloth,
- antimacassar,
- apply to,
- awning,
- azure,
- baldacchino,
- baldachin,
- belvedere,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- blue sky,
- caelum,
- canopy of heaven,
- centerpiece,
- cerecloth,
- cerement,
- cerulean,
- chrismal,
- ciborium,
- cloak,
- cloth,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- cope,
- corporal,
- cover,
- cover up,
- cowl,
- cozy,
- curtain,
- doily,
- dossal,
- eclipse,
- empyrean,
- ether,
- fanon,
- film,
- fingerstall,
- firmament,
- gazebo,
- hat,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- hood,
- housing,
- hyaline,
- jalousie,
- lamp shade,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- lift,
- lifts,
- mantle,
- marquee,
- marquise,
- mask,
- muffle,
- obduce,
- obscure,
- occult,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- pall,
- parasol,
- pavilion,
- pith helmet,
- pledget,
- purdah,
- put on,
- roof,
- scarf,
- screen,
- scum,
- shade,
- shade tree,
- sheet,
- shield,
- shroud,
- shutter,
- sky,
- smoke screen,
- spread over,
- starry heaven,
- summerhouse,
- sun hat,
- sun helmet,
- sunbonnet,
- sunshade,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- tablecloth,
- tarpaulin,
- tent,
- tester,
- the blue,
- the blue serene,
- tidy,
- topee,
- umbrella,
- vault,
- vault of heaven,
- veil,
- veiling,
- venetian blind,
- visor,
- welkin,
- window curtain,
- window screen,
- window shade
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