Exact Match:
- deactivation
- the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)
- breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- disbandment
collapse - the act of disbanding; "the orchestra faced the prospect of disbandment" related words >
- demobilization
collapse
- act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops; "demobilization of factories"; "immediate demobilization of the reserves" related words >
- breakup,
- deactivation,
- demilitarization,
- detachment,
- diaspora,
- disarmament,
- disbanding,
- disbandment,
- discharge,
- disintegration,
- dismissal,
- disorganization,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- dissolution,
- mustering out,
- parole,
- parting,
- reconversion,
- reduction of armaments,
- release,
- separation,
- split-up,
- unbinding,
- unbolting,
- unbridling,
- unbuckling,
- uncaging,
- unchaining,
- unfettering,
- ungagging,
- unhanding,
- unharnessing,
- unhobbling,
- unlashing,
- unlatching,
- unleashing,
- unlocking,
- unloosing,
- unmanacling,
- unmuzzling,
- unpenning,
- unshackling,
- unstrapping,
- untethering,
- untrussing,
- untying,
- unyoking
- aloofness,
- anarchy,
- attenuation,
- breakup,
- broadcast,
- broadcasting,
- chaos,
- circumfusion,
- confusion,
- crack-up,
- deactivation,
- demobilization,
- detachment,
- diaspora,
- diffraction,
- diffusion,
- dilution,
- disbandment,
- discontinuity,
- discreteness,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- dispensation,
- dispersion,
- disruption,
- dissemination,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- distribution,
- divergence,
- entropy,
- evaporation,
- exfoliation,
- expansion,
- fragmentation,
- incoherence,
- inconsistency,
- nonadhesion,
- noncohesion,
- parting,
- peppering,
- propagation,
- publication,
- radiation,
- release,
- revolution,
- scaling,
- scattering,
- scatterment,
- separateness,
- separation,
- shattering,
- shotgun pattern,
- sowing,
- spattering,
- splay,
- split-up,
- spread,
- spreading,
- sprinkling,
- strewing,
- unadherence,
- unadhesiveness,
- untenacity,
- volatilization
- apportion,
- break up,
- breakup,
- carve,
- carve up,
- cut,
- cut up,
- deactivate,
- deactivation,
- debrief,
- demob,
- demobilization,
- demobilize,
- detach,
- detachment,
- diaspora,
- dichotomize,
- disband,
- disbandment,
- discharge,
- disintegrate,
- disintegration,
- disjoin,
- dismiss,
- dismissal,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- dispel,
- dispersal,
- disperse,
- dispersion,
- dissever,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- district,
- diverge,
- divide,
- divide into shares,
- divide up,
- divide with,
- divorce,
- divvy,
- divvy up,
- go separate ways,
- grant a divorce,
- grant an annulment,
- let go,
- muster out,
- obtain a divorce,
- parcel,
- parcel out,
- part,
- part company,
- parting,
- partition,
- portion,
- put asunder,
- put away,
- release,
- scatter,
- section,
- segment,
- separate,
- separation,
- sever,
- share,
- share out,
- share with,
- slice,
- slice the pie,
- slice up,
- split,
- subdivide,
- sue for divorce,
- sunder,
- unmarry,
- untie the knot,
- zone
- dispersion
collapse
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
- spreading widely or driving off related words >
- addition,
- adjunct,
- administration,
- aggrandizement,
- aloofness,
- ampliation,
- amplification,
- anarchy,
- augmentation,
- blackout,
- blocking,
- breakup,
- broadening,
- chaos,
- confusion,
- crescendo,
- deactivation,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- dematerialization,
- demobilization,
- departure,
- deployment,
- detachment,
- diaspora,
- diffraction,
- diffusion,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- disbandment,
- disbursal,
- disbursement,
- discontinuity,
- discreteness,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- dispensation,
- dispersal,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- distortion,
- distribution,
- dole,
- doling,
- doling out,
- eclipse,
- elimination,
- emanation,
- enlargement,
- entropy,
- erasure,
- evanescence,
- evaporation,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extinction,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- fanning out,
- flare,
- flection,
- flexure,
- giving out,
- going,
- hiking,
- incoherence,
- inconsistency,
- increase,
- issuance,
- magnification,
- melting,
- nonadhesion,
- noncohesion,
- occultation,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing around,
- paying out,
- radiance,
- radiation,
- radius,
- raising,
- ray,
- refraction,
- release,
- scatter,
- scattering,
- separateness,
- separation,
- skewness,
- splay,
- split-up,
- spoke,
- spread,
- spreading,
- torsion,
- unadherence,
- unadhesiveness,
- untenacity,
- upping,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- widening,
- wipe
- abrasion,
- amiable weakness,
- atomization,
- attrition,
- beating,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- breakability,
- breakup,
- brecciation,
- brittleness,
- carnage,
- changeableness,
- collapse,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- corrosion,
- corruption,
- crack-up,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- daintiness,
- damnation,
- deactivation,
- decay,
- decimation,
- decomposition,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- delicacy,
- demobilization,
- depredation,
- derangement,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destructibility,
- destruction,
- detachment,
- detrition,
- devastation,
- diaspora,
- diffusion,
- dilapidation,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- disbandment,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disjunction,
- dismissal,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disproportion,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- disturbance,
- effeminacy,
- entropy,
- exfoliation,
- flimsiness,
- fragility,
- fragmentation,
- frailty,
- frangibility,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grinding,
- haphazardness,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- human frailty,
- incoherence,
- indecisiveness,
- indiscriminateness,
- infirmity of will,
- inharmonious harmony,
- inherent vice,
- irregularity,
- irresolution,
- levigation,
- lightness,
- mashing,
- mildew,
- mold,
- moral weakness,
- most admired disorder,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parting,
- perdition,
- perturbation,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- randomness,
- ravage,
- release,
- resolution,
- revolution,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- rust,
- scaling,
- scattering,
- separation,
- shambles,
- shattering,
- shredding,
- slaughter,
- sleaziness,
- slightness,
- smashing,
- split-up,
- spoilage,
- spoliation,
- trituration,
- turbulence,
- undoing,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- upset,
- vandalism,
- velleity,
- waste,
- wispiness,
- womanishness,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck
- parting
collapse
- delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the door"; "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy"- Bret Harte related words >
- Godspeed,
- abandonment,
- abstraction,
- adieu,
- alienation,
- aloha,
- annihilation,
- bane,
- biological death,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- cessation of life,
- cleaving,
- clinical death,
- closing,
- concluding,
- conge,
- crossing the bar,
- curtains,
- deactivation,
- death,
- death knell,
- deathbed,
- debt of nature,
- decampment,
- decease,
- demise,
- demobilization,
- departing,
- departure,
- detachment,
- diaspora,
- disarticulation,
- disassociation,
- disbandment,
- disconnectedness,
- disconnection,
- discontinuity,
- disengagement,
- disintegration,
- disjointing,
- disjunction,
- disjunctive,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- disorganization,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- dissolution,
- disunion,
- dividing,
- division,
- divorce,
- divorcement,
- doch-an-dorrach,
- doom,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- egress,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- escape,
- eternal rest,
- evacuation,
- exit,
- exodus,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- farewell,
- final,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- flight,
- getaway,
- going,
- going off,
- good-bye,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- hegira,
- incoherence,
- isolation,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leave,
- leave-taking,
- leaving,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- luxation,
- making an end,
- outward-bound,
- parting words,
- partition,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- perishing,
- quietus,
- release,
- removal,
- rest,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- reward,
- rift,
- rupture,
- segmentation,
- send-off,
- sentence of death,
- separating,
- separation,
- separatism,
- separative,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- split,
- split-up,
- splitting,
- stirrup cup,
- subdivision,
- subtraction,
- summons of death,
- valediction,
- valedictorian,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- viaticum,
- walkout,
- withdrawal,
- zoning
- ablation,
- analysis,
- analyzation,
- anatomizing,
- anatomy,
- apoplexy,
- assay,
- assaying,
- atomization,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- bloodbath,
- bloodless revolution,
- blue ruin,
- bouleversement,
- breakdown,
- breaking down,
- breaking up,
- carnage,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- clean slate,
- clean sweep,
- climax,
- collapse,
- computer revolution,
- consumption,
- convulsion,
- corrosion,
- corruption,
- counterrevolution,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crumbling,
- damnation,
- deactivation,
- debacle,
- decay,
- decimation,
- decomposition,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demobilization,
- depredation,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detachment,
- devastation,
- diaspora,
- diastrophism,
- diffusion,
- dilapidation,
- disaster,
- disbandment,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dismissal,
- disorganization,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disruption,
- dissection,
- dissolution,
- division,
- docimasy,
- erosion,
- exfoliation,
- fit,
- fragmentation,
- gravimetric analysis,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- incoherence,
- mildew,
- mold,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- palace revolution,
- paroxysm,
- parting,
- perdition,
- proximate analysis,
- quake,
- quantitative analysis,
- radical change,
- ravage,
- ravages of time,
- reduction to elements,
- release,
- resolution,
- revolt,
- revolution,
- revolutionary war,
- revulsion,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- rust,
- scaling,
- scattering,
- segmentation,
- semimicroanalysis,
- separation,
- shambles,
- shattering,
- shipwreck,
- slaughter,
- smash,
- smashup,
- spasm,
- split-up,
- spoilage,
- spoliation,
- striking alteration,
- stroke,
- subdivision,
- subversion,
- sweeping change,
- tabula rasa,
- technological revolution,
- temblor,
- tidal wave,
- total change,
- total loss,
- transilience,
- tsunami,
- undoing,
- upheaval,
- upset,
- vandalism,
- violent change,
- washout,
- waste,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck
- dismissal
collapse
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- permission to go; the sending away of someone
- official notice that you have been fired from your job related words >
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- adjournment,
- bounce,
- breakup,
- brush-off,
- cancellation,
- cashiering,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- cold shoulder,
- compurgation,
- conge,
- contempt,
- contradiction,
- cut,
- deactivation,
- declination,
- declining,
- deconsecration,
- defrocking,
- demobilization,
- denial,
- deposal,
- deposition,
- deprivation,
- despisal,
- despising,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detachment,
- dethronement,
- diaspora,
- disapproval,
- disbandment,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- discrownment,
- disculpation,
- disemployment,
- disenthronement,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- disownment,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- displacement,
- displacing,
- disregard,
- dissolution,
- drumming out,
- end,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- excommunication,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exoneration,
- expulsion,
- firing,
- forced resignation,
- forced separation,
- forgiveness,
- furloughing,
- ignoring,
- impeachment,
- kicking upstairs,
- layoff,
- liquidation,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- nonconsideration,
- notice,
- ousting,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- pardon,
- parole,
- parting,
- passing by,
- pensioning off,
- pink slip,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- rebuff,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- release,
- remission,
- removal,
- renouncement,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- retirement,
- sack,
- sacking,
- scouting,
- separation,
- snub,
- split-up,
- spurning,
- superannuation,
- surplusing,
- suspension,
- the ax,
- the boot,
- the bounce,
- the gate,
- the sack,
- throwing out,
- ticket,
- turning out,
- unbinding,
- unbolting,
- unbridling,
- unbuckling,
- uncaging,
- unchaining,
- unchurching,
- unfettering,
- unfrocking,
- ungagging,
- unhanding,
- unharnessing,
- unhobbling,
- unlashing,
- unlatching,
- unleashing,
- unlocking,
- unloosing,
- unmanacling,
- unmuzzling,
- unpenning,
- unseating,
- unshackling,
- unstrapping,
- untethering,
- untrussing,
- untying,
- unyoking,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- walking papers
- disorganization
collapse
- the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion; "the disorganization of the enemy troops by a flank attack"
- a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted related words >
- ablation,
- anarchism,
- anarcho-syndicalism,
- anarchy,
- antinomianism,
- atomization,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- bother,
- botheration,
- breakup,
- carnage,
- chaos,
- cloud,
- confusion,
- consumption,
- convulsion,
- corrosion,
- corruption,
- criminal syndicalism,
- crumbling,
- damnation,
- daze,
- deactivation,
- decay,
- decimation,
- decomposition,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demobilization,
- depredation,
- derangement,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detachment,
- devastation,
- diaspora,
- dilapidation,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- disbandment,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorientation,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disproportion,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- disturbance,
- embarrassment,
- entropy,
- erosion,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- frenzy,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- haphazardness,
- havoc,
- haze,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- incoherence,
- indiscriminateness,
- inharmonious harmony,
- insanity,
- irregularity,
- jumble,
- lynch law,
- maze,
- mess,
- mildew,
- misarrangement,
- misrule,
- mist,
- mob law,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- mold,
- most admired disorder,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- nihilism,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- ochlocracy,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parting,
- perdition,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pother,
- primal chaos,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- pucker,
- randomness,
- ravage,
- ravages of time,
- rebellion,
- release,
- resolution,
- revolution,
- ruffle,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- rust,
- separation,
- shambles,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- slaughter,
- split-up,
- spoilage,
- spoliation,
- stew,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- syndicalism,
- tizzy,
- tohubohu,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- undoing,
- unruliness,
- unsettlement,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- upset,
- vandalism,
- waste,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck
- dissolution
collapse
- the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- separation into component parts related words >
- ablation,
- adjournment,
- aloofness,
- anarchy,
- annihilation,
- atomization,
- attrition,
- bane,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- biological death,
- blackout,
- blocking,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- breakdown,
- breaking down,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- carnage,
- cessation of life,
- chaos,
- clinical death,
- collapse,
- colliquation,
- conclusion,
- confusion,
- consumption,
- corrosion,
- corruption,
- crack-up,
- crossing the bar,
- crumbling,
- curtains,
- damnation,
- deactivation,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decay,
- decease,
- decimation,
- decoagulation,
- decomposition,
- decrement,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- deliquescence,
- deliquium,
- dematerialization,
- demise,
- demobilization,
- departure,
- depletion,
- depredation,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detachment,
- devastation,
- diaspora,
- diffusion,
- dilapidation,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- disbandment,
- discontinuation,
- discontinuity,
- discreteness,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disruption,
- dissipation,
- dissolving,
- disunion,
- division,
- divorce,
- divorcement,
- doom,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- eclipse,
- elimination,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- entropy,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- eternal rest,
- evanescence,
- evaporation,
- exfoliation,
- exhaustion,
- exit,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- finish,
- fluidification,
- fluidization,
- fragmentation,
- fusing,
- fusion,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- incoherence,
- inconsistency,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leaching,
- leaving life,
- liquefaction,
- liquescence,
- liquescency,
- lixiviation,
- loss,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- melting,
- mildew,
- mold,
- nonadhesion,
- noncohesion,
- occultation,
- overthrow,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parting,
- partition,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- percolation,
- perdition,
- perishing,
- quietus,
- ravage,
- ravages of time,
- release,
- resolution,
- rest,
- revolution,
- reward,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- running,
- rupture,
- rust,
- scaling,
- scattering,
- sentence of death,
- separateness,
- separation,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- shambles,
- shattering,
- shrinkage,
- silence,
- slaughter,
- sleep,
- solubilization,
- solution,
- somatic death,
- split-up,
- spoilage,
- spoliation,
- summons of death,
- termination,
- thawing,
- unadherence,
- unadhesiveness,
- unclotting,
- undoing,
- untenacity,
- vandalism,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- waste,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wipe,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck
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