Related Words:
- bastion
collapse - projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism" related words >
- abatis,
- acropolis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- battlement,
- beachhead,
- blockhouse,
- breastwork,
- bridgehead,
- bulwark,
- bunker,
- casemate,
- castle,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- citadel,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- donjon,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fasthold,
- fastness,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fort,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- fortress,
- garrison,
- garrison house,
- glacis,
- hold,
- keep,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- merlon,
- mote,
- motte,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- peel,
- peel tower,
- pillbox,
- portcullis,
- post,
- postern gate,
- rampart,
- rath,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- safehold,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- stockade,
- strong point,
- stronghold,
- tenaille,
- tower,
- tower of strength,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- ward,
- work
- annoy
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- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" related words >
- abrade,
- agent provocateur,
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- amplify,
- arouse,
- augment,
- awake,
- awaken,
- badger,
- bait,
- be at,
- bedevil,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- blow the coals,
- blow up,
- bother,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bug,
- build up,
- bullyrag,
- burn up,
- call forth,
- call up,
- chafe,
- chivy,
- deepen,
- deteriorate,
- devil,
- discompose,
- distemper,
- distress,
- disturb,
- dog,
- embitter,
- enhance,
- enkindle,
- enlarge,
- enrage,
- exacerbate,
- exasperate,
- excite,
- exercise,
- fan,
- fan the fire,
- fan the flame,
- fash,
- feed the fire,
- fire,
- flame,
- foment,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- gall,
- get,
- get at,
- gnaw,
- gripe,
- harass,
- harry,
- hassle,
- heat,
- heat up,
- heckle,
- hector,
- heighten,
- hot up,
- hound,
- huff,
- impassion,
- incense,
- incite,
- increase,
- inflame,
- infuriate,
- intensify,
- irk,
- irritate,
- key up,
- kindle,
- lather up,
- light the fuse,
- light up,
- madden,
- magnify,
- make acute,
- make worse,
- miff,
- molest,
- move,
- nag,
- needle,
- nettle,
- nudzh,
- overexcite,
- peeve,
- persecute,
- perturb,
- pester,
- pick on,
- pique,
- plague,
- pluck the beard,
- pother,
- provoke,
- rankle,
- ride,
- rile,
- roil,
- rouse,
- rub,
- ruffle,
- set astir,
- set fire to,
- set on fire,
- set up,
- sharpen,
- sour,
- steam up,
- stir,
- stir the blood,
- stir the embers,
- stir the feelings,
- stir up,
- summon up,
- tease,
- torment,
- trouble,
- try the patience,
- turn on,
- tweak the nose,
- upset,
- vex,
- wake,
- wake up,
- waken,
- warm,
- warm the blood,
- whip up,
- work into,
- work up,
- worry,
- worsen
- rag
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- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- a small piece of cloth or paper
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"
- play in ragtime; "rag that old tune" related words >
- abuse,
- acid rock,
- act drop,
- afterglow,
- afterimage,
- andante tempo,
- apparel,
- array,
- asbestos,
- asbestos board,
- attire,
- avant-garde jazz,
- backdrop,
- balance,
- ballroom music,
- banter,
- bark at,
- baste,
- batten,
- bawl out,
- beat,
- bebop,
- bedizenment,
- berate,
- betongue,
- blacken,
- boltrope,
- bones,
- boogie-woogie,
- bop,
- border,
- butt,
- butt end,
- candle ends,
- canvas,
- carpet,
- chaff,
- chew,
- chew out,
- clew,
- cloth,
- clothes,
- clothing,
- compound time,
- costume,
- coulisse,
- counterweight,
- country rock,
- cringle,
- crowd of sail,
- culm,
- curtain,
- curtain board,
- cyclorama,
- daily,
- daily newspaper,
- dance music,
- dances,
- deadwood,
- debris,
- decor,
- deride,
- detritus,
- dishwater,
- draff,
- drapery,
- dregs,
- dress,
- dressing,
- drop,
- drop curtain,
- duds,
- duple time,
- dust,
- earing,
- end,
- etoffe,
- execrate,
- extra,
- extra edition,
- fabric,
- fag end,
- fashion,
- fatigues,
- feathers,
- felt,
- fig,
- filings,
- fire curtain,
- flat,
- flipper,
- folk rock,
- fool,
- foot,
- fore-and-aft sail,
- fossil,
- frock,
- fulminate against,
- fun,
- garb,
- garbage,
- garment,
- garments,
- gash,
- gazette,
- gear,
- goods,
- gown,
- grin at,
- guise,
- habiliment,
- habit,
- hanging,
- hard rock,
- haze,
- head,
- hogwash,
- hold in derision,
- holdover,
- hot jazz,
- husks,
- investiture,
- investment,
- jape,
- jaw,
- jazz,
- jest,
- jive,
- joke,
- jolly,
- josh,
- kid,
- lace,
- largo,
- laugh at,
- laugh to scorn,
- leavings,
- leech,
- lees,
- leftovers,
- linen,
- load with reproaches,
- luff,
- mainstream jazz,
- make fun of,
- make game of,
- make merry with,
- march tempo,
- material,
- mixed times,
- musical suite,
- muslin,
- napery,
- national newspaper,
- needle,
- neighborhood newspaper,
- news,
- newspaper,
- newspaper of record,
- odds and ends,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- old clothes,
- orts,
- pan,
- paper,
- parings,
- pillory,
- plain sail,
- play jazz,
- point at,
- poke fun at,
- potsherds,
- press of sail,
- presto,
- put on,
- put one on,
- rags,
- ragtime,
- rail,
- rail at,
- raiment,
- rally,
- rant,
- raspings,
- rate,
- rave against,
- razz,
- reduced sail,
- reef point,
- reefed sail,
- refuse,
- relics,
- remainder,
- remains,
- remnant,
- residue,
- residuum,
- rest,
- revile,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- rib,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- roach,
- roast,
- robe,
- robes,
- rock,
- rock-and-roll,
- rubato,
- rubbish,
- ruins,
- rump,
- sail,
- sawdust,
- scene,
- scenery,
- scourings,
- scrap iron,
- scraps,
- screen,
- scum,
- sextuple time,
- shadow,
- shards,
- shavings,
- sheet,
- side scene,
- silk,
- simple time,
- slack,
- slag,
- slop,
- slops,
- smile at,
- snicker at,
- snigger at,
- special,
- special edition,
- sportswear,
- square sail,
- stage screw,
- straw,
- stubble,
- stuff,
- stump,
- style,
- suite,
- suite of dances,
- survival,
- sweepings,
- swill,
- swing,
- syncopate,
- syncopated music,
- syncopation,
- syncope,
- tab,
- tableau,
- tabloid,
- tares,
- tatters,
- tease,
- teaser,
- tempo,
- tempo rubato,
- textile,
- textile fabric,
- texture,
- the new music,
- threads,
- three-quarter time,
- thunder against,
- time,
- time pattern,
- timing,
- tissu,
- tissue,
- togs,
- toilette,
- tongue-lash,
- tormentor,
- trace,
- transformation,
- transformation scene,
- trim,
- triple time,
- triplet,
- twit,
- two-four time,
- vestige,
- vestment,
- vesture,
- vilify,
- vituperate,
- waltz time,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste matter,
- wastepaper,
- wear,
- wearing apparel,
- weave,
- web,
- weeds,
- weekly,
- weekly newspaper,
- weft,
- wing,
- wingcut,
- woodcut,
- woof,
- wool,
- yell at,
- yelp at
- must
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- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing; "seat belts are an absolute must" related words >
- absolute,
- allegiance,
- assigned task,
- bare necessities,
- be forced,
- be in for,
- be necessary,
- be obliged,
- binding,
- blast,
- blight,
- bounden duty,
- burden,
- burning,
- business,
- call for,
- call of duty,
- cancer,
- canker,
- cannot do otherwise,
- cannot help but,
- charge,
- commitment,
- committal,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- condition,
- de rigueur,
- decisive,
- deference,
- demand,
- demand for,
- demi-sec,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- dictated,
- domestic wine,
- dry rot,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- entailed,
- essential,
- essentials,
- estral,
- estrous,
- estrual,
- ethics,
- extra sec,
- fealty,
- fetidity,
- fetidness,
- final,
- foulness,
- frowst,
- frowstiness,
- frowziness,
- fungus,
- funkiness,
- fustiness,
- hard-and-fast,
- have,
- have got to,
- have need to,
- have to,
- homage,
- hot,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- imported wine,
- imposed,
- in heat,
- in must,
- in rut,
- indispensable,
- irrevocable,
- light wine,
- line of duty,
- loyalty,
- malodorousness,
- mandated,
- mandatory,
- mildew,
- mission,
- mold,
- moldiness,
- moth,
- moth and rust,
- must item,
- mustiness,
- musty,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- need to,
- needs must,
- new wine,
- noisomeness,
- nonvintage wine,
- obligation,
- obligatory,
- occasion,
- odorousness,
- offensiveness,
- onus,
- ought,
- ought to,
- peremptory,
- pest,
- pink wine,
- place,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- reastiness,
- red wine,
- repulsiveness,
- required,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- respect,
- right,
- rose wine,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- rust,
- rutting,
- ruttish,
- rutty,
- sec,
- self-imposed duty,
- should,
- sine qua non,
- smelliness,
- smooth wine,
- smut,
- sparkling wine,
- still wine,
- stinkingness,
- stuffiness,
- sweet wine,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- thin wine,
- ultimate,
- vin,
- vino,
- vintage wine,
- want,
- white wine,
- wine,
- without appeal,
- worm
- about,
- accessible,
- along toward,
- approachable,
- around,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- attainable,
- attendant,
- available,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- come-at-able,
- fast by,
- findable,
- getatable,
- gettable,
- hard,
- hard by,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- immanent,
- immediate,
- in spitting distance,
- in view,
- indwelling,
- inherent,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- not far,
- obtainable,
- on board,
- on deck,
- on hand,
- only a step,
- open,
- open to,
- penetrable,
- pervious,
- present,
- procurable,
- reachable,
- securable,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- to be had,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within sight
- be responsible for,
- bestride,
- call the signals,
- captain,
- carry on,
- command,
- conduct,
- control,
- dictate,
- direct,
- dogmatize,
- dominate,
- engineer,
- govern,
- handle,
- have the ascendancy,
- head,
- head up,
- lead,
- lead on,
- make the rules,
- manage,
- maneuver,
- manipulate,
- master,
- mastermind,
- officer,
- oracle,
- oraculate,
- order,
- play first fiddle,
- pontificate,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prescribe,
- prevail,
- proclaim,
- pull the strings,
- quarterback,
- regulate,
- rule the roost,
- run,
- skipper,
- take command,
- take the lead,
- twist,
- wear the pants
- concealed
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- hidden on any grounds for any motive; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase"
- not accessible to view; "concealed (or hidden) damage"; "in stormy weather the stars are out of sight" related words >
- abstruse,
- arcane,
- beclouded,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- blind,
- buried,
- cabalistic,
- camouflaged,
- censored,
- classified,
- close,
- closed,
- clouded,
- covered,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- disguised,
- eclipsed,
- enigmatic,
- esoteric,
- guarded,
- hermetic,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hush-hush,
- imperceptible,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- incommunicado,
- indiscernible,
- insensible,
- invisible,
- latent,
- mysterious,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- out of sight,
- privy,
- recondite,
- restricted,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- sequestered,
- shrouded,
- sightless,
- smothered,
- stifled,
- submerged,
- suppressed,
- top secret,
- ulterior,
- unapparent,
- unbeheld,
- unbeholdable,
- unbreatheable,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under security,
- under wraps,
- underground,
- undiscernible,
- undisclosable,
- undisclosed,
- undivulgable,
- undivulged,
- unknown,
- unnoticed,
- unobserved,
- unperceivable,
- unperceived,
- unrealized,
- unrevealable,
- unrevealed,
- unseeable,
- unseen,
- unspoken,
- untellable,
- untold,
- unutterable,
- unuttered,
- unviewed,
- unwhisperable,
- unwitnessed,
- viewless,
- wrapped in clouds
- excite
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- produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons"
- raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms"
- arouse or elicit a feeling related words >
- activate,
- affect the interest,
- agitate,
- anger,
- animate,
- annoy,
- arouse,
- attract,
- awake,
- awaken,
- beat,
- beat up,
- begin,
- blow the coals,
- blow up,
- bring about,
- call forth,
- call up,
- cause,
- churn,
- churn up,
- concern,
- convulse,
- cultivate,
- disarrange,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disquiet,
- disturb,
- effect,
- electrify,
- elicit,
- energize,
- enkindle,
- enliven,
- enrage,
- excite interest,
- fan,
- fan the fire,
- fan the flame,
- fascinate,
- feed the fire,
- ferment,
- fire,
- fire up,
- flame,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- foment,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- galvanize,
- generate,
- get going,
- heat,
- heat up,
- hop up,
- ignite,
- impassion,
- incense,
- incite,
- inflame,
- infuriate,
- initiate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- instigate,
- interest,
- intrigue,
- invigorate,
- invite,
- involve in,
- key up,
- kindle,
- lather up,
- light the fuse,
- light up,
- madden,
- make sensitive,
- motivate,
- move,
- nettle,
- occasion,
- overexcite,
- paddle,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- pique,
- prime,
- prod,
- provoke,
- put up to,
- quicken,
- rally,
- refine,
- rile,
- ripple,
- roil,
- roughen,
- rouse,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- sensibilize,
- sensitize,
- set astir,
- set fire to,
- set in motion,
- set on,
- set on fire,
- shake,
- shake up,
- sharpen,
- sic on,
- spark,
- spur on,
- start,
- steam up,
- stimulate,
- stir,
- stir the blood,
- stir the embers,
- stir the feelings,
- stir up,
- summon up,
- swirl,
- tantalize,
- thrill,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- touch off,
- trouble,
- turn on,
- upset,
- urge,
- wake,
- wake up,
- waken,
- warm,
- warm the blood,
- whet,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whisk,
- wind up,
- work into,
- work up
- need
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- anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
- a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
- have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money" related words >
- absence,
- ardor,
- arrearage,
- ask,
- bare cupboard,
- bare necessities,
- bare subsistence,
- basic,
- be forced,
- be hurting for,
- be in for,
- be in want,
- be indicated,
- be necessary,
- be obliged,
- be pinched,
- be poor,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- break,
- call,
- call for,
- cannot do otherwise,
- cannot help but,
- charge,
- claim,
- clamor for,
- commitment,
- committal,
- concupiscence,
- constraint,
- covet,
- crave,
- cry for,
- cry out for,
- curiosity,
- dearth,
- defalcation,
- defect,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- demand,
- demand for,
- deprivation,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- desire,
- destitution,
- devoir,
- difficulty,
- discontinuity,
- distress,
- drive,
- drought,
- duty,
- eagerness,
- emergency,
- empty purse,
- essential,
- essentials,
- exact,
- exaction,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- famine,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- fundamental,
- gap,
- go on welfare,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- hanker,
- have,
- have got to,
- have need to,
- have occasion for,
- have to,
- hiatus,
- homelessness,
- hope,
- horme,
- hunger,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- indispensable,
- insufficiency,
- intellectual curiosity,
- interval,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- libido,
- long,
- lust for learning,
- mendicancy,
- mind,
- miss,
- missing link,
- moneylessness,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need for,
- need to,
- needfulness,
- neediness,
- needs must,
- occasion,
- omission,
- ought,
- outage,
- passion,
- paucity,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- pine,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- prerequire,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- privation,
- require,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- right,
- run short of,
- scarcity,
- sexual desire,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- should,
- sine qua non,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stress,
- take doing,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- thirst,
- thirst for knowledge,
- trouble,
- ullage,
- urge,
- use,
- want,
- want doing,
- wantage,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment,
- yearn
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