Related Words:
- irretrievable
collapse - impossible to recover or recoup or overcome; "an irretrievable loss"; "irretrievable errors in judgment" related words >
- ablated,
- beyond recall,
- beyond remedy,
- by the board,
- changeless,
- constant,
- consumed,
- cureless,
- depleted,
- dissipated,
- eroded,
- expended,
- forfeit,
- forfeited,
- gone,
- immedicable,
- immutable,
- incommutable,
- inconvertible,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indefeasible,
- inert,
- inoperable,
- insusceptible of change,
- intransmutable,
- invariable,
- irreclaimable,
- irrecoverable,
- irredeemable,
- irreformable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irreversible,
- irrevocable,
- lasting,
- long-lost,
- lost,
- lost to,
- noble,
- nonreturnable,
- nonreversible,
- out the window,
- past hope,
- past praying for,
- permanent,
- remediless,
- reverseless,
- ruined,
- shrunken,
- squandered,
- terminal,
- unalterable,
- unalterative,
- unaltered,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- uncorrectable,
- undeflectable,
- undeviating,
- undone,
- unmitigable,
- unmodifiable,
- unrelievable,
- unremitting,
- unrestorable,
- unreturnable,
- unsalvable,
- unsalvageable,
- unsusceptible,
- unvariable,
- unvarying,
- used,
- used up,
- wasted,
- worn away
- turn around
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- get better; "Her performance in school picked up"
- cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math" related words >
- break back,
- change back,
- circle,
- circulate,
- circumrotate,
- circumvolute,
- come about,
- convert,
- crank,
- cry back,
- do a flip-flop,
- do an about-face,
- evert,
- fetch about,
- flip-flop,
- go about,
- go around,
- go back,
- go round,
- gyrate,
- gyre,
- hark back,
- heel,
- introvert,
- intussuscept,
- invaginate,
- inverse,
- invert,
- pirouette,
- pivot,
- pivot about,
- pronate,
- put about,
- resupinate,
- reverse,
- revolve,
- rotate,
- round,
- screw,
- spin,
- supinate,
- swing,
- swing round,
- swivel,
- transpose,
- turn,
- turn a pirouette,
- turn about,
- turn back,
- turn down,
- turn in,
- turn inside out,
- turn out,
- turn over,
- turn round,
- turn tail,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn upside down,
- twist,
- veer,
- veer around,
- wamble,
- wheel,
- wheel about,
- whirl,
- wind
- pass on
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- give to or transfer possession of; "I am passing on my genes to my children" related words >
- OK,
- abalienate,
- accept,
- accredit,
- add a codicil,
- advance,
- affirm,
- alien,
- alienate,
- amen,
- amortize,
- approve,
- assign,
- authenticate,
- authorize,
- autograph,
- barter,
- be lost,
- bequeath,
- break,
- broadcast,
- carry over,
- cease to be,
- cease to live,
- cede,
- certify,
- change hands,
- change ownership,
- come along,
- come on,
- communicate,
- confer,
- confirm,
- consign,
- convey,
- cosign,
- countersign,
- cover ground,
- decease,
- deed,
- deed over,
- deliver,
- demise,
- depart,
- depart this life,
- deport,
- descend,
- devise,
- devolve,
- devolve upon,
- die,
- diffuse,
- disseminate,
- endorse,
- enfeoff,
- entail,
- exchange,
- execute a will,
- expel,
- expire,
- export,
- extradite,
- fall,
- fall asleep,
- gain ground,
- gather head,
- gather way,
- get across,
- get ahead,
- get along,
- get over,
- give,
- give permission,
- give the go-ahead,
- give the imprimatur,
- give thumbs up,
- give title to,
- give word,
- go,
- go ahead,
- go along,
- go fast,
- go forward,
- go on,
- go out,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand forward,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- impart,
- import,
- initial,
- leave,
- leave word,
- make a bequest,
- make a will,
- make good time,
- make head against,
- make headway,
- make known,
- make over,
- make progress,
- make progress against,
- make strides,
- make up leeway,
- metastasize,
- metathesize,
- move,
- move forward,
- negotiate,
- notarize,
- part,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass away,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- pass upon,
- perfuse,
- perish,
- permit,
- proceed,
- progress,
- put off mortality,
- quit this world,
- ratify,
- relay,
- render,
- report,
- return to dust,
- roll,
- rubber stamp,
- sanction,
- say amen to,
- seal,
- second,
- sell,
- send,
- send word,
- settle,
- settle on,
- share,
- share with,
- sign,
- sign and seal,
- sign away,
- sign over,
- signal,
- spread,
- stem,
- step forward,
- stop breathing,
- subscribe to,
- succeed,
- succumb,
- support,
- surrender,
- swear and affirm,
- swear to,
- switch,
- tell,
- trade,
- transfer,
- transfer property,
- transfuse,
- translate,
- translocate,
- transmit,
- transplace,
- transplant,
- transpose,
- travel,
- turn over,
- undersign,
- underwrite,
- up and die,
- validate,
- visa,
- vise,
- warrant,
- will,
- will and bequeath,
- will to,
- yield the ghost
- hobble
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- hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean" related words >
- amble,
- anchor,
- andante,
- barge,
- bind,
- bowl along,
- bridle,
- bundle,
- burden,
- castrate,
- chain,
- claudicate,
- claudication,
- clog,
- clump,
- clutch,
- complication,
- cramp,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cripple,
- crunch,
- cumber,
- curb,
- dead march,
- deflate,
- disable,
- disarm,
- dodder,
- dogtrot,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag out,
- droop,
- emasculate,
- embarrass,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- enchain,
- encumber,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- falter,
- fasten,
- fetter,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- flounce,
- foot,
- footpace,
- footslog,
- funeral march,
- gag,
- gait,
- gallop,
- go dead slow,
- go slow,
- gyve,
- halt,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handcuff,
- handicap,
- hell to pay,
- hinder,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hog-tie,
- hop,
- hopple,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- idle,
- imbroglio,
- impede,
- incapacitate,
- inch,
- inch along,
- involve,
- jam,
- jog,
- jog trot,
- jog-trot,
- jolt,
- jump,
- knock out,
- lame,
- lash,
- laze,
- leash,
- leisurely gait,
- lime,
- limp,
- lock step,
- lumber,
- lumbering pace,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- maim,
- make fast,
- manacle,
- mess,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- mix,
- moor,
- morass,
- mosey,
- muzzle,
- net,
- pace,
- paddle,
- paralyze,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- peg,
- peg down,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- picket,
- pickle,
- pin down,
- pinch,
- pinion,
- plight,
- plod,
- poke,
- poke along,
- prance,
- predicament,
- press down,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- prostrate,
- put in irons,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- rack,
- reel,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- roll,
- rope,
- saddle with,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scrape,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- secure,
- shackle,
- shamble,
- shuffle,
- shuffle along,
- sidle,
- silence,
- single-foot,
- skip,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slough,
- slow march,
- slow motion,
- slowness,
- snarl,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stagger,
- stagger along,
- stalk,
- stamp,
- step,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- strait,
- straitjacket,
- straits,
- strangle,
- strap,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- swagger,
- swamp,
- swing,
- tangle,
- tether,
- throttle,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie up,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- toddle along,
- toil,
- totter,
- totter along,
- traipse,
- trammel,
- tread,
- tricky spot,
- trip,
- trot,
- trudge,
- truss up,
- unholy mess,
- velocity,
- waddle,
- walk,
- wamble,
- weave,
- weigh down,
- wiggle,
- wing,
- wobble,
- worm,
- worm along
- antecedent
collapse
- the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
- preceding in time or order related words >
- agency,
- ancestor,
- ancestors,
- announcer,
- antecede,
- antecedents,
- antedate,
- anterior,
- anticipatory,
- ascendant,
- ascendants,
- avant-garde,
- base,
- basis,
- bellwether,
- buccinator,
- bushwhacker,
- call,
- causation,
- cause,
- cause and effect,
- chief,
- ci-devant,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- earlier,
- early,
- elder,
- elders,
- element,
- etiology,
- exordial,
- explorer,
- factor,
- fathers,
- first,
- fore,
- forebear,
- forebears,
- forefather,
- forefathers,
- foregoer,
- foregoing,
- foremost,
- forerun,
- forerunner,
- former,
- front runner,
- frontiersman,
- fugleman,
- grandfathers,
- grandparents,
- ground,
- groundbreaker,
- grounds,
- guide,
- harbinger,
- heading,
- headmost,
- herald,
- inaugural,
- initiatory,
- innovator,
- instrumentality,
- lead runner,
- leader,
- leading,
- means,
- messenger,
- occasion,
- older,
- pace,
- past,
- pathfinder,
- patriarchs,
- pioneer,
- point,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precurrent,
- precursor,
- precursory,
- predate,
- predecessor,
- predecessors,
- preexistent,
- prefatory,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- premise,
- preparatory,
- prevenient,
- previous,
- prime,
- primogenitor,
- principle,
- prior,
- proemial,
- progenitor,
- progenitors,
- propaedeutic,
- prototype,
- reason,
- scout,
- senior,
- stimulus,
- stormy petrel,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- vanguard,
- vaunt-courier,
- voortrekker
- frisk
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- the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; "he gave the suspect a quick frisk"
- search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets; "The police frisked everyone at the airport" related words >
- amble,
- antic,
- beat the bushes,
- bob,
- bounce,
- burrow,
- canter,
- caper,
- capriole,
- caracole,
- carol,
- carry on,
- cavort,
- check out,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- clap hands,
- curvet,
- cut a dido,
- cut capers,
- cut up,
- dance,
- delight,
- delve,
- dido,
- dig,
- disport,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- examine,
- exploration,
- explore,
- exult,
- falcade,
- fan,
- flounce,
- fool around,
- forage,
- frolic,
- gallop,
- gambade,
- gambado,
- gambol,
- glory,
- go on horseback,
- go over,
- go through,
- hack,
- horse around,
- house-search,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- inspect,
- joy,
- jubilate,
- jump about,
- leap,
- lilt,
- look around,
- look round,
- look through,
- lope,
- mount,
- nose around,
- pace,
- perquisition,
- piaffe,
- play,
- poke,
- poke around,
- posse,
- prance,
- probe,
- pry,
- quest,
- ramp,
- ransacking,
- rejoice,
- research,
- revel,
- ride bareback,
- ride hard,
- rollick,
- romp,
- root,
- rummage,
- search,
- search party,
- search through,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- searching,
- shake down,
- sing,
- skip,
- skip for joy,
- smell around,
- sport,
- stalk,
- stalking,
- still hunt,
- take horse,
- tittup,
- trip,
- trot,
- turning over,
- whistle
- ding
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- a ringing sound
- go `ding dong', like a bell related words >
- bang,
- bash,
- beat,
- belt,
- best,
- better,
- biff,
- catch,
- change ringing,
- chime,
- chiming,
- chink,
- clang,
- clanging,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clanking,
- clink,
- clout,
- crack,
- din,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingdong,
- dinging,
- dingle,
- dong,
- donging,
- douse,
- drum,
- exceed,
- gong,
- hammer,
- hit,
- jangle,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jinglejangle,
- jingling,
- knell,
- knelling,
- nail,
- outdo,
- outgo,
- outmatch,
- outshine,
- peal,
- peal ringing,
- pealing,
- pound,
- ring,
- ring changes,
- ringing,
- slam,
- slosh,
- smack,
- sock,
- sound,
- sound a knell,
- ting,
- ting-a-ling,
- tingle,
- tingling,
- tink,
- tinkle,
- tinkling,
- tinnitus,
- tintinnabulate,
- toll,
- tolling,
- whack,
- whop
- sheer
collapse
- directly; "he fell sheer into the water"
- straight up or down without a break
- cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- about ship,
- abrupt,
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- airy,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- angle,
- angle off,
- aplomb,
- arduous,
- arrant,
- at right angles,
- avert,
- back and fill,
- bare,
- bear away,
- bear off,
- bear to starboard,
- beat,
- beat about,
- bend,
- bent,
- bias,
- blasted,
- blessed,
- bluff,
- bold,
- born,
- box off,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- break,
- breakneck,
- bring about,
- bring round,
- broad-based,
- cant,
- cant round,
- cast,
- cast about,
- change course,
- change the bearing,
- change the heading,
- chiffon,
- circuitousness,
- clarified,
- clean,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- come about,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- confounded,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- corner,
- crook,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- curve,
- declination,
- deep-dyed,
- deflect,
- depart from,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- digress,
- digression,
- dip,
- discursion,
- distilled,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- double a point,
- downright,
- drift,
- drifting,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exhaustive,
- exorbitation,
- fetch about,
- filmy,
- flimsy,
- gauzy,
- go about,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gross,
- gybe,
- hairpin,
- headlong,
- heave round,
- heel,
- indirection,
- infernal,
- intensive,
- irretrievably,
- irrevocably,
- jibe,
- jibe all standing,
- light-pervious,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- lurch,
- mere,
- miss stays,
- naked,
- neat,
- nonopaque,
- oblique,
- obliquity,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- orthodiagonal,
- orthogonal,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- pererration,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- perpendicular,
- perpendicularly,
- pervasive,
- pivot,
- plain,
- plumb,
- plunging,
- ply,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- pure,
- purified,
- put about,
- put back,
- quite,
- radical,
- rambling,
- rank,
- rapid,
- rectified,
- regular,
- revealing,
- right,
- right-angle,
- right-angled,
- right-angular,
- round a point,
- see-through,
- sharp,
- sheerly,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- sideling,
- simple,
- skew,
- slant,
- slew,
- slue,
- square,
- stark,
- steep,
- stickle,
- straight,
- straight-up,
- straight-up-and-down,
- straying,
- sway,
- sweep,
- sweeping,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swing round,
- swing the stern,
- swinging,
- tack,
- thin,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- throw about,
- total,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- trend,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn back,
- turning,
- twist,
- ubiquitous,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unblended,
- unclouded,
- uncombined,
- uncompounded,
- unconditional,
- uncorrupted,
- undiluted,
- unenhanced,
- unfortified,
- universal,
- unleavened,
- unmingled,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unqualified,
- unrelievedly,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unsophisticated,
- untinged,
- up and down,
- up-and-down,
- utter,
- variation,
- vary,
- veer,
- veritable,
- vertical,
- volte-face,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wear,
- wear ship,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirl,
- wholesale,
- wind,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- penance
collapse
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing related words >
- Day of Atonement,
- Yom Kippur,
- abject apology,
- amends,
- apology,
- asceticism,
- atone,
- atonement,
- attrition,
- baptism,
- change of heart,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- compensation,
- compunction,
- confirmation,
- contrition,
- deathbed repentance,
- do penance,
- extreme unction,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- hair shirt,
- heartfelt apology,
- holy orders,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- make amends,
- matrimony,
- mea culpa,
- mortification,
- pay,
- penal retribution,
- penalization,
- penalty,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- penitently,
- price,
- punishment,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- reformation,
- regret,
- remorse,
- remorsefulness,
- reparation,
- repentance,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- saeta,
- self-mortification,
- self-punishment,
- seven sacraments,
- suffer,
- suffering,
- the Eucharist,
- wearing a hairshirt
- convulsion
collapse
- a physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval
- a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
- violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles related words >
- Homeric laughter,
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- abdominal epilepsy,
- abscess,
- access,
- acquired epilepsy,
- activated epilepsy,
- affect epilepsy,
- ague,
- akinetic epilepsy,
- amok,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- apoplexy,
- arrest,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- attack,
- autonomic epilepsy,
- backache,
- belly laugh,
- blaze,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- blockage,
- bloodless revolution,
- boff,
- boffola,
- bouleversement,
- breakdown,
- breakup,
- burst,
- burst of laughter,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- cachinnation,
- cackle,
- cardiac epilepsy,
- cat fit,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- chill,
- chills,
- chortle,
- chuckle,
- clamor,
- clean slate,
- clean sweep,
- climax,
- clonic spasm,
- clonus,
- colic,
- computer revolution,
- conniption,
- conniption fit,
- constipation,
- cortical epilepsy,
- coughing,
- counterrevolution,
- cramp,
- crow,
- cursive epilepsy,
- cyanosis,
- cyclone,
- debacle,
- derangement,
- diarrhea,
- diastrophism,
- disarrangement,
- disaster,
- discomposure,
- dislocation,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disturbance,
- diurnal epilepsy,
- dizziness,
- downfall,
- dropsy,
- duck fit,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- eclampsia,
- edema,
- emaciation,
- epilepsia,
- epilepsia gravior,
- epilepsia major,
- epilepsia minor,
- epilepsia mitior,
- epilepsia nutans,
- epilepsia tarda,
- epilepsy,
- epitasis,
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- hemorrhage,
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- hilarity,
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- hurricane,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
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- hysterical epilepsy,
- icterus,
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- indigestion,
- inflammation,
- insanity,
- insomnia,
- irruption,
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- labored breathing,
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- laugh,
- laughing,
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- low blood pressure,
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- matutinal epilepsy,
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- musicogenic epilepsy,
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- nasal discharge,
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- revolt,
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- revulsion,
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- risibility,
- roar of laughter,
- rocking,
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- sabotage,
- sclerosis,
- seizure,
- sensory epilepsy,
- serial epilepsy,
- sexual climax,
- shaking,
- shock,
- shout,
- shout of laughter,
- shriek,
- shuffling,
- skin eruption,
- sneezing,
- snicker,
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- snort,
- sore,
- spasm,
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- storm,
- striking alteration,
- stroke,
- subversion,
- sweeping change,
- tabes,
- tabula rasa,
- tachycardia,
- tantrum,
- tardy epilepsy,
- technological revolution,
- tee-hee,
- temblor,
- temper tantrum,
- tempest,
- tetanus,
- tetany,
- throes,
- thromboembolism,
- thrombosis,
- tidal wave,
- titter,
- tonic epilepsy,
- tonic spasm,
- tornado,
- torsion spasm,
- total change,
- tottering,
- transilience,
- traumatic epilepsy,
- trembling,
- trismus,
- tsunami,
- tumor,
- tumult,
- ucinate epilepsy,
- upheaval,
- upset,
- upset stomach,
- upturn,
- vertigo,
- violent change,
- visitation,
- vomiting,
- wasting,
- whirlwind,
- yuck,
- yuk-yuk
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