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appeal to
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related words >
accost
,
address
,
adjure
,
apostrophize
,
appeal
,
approach
,
ask
,
ask for
,
beg
,
beseech
,
bespeak
,
blackmail
,
buttonhole
,
call for
,
call for help
,
call on
,
call to
,
call upon
,
challenge
,
claim
,
clamor for
,
conjure
,
crave
,
cross-refer
,
cross-reference
,
cry for
,
cry on
,
cry to
,
demand
,
direct attention to
,
entreat
,
exact
,
extort
,
greet
,
hail
,
halloo
,
impetrate
,
implore
,
impose
,
imprecate
,
indent
,
invoke
,
issue an ultimatum
,
kneel to
,
levy
,
make a cross-reference
,
make a demand
,
make reference to
,
obtest
,
order
,
order up
,
place an order
,
plead
,
plead for
,
pray
,
put in requisition
,
refer to
,
reference
,
require
,
requisition
,
run to
,
salute
,
screw
,
speak
,
speak fair
,
speak to
,
supplicate
,
take aside
,
talk to
,
warn
jangling
collapse
like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"
related words >
ajar
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
at cross-purposes
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
at variance
,
at war
,
clashing
,
conflicting
,
confused
,
contradictory
,
contrary
,
cranky
,
cross
,
differing
,
disaccordant
,
disagreeable
,
disagreeing
,
discordant
,
discrepant
,
disharmonious
,
disproportionate
,
dissident
,
dissonant
,
divergent
,
grating
,
grinding
,
harsh
,
hostile
,
immiscible
,
inaccordant
,
incompatible
,
inharmonious
,
jangly
,
jarring
,
jostling
,
negative
,
out of accord
,
out of whack
,
rasping
,
raspy
,
repugnant
,
scraping
,
scrapy
,
scratching
,
scratchy
,
uncongenial
,
unharmonious
,
variant
,
warring
inquisitor
collapse
a questioner who is excessively harsh
an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition
related words >
Paul Pry
,
Peeping Tom
,
asker
,
busybody
,
catechist
,
cross-interrogator
,
cross-questioner
,
detective
,
eavesdropper
,
examiner
,
gossip
,
inquirer
,
inquisitionist
,
inquisitive
,
interlocutor
,
interpellator
,
interrogator
,
interrogatrix
,
interviewer
,
nosy Parker
,
opinion-sampler
,
poller
,
pollster
,
prober
,
pry
,
querier
,
querist
,
questioner
,
questionist
,
quidnunc
,
quizzer
,
rubberneck
,
rubbernecker
,
sampler
,
scopophiliac
,
secret agent
,
sightseer
,
snoop
,
snooper
,
voyeur
,
yenta
questioner
collapse
related words >
Paul Pry
,
Peeping Tom
,
asker
,
busybody
,
catechist
,
cross-interrogator
,
cross-questioner
,
detective
,
eavesdropper
,
examiner
,
gossip
,
inquirer
,
inquisitionist
,
inquisitive
,
inquisitor
,
interlocutor
,
interpellator
,
interrogator
,
interrogatrix
,
interviewer
,
nosy Parker
,
opinion-sampler
,
poller
,
pollster
,
prober
,
pry
,
querier
,
querist
,
questionist
,
quidnunc
,
quizzer
,
rubberneck
,
rubbernecker
,
sampler
,
scopophiliac
,
secret agent
,
sightseer
,
snoop
,
snooper
,
voyeur
,
yenta
grilling
collapse
related words >
ardent
,
baking
,
barbecuing
,
basting
,
blistering
,
boiling
,
braising
,
brewing
,
broil
,
broiling
,
burning
,
burning hot
,
canicular
,
catering
,
cookery
,
cooking
,
cross-examination
,
cross-interrogation
,
cross-questioning
,
cuisine
,
culinary science
,
direct examination
,
domestic science
,
ebullient
,
feverish
,
flushed
,
frying
,
heated
,
home economics
,
hot
,
hot as fire
,
hot as hell
,
inquisition
,
interrogation
,
like a furnace
,
like an oven
,
nutrition
,
overheated
,
overwarm
,
pan-broiling
,
parching
,
piping hot
,
poaching
,
police interrogation
,
red-hot
,
redirect examination
,
roasting
,
sauteing
,
scalding
,
scorching
,
searing
,
seething
,
shirring
,
simmering
,
sizzling hot
,
smoking hot
,
steeping
,
stewing
,
sudorific
,
sweating
,
sweaty
,
sweltering
,
sweltry
,
the grill
,
third degree
,
third-degree
,
toasting
,
torrid
,
white-hot
contrast with
collapse
related words >
be at cross-purposes
,
be distinct
,
be distinguished
,
be opposed to
,
clash
,
clash with
,
conflict
,
conflict with
,
contradict
,
contrapose
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
counter
,
counteract
,
counterbalance
,
countercheck
,
counterpoise
,
counterpose
,
countervail
,
counterwork
,
depart from
,
deviate from
,
differ
,
disaccord with
,
disagree with
,
divaricate from
,
diverge
,
diverge from
,
jar with
,
juxtapose in opposition
,
not accord with
,
not square with
,
offset
,
oppose
,
oppugn
,
play at cross-purposes
,
run counter to
,
set off
,
stand apart
,
stand over against
,
vary
disbarment
collapse
the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law
related words >
banishment
,
blackballing
,
cashiering
,
deconsecration
,
defrocking
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depluming
,
deportation
,
deposal
,
deposition
,
deprivation
,
dethronement
,
disbarring
,
discrownment
,
disenthronement
,
disfellowship
,
dismissal
,
displacement
,
displuming
,
exclusion
,
excommunication
,
exile
,
expatriation
,
expulsion
,
extradition
,
firing
,
forced resignation
,
fugitation
,
impeachment
,
kicking upstairs
,
liquidation
,
ostracism
,
ostracization
,
ousting
,
outlawing
,
outlawry
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
pensioning off
,
purge
,
relegation
,
removal
,
retirement
,
rustication
,
stripping
,
superannuation
,
suspension
,
transportation
,
unchurching
,
unfrocking
,
unseating
take issue with
collapse
related words >
abjure
,
agree to differ
,
agree to disagree
,
assert the contrary
,
be at cross-purposes
,
be at variance
,
be in dissent
,
beg to differ
,
belie
,
bicker over
,
contend about
,
contest
,
contradict
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
counter
,
counteract
,
countervail
,
counterwork
,
cross
,
deny
,
differ
,
disaffirm
,
disagree
,
disagree with
,
disallow
,
disavow
,
disclaim
,
discord with
,
disown
,
disprove
,
dispute
,
dissent
,
dissent from
,
divide on
,
drop out
,
fight over
,
forswear
,
gainsay
,
go against
,
impugn
,
join issue upon
,
join the opposition
,
not abide
,
not accept
,
not admit
,
not agree
,
nullify
,
oppose
,
play at cross-purposes
,
protest
,
quarrel over
,
recant
,
refuse to admit
,
refute
,
renounce
,
repudiate
,
resist
,
retract
,
revoke
,
run against
,
run counter to
,
secede
,
squabble over
,
take back
,
take exception
,
take issue
,
traverse
,
vote against
,
withdraw
,
withhold assent
,
withstand
,
wrangle over
arousal
collapse
the act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions"
awakening from sleep
a state of heightened physiological activity
related words >
a high
,
aggravation
,
agitation
,
animation
,
arousing
,
awakening
,
bringing out
,
calling forth
,
drawing out
,
eduction
,
electrification
,
emotion
,
evocation
,
exacerbation
,
exasperation
,
excitation
,
excitedness
,
excitement
,
exhilaration
,
firing
,
fomentation
,
galvanization
,
incitation
,
incitement
,
inflammation
,
infuriation
,
instigation
,
irritation
,
lathering up
,
manic state
,
pep rally
,
pep talk
,
perturbation
,
provocation
,
rabble-rousing
,
reveille
,
rousing
,
rude awakening
,
steaming up
,
stimulation
,
stimulus
,
stirring
,
stirring up
,
stirring-up
,
whipping up
,
working up
countervail
collapse
related words >
accommodate
,
adjust
,
amend
,
antagonize
,
atone for
,
balance
,
be antipathetic
,
be at cross-purposes
,
be inimical
,
be opposed to
,
beat against
,
cancel
,
clash
,
collide
,
compensate
,
conflict
,
conflict with
,
confute
,
contradict
,
contrapose
,
contrast with
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
coordinate
,
correct
,
counter
,
counteract
,
counterattack
,
counterbalance
,
countercheck
,
counterpoise
,
counterpose
,
counterweigh
,
counterwork
,
cross
,
equalize
,
equate
,
equiponderate
,
even
,
even up
,
fit
,
foil
,
frustrate
,
go against
,
go counter to
,
integrate
,
interfere with
,
join the opposition
,
juxtapose in opposition
,
level
,
lock horns
,
make up
,
meet head-on
,
militate against
,
not abide
,
offset
,
oppose
,
oppugn
,
outweigh
,
overcome
,
play at cross-purposes
,
poise
,
proportion
,
protest
,
rectify
,
redeem
,
resist
,
run against
,
run counter to
,
set off
,
square
,
square up
,
strike a balance
,
surmount
,
swim upstream
,
take issue with
,
thwart
,
traverse
,
vote against
,
withstand
,
work against
bun
collapse
small rounded bread either plain or sweet
related words >
Danish
,
Danish pastry
,
English muffin
,
Parker House roll
,
Yorkshire pudding
,
bagel
,
bialy
,
bialystoker
,
braid
,
chignon
,
clover-leaf roll
,
coffee cake
,
coil
,
crescent roll
,
croissant
,
cross bun
,
crumpet
,
cue
,
gem
,
hard roll
,
hot cross bun
,
kaiser roll
,
knot
,
muffin
,
onion roll
,
pigtail
,
pinwheel roll
,
plait
,
popover
,
queue
,
rattail
,
roll
,
scone
,
soft roll
,
tail
,
topknot
,
twist
ethane
collapse
a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methane
,
methanol
,
natural gas
,
octane
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
peat
,
pentane
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
contra
collapse
related words >
a rebours
,
adverse to
,
against
,
against the grain
,
against the tide
,
against the wind
,
antipode
,
antipodes
,
antipole
,
antithesis
,
antonym
,
arsy-varsy
,
at cross-purposes
,
at cross-purposes with
,
at daggers
,
at daggers drawn
,
at issue
,
at odds
,
at variance
,
at war with
,
athwart
,
by contraries
,
con
,
contradictory
,
contrarily
,
contrariously
,
contrariwise
,
contrary
,
contrawise
,
converse
,
conversely
,
counter
,
counter to
,
counterbalance
,
countercheck
,
counterpoint
,
counterpoise
,
counterpole
,
counterterm
,
cross
,
dead against
,
eyeball-to-eyeball
,
facing
,
foil
,
fronting
,
in conflict with
,
in confrontation
,
in flat opposition
,
in hostile array
,
in opposition
,
in opposition to
,
inverse
,
inversely
,
just the opposite
,
nay rather
,
obverse
,
offset
,
on the contrary
,
opposed to
,
opposite
,
opposite number
,
oppositely
,
otherwise
,
over
,
per contra
,
quite the contrary
,
rather
,
reverse
,
setoff
,
the contrary
,
the other side
,
to the contrary
,
topsy-turvy
,
tout au contraire
,
toward
,
up in arms
,
upside down
,
versus
,
vice versa
,
vis-a-vis
,
with crossed bayonets
rabble rousing
collapse
related words >
agitation
,
agitational
,
agitative
,
arousal
,
debating
,
declamation
,
demagogism
,
elocution
,
eloquence
,
exasperation
,
excitation
,
excitement
,
firing
,
fomentation
,
fomenting
,
forensics
,
homiletics
,
incendiary
,
incentive
,
incitation
,
incitement
,
inciting
,
incitive
,
inflammation
,
inflammatory
,
instigating
,
instigation
,
instigative
,
irritation
,
lecturing
,
oratory
,
pep rally
,
pep talk
,
platform oratory
,
provocation
,
public speaking
,
pyrotechnics
,
rhetoric
,
speaking
,
speechcraft
,
speechification
,
speeching
,
speechmaking
,
stimulation
,
stirring
,
stirring-up
,
stump speaking
,
wordcraft
propane
collapse
colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuel
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethane
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methane
,
methanol
,
natural gas
,
octane
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
peat
,
pentane
,
propellant
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
methane
collapse
a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethane
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methanol
,
natural gas
,
octane
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
peat
,
pentane
,
propane
,
propellant
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
natural gas
collapse
a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethane
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methane
,
methanol
,
octane
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
peat
,
pentane
,
propane
,
propellant
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
pentane
collapse
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethane
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methane
,
methanol
,
natural gas
,
octane
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
peat
,
propane
,
propellant
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
peat
collapse
partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethane
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methane
,
methanol
,
natural gas
,
octane
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
pentane
,
propane
,
propellant
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
octane
collapse
any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent
related words >
alcohol
,
benzine
,
briquette
,
burnable
,
butane
,
carbon
,
charcoal
,
coal
,
coke
,
combustible
,
dope
,
ethane
,
ethanol
,
fireball
,
firing
,
flammable
,
flammable material
,
fuel
,
fuel additive
,
fuel dope
,
gas
,
gas carbon
,
gasoline
,
heptane
,
hexane
,
inflammable
,
inflammable material
,
isooctane
,
jet fuel
,
kerosene
,
methane
,
methanol
,
natural gas
,
oil
,
paraffin
,
peat
,
pentane
,
propane
,
propellant
,
rocket fuel
,
turf
testy
collapse
related words >
bad-tempered
,
bearish
,
bitchy
,
cankered
,
cantankerous
,
captious
,
choleric
,
churlish
,
contentious
,
crabbed
,
crabby
,
cranky
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crotchety
,
crusty
,
cussed
,
disagreeable
,
edgy
,
excitable
,
feisty
,
fractious
,
fretful
,
grouchy
,
grumpy
,
hot-tempered
,
huffish
,
huffy
,
ill-humored
,
ill-tempered
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
mean
,
on edge
,
ornery
,
peevish
,
perverse
,
petulant
,
pissed off
,
quarrelsome
,
querulous
,
quick-tempered
,
short-tempered
,
snappish
,
spiteful
,
spleeny
,
splenetic
,
tetchy
,
touchy
,
ugly
,
waspish
counterpose
collapse
related words >
analogize
,
antagonize
,
assimilate
,
balance
,
be antipathetic
,
be at cross-purposes
,
be inimical
,
be opposed to
,
beat against
,
bring into analogy
,
bring into comparison
,
clash
,
collide
,
compare
,
compare and contrast
,
compare with
,
conflict
,
conflict with
,
confront
,
confute
,
contradict
,
contrapose
,
contrast
,
contrast with
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
counter
,
counteract
,
counterattack
,
counterbalance
,
countercheck
,
counterpoise
,
countervail
,
counterwork
,
cross
,
draw a comparison
,
draw a parallel
,
go against
,
go counter to
,
interfere with
,
juxtapose in opposition
,
liken
,
liken to
,
lock horns
,
match
,
measure against
,
meet head-on
,
metaphorize
,
militate against
,
offset
,
oppose
,
oppugn
,
parallel
,
place against
,
play at cross-purposes
,
relate
,
resist
,
run a comparison
,
run against
,
run counter to
,
set in contrast
,
set in opposition
,
set off
,
set off against
,
set over against
,
similize
,
swim upstream
,
view together
,
weigh
,
weigh against
,
work against
zero in on
collapse
related words >
aim at
,
allocate
,
assign
,
barrage
,
blast
,
blitz
,
bombard
,
cannon
,
cannonade
,
collocate
,
commence firing
,
deploy
,
dispose
,
emplace
,
enfilade
,
fire a volley
,
fire at
,
fire upon
,
fix
,
fusillade
,
get a fix
,
home in on
,
install
,
localize
,
locate
,
mortar
,
navigate
,
open fire
,
open up on
,
pepper
,
pin down
,
pinpoint
,
place
,
pop at
,
position
,
put in place
,
rake
,
shell
,
shoot
,
shoot at
,
situate
,
snipe
,
snipe at
,
spot
,
strafe
,
take aim at
,
torpedo
,
triangulate
firing line
collapse
the most advanced and responsible group in an activity; "the firing line is where the action is"
the line from which soldiers deliver fire
related words >
DMZ
,
aceldama
,
battle line
,
battle site
,
battlefield
,
battleground
,
combat area
,
combat zone
,
enemy line
,
field
,
field of battle
,
field of blood
,
front line
,
killing ground
,
landing beach
,
line
,
line of battle
,
seat of war
,
shambles
,
the front
,
theater
,
theater of operations
,
theater of war
,
zone of communications
battlefield
collapse
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
related words >
DMZ
,
aceldama
,
battle line
,
battle site
,
battleground
,
combat area
,
combat zone
,
enemy line
,
field
,
field of battle
,
field of blood
,
firing line
,
front line
,
killing ground
,
landing beach
,
line
,
line of battle
,
seat of war
,
shambles
,
the front
,
theater
,
theater of operations
,
theater of war
,
zone of communications
trial balloon
collapse
a balloon sent up to test air currents
a test of public opinion
related words >
barometer
,
bone of contention
,
catechism
,
cross-interrogatory
,
cross-question
,
debating point
,
demand
,
feeler
,
inquiry
,
interrogation
,
interrogative
,
interrogatory
,
issue
,
leader
,
leading question
,
moot point
,
pilot balloon
,
point at issue
,
point in question
,
probe
,
problem
,
query
,
question
,
question at issue
,
question mark
,
quodlibet
,
random sample
,
sample
,
sound
,
sounder
,
straw vote
,
topic
,
trial
,
vexed question
,
weather vane
,
weathercock
crosier
collapse
a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
related words >
Malacca cane
,
alpenstock
,
baton
,
caduceus
,
cane
,
chain of office
,
crook
,
cross
,
cross-staff
,
crutch
,
crutch-stick
,
fasces
,
gavel
,
handstaff
,
keys
,
lituus
,
mace
,
mantle
,
miter
,
pallium
,
pastoral staff
,
paterissa
,
portfolio
,
quarterstaff
,
red hat
,
ring
,
rod
,
rod of office
,
scepter
,
shillelagh
,
staff
,
stave
,
stick
,
swagger stick
,
swanking stick
,
tiara
,
triple crown
,
truncheon
,
walking stick
,
wand
,
wand of office
aceldama
collapse
related words >
Belsen
,
DMZ
,
abattoir
,
battle line
,
battle site
,
battlefield
,
battleground
,
butchery
,
combat area
,
combat zone
,
concentration camp
,
enemy line
,
field
,
field of battle
,
field of blood
,
firing line
,
front line
,
gas chamber
,
killing ground
,
landing beach
,
line
,
line of battle
,
seat of war
,
shambles
,
slaughterhouse
,
stockyard
,
the front
,
theater
,
theater of operations
,
theater of war
,
zone of communications
irascible
collapse
related words >
agitable
,
bearish
,
bitchy
,
cankered
,
cantankerous
,
churlish
,
contrary
,
crabbed
,
cranky
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crusty
,
cussed
,
difficult
,
disagreeable
,
edgy
,
emotional
,
emotionally unstable
,
eruptive
,
excitable
,
explosive
,
feisty
,
fractious
,
froward
,
high-mettled
,
high-spirited
,
high-strung
,
highly emotional
,
huffish
,
huffy
,
inflammable
,
irritable
,
mean
,
mettlesome
,
nervous
,
ornery
,
perturbable
,
perverse
,
prickly
,
sensitive
,
skittish
,
snappish
,
spiteful
,
spleeny
,
splenetic
,
startlish
,
stuffy
,
sulky
,
sullen
,
testy
,
touchy
,
ugly
,
volcanic
,
waspish
,
wayward
,
wrongheaded
bone of contention
collapse
the subject of a dispute; "the real bone of contention, as you know, is money"
related words >
apple of discord
,
bone to pick
,
casus belli
,
catechism
,
cross-interrogatory
,
cross-question
,
crow to pick
,
crow to pluck
,
debating point
,
demand
,
feeler
,
grounds for war
,
inquiry
,
interrogation
,
interrogative
,
interrogatory
,
issue
,
leader
,
leading question
,
moot point
,
point at issue
,
point in question
,
problem
,
query
,
question
,
question at issue
,
question mark
,
quodlibet
,
rub
,
sore point
,
tender spot
,
ticklish issue
,
topic
,
trial balloon
,
vexed question
ax
collapse
an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
related words >
amputate
,
battle-ax
,
beheading
,
bisect
,
blade
,
block
,
boot out
,
bounce
,
burning
,
butcher
,
can
,
capital punishment
,
carve
,
cashier
,
cashiering
,
chop
,
cleave
,
cold steel
,
conge
,
cross
,
crucifixion
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
cutlery
,
cutter
,
dagger
,
death chair
,
death chamber
,
decapitation
,
decollation
,
defenestration
,
deposal
,
dichotomize
,
discharge
,
disemployment
,
dismissal
,
displacing
,
dissever
,
drop
,
drumming out
,
edge tools
,
electric chair
,
electrocution
,
excise
,
execution
,
fire
,
firing
,
fissure
,
forced separation
,
furloughing
,
fusillade
,
gallows
,
gallows-tree
,
garrote
,
gas chamber
,
gash
,
gassing
,
gibbet
,
guillotine
,
hack
,
halberd
,
halter
,
halve
,
hanging
,
hatchet
,
hemlock
,
hemp
,
hempen collar
,
hew
,
hot seat
,
incise
,
jigsaw
,
judicial murder
,
kick out
,
knife
,
lance
,
lapidation
,
layoff
,
lethal chamber
,
maiden
,
naked steel
,
necktie party
,
noose
,
pare
,
pigsticker
,
pink slip
,
point
,
poisoning
,
poleax
,
prune
,
puncturer
,
removal
,
rend
,
retirement
,
rive
,
rope
,
sack
,
saw
,
scaffold
,
scissor
,
sever
,
sharpener
,
shooting
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
snip
,
split
,
stake
,
steel
,
stoning
,
strangling
,
strangulation
,
sunder
,
surplusing
,
suspension
,
sword
,
tear
,
terminate
,
the ax
,
the block
,
the boot
,
the bounce
,
the chair
,
the gallows
,
the gas chamber
,
the gate
,
the guillotine
,
the hot seat
,
the rope
,
the sack
,
ticket
,
toad sticker
,
tomahawk
,
tree
,
walking papers
,
whittle
at war
collapse
related words >
against the grain
,
against the tide
,
against the wind
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
at cross-purposes
,
at daggers
,
at daggers drawn
,
at feud
,
at issue
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
at square
,
at strife
,
at variance
,
at war with
,
athwart
,
clashing
,
contra
,
contradictory
,
contrariwise
,
contrary
,
counter
,
cranky
,
cross
,
differing
,
disaccordant
,
disagreeable
,
disagreeing
,
discordant
,
discrepant
,
disharmonious
,
disproportionate
,
dissident
,
dissonant
,
divergent
,
eyeball-to-eyeball
,
grating
,
hostile
,
immiscible
,
in confrontation
,
in hostile array
,
in opposition
,
inaccordant
,
incompatible
,
inharmonious
,
jangling
,
jarring
,
negative
,
out of accord
,
out of whack
,
repugnant
,
uncongenial
,
unharmonious
,
up in arms
,
variant
,
with crossed bayonets
inquirer
collapse
someone who asks a question
related words >
Paul Pry
,
Peeping Tom
,
asker
,
auditor
,
autodidact
,
busybody
,
catechist
,
cross-interrogator
,
cross-questioner
,
detective
,
eavesdropper
,
educatee
,
examiner
,
gossip
,
inquisitionist
,
inquisitive
,
inquisitor
,
interlocutor
,
interpellator
,
interrogator
,
interrogatrix
,
interviewer
,
learner
,
monitor
,
nosy Parker
,
opinion-sampler
,
poller
,
pollster
,
praepostor
,
prefect
,
prober
,
pry
,
pupil
,
querier
,
querist
,
questioner
,
questionist
,
quidnunc
,
quizzer
,
rubberneck
,
rubbernecker
,
sampler
,
scholar
,
scopophiliac
,
secret agent
,
self-taught person
,
sightseer
,
snoop
,
snooper
,
student
,
studier
,
trainee
,
voyeur
,
yenta
cantankerous
collapse
having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
related words >
bad-tempered
,
bearish
,
bilious
,
bitchy
,
cankered
,
choleric
,
churlish
,
contrary
,
crabbed
,
crabby
,
cranky
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crotchety
,
crusty
,
cussed
,
difficult
,
disagreeable
,
dour
,
dyspeptic
,
excitable
,
feisty
,
fractious
,
froward
,
grouchy
,
grumpy
,
huffish
,
huffy
,
ill-conditioned
,
ill-natured
,
ill-tempered
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
liverish
,
mean
,
morose
,
ornery
,
peevish
,
perverse
,
petulant
,
prickly
,
quarrelsome
,
snappish
,
sour
,
spiteful
,
spleeny
,
splenetic
,
stuffy
,
sulky
,
sullen
,
surly
,
testy
,
tetchy
,
touchy
,
ugly
,
vinegarish
,
vinegary
,
waspish
,
wayward
,
wrongheaded
layoff
collapse
the act of laying off an employee or a work force
related words >
abeyance
,
break
,
caesura
,
cashiering
,
cease-fire
,
conge
,
cyclical unemployment
,
day off
,
deposal
,
discharge
,
disemployment
,
dismissal
,
displacing
,
drop
,
drumming out
,
firing
,
forced separation
,
furlough
,
furloughing
,
hesitation
,
holiday
,
inoccupation
,
interim
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
intermittence
,
interruption
,
interval
,
lapse
,
letup
,
lull
,
normal unemployment
,
pause
,
pink slip
,
recess
,
remission
,
removal
,
respite
,
rest
,
retirement
,
seasonal unemployment
,
stand-down
,
stay
,
surplusing
,
suspension
,
technological unemployment
,
the ax
,
the boot
,
the bounce
,
the gate
,
the sack
,
ticket
,
truce
,
unemployment
,
unemployment insurance
,
vacation
,
walking papers
snappish
collapse
tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"
related words >
abrupt
,
acerbic
,
acid
,
bearish
,
bitchy
,
brusque
,
cankered
,
cantankerous
,
choleric
,
churlish
,
crabbed
,
crabby
,
cranky
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crusty
,
curt
,
cussed
,
disagreeable
,
dyspeptic
,
excitable
,
feisty
,
fractious
,
fretful
,
grouchy
,
gruff
,
hot-tempered
,
huffish
,
huffy
,
ill-humored
,
ill-tempered
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
mean
,
moody
,
morose
,
ornery
,
peevish
,
perverse
,
pettish
,
petulant
,
prickly
,
querulous
,
quick-tempered
,
sharp
,
short
,
short-tempered
,
snappy
,
spiteful
,
spleeny
,
splenetic
,
surly
,
tart
,
temperamental
,
testy
,
touchy
,
ugly
,
ungracious
,
waspish
crosswise
collapse
in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross
lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension"
not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise"
related words >
across
,
across the grain
,
athwart
,
athwartships
,
awkward
,
bendwise
,
bias
,
biased
,
biaswise
,
bulky
,
catercorner
,
catercornered
,
choking
,
clumsy
,
constrictive
,
contrariwise
,
contrary
,
contrawise
,
counterproductive
,
crisscross
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crossing
,
crossway
,
crossways
,
cumbersome
,
diagonal
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
hulking
,
hulky
,
impractical
,
in the way
,
inconvenient
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
kittycorner
,
oblique
,
obliquely
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
overthwart
,
perverse
,
ponderous
,
repressive
,
restrictive
,
sideways
,
sidewise
,
slant
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
suppressive
,
thwart
,
thwartly
,
thwartways
,
transversal
,
transverse
,
transversely
,
traverse
,
troublesome
,
unhandy
,
unmanageable
,
unwieldy
anti
collapse
a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.); "the antis smelled victory after a long battle"
not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.)
related words >
adversary
,
adversative
,
adverse
,
adversive
,
alien
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
antithetic
,
antonymous
,
at cross-purposes
,
balancing
,
clashing
,
compensating
,
competitive
,
con
,
conflicting
,
confronting
,
contradictory
,
contradistinct
,
contrapositive
,
contrarious
,
contrary
,
contrasted
,
converse
,
counter
,
counterbalancing
,
counterpoised
,
countervailing
,
cross
,
dead against
,
disaccordant
,
discordant
,
discrepant
,
dissentient
,
enemy
,
eyeball to eyeball
,
fractious
,
hostile
,
inconsistent
,
inimical
,
inverse
,
negative
,
noncooperative
,
obstinate
,
obverse
,
opponent
,
opposed
,
opposing
,
opposite
,
oppositional
,
oppositive
,
oppugnant
,
overthwart
,
perverse
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
repugnant
,
reverse
,
rival
,
squared off
,
uncooperative
,
unfavorable
,
unfriendly
,
unpropitious
impregnation
collapse
the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"
material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
related words >
absorption and regurgitation
,
artificial insemination
,
brainwashing
,
brewing
,
catechization
,
conditioning
,
conjugation
,
cross-fertilization
,
cross-pollination
,
decoction
,
dictation
,
drench
,
drenching
,
ducking
,
dunking
,
enrichment
,
fecundation
,
fertilization
,
getting with child
,
heterogamy
,
imbruement
,
imbuement
,
implantation
,
impression
,
inculcation
,
indoctrination
,
infiltration
,
infixation
,
infixion
,
infusion
,
injection
,
inoculation
,
insemination
,
instillation
,
instillment
,
interpenetration
,
isogamy
,
leaching
,
lixiviation
,
maceration
,
marination
,
orthogamy
,
penetration
,
percolation
,
permeation
,
pervasion
,
pollination
,
pollinization
,
pulping
,
reindoctrination
,
saturation
,
seething
,
soak
,
soakage
,
soaking
,
sopping
,
souse
,
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steeping
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a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
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CIA man
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asker
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catechist
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cloak-and-dagger operative
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counterintelligence agent
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counterspy
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cross-interrogator
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cross-questioner
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detective
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double agent
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espionage agent
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examiner
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inquirer
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inquisitionist
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inquisitor
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inside man
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intelligence agent
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interlocutor
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interpellator
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interrogator
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interrogatrix
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interviewer
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military-intelligence man
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naval-intelligence man
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operative
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opinion-sampler
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poller
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pollster
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prober
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querier
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querist
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questioner
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questionist
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quizzer
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reconnoiterer
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sampler
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scout
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spotter
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spy
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spy-catcher
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undercover man
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