death tax - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

bell the cat collapse: take a risk; perform a daring act; "Who is going to bell the cat?"

swan song collapse: a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

ephemeral collapse: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

belladonna collapse: an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally; perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine

asleep collapse: into a sleeping state; "he fell asleep"; in the sleep of death

go for broke collapse: risk everything in one big effort; "the cyclist went for broke at the end of the race"

execute collapse: sign in the presence of witnesses; "The President executed the treaty"; kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment; "In some states, criminals are executed"; murder in a planned fashion; "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"; carry out the legalities of; "execute a will or a deed"

ask collapse: make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a loan"; consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"; inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times"; direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question"; address a question to and expect an answer from; "Ask your teacher about trigonometry"; "The children asked me about their dead grandmother"; require or ask for as a price or condition; "He is asking $200 for the table"; "The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage"

sheltered collapse: protected from danger or bad weather; "a sheltered harbor"

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"

clench collapse: squeeze together tightly; "clench one's jaw"; hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"

beyond collapse: in addition; "agreed to provide essentials but nothing beyond"; farther along in space or time or degree; "through the valley and beyond"; "to the eighth grade but not beyond"; "will be influential in the 1990s and beyond"; on the farther side from the observer; "a pond with a hayfield beyond"

horripilate collapse: cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps; "Hitchcock movies horripilate me"; have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps; "I horripilate when I see violence on television"

put away collapse: turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily; "it's time for you to put away childish things"; kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"; stop using; "the children were told to put away their toys"; "the students put away their notebooks"

toehold collapse: a wrestling hold in which the toe is held and the leg is twisted against the joints; a small foothold used in climbing; a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made; "American diplomacy provided a toehold on which to proceed toward peace talks"; "his father gave him a toehold in the oil business"

busy collapse: crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"; actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"; (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"; overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"; keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"

hemlock collapse: an evergreen tree; soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock; large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous; poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"

execution collapse: the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"; putting a condemned person to death; a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out; (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable; (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

indefeasible collapse: not liable to being annulled or voided or undone; "an indefeasible right to freedom"; "an indefeasible claim to the title"

disease collapse: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

subvention collapse: the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort; grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution

overload collapse: an excessive burden; an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power; place too much a load on; "don't overload the car"; become overloaded; "The aerator overloaded"

sleety collapse: consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain

daredevil collapse: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person; presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"

Wordage.info