Related Words:
- deterioration
collapse - process of changing to an inferior state
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- aggravation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- apostasy,
- atrophy,
- augmentation,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- comedown,
- constructive change,
- contentiousness,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- crumbling,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decaying,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decomposition,
- deepening,
- defection,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- degradation,
- deliberate aggravation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- devaluation,
- deviation,
- devolution,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disintegration,
- dislocation,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- downfall,
- downgrade,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dry rot,
- dying,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effeteness,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- heightening,
- impairment,
- improvement,
- increase,
- intensification,
- involution,
- irritation,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- loss of tone,
- magnification,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- overthrow,
- provocation,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regression,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- rotting,
- ruin,
- sharpening,
- shift,
- slippage,
- slump,
- souring,
- spoiling,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- wane,
- waning,
- worsening
- hostility
collapse
- a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"
- the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"
- a state of deep-seated ill-will related words >
- Kilkenny cats,
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- action,
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- allergy,
- altercation,
- animosity,
- animus,
- antagonism,
- anteposition,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- argument,
- aversion,
- bad blood,
- bad feeling,
- bellicism,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- bickering,
- bloodshed,
- cat-and-dog life,
- chauvinism,
- clash,
- clashing,
- cold sweat,
- collision,
- combat,
- combativeness,
- competition,
- conflict,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- contrast,
- controversy,
- counterposition,
- creeping flesh,
- cross-purposes,
- cut and thrust,
- debate,
- despitefulness,
- disaccord,
- disaffinity,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- disgust,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- enmity,
- ferocity,
- fierceness,
- fight,
- fighting,
- fractiousness,
- friction,
- hard feelings,
- hardheartedness,
- hate,
- hatred,
- horror,
- hostilities,
- ill will,
- immediate dislike,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- jingoism,
- litigation,
- loathing,
- logomachy,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- martialism,
- militancy,
- militarism,
- mortal horror,
- nausea,
- negativeness,
- noncooperation,
- obstinacy,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- paper war,
- personality conflict,
- perverseness,
- perversity,
- polar opposition,
- polarity,
- polarization,
- polemic,
- posing against,
- pugnaciousness,
- pugnacity,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsomeness,
- rancor,
- recalcitrance,
- refractoriness,
- repugnance,
- repulsion,
- rivalry,
- saber rattling,
- scrapping,
- showdown,
- shuddering,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- squabbling,
- state of war,
- strife,
- struggle,
- truculence,
- uncooperativeness,
- unfriendliness,
- unpeacefulness,
- vying,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- warmongering,
- warpath,
- words,
- wrangling
- militarism
collapse
- a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests related words >
- Eisenhower Doctrine,
- Monroe Doctrine,
- Nixon Doctrine,
- Truman Doctrine,
- absolute monarchy,
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- antagonism,
- appeasement,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- balance of power,
- bellicism,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- brinkmanship,
- chauvinism,
- coalition government,
- coexistence,
- colonialism,
- combativeness,
- commonwealth,
- compromise,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- containment,
- contentiousness,
- democracy,
- detente,
- deterrence,
- dictatorship,
- diplomacy,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatics,
- dollar diplomacy,
- dollar imperialism,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- expansionism,
- federal government,
- federation,
- ferocity,
- feudal system,
- fierceness,
- fight,
- foreign affairs,
- foreign policy,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- good-neighbor policy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- hostility,
- imperialism,
- internationalism,
- isolationism,
- jingoism,
- limited monarchy,
- manifest destiny,
- martial law,
- martialism,
- meritocracy,
- militancy,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- nationalism,
- neocolonialism,
- neutralism,
- nonresistance,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- open door,
- open-door policy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- peace offensive,
- peaceful coexistence,
- police state,
- preparedness,
- pugnaciousness,
- pugnacity,
- pure democracy,
- quarrelsomeness,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- saber rattling,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- shirt-sleeve diplomacy,
- shuttle diplomacy,
- social democracy,
- spheres of influence,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- the big stick,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- tough policy,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- truculence,
- tyranny,
- unfriendliness,
- unpeacefulness,
- warmongering,
- warpath,
- welfare state,
- world politics
- amplification
collapse
- (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed"
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input related words >
- access,
- accession,
- accomplishment,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- advance,
- advancement,
- aggrandizement,
- aggravation,
- ampliation,
- annoyance,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- augmentation,
- ballooning,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- bilingual text,
- bloating,
- blossoming,
- blowing up,
- boom,
- boost,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- clavis,
- contentiousness,
- crescendo,
- crib,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- deepening,
- deliberate aggravation,
- deployment,
- deterioration,
- development,
- developmental change,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dispersion,
- edema,
- elaboration,
- elevation,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- evolution,
- evolutionary change,
- evolvement,
- evolving,
- exacerbation,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- exasperation,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- expatiation,
- explication,
- extension,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- faithful translation,
- fanning out,
- flare,
- flood,
- flowering,
- free translation,
- furtherance,
- gain,
- gloss,
- glossary,
- gradual change,
- grandiloquence,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- heightening,
- hike,
- hiking,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- intensification,
- interlinear,
- interlinear translation,
- irritation,
- jump,
- key,
- leap,
- loose translation,
- magnification,
- maturation,
- metaphrase,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- natural development,
- natural growth,
- nonviolent change,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- paraphrase,
- pony,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- progress,
- progression,
- proliferation,
- provocation,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- raise,
- raising,
- restatement,
- rewording,
- ripening,
- rise,
- sensationalism,
- sharpening,
- snowballing,
- souring,
- splay,
- spread,
- spreading,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- surge,
- swelling,
- tall talk,
- touting,
- transcription,
- translation,
- transliteration,
- travesty,
- trot,
- tumescence,
- unfolding,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- waxing,
- widening,
- working-out,
- worsening
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