Related Words:
- dike
collapse - enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" related words >
- Autobahn,
- US highway,
- abatis,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- advanced work,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- aqueduct,
- arch dam,
- arroyo,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- artificial lake,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- backstop,
- balistraria,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- banquette,
- bar,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barrage,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bayou lake,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- belt highway,
- blind alley,
- boom,
- bore,
- boulevard,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- burrow,
- bypass,
- byway,
- camino real,
- canal,
- canalization,
- canalize,
- canyon,
- carriageway,
- carve,
- casemate,
- causeway,
- causey,
- cavity,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chap,
- chasm,
- chaussee,
- check,
- cheval-de-frise,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chisel,
- chute,
- circumferential,
- circumvallation,
- cistern,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- close,
- clough,
- cofferdam,
- col,
- contravallation,
- corduroy road,
- corrugate,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- counterscarp,
- country rock,
- county road,
- court,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crescent,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crimp,
- cul-de-sac,
- curtain,
- cut,
- cwm,
- dado,
- dam,
- dead water,
- dead-end street,
- defense,
- defile,
- dell,
- delve,
- demibastion,
- deposit,
- dig,
- dig out,
- dirt road,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawbridge,
- dredge,
- drill,
- drive,
- driveway,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- enclosure,
- engrave,
- entanglement,
- entrenchment,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- etang,
- excavate,
- excavation,
- expressway,
- farm pond,
- fault,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fishpond,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- flute,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- fosse,
- fracture,
- freeway,
- freshwater lake,
- furrow,
- gangue,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gate,
- glacial lake,
- glacis,
- goffer,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- gravel road,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- groove,
- grub,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- gutter,
- ha-ha,
- highroad,
- highway,
- highways and byways,
- hole,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- incise,
- incision,
- inland sea,
- interstate highway,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- joint,
- kennel,
- kloof,
- lagoon,
- laguna,
- lake,
- lakelet,
- landlocked water,
- lane,
- leak,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- linn,
- local road,
- loch,
- lode,
- lodestuff,
- logjam,
- loophole,
- lough,
- lower,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- main drag,
- main road,
- mantelet,
- matrix,
- mere,
- merlon,
- mews,
- milldam,
- millpond,
- millpool,
- mine,
- mineral deposit,
- moat,
- mole,
- motorway,
- mound,
- notch,
- nullah,
- nyanza,
- opening,
- ore bed,
- outwork,
- oxbow lake,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- parkway,
- pass,
- passage,
- pave,
- paved road,
- pay dirt,
- pike,
- place,
- plank road,
- plash,
- pleat,
- plow,
- pond,
- pondlet,
- pool,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- primary highway,
- private road,
- puddle,
- quarry,
- rabbet,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- ravine,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- rent,
- reservoir,
- rifle,
- rift,
- right-of-way,
- rime,
- ring road,
- road,
- roadbed,
- roadblock,
- roadway,
- rock-fill dam,
- route nationale,
- row,
- royal road,
- rupture,
- rut,
- salina,
- sally port,
- salt pond,
- sap,
- scarp,
- scissure,
- sconce,
- scoop,
- scoop out,
- score,
- scrabble,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- seam,
- seawall,
- secondary road,
- shoot,
- shovel,
- shutter dam,
- sink,
- slit,
- slot,
- spade,
- speedway,
- split,
- stagnant water,
- standing water,
- state highway,
- still water,
- stock,
- stockade,
- stone wall,
- streak,
- street,
- striate,
- sump,
- sunk fence,
- superhighway,
- tank,
- tarn,
- tenaille,
- terrace,
- thoroughfare,
- through street,
- thruway,
- tidal pond,
- toll road,
- township road,
- trench,
- trough,
- tunnel,
- turnpike,
- vallation,
- valley,
- vallum,
- vein,
- void,
- volcanic lake,
- wadi,
- wall,
- water hole,
- water pocket,
- weir,
- well,
- wicket dam,
- work,
- wrinkle,
- wynd
- boy
collapse
- (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man; "get out of my way, boy"
- a friendly informal reference to a grown man; "he likes to play golf with the boys" related words >
- American Indian,
- Amerind,
- Australian aborigine,
- Bushman,
- Caucasian,
- Indian,
- Malayan,
- Mister Charley,
- Mongolian,
- Negrillo,
- Negrito,
- Negro,
- Oriental,
- Red Indian,
- WASP,
- black,
- black man,
- blackfellow,
- bloke,
- brown man,
- bub,
- bubba,
- buck,
- bud,
- buddy,
- burrhead,
- chauffeur,
- coachman,
- colored person,
- colt,
- coon,
- cub,
- darky,
- driver,
- equerry,
- fellow,
- fledgling,
- gamin,
- gardener,
- gee,
- gent,
- gentleman,
- gillie,
- goody,
- gook,
- guy,
- he,
- hobbledehoy,
- honky,
- houseboy,
- houseman,
- jigaboo,
- jungle bunny,
- lad,
- laddie,
- lord-in-waiting,
- man,
- manchild,
- manservant,
- master,
- muchacho,
- nigger,
- niggra,
- ofay,
- paleface,
- pup,
- puppy,
- pygmy,
- ragamuffin,
- red man,
- redskin,
- schoolboy,
- slant-eye,
- small fry,
- son,
- sonny,
- sonny boy,
- spade,
- street arab,
- stripling,
- tad,
- the Man,
- urchin,
- valet,
- valet de chambre,
- whelp,
- whippersnapper,
- white,
- white man,
- whitey,
- yellow man,
- young man,
- youth
- on the spot
collapse
- without delay or immediately; "we hired her on the spot"; "thought they were going to shoot us down on the spot"
- at the place in question; there; "they were on the spot when it happened"; "it had to be decided by the man on the spot"
- in a difficult situation; "that question really put him on the spot" related words >
- PDQ,
- aboard,
- among us,
- apace,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at once,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- between two fires,
- but now,
- cornered,
- cursory,
- decisively,
- directly,
- endangered,
- even now,
- expeditious,
- expeditiously,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flying,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- forthwith,
- furious,
- hasty,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hereat,
- hereinto,
- hereto,
- hereunto,
- hic et nunc,
- hither,
- hitherward,
- hitherwards,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- immediately,
- imperiled,
- in Dutch,
- in a bind,
- in a fix,
- in a mess,
- in a pickle,
- in a predicament,
- in a scrape,
- in a spot,
- in danger,
- in deep water,
- in desperate case,
- in extremis,
- in jeopardy,
- in no time,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- in this place,
- in this vicinity,
- in trouble,
- instant,
- instantaneously,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- jeopardized,
- just here,
- just now,
- just then,
- last-minute,
- momentaneously,
- momentarily,
- momently,
- now,
- nowadays,
- on Queer Street,
- on board,
- on the dot,
- on the instant,
- on the nail,
- passing,
- pretty damned quick,
- prompt,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quick,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right off,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smartly,
- snap,
- somewhere about,
- speedily,
- speedy,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- superficial,
- swift,
- swiftly,
- this day,
- this night,
- threatened,
- to this place,
- today,
- tonight,
- urgent,
- with all speed,
- with us,
- without delay,
- without further delay
- deadlock
collapse
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" related words >
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
- arrest,
- bell,
- blind alley,
- block,
- box,
- brake,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- cessation,
- check,
- checkmate,
- condition,
- corner,
- cul-de-sac,
- cut short,
- cutoff,
- dam,
- dead end,
- dead heat,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- dead-end street,
- dilemma,
- draw,
- draw rein,
- dying down,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- even break,
- extremity,
- fair shake,
- final whistle,
- freeze,
- full stop,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hole,
- impasse,
- knotted score,
- lock,
- lockout,
- neck-and-neck race,
- photo finish,
- plight,
- posture,
- predicament,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- quandary,
- sit-down strike,
- situation,
- slow down,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stand,
- stand-off,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- state,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- stoppage,
- strike,
- stymie,
- subsidence,
- the same,
- tie,
- walkout,
- wane,
- waning,
- work stoppage
- journalism
collapse
- the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
- newspapers and magazines collectively related words >
- AP,
- Associated Press,
- Fleet Street,
- Reuters,
- UPI,
- United Press International,
- advice,
- artistry,
- authorcraft,
- authorship,
- automatic writing,
- book publishing,
- broadcast journalism,
- cacoethes scribendi,
- communications,
- communications industry,
- composition,
- creative writing,
- drama-writing,
- editorial-writing,
- essay-writing,
- expository writing,
- facility in writing,
- feature-writing,
- fourth estate,
- graphomania,
- graphorrhea,
- graphospasm,
- inditement,
- information,
- intelligence,
- libretto-writing,
- literary artistry,
- literary composition,
- literary power,
- literary production,
- literary talent,
- magazine publishing,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- novel-writing,
- pen,
- pencraft,
- playwriting,
- press association,
- print medium,
- public press,
- public print,
- publishing,
- publishing industry,
- radio,
- ready pen,
- reportage,
- rewriting,
- short-story writing,
- skill with words,
- technical writing,
- telegraph agency,
- television,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- verse-writing,
- wire service,
- word,
- writing
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