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bring up short
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abbreviated
collapse
(of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
related words >
Spartan
,
abridged
,
abstracted
,
aposiopestic
,
bobbed
,
brief
,
brusque
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
cropped
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
cut short
,
digested
,
docked
,
elided
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
laconic
,
mowed
,
mown
,
nipped
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pollard
,
polled
,
pruned
,
reaped
,
reserved
,
sententious
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
trimmed
,
truncated
flashing
collapse
sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing
emitting light in sudden short or intermittent bursts; "flashing lightning and roaring thunder"
related words >
ablaze
,
aflame
,
aflicker
,
bickering
,
blazing
,
blinking
,
brave
,
bravura
,
braw
,
brief
,
brisk
,
burning
,
chichi
,
cometary
,
dancing
,
daring
,
dashing
,
dressy
,
exhibitionistic
,
flaming
,
flaring
,
flashy
,
flaunting
,
fleet
,
flickering
,
flickery
,
flicky
,
fluttering
,
fluttery
,
frilly
,
frothy
,
fulgurant
,
fulgurating
,
gallant
,
gay
,
glittering
,
jaunty
,
jazzy
,
lambent
,
meteoric
,
playing
,
quick
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
rakish
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-term
,
short-termed
,
showy
,
snazzy
,
speedy
,
splashy
,
splurgy
,
sporty
,
stroboscopic
,
swift
,
wavering
,
wavery
inflict
collapse
impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"
related words >
accomplish
,
achieve
,
administer
,
afflict
,
apply
,
bring
,
bring about
,
bring off
,
bring to pass
,
bring upon
,
burden with
,
charge
,
commit
,
deal
,
deliver
,
demand
,
do
,
do to
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
enjoin
,
exact
,
expose
,
fasten upon
,
force
,
force upon
,
freight with
,
give
,
go and do
,
impose
,
impose on
,
impose upon
,
inflict on
,
inflict upon
,
lay
,
lay on
,
levy
,
make
,
pay
,
perpetrate
,
place
,
produce
,
pull off
,
put
,
put down
,
put on
,
put upon
,
realize
,
render
,
saddle with
,
set
,
strike
,
subject
,
subject to
,
take and do
,
task
,
tax
,
trouble
,
up and do
,
visit
,
visit upon
,
weight down with
,
wreak
,
wreck
,
yoke with
squeezed
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
clamped
,
compressed
,
concentrated
,
condensed
,
consolidated
,
constricted
,
contracted
,
cramped
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
knitted
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
nipped
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
pinched-in
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
puckered
,
pursed
,
reduced
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
solidified
,
straitened
,
strangled
,
strangulated
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
,
wasp-waisted
,
wrinkled
litigate
collapse
engage in legal proceedings
related words >
bring action against
,
bring into court
,
bring suit
,
bring to justice
,
bring to trial
,
drag into court
,
go into litigation
,
go to law
,
implead
,
law
,
prosecute
,
prosecute at law
,
put in suit
,
put on trial
,
seek in law
,
seek justice
,
sue
,
take to court
roll out
collapse
flatten or spread with a roller; "roll out the paper"
straighten by unrolling; "roll out the big map"
related words >
affect
,
arise
,
betoken
,
brandish
,
breathe
,
bring forth
,
bring forward
,
bring into view
,
bring out
,
bring to notice
,
dangle
,
demonstrate
,
develop
,
disclose
,
display
,
divulge
,
dramatize
,
embody
,
enact
,
evidence
,
evince
,
exhibit
,
expose to view
,
express
,
flaunt
,
flourish
,
get up
,
give sign
,
give token
,
greet the day
,
highlight
,
hit the deck
,
illuminate
,
incarnate
,
indicate
,
make clear
,
make plain
,
manifest
,
materialize
,
mean
,
parade
,
perform
,
pile out
,
present
,
produce
,
represent
,
reveal
,
rise
,
set forth
,
show
,
show forth
,
spotlight
,
token
,
trot out
,
turn
,
turn out
,
unfold
,
uprise
,
vise
,
wave
unprosperous
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
broke
,
depressed
,
destitute
,
dire
,
distressed
,
donsie
,
doomful
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
evil-starred
,
fatal
,
feeling the pinch
,
fortuneless
,
funest
,
hapless
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
ill-starred
,
impecunious
,
impoverished
,
in Queer Street
,
in adverse circumstances
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
inauspicious
,
indigent
,
land-poor
,
low
,
luckless
,
narrow
,
needy
,
ominous
,
on the edge
,
out of luck
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
planet-struck
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
reduced
,
sad
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of luck
,
short of money
,
squeezed
,
star-crossed
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unblessed
,
underprivileged
,
unfortunate
,
unhappy
,
unlucky
,
unmoneyed
,
unprovidential
fulfil
collapse
related words >
abide by
,
accomplish
,
achieve
,
answer
,
bring about
,
bring off
,
bring to completion
,
carry off
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
carry to completion
,
complete
,
comply with
,
conform to
,
conform with
,
consummate
,
discharge
,
do
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
execute
,
implement
,
keep
,
live up to
,
look to
,
meet
,
obey
,
observe
,
perform
,
realize
,
satisfy
,
see to
talk into
collapse
persuade somebody to do something
related words >
argue into
,
bring around
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
captivate
,
charm
,
con
,
convince
,
draw
,
draw over
,
gain
,
gain over
,
get
,
hook
,
hook in
,
outtalk
,
persuade
,
prevail
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
prompt
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
sway
,
talk over
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
wear down
,
win
,
win over
reap
collapse
gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
acquire
,
bag
,
be seized of
,
bob
,
boil down
,
bring in
,
capsulize
,
capture
,
catch
,
clip
,
come by
,
come in for
,
come into
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
corral
,
crop
,
crop herbs
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
derive
,
dig
,
dock
,
drag down
,
draw
,
earn
,
elide
,
enter into possession
,
epitomize
,
foreshorten
,
gain
,
garner
,
gather
,
gather in
,
get
,
glean
,
grabble
,
harvest
,
hay
,
make
,
mow
,
net
,
nip
,
nut
,
obtain
,
pick
,
pluck
,
poll
,
pollard
,
procure
,
profit
,
prune
,
pull down
,
reap and carry
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
sack
,
score
,
secure
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
snub
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take
,
take in
,
take up
,
telescope
,
trim
,
truncate
,
win
gestate
collapse
have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
related words >
author
,
be gravid
,
be knocked up
,
be pregnant
,
be with child
,
bear
,
beget
,
breed
,
bring about
,
bring forth
,
bring to effect
,
bring to pass
,
brood
,
carry
,
carry young
,
cause
,
conceive
,
cover
,
create
,
do
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
engender
,
establish
,
father
,
found
,
generate
,
give birth to
,
give occasion to
,
give origin to
,
give rise to
,
hatch
,
inaugurate
,
incubate
,
institute
,
make
,
occasion
,
originate
,
produce
,
realize
,
set
,
set afloat
,
set on foot
,
set up
,
sire
,
sit
,
work
docked
collapse
that in a dock; "a docked ship"
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstracted
,
aposiopestic
,
bobbed
,
brief
,
brusque
,
butchered
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
castrated
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
cropped
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
cut short
,
digested
,
elided
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
garbled
,
gnomic
,
hashed
,
laconic
,
lopped
,
mangled
,
mowed
,
mown
,
mutilated
,
nipped
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pollard
,
polled
,
pruned
,
reaped
,
reserved
,
sententious
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
trimmed
,
truncated
earshot
collapse
the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot"
related words >
ace
,
auditory range
,
bit
,
bowshot
,
brief span
,
carrying distance
,
close quarters
,
close range
,
crack
,
earreach
,
gunshot
,
hair
,
hair space
,
hairbreadth
,
hairsbreadth
,
hearing
,
inch
,
little
,
little ways
,
pistol shot
,
range
,
reach
,
short distance
,
short piece
,
short way
,
sound
,
span
,
spitting distance
,
step
fall short
collapse
fail to meet (expectations or standards)
related words >
be disappointing
,
be found wanting
,
be inferior
,
be insufficient
,
collapse
,
come short
,
crash
,
decline
,
fail
,
fail of
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall dead
,
fall down
,
fall flat
,
fall in
,
fall shy
,
fall stillborn
,
fall through
,
fizzle
,
fizzle out
,
follow
,
go to smash
,
go wrong
,
have nothing on
,
kick the beam
,
lack
,
lag
,
lose ground
,
miss
,
miss out
,
miss the mark
,
not answer
,
not approach
,
not bear inspection
,
not come near
,
not compare
,
not hack it
,
not make it
,
not make out
,
not measure up
,
not pass muster
,
not qualify
,
not stretch
,
not suffice
,
peter out
,
play second fiddle
,
rank under
,
run short
,
serve
,
slump
,
stop short
,
subserve
,
turn sour
,
want
short story
collapse
a prose narrative shorter than a novel
related words >
Bildungsroman
,
Gothic novel
,
comic novel
,
detective novel
,
dime novel
,
dreadful
,
epistolary novel
,
erotic novel
,
historical novel
,
nouvelle
,
novel
,
novel of character
,
novel of ideas
,
novel of incident
,
novel of manners
,
novel of sensibility
,
novelette
,
novella
,
penny dreadful
,
picaresque novel
,
pornographic novel
,
problem novel
,
proletarian novel
,
propaganda novel
,
psychological novel
,
regional novel
,
river novel
,
roman
,
roman a clef
,
roman-fleuve
,
satirical novel
,
science-fiction novel
,
sentimental novel
,
shilling shocker
,
short-short
,
sociological novel
,
storiette
,
stream-of-consciousness novel
,
thesis novel
,
vignette
ill-off
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
bare-handed
,
beggarly
,
depressed
,
dire
,
distressed
,
donsie
,
doomful
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
empty-handed
,
evil-starred
,
famished
,
fatal
,
feeling the pinch
,
fortuneless
,
funest
,
half-starved
,
hapless
,
hard up
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
ill-starred
,
impecunious
,
impoverished
,
in Queer Street
,
in adverse circumstances
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
inauspicious
,
land-poor
,
luckless
,
narrow
,
ominous
,
on short commons
,
on the edge
,
out of luck
,
out of pocket
,
pauperized
,
pinched
,
planet-struck
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
reduced
,
sad
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of luck
,
short of money
,
shorthanded
,
squeezed
,
star-crossed
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unblessed
,
underfed
,
undermanned
,
undernourished
,
underprivileged
,
unfed
,
unfortunate
,
unhappy
,
unlucky
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
,
unprovided
,
unprovidential
,
unreplenished
,
unsupplied
beget
collapse
make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
related words >
author
,
be fruitful
,
be productive
,
bear
,
birth
,
breed
,
breed true
,
bring about
,
bring forth
,
bring into being
,
bring to birth
,
bring to effect
,
bring to pass
,
call into being
,
cause
,
coin
,
conceive
,
concoct
,
contrive
,
cook up
,
copulate
,
create
,
crossbreed
,
design
,
develop
,
devise
,
discover
,
do
,
dream up
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
engender
,
establish
,
evolve
,
fabricate
,
father
,
found
,
frame
,
fructify
,
generate
,
gestate
,
get
,
give being to
,
give birth to
,
give occasion to
,
give origin to
,
give rise to
,
hatch
,
improvise
,
inaugurate
,
inbreed
,
institute
,
invent
,
make
,
make do with
,
make love
,
make up
,
mature
,
mint
,
mother
,
multiply
,
occasion
,
originate
,
outbreed
,
plan
,
procreate
,
produce
,
proliferate
,
propagate
,
pullulate
,
realize
,
reproduce
,
reproduce in kind
,
set afloat
,
set on foot
,
set up
,
sire
,
spawn
,
strike out
,
teem
,
think out
,
think up
,
work
hairbreadth
collapse
related words >
ace
,
bit
,
bowshot
,
brief span
,
close quarters
,
close range
,
closeness
,
confinement
,
crack
,
crowdedness
,
earreach
,
earshot
,
gunshot
,
hair
,
hair space
,
hairsbreadth
,
incapaciousness
,
inch
,
incommodiousness
,
limitation
,
little
,
little ways
,
narrow gauge
,
narrowness
,
nearness
,
pistol shot
,
restrictedness
,
restriction
,
short distance
,
short piece
,
short way
,
slenderness
,
span
,
spitting distance
,
step
,
straitness
,
strictness
,
tight squeeze
,
tightness
,
whisker
not compare
collapse
related words >
be found wanting
,
be inferior
,
bear no resemblance
,
come short
,
differ
,
fail
,
fall short
,
follow
,
have nothing on
,
not approach
,
not come near
,
not compare with
,
not hack it
,
not look like
,
not make it
,
not measure up
,
play second fiddle
,
rank under
,
serve
,
subserve
,
want
strapped
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
beat
,
beggared
,
bound
,
broke
,
busted
,
destitute
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
fettered
,
flat
,
flat broke
,
fortuneless
,
hampered
,
handcuffed
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in bonds
,
in chains
,
in irons
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
ironbound
,
land-poor
,
manacled
,
narrow
,
on the edge
,
oofless
,
out of pocket
,
penurious
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
reduced
,
shackled
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
squeezed
,
stone-broke
,
stony
,
straitened
,
tethered
,
tied
,
tied down
,
tied up
,
trammeled
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
meteoric
collapse
like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience; "a meteoric rise to fame"
pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids; "meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts"
related words >
Cynthian
,
ablaze
,
aflame
,
anagalactic
,
asteroidal
,
astral
,
astrologic
,
astrologistic
,
astrologous
,
astronomic
,
astrophysical
,
blazing
,
brief
,
brilliant
,
brisk
,
burning
,
celestial
,
circumplanetary
,
cislunar
,
cometary
,
dazzling
,
empyreal
,
empyrean
,
ephemeral
,
equinoctial
,
evanescent
,
extragalactic
,
flaming
,
flaring
,
flashing
,
flashy
,
fleet
,
fleeting
,
flickering
,
fulgurant
,
fulgurating
,
galactic
,
heavenly
,
heliacal
,
impermanent
,
intercosmic
,
interplanetary
,
intersidereal
,
interstellar
,
lunar
,
lunary
,
lunate
,
lunular
,
lunulate
,
meteoritic
,
momentary
,
nebular
,
nebulose
,
nebulous
,
overnight
,
planetal
,
planetarian
,
planetary
,
planetesimal
,
quick
,
semilunar
,
sensational
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-lived
,
short-term
,
short-termed
,
sidereal
,
solar
,
spectacular
,
speedy
,
sphery
,
star-spangled
,
star-studded
,
starry
,
stellar
,
stellary
,
swift
,
temporary
,
terrestrial
,
transient
,
transitory
,
uranic
,
zodiacal
unpossessed of
collapse
related words >
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
empty of
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
in default of
,
in want of
,
lacking
,
missing
,
needing
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
scant of
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
unblessed with
,
void of
,
wanting
bare of
collapse
related words >
bankrupt in
,
bereft of
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
empty of
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
in default of
,
in want of
,
lacking
,
missing
,
needing
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
scant of
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
unblessed with
,
unpossessed of
,
void of
,
wanting
empty of
collapse
related words >
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
free of
,
in default of
,
in want of
,
lacking
,
missing
,
needing
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
scant of
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
unblessed with
,
unpossessed of
,
void of
,
wanting
,
without
sue
collapse
French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
related words >
address
,
angle for
,
apply to
,
beau
,
bid for
,
bring action against
,
bring into court
,
bring suit
,
bring to justice
,
bring to trial
,
call on
,
call upon
,
canvass
,
chase
,
circulate a petition
,
court
,
drag into court
,
esquire
,
fish for
,
follow
,
go into litigation
,
go to law
,
implead
,
law
,
lay siege to
,
litigate
,
look for
,
make suit to
,
memorialize
,
pay attention to
,
pay court to
,
petition
,
pop the question
,
pray
,
prefer a petition
,
prosecute
,
prosecute at law
,
pursue
,
put in suit
,
put on trial
,
seek
,
seek in law
,
seek justice
,
serenade
,
sign a petition
,
solicit
,
spark
,
squire
,
sue for
,
swain
,
sweetheart
,
take to court
,
woo
evince
collapse
related words >
affect
,
approve
,
argue
,
attest
,
bespeak
,
betoken
,
brandish
,
breathe
,
bring about
,
bring forth
,
bring forward
,
bring into view
,
bring out
,
bring to notice
,
cause
,
confirm
,
connote
,
dangle
,
demonstrate
,
denote
,
develop
,
disclose
,
display
,
divulge
,
dramatize
,
elicit
,
embody
,
enact
,
evidence
,
evoke
,
exhibit
,
expose
,
expose to view
,
express
,
extort
,
extract
,
flaunt
,
flourish
,
furnish evidence
,
give indication of
,
give sign
,
give token
,
go to show
,
highlight
,
illuminate
,
illustrate
,
imply
,
incarnate
,
indicate
,
involve
,
make clear
,
make plain
,
manifest
,
mark
,
materialize
,
mean
,
milk
,
parade
,
perform
,
point to
,
present
,
proclaim
,
produce
,
prove
,
provoke
,
represent
,
reveal
,
roll out
,
set forth
,
show
,
show forth
,
show signs of
,
signalize
,
signify
,
speak for itself
,
speak volumes
,
spotlight
,
stimulate
,
suggest
,
symptomatize
,
tell
,
tend to show
,
token
,
trot out
,
unfold
,
wave
propound
collapse
put forward, as of an idea
related words >
advance
,
assert
,
bring before
,
bring forward
,
bring up
,
broach
,
commend to attention
,
introduce
,
launch
,
lay before
,
lay down
,
make a motion
,
moot
,
move
,
offer
,
offer a resolution
,
open up
,
pose
,
posit
,
postulate
,
predicate
,
prefer
,
proffer
,
propose
,
proposition
,
put
,
put forth
,
put forward
,
put it to
,
recommend
,
set before
,
set forth
,
start
,
submit
,
suggest
detract from
collapse
related words >
bedwarf
,
belittle
,
bring down
,
bring into discredit
,
bring low
,
cry down
,
de-emphasize
,
debase
,
decrease
,
decry
,
degrade
,
depreciate
,
derogate
,
derogate from
,
diminish
,
disapprove of
,
discount
,
discredit
,
disgrace
,
disparage
,
dispraise
,
downplay
,
dwarf
,
hold in contempt
,
knock
,
lessen
,
libel
,
make little of
,
minify
,
minimize
,
play down
,
put down
,
reduce
,
reflect discredit upon
,
run down
,
slander
,
slight
,
speak ill of
,
submit to indignity
,
underplay
,
write off
gunshot
collapse
related words >
ace
,
bang
,
bark
,
bit
,
blast
,
bowshot
,
brief span
,
bullet
,
burst
,
cannon
,
close quarters
,
close range
,
crack
,
detonation
,
discharge
,
earreach
,
earshot
,
ejection
,
explosion
,
fulmination
,
fusillade
,
gun
,
gunfire
,
hair
,
hair space
,
hairbreadth
,
hairsbreadth
,
inch
,
little
,
little ways
,
pistol shot
,
pop
,
potshot
,
salvo
,
short distance
,
short piece
,
short way
,
shot
,
span
,
spitting distance
,
spray
,
step
,
stoneshot
,
tattoo
,
volley
elliptical
collapse
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstracted
,
aposiopestic
,
bell-like
,
bell-shaped
,
bobbed
,
brief
,
brusque
,
campaniform
,
campanular
,
campanulate
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
cropped
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
cut short
,
digested
,
docked
,
elided
,
ellipsoid
,
elliptic
,
elongated
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
laconic
,
mowed
,
mown
,
nipped
,
oblong
,
oblongated
,
oblongitudinal
,
parabolic
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pollard
,
polled
,
pruned
,
reaped
,
rectangular
,
reserved
,
saucer-shaped
,
sententious
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
trimmed
,
truncated
elliptic
collapse
characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor
of a leaf shape; in the form of an ellipse
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstracted
,
aposiopestic
,
bell-like
,
bell-shaped
,
bobbed
,
brief
,
brusque
,
campaniform
,
campanular
,
campanulate
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
cropped
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
cut short
,
digested
,
docked
,
elided
,
ellipsoid
,
elliptical
,
elongated
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
laconic
,
mowed
,
mown
,
nipped
,
oblong
,
oblongated
,
oblongitudinal
,
parabolic
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pollard
,
polled
,
pruned
,
reaped
,
rectangular
,
reserved
,
saucer-shaped
,
sententious
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
trimmed
,
truncated
persuade
collapse
cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"
related words >
admonish
,
affect
,
argue into
,
assure
,
be convincing
,
bend
,
bias
,
bring
,
bring home to
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
captivate
,
carry conviction
,
caution
,
charge
,
charm
,
color
,
con
,
convert
,
convict
,
convince
,
dispose
,
draw over
,
drive home to
,
encourage
,
enjoin
,
evangelize
,
exhort
,
expostulate
,
gain
,
gain over
,
hook
,
hook in
,
importune
,
incite
,
incline
,
induce
,
influence
,
inspire belief
,
issue a caveat
,
lead
,
lead to believe
,
move
,
outtalk
,
preach
,
predispose
,
press
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
prompt
,
proselyte
,
proselytize
,
remonstrate
,
satisfy
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
soften up
,
sway
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
tinge
,
tone
,
urge
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
warn
,
wean
,
wear down
,
weigh with
,
win
,
win over
,
work
brandish
collapse
move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
exhibit aggressively; "brandish a sword"
related words >
advertise
,
affect
,
air
,
betoken
,
blazon forth
,
breathe
,
bring forth
,
bring forward
,
bring into view
,
bring out
,
bring to notice
,
dangle
,
demonstrate
,
develop
,
disclose
,
display
,
disport
,
divulge
,
dramatize
,
emblazon
,
embody
,
enact
,
evidence
,
evince
,
exhibit
,
expose
,
expose to view
,
express
,
flap
,
flash
,
flaunt
,
float
,
flourish
,
flutter
,
fly
,
give sign
,
give token
,
highlight
,
hold up
,
illuminate
,
incarnate
,
indicate
,
make clear
,
make plain
,
manifest
,
materialize
,
mean
,
parade
,
perform
,
present
,
produce
,
put forth
,
put forward
,
represent
,
reveal
,
roll out
,
set forth
,
shake
,
show
,
show forth
,
show off
,
sport
,
spotlight
,
swing
,
token
,
trot out
,
trumpet
,
trumpet forth
,
undulate
,
unfold
,
vaunt
,
wag
,
wave
,
wield
,
wigwag
prevail upon
collapse
related words >
argue into
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
captivate
,
charm
,
con
,
convince
,
draw over
,
gain
,
gain over
,
hook
,
hook in
,
outtalk
,
persuade
,
prevail on
,
prevail with
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
sway
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
wear down
,
win
,
win over
chase after
collapse
related words >
bring
,
bring back
,
call for
,
fetch
,
fetch and carry
,
get
,
go after
,
go and get
,
go fetch
,
go for
,
go get
,
go to get
,
obtain
,
pick up
,
procure
,
retrieve
,
run after
,
secure
,
shag
divulge
collapse
related words >
affect
,
air
,
betoken
,
betray
,
brandish
,
break it to
,
break the news
,
breathe
,
bring forth
,
bring forward
,
bring into view
,
bring out
,
bring to notice
,
broach
,
come out with
,
confide
,
confide to
,
dangle
,
demonstrate
,
develop
,
disclose
,
discover
,
display
,
divulgate
,
dramatize
,
embody
,
enact
,
evidence
,
evince
,
evulgate
,
exhibit
,
expose to view
,
express
,
flaunt
,
flourish
,
give away
,
give out
,
give sign
,
give token
,
give vent to
,
gossip
,
highlight
,
illuminate
,
incarnate
,
indicate
,
let get around
,
let in on
,
let out
,
make clear
,
make known
,
make plain
,
make public
,
manifest
,
materialize
,
mean
,
mouth
,
open up
,
out with
,
parade
,
perform
,
present
,
proclaim
,
produce
,
publish
,
put out
,
represent
,
reveal
,
roll out
,
set forth
,
show
,
show forth
,
spill
,
spotlight
,
tattle
,
tell
,
token
,
trot out
,
unfold
,
utter
,
vent
,
ventilate
,
wave
procure
collapse
get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed"
related words >
accomplish
,
acquire
,
annex
,
appropriate
,
argue into
,
arouse
,
bag
,
be seized of
,
bring
,
bring about
,
bring around
,
bring back
,
bring forth
,
bring on
,
bring out
,
bring to light
,
buy
,
buy back
,
buy in
,
buy into
,
buy off
,
buy on credit
,
buy up
,
call for
,
call forth
,
call out
,
call up
,
capture
,
carry
,
catch
,
cause
,
chase after
,
come by
,
come in for
,
come into
,
compass
,
complete a purchase
,
contract
,
contrive
,
convince
,
corner
,
corral
,
decide
,
deduce
,
derive
,
determine
,
dispose
,
drag down
,
drag out
,
draw
,
draw down
,
draw forth
,
draw in
,
draw on
,
draw out
,
earn
,
educe
,
effect
,
elicit
,
engage
,
engross
,
enlist
,
enter into possession
,
evoke
,
fetch
,
fetch and carry
,
find
,
gain
,
get
,
get from
,
get out of
,
get to do
,
go after
,
go and get
,
go fetch
,
go for
,
go get
,
go to get
,
harvest
,
have
,
incline
,
induce
,
influence
,
inspire
,
instigate
,
interest in
,
land
,
lead
,
lure
,
make
,
make a buy
,
monopolize
,
motivate
,
net
,
obtain
,
pander
,
persuade
,
pick up
,
pimp
,
prevail
,
produce
,
prompt
,
prostitute
,
provoke
,
pull down
,
purchase
,
reap
,
rebuy
,
regrate
,
repurchase
,
requisition
,
retrieve
,
rouse
,
run after
,
sack
,
score
,
secure
,
shag
,
stimulate
,
summon forth
,
summon up
,
superinduce
,
sway
,
take
,
tempt
,
wangle
,
wangle out of
,
win
,
win over
,
winkle out
,
worm out
,
worm out of
wangle
collapse
an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery
achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
related words >
angle
,
argue into
,
arouse
,
brew
,
bring forth
,
bring out
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to light
,
bring to reason
,
cabal
,
call forth
,
call out
,
call up
,
captivate
,
charm
,
collude
,
complot
,
con
,
concoct
,
connive
,
conspire
,
contrive
,
convince
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
deduce
,
derive
,
drag out
,
draw forth
,
draw out
,
draw over
,
educe
,
elicit
,
engineer
,
evoke
,
finagle
,
finesse
,
frame
,
frame up
,
gain
,
gain over
,
gerrymander
,
get from
,
get out of
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
hook
,
hook in
,
induce
,
intrigue
,
jockey
,
lay a plot
,
machinate
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
obtain
,
operate
,
outtalk
,
persuade
,
play games
,
plot
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
procure
,
pull strings
,
rig
,
rouse
,
scheme
,
secure
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
stimulate
,
summon forth
,
summon up
,
sway
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
wangle into
,
wangle out of
,
wear down
,
win
,
win over
,
winkle out
,
worm out
,
worm out of
engender
collapse
call forth
related words >
arouse
,
author
,
be fruitful
,
be productive
,
bear
,
beget
,
birth
,
breed
,
breed true
,
bring about
,
bring forth
,
bring into being
,
bring to birth
,
bring to effect
,
bring to pass
,
call into being
,
cause
,
coin
,
conceive
,
concoct
,
contrive
,
cook up
,
copulate
,
create
,
crossbreed
,
design
,
develop
,
devise
,
discover
,
do
,
dream up
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
establish
,
evolve
,
excite
,
fabricate
,
father
,
found
,
frame
,
fructify
,
generate
,
gestate
,
get
,
give being to
,
give birth to
,
give occasion to
,
give origin to
,
give rise to
,
hatch
,
improvise
,
inaugurate
,
inbreed
,
induce
,
institute
,
invent
,
make
,
make do with
,
make love
,
make up
,
mature
,
mint
,
mother
,
multiply
,
muster up
,
occasion
,
originate
,
outbreed
,
plan
,
procreate
,
produce
,
proliferate
,
propagate
,
provoke
,
pullulate
,
quicken
,
realize
,
reproduce
,
reproduce in kind
,
rouse
,
set afloat
,
set on foot
,
set up
,
sire
,
spawn
,
stimulate
,
stir
,
strike out
,
teem
,
think out
,
think up
,
work
,
work up
educe
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deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
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arouse
,
bring forth
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bring out
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bring to light
,
call forth
,
call out
,
call up
,
deduce
,
derive
,
distill
,
drag
,
drag out
,
draw
,
draw forth
,
draw out
,
elicit
,
evince
,
evoke
,
evolve
,
excogitate
,
extort
,
extract
,
gain
,
get
,
get from
,
get out of
,
induce
,
milk
,
obtain
,
procure
,
pull
,
reason out
,
rouse
,
secure
,
stimulate
,
summon forth
,
summon up
,
think out
,
wangle
,
wangle out of
,
winkle out
,
worm out
,
worm out of
,
wrest
,
wring
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