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cut crosswise
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cut crosswise
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cut across
collapse
be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
related words >
bar
,
catercorner
,
chiasmal
,
chiasmic
,
chiastic
,
crisscross
,
cross
,
crossbar
,
crosscut
,
crossed
,
crossing
,
cruciate
,
cut
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
cut crosswise
,
cut through
,
decussate
,
decussated
,
diagonalize
,
intercross
,
intersect
,
intersected
,
intersecting
,
lie across
,
make a beeline
,
secant
,
short-cut
,
slant across
,
slash
,
slash across
,
transverse
,
traverse
kittycorner
collapse
related words >
across
,
athwart
,
bendwise
,
bias
,
biased
,
biaswise
,
catercorner
,
catercornered
,
catercornerways
,
cornerways
,
cornerwise
,
crossways
,
crosswise
,
diagonal
,
diagonally
,
diagonalwise
,
on the bias
,
slant
,
thwart
,
transverse
catercorner
collapse
related words >
across
,
athwart
,
bendwise
,
bias
,
biased
,
biaswise
,
catercornered
,
catercornerways
,
cornerways
,
cornerwise
,
crossways
,
crosswise
,
diagonal
,
diagonally
,
diagonalwise
,
kittycorner
,
on the bias
,
slant
,
thwart
,
transverse
cattycorner
collapse
related words >
across
,
athwart
,
bendwise
,
bias
,
biased
,
biaswise
,
catercorner
,
catercornered
,
catercornerways
,
cornerways
,
cornerwise
,
crossways
,
crosswise
,
diagonal
,
diagonally
,
diagonalwise
,
kittycorner
,
on the bias
,
slant
,
thwart
,
transverse
transverse
collapse
related words >
across
,
across the grain
,
athwart
,
athwartships
,
bar
,
bend
,
bendwise
,
bias
,
biased
,
biaswise
,
catercorner
,
catercornered
,
contrariwise
,
contrawise
,
crisscross
,
cross
,
cross bitt
,
cross-grained
,
crossarm
,
crossbar
,
crosscut
,
crossed
,
crossing
,
crosspiece
,
crossway
,
crossways
,
crosswise
,
cruciate
,
cut across
,
decussate
,
diagonal
,
doubletree
,
intercross
,
intersect
,
kittycorner
,
lie across
,
oblique
,
oblique angle
,
oblique figure
,
oblique line
,
obliquely
,
overthwart
,
rhomboid
,
scratch comma
,
separatrix
,
sideways
,
sidewise
,
singletree
,
slant
,
slash
,
solidus
,
swingletree
,
thwart
,
thwartly
,
thwartways
,
transept
,
transom
,
transversal
,
transversely
,
traverse
,
virgule
,
whippletree
inhibiting
collapse
related words >
choking
,
constraining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
in the way
,
inhibitive
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
repressive
,
restraining
,
restrictive
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
stultifying
,
suppressive
,
troublesome
interruptive
collapse
related words >
choking
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
interfering
,
interrupting
,
intervenient
,
intrusive
,
invasive
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
obtrusive
,
occlusive
,
repressive
,
restrictive
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
suppressive
,
troublesome
cut corners
collapse
do something the cheapest or easiest way; "Cut corners to make a cheaper product"
related words >
blink
,
carefully ignore
,
cold-shoulder
,
curtail expenses
,
cut a corner
,
cut across
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut through
,
dodge
,
fudge
,
make a beeline
,
pare down expenses
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
retrench
,
roll back
,
scamp
,
short-cut
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slow down
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
take a reef
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
inhibitive
collapse
related words >
choking
,
constraining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
exclusive
,
forbidding
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitory
,
interdictive
,
interdictory
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
preclusive
,
preventive
,
prohibiting
,
prohibitive
,
prohibitory
,
proscriptive
,
repressive
,
restraining
,
restrictive
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
stultifying
,
suppressive
,
troublesome
foreshorten
collapse
shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
bob
,
boil down
,
capsulize
,
clip
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
crop
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
dock
,
elide
,
epitomize
,
mow
,
nip
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
snub
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take in
,
telescope
,
trim
,
truncate
boil down
collapse
be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
bob
,
capsulize
,
clip
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
crop
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
dock
,
elide
,
epitomize
,
foreshorten
,
mow
,
nip
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
snub
,
streamline
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take in
,
telescope
,
trim
,
truncate
scissor
collapse
cut with or as if with scissors
related words >
amputate
,
ax
,
bisect
,
butcher
,
carve
,
chop
,
cleave
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
dichotomize
,
dissever
,
excise
,
fissure
,
gash
,
hack
,
halve
,
hew
,
incise
,
jigsaw
,
lance
,
pare
,
prune
,
rend
,
rive
,
saw
,
sever
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
snip
,
split
,
sunder
,
tear
,
whittle
unmanageable
collapse
difficult to manage or control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"
related words >
awkward
,
beyond control
,
breachy
,
bulky
,
clumsy
,
contrary
,
contumacious
,
crosswise
,
cumbersome
,
defiant
,
fractious
,
hulking
,
hulky
,
impractical
,
inconvenient
,
incorrigible
,
indocile
,
indomitable
,
insuppressible
,
intractable
,
irrepressible
,
obstreperous
,
out of hand
,
perverse
,
ponderous
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
restive
,
shrewish
,
unbiddable
,
uncontrollable
,
undisciplined
,
ungovernable
,
unhandy
,
unmalleable
,
unmoldable
,
unruly
,
unsubmissive
,
unwieldy
,
wild
stifling
collapse
related words >
airless
,
breathless
,
breezeless
,
choking
,
close
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
extinguishment
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
humid
,
ill-ventilated
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
muggy
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
oppressive
,
overpowering
,
quashing
,
quenching
,
repressive
,
restrictive
,
smothering
,
smudgy
,
squashing
,
squelching
,
sticky
,
strangling
,
stuffy
,
suffocating
,
sultry
,
suppression
,
suppressive
,
troublesome
,
unbearable
,
unendurable
,
unvented
,
unventilated
,
windless
obstructive
collapse
related words >
choking
,
complaining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
disputatious
,
disputing
,
dissentient
,
dissenting
,
fractious
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
noncooperative
,
objecting
,
obstructing
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
on the barricades
,
proof against
,
protesting
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
reluctant
,
renitent
,
repellent
,
repressive
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
resistive
,
restrictive
,
retardant
,
retardative
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
suppressive
,
troublesome
,
uncooperative
,
unsubmissive
,
unyielding
,
up in arms
,
withstanding
crisscross
collapse
a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
marked with crossing lines
crossing one another in opposite directions
mark with a pattern of crossing lines; "crisscross the sheet of paper"
mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines; "wrinkles crisscrossed her face"
cross in a pattern, often random
related words >
Calvary cross
,
Christogram
,
Greek cross
,
Jerusalem cross
,
Latin cross
,
Maltese cross
,
Russian cross
,
T
,
X
,
across
,
across the grain
,
ankh
,
athwart
,
athwartships
,
avellan cross
,
bar
,
chi
,
chi-rho
,
chiasmal
,
chiasmic
,
chiastic
,
christcross
,
contrariwise
,
contrawise
,
cross
,
cross ancre
,
cross botonee
,
cross bourdonee
,
cross fitche
,
cross fleury
,
cross formee
,
cross fourchee
,
cross grignolee
,
cross moline
,
cross of Cleves
,
cross of Lorraine
,
cross patee
,
cross recercelee
,
cross-crosslet
,
cross-grained
,
crossbar
,
crossbones
,
crosscut
,
crossed
,
crossing
,
crosslet
,
crossway
,
crossways
,
crosswise
,
cruciate
,
crucifix
,
cruciform
,
crux
,
crux ansata
,
crux capitata
,
crux decussata
,
crux gammata
,
crux immissa
,
crux ordinaria
,
cut across
,
dagger
,
decussate
,
decussated
,
ex
,
exing
,
fork cross
,
gammadion
,
intercross
,
intersect
,
intersected
,
intersecting
,
inverted cross
,
lie across
,
long cross
,
obliquely
,
overthwart
,
papal cross
,
pectoral cross
,
potent cross
,
rood
,
saltire
,
secant
,
sideways
,
sidewise
,
swastika
,
tau
,
thwart
,
thwartly
,
thwartways
,
transverse
,
transversely
,
traverse
,
trefled cross
,
voided cross
truncate
collapse
terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"
make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"
replace a corner by a plane
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abscind
,
abstract
,
amputate
,
annihilate
,
ban
,
bar
,
blemish
,
bob
,
boil down
,
capsulize
,
clip
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
crop
,
cull
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off
,
cut off short
,
cut out
,
cut short
,
deface
,
deform
,
disfigure
,
disproportion
,
dock
,
elide
,
eliminate
,
enucleate
,
epitomize
,
eradicate
,
except
,
excise
,
exclude
,
extinguish
,
extirpate
,
foreshorten
,
isolate
,
knock off
,
lop
,
mar
,
misshape
,
mow
,
mutilate
,
nip
,
pare
,
peel
,
pick out
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
root out
,
rule out
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
snub
,
stamp out
,
strike off
,
strip
,
strip off
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take in
,
take off
,
take out
,
telescope
,
top
,
trim
,
wipe out
roll back
collapse
related words >
abridge
,
compress
,
curtail
,
curtail expenses
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut corners
,
cut down
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decrease
,
deduct
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
depress
,
diminish
,
downgrade
,
lessen
,
lower
,
pare
,
pare down expenses
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
scale down
,
shorten
,
simplify
,
slow down
,
step down
,
take a reef
,
take from
,
tune down
across
collapse
transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across"
to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across"
related words >
across the grain
,
against
,
astraddle
,
astride
,
athwart
,
athwartships
,
bendwise
,
beyond
,
bias
,
biased
,
biaswise
,
catercorner
,
catercornered
,
confronting
,
contrariwise
,
contrawise
,
crisscross
,
cross
,
cross-grained
,
crossway
,
crossways
,
crosswise
,
diagonal
,
facing
,
fronting
,
horseback
,
in front of
,
in opposition to
,
kittycorner
,
oblique
,
obliquely
,
on
,
on horseback
,
over against
,
overthwart
,
past
,
sideways
,
sidewise
,
slant
,
straddle
,
straddle-legged
,
straddleback
,
thwart
,
thwartly
,
thwartways
,
toward
,
transversal
,
transverse
,
transversely
,
traverse
,
versus
scale down
collapse
reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down"
related words >
abridge
,
compress
,
contract
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decrease
,
deduct
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
depress
,
diminish
,
downgrade
,
lessen
,
lower
,
minify
,
pare
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
roll back
,
shorten
,
simplify
,
step down
,
take from
,
tune down
cut back
collapse
return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
bob
,
boil down
,
capsulize
,
clip
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
crop
,
curtail
,
curtail expenses
,
cut
,
cut corners
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decrease
,
deduct
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
depress
,
diminish
,
dock
,
downgrade
,
elide
,
epitomize
,
foreshorten
,
lessen
,
lower
,
mark down
,
mow
,
nip
,
pare
,
pare down expenses
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
roll back
,
scale down
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
simplify
,
slash
,
slow down
,
snub
,
step down
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take a reef
,
take from
,
take in
,
telescope
,
trim
,
truncate
,
tune down
bisect
collapse
cut in half or cut in two; "bisect a line"
related words >
amputate
,
average
,
ax
,
bifurcate
,
branch
,
butcher
,
by two
,
carve
,
chop
,
cleave
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
dichotomize
,
dimidiate
,
dissever
,
divide
,
double
,
excise
,
fission
,
fissure
,
fold
,
fork
,
gash
,
hack
,
halve
,
hew
,
in half
,
incise
,
jigsaw
,
lance
,
middle
,
pare
,
prune
,
ramify
,
rend
,
rive
,
saw
,
scissor
,
sever
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
snip
,
split
,
split in two
,
subdivide
,
sunder
,
tear
,
transect
,
whittle
rive
collapse
related words >
amputate
,
ax
,
bisect
,
breach
,
break
,
broach
,
butcher
,
carve
,
check
,
chink
,
chop
,
cleave
,
crack
,
crevasse
,
cut
,
cut apart
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
cut open
,
dichotomize
,
dispart
,
dissever
,
ditch
,
divaricate
,
divide
,
excise
,
fissure
,
fly open
,
fracture
,
furrow
,
gap
,
gash
,
groove
,
hack
,
halve
,
hew
,
incise
,
jigsaw
,
lance
,
lay open
,
ope
,
open
,
open up
,
pare
,
part
,
prune
,
rend
,
rent
,
rift
,
rip
,
rupture
,
saw
,
scissor
,
separate
,
sever
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
slot
,
snip
,
split
,
spread
,
spread out
,
spring open
,
sunder
,
swing open
,
tap
,
tear
,
tear open
,
throw open
,
trench
,
whittle
whittle
collapse
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"
related words >
amputate
,
ax
,
bisect
,
blade
,
butcher
,
carve
,
chop
,
cleave
,
cold steel
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
cutlery
,
cutter
,
dagger
,
dichotomize
,
dissever
,
edge tools
,
excise
,
fissure
,
gash
,
hack
,
halve
,
hew
,
incise
,
jigsaw
,
knife
,
lance
,
naked steel
,
pare
,
pigsticker
,
point
,
prune
,
puncturer
,
rend
,
rive
,
saw
,
scissor
,
sever
,
sharpener
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
snip
,
split
,
steel
,
sunder
,
sword
,
tear
,
toad sticker
extirpate
collapse
surgically remove (an organ)
related words >
abate
,
abolish
,
abscind
,
amputate
,
annihilate
,
ban
,
bar
,
blot
,
bob
,
clip
,
crop
,
cull
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut off
,
cut out
,
deracinate
,
dock
,
eliminate
,
enucleate
,
eradicate
,
except
,
excise
,
exclude
,
exterminate
,
extinguish
,
isolate
,
knock off
,
liquidate
,
lop
,
mutilate
,
nip
,
pare
,
peel
,
pick out
,
prune
,
purge
,
remove
,
root out
,
root up
,
rule out
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
shave
,
shear
,
stamp out
,
strike off
,
strip
,
strip off
,
sweep away
,
take off
,
take out
,
truncate
,
uproot
,
wipe out
epitomize
collapse
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
bob
,
boil down
,
capsulize
,
clip
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
crop
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
digest
,
dock
,
elide
,
emblematize
,
embody
,
exemplify
,
fit the pattern
,
foreshorten
,
illustrate
,
incarnate
,
incorporate
,
inventory
,
lead the way
,
mirror
,
mow
,
nip
,
nutshell
,
outline
,
personify
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
represent
,
retrench
,
set an example
,
set the pace
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
snub
,
stunt
,
sum
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
summate
,
symbolize
,
synopsize
,
tabulate
,
take in
,
telescope
,
trim
,
truncate
,
typify
amputate
collapse
remove surgically; "amputate limbs"
related words >
abscind
,
annihilate
,
ax
,
ban
,
bar
,
bisect
,
bob
,
butcher
,
carve
,
chop
,
cleave
,
clip
,
crop
,
cull
,
cut
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
cut out
,
dichotomize
,
dissever
,
dock
,
eliminate
,
enucleate
,
eradicate
,
except
,
excise
,
exclude
,
extinguish
,
extirpate
,
fissure
,
gash
,
hack
,
halve
,
hew
,
incise
,
isolate
,
jigsaw
,
knock off
,
lance
,
lop
,
mutilate
,
nip
,
pare
,
peel
,
pick out
,
prune
,
rend
,
rive
,
root out
,
rule out
,
saw
,
scissor
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
sever
,
shave
,
shear
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
snip
,
split
,
stamp out
,
strike off
,
strip
,
strip off
,
sunder
,
take off
,
take out
,
tear
,
truncate
,
whittle
,
wipe out
hulking
collapse
of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"
related words >
all thumbs
,
awkward
,
blunderheaded
,
blundering
,
boorish
,
bulky
,
bumbling
,
bungling
,
butterfingered
,
careless
,
clownish
,
clumsy
,
clumsy-fisted
,
contrary
,
crosswise
,
cumbersome
,
cumbrous
,
elephantine
,
fingers all thumbs
,
fumbling
,
gauche
,
gawkish
,
gawky
,
graceless
,
ham-fisted
,
ham-handed
,
heavy-handed
,
hulky
,
impractical
,
inconvenient
,
inelegant
,
left-hand
,
left-handed
,
loutish
,
lubberly
,
lumbering
,
lumpish
,
lumpy
,
maladroit
,
massive
,
massy
,
oafish
,
perverse
,
ponderous
,
sloppy
,
stiff
,
uncouth
,
ungainly
,
ungraceful
,
unhandy
,
unmanageable
,
unwieldy
premeditated
collapse
characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime"
related words >
advised
,
aforethought
,
calculated
,
conscious
,
considered
,
contrived
,
cooked-up
,
cut out
,
cut-and-dried
,
cut-and-dry
,
deliberate
,
designed
,
fixed
,
in the bag
,
intended
,
intentional
,
on ice
,
packed
,
planned
,
plotted
,
prearranged
,
preconceived
,
preconcerted
,
preconsidered
,
precontrived
,
predeliberated
,
predetermined
,
preordered
,
prepense
,
preresolved
,
purposive
,
put-up
,
rigged
,
schemed
,
set-up
,
stacked
,
studied
,
studious
,
thought-out
disconnect
collapse
make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten
related words >
abrupt
,
abstract
,
alienate
,
break off
,
cast off
,
cast out
,
cut adrift
,
cut apart
,
cut off
,
cut out
,
delete
,
depart
,
detach
,
disarticulate
,
disengage
,
disjoin
,
disjoint
,
dissociate
,
disunite
,
divide
,
divorce
,
eject
,
estrange
,
expel
,
isolate
,
leave
,
part
,
pull apart
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pull out
,
segregate
,
separate
,
sequester
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
sever
,
shut off
,
split
,
stand aloof
,
stand apart
,
stand aside
,
step aside
,
subtract
,
throw off
,
throw out
,
uncouple
,
undo
,
unhook
,
unyoke
,
withdraw
cold shoulder
collapse
related words >
blink
,
brush-off
,
carefully ignore
,
cut
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
cut direct
,
dismissal
,
disregard
,
dodge
,
fudge
,
high-hat
,
humiliation
,
not receive
,
ostracize
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
rebuff
,
refusal
,
repulse
,
scamp
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
sneer
,
sniff
,
snob
,
snort
,
snub
,
spurn
,
spurning
,
the cold shoulder
,
the go-by
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
,
turn away from
,
upstage
cavort
collapse
related words >
antic
,
bob
,
bounce
,
bound
,
caper
,
capriole
,
caracole
,
carry on
,
curvet
,
cut a dido
,
cut capers
,
cut up
,
dance
,
dido
,
disport
,
falcade
,
flounce
,
fool around
,
frisk
,
frolic
,
gambade
,
gambado
,
gambol
,
horse around
,
horseplay
,
jump
,
jump about
,
leap
,
play
,
prance
,
ramp
,
rollick
,
romp
,
roughhouse
,
skip
,
sport
,
trip
slash
collapse
a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
related words >
Vandyke
,
abbreviate
,
abrade
,
abrasion
,
abridge
,
amputate
,
assail
,
attack
,
ax
,
band
,
bar
,
bark
,
beat
,
beat down
,
bend
,
bias
,
bisect
,
blaze
,
blemish
,
blister
,
bloody
,
breach
,
break
,
breakage
,
burn
,
burr
,
burst
,
butcher
,
carve
,
castigate
,
catercorner
,
chafe
,
cheapen
,
cheapening
,
check
,
chip
,
chiseling
,
chop
,
claw
,
cleave
,
cleft
,
clip
,
concussion
,
crack
,
crackle
,
craze
,
crenellate
,
crenulate
,
crimp
,
cross-hatching
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut across
,
cut away
,
cut back
,
cut crosswise
,
cut down
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
cut prices
,
dash
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deflate
,
deflation
,
delineation
,
demitint
,
depreciate
,
depreciation
,
devaluate
,
devaluation
,
diagonal
,
diagonalize
,
dichotomize
,
dissever
,
dive
,
dotted line
,
drop
,
engravement
,
engraving
,
etch
,
etching
,
excise
,
excoriate
,
fall
,
fall in price
,
fissure
,
flagellate
,
flail
,
flash burn
,
flay
,
flog
,
fracture
,
fray
,
frazzle
,
fret
,
fustigate
,
gall
,
gap
,
gash
,
gem-engraving
,
give way
,
glass-cutting
,
glyptic
,
gouge
,
graving
,
hachure
,
hack
,
hackle
,
haggle
,
hairline
,
half tint
,
halve
,
hatching
,
hew
,
horsewhip
,
hurt
,
incise
,
incision
,
indent
,
injure
,
injury
,
inscript
,
inscription
,
jag
,
jew down
,
jigsaw
,
knife
,
knurl
,
lacerate
,
laceration
,
lambaste
,
lance
,
lash
,
lesion
,
line
,
lineation
,
lining
,
lower
,
lowering
,
machicolate
,
maim
,
make mincemeat of
,
mark down
,
markdown
,
marking
,
maul
,
mill
,
mortal wound
,
mutilate
,
mutilation
,
nick
,
nose dive
,
nose-dive
,
notch
,
oblique
,
oblique angle
,
oblique figure
,
oblique line
,
pare
,
picot
,
pierce
,
pink
,
plummet
,
plummeting
,
plunge
,
price cut
,
price fall
,
price reduction
,
prune
,
puncture
,
reduce
,
reduction
,
rend
,
rent
,
retrench
,
rhomboid
,
rift
,
rip
,
rive
,
roast
,
run
,
rupture
,
sag
,
savage
,
saw
,
scald
,
scale
,
scallop
,
scar
,
scarify
,
scathe
,
scissor
,
scorch
,
score
,
scoring
,
scotch
,
scourge
,
scrape
,
scratch
,
scratch comma
,
scratching
,
scuff
,
second-degree burn
,
separatrix
,
serrate
,
sever
,
shave
,
skin
,
skin alive
,
slant
,
slant across
,
slash across
,
slashing
,
slice
,
slit
,
slump
,
snip
,
solidus
,
sore
,
splinter
,
split
,
sprain
,
stab
,
stab wound
,
stick
,
stipple
,
stippling
,
strain
,
streak
,
streaking
,
striation
,
strip
,
stripe
,
striping
,
stroke
,
sublineation
,
sunder
,
tear
,
third-degree burn
,
thrash
,
tint
,
tooling
,
tooth
,
transverse
,
trauma
,
traumatize
,
trim
,
trounce
,
type-cutting
,
underline
,
underlining
,
underscore
,
underscoring
,
virgule
,
whip
,
whittle
,
wound
,
wounds immedicable
,
wrench
in the bag
collapse
related words >
ascertained
,
assured
,
attested
,
certified
,
cooked-up
,
cut out
,
cut-and-dried
,
cut-and-dry
,
decided
,
determinate
,
determined
,
established
,
fixed
,
guaranteed
,
made sure
,
nailed down
,
on ice
,
open-and-shut
,
packed
,
planned
,
plotted
,
prearranged
,
preconcerted
,
precontrived
,
premeditated
,
preordered
,
proved
,
put-up
,
rigged
,
schemed
,
secure
,
set
,
set-up
,
settled
,
stacked
,
stated
,
tested
,
tried
,
warranted
on ice
collapse
related words >
ascertained
,
assured
,
attested
,
certified
,
cooked-up
,
cut out
,
cut-and-dried
,
cut-and-dry
,
decided
,
determinate
,
determined
,
established
,
fixed
,
guaranteed
,
in the bag
,
made sure
,
nailed down
,
open-and-shut
,
packed
,
planned
,
plotted
,
prearranged
,
preconcerted
,
precontrived
,
premeditated
,
preordered
,
proved
,
put-up
,
rigged
,
schemed
,
secure
,
set
,
set-up
,
settled
,
stacked
,
stated
,
tested
,
tried
,
warranted
restrictive
collapse
(of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments"
related words >
altering
,
assuasive
,
bounding
,
choking
,
confining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
cramping
,
crosswise
,
defining
,
definitive
,
ethnocentric
,
exceptional
,
excluding
,
exclusive
,
exclusory
,
extenuating
,
extenuatory
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
in the way
,
inadmissible
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
insular
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
lenitive
,
limitary
,
limitative
,
limiting
,
mitigating
,
mitigative
,
mitigatory
,
modificatory
,
modifying
,
modulatory
,
narrow
,
narrowing
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
palliative
,
parochial
,
preclusive
,
prescriptive
,
preventive
,
prohibitive
,
qualificative
,
qualificatory
,
qualifying
,
repressive
,
restricting
,
seclusive
,
segregative
,
select
,
selective
,
separative
,
snobbish
,
softening
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
suppressive
,
troublesome
,
xenophobic
elide
collapse
leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
related words >
abbreviate
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
bob
,
boil down
,
capsulize
,
cast off
,
cast out
,
chuck
,
clear
,
clear away
,
clear out
,
clear the decks
,
clip
,
compress
,
condense
,
contract
,
crop
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut out
,
cut short
,
deport
,
discount
,
dispose of
,
disregard
,
dock
,
eject
,
eliminate
,
epitomize
,
eradicate
,
exile
,
expatriate
,
expel
,
fail
,
foreshorten
,
forget
,
get quit of
,
get rid of
,
get shut of
,
ignore
,
liquidate
,
mow
,
nip
,
omit
,
outlaw
,
overlook
,
pass
,
pick out
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
purge
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
remove
,
retrench
,
root out
,
root up
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
slight
,
snub
,
strike off
,
strike out
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take in
,
telescope
,
throw over
,
throw overboard
,
trim
,
truncate
,
weed out
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
suppressive
collapse
tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest"
related words >
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
bossy
,
choking
,
constraining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
despotic
,
dictatorial
,
domineering
,
exclusive
,
feudal
,
forbidding
,
grinding
,
high-handed
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
inhibitory
,
interdictive
,
interdictory
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
masterful
,
monocratic
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
peremptory
,
preclusive
,
preventive
,
prohibiting
,
prohibitive
,
prohibitory
,
proscriptive
,
repressive
,
restraining
,
restrictive
,
severe
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
strict
,
stultifying
,
troublesome
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
halve
collapse
divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake"
related words >
amputate
,
apportion
,
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