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abnegation
collapse
renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief; "abnegation of the Holy Trinity"
related words >
abstinence
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
contradiction
,
control
,
cool
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disobedience
,
dispassion
,
dissent
,
evenness
,
forbearance
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
holding back
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
nay
,
naysaying
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negative attitude
,
negativeness
,
negativism
,
negativity
,
neutrality
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonobservance
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
prudence
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
repudiation
,
restraint
,
retention
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thumbs-down
,
tranquillity
,
turndown
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unwillingness
,
via media
,
withholding
deciduous
collapse
(of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
(of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth"
related words >
arborary
,
arboreal
,
arboreous
,
arborescent
,
arboresque
,
arborical
,
arboriform
,
brittle
,
bushlike
,
bushy
,
capricious
,
changeable
,
citrous
,
collapsing
,
coniferous
,
corruptible
,
declining
,
declivitous
,
decurrent
,
dendriform
,
dendritic
,
dendroid
,
descendant
,
descending
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
drooping
,
dropping
,
dying
,
ephemeral
,
evanescent
,
evergreen
,
fading
,
falling
,
fickle
,
fleeting
,
flitting
,
fly-by-night
,
flying
,
fragile
,
frail
,
fugacious
,
fugitive
,
half-hardy
,
hardwood
,
hardy
,
impermanent
,
impetuous
,
impulsive
,
inconstant
,
insubstantial
,
momentary
,
mortal
,
mutable
,
nondeciduous
,
nondurable
,
nonpermanent
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
passing
,
perennial
,
perishable
,
piny
,
plummeting
,
plunging
,
sagging
,
scrubbly
,
scrubby
,
scrublike
,
setting
,
short-lived
,
shrubby
,
shrublike
,
sinking
,
softwood
,
submerging
,
subsiding
,
temporal
,
temporary
,
tottering
,
transient
,
transitive
,
transitory
,
treelike
,
tumbledown
,
undurable
,
unenduring
,
unstable
,
volatile
dotage
collapse
mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
related words >
advanced age
,
advanced years
,
age
,
age of retirement
,
an incurable disease
,
anility
,
blind faith
,
caducity
,
childishness
,
credulity
,
credulousness
,
debility
,
decline
,
decline of life
,
declining years
,
decrepitude
,
disposition to believe
,
dotardism
,
ease of belief
,
eld
,
elderliness
,
feebleness
,
fondness
,
green old age
,
gross credulity
,
hale old age
,
hoary age
,
infatuation
,
infirm old age
,
infirmity
,
infirmity of age
,
longevity
,
old age
,
oldness
,
overcredulity
,
overcredulousness
,
overopenness to conviction
,
overtrustfulness
,
pensionable age
,
rash conviction
,
ricketiness
,
ripe old age
,
second childhood
,
senectitude
,
senile debility
,
senile dementia
,
senile psychosis
,
senile weakness
,
senilism
,
senility
,
senior citizenship
,
superannuation
,
the downward slope
,
the golden years
,
trustfulness
,
uncritical acceptance
,
uncriticalness
,
unquestioning belief
,
unripe acceptation
,
unskepticalness
,
unsuspectingness
,
unsuspiciousness
,
vale of years
,
white hairs
,
will to believe
,
willingness to believe
,
wishful belief
,
wishful thinking
nonobservance
collapse
a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
related words >
Laodiceanism
,
abnegation
,
absentmindedness
,
carelessness
,
contradiction
,
contrariety
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
deviation
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disconformity
,
disobedience
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
dissent
,
distraction
,
flightiness
,
flippancy
,
frivolousness
,
giddiness
,
heedlessness
,
holding back
,
inaccordance
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
incongruity
,
inconsideration
,
inconsistency
,
incuriosity
,
indevotion
,
indevoutness
,
indifference
,
indifferentism
,
inobservance
,
levity
,
lightmindedness
,
lukewarm piety
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negligence
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformism
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
nonreligiousness
,
obliviousness
,
originality
,
protest
,
recalcitrance
,
recantation
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refractoriness
,
refusal
,
regardlessness
,
rejection
,
repudiation
,
retention
,
shallowness
,
superficiality
,
thoughtlessness
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
unalertness
,
unawareness
,
unconformity
,
unconsciousness
,
undevoutness
,
undutifulness
,
unheedfulness
,
unintentiveness
,
unmindfulness
,
unobservance
,
unreligiousness
,
unwariness
,
unwatchfulness
,
unwillingness
,
withholding
abjuration
collapse
related words >
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
cessation
,
cession
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
cold storage
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
declination
,
declining
,
denial
,
desistance
,
despisal
,
despising
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discontinuance
,
discounting
,
dismissal
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dropping out
,
dumping
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forbearance
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
handing over
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
letting go
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconsideration
,
nonexercise
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
repulse
,
resignation
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
scouting
,
spurning
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
throwing out
,
turning out
,
unsaying
,
waiver
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawing
,
yielding
nix
collapse
related words >
Davy
,
Davy Jones
,
Neptune
,
Nereid
,
Oceanid
,
Oceanus
,
Poseidon
,
Thetis
,
Triton
,
abnegation
,
aught
,
cipher
,
contradiction
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disobedience
,
dissent
,
fat chance
,
forget it
,
fresh-water nymph
,
goose egg
,
holding back
,
kelpie
,
kill
,
limniad
,
man fish
,
mermaid
,
merman
,
nada
,
naiad
,
naught
,
nay
,
naysaying
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negative attitude
,
negativeness
,
negativism
,
negativity
,
nichts
,
nihil
,
nil
,
nit
,
nixie
,
no
,
no sirree
,
no such thing
,
no way
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonobservance
,
nope
,
not a chance
,
not much
,
nothing
,
nothing at all
,
nothing doing
,
nothing on earth
,
nothing whatever
,
ocean nymph
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
repudiation
,
retention
,
sea nymph
,
sea-maid
,
sea-maiden
,
siren
,
thing of naught
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
under no circumstances
,
undine
,
unwillingness
,
water god
,
water spirit
,
water sprite
,
wind
,
withholding
,
zero
,
zilch
moribund
collapse
being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"
related words >
apathetic
,
bad
,
benumbed
,
blase
,
bored
,
cachectic
,
dead
,
debilitated
,
decadent
,
declining
,
despaired of
,
deteriorating
,
done for
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
drained
,
droopy
,
drugged
,
dull
,
dying
,
ending
,
enervated
,
exanimate
,
exhausted
,
expiring
,
facing death
,
fading
,
failing
,
feeble
,
frail
,
given up
,
going
,
healthless
,
heavy
,
hebetudinous
,
hopeless
,
in articulo mortis
,
in extremis
,
in poor health
,
inanimate
,
incapable of life
,
inert
,
infirm
,
invalid
,
jaded
,
lackadaisical
,
languid
,
languishing
,
languorous
,
leaden
,
lethargic
,
lifeless
,
listless
,
low
,
lumpish
,
near death
,
nonviable
,
numb
,
obsolescent
,
on the wane
,
pale
,
peaked
,
peaky
,
phlegmatic
,
pooped
,
reduced
,
reduced in health
,
run-down
,
sated
,
sickly
,
sinking
,
sleepy
,
slipping
,
slipping away
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
somnolent
,
stagnant
,
stagnating
,
stultified
,
supine
,
terminal
,
torpid
,
unhealthy
,
unsound
,
valetudinarian
,
valetudinary
,
vegetable
,
vegetative
,
wan
,
waning
,
weak
,
weakened
,
weakly
,
weary
,
with low resistance
,
world-weary
subsiding
collapse
related words >
at rest
,
calm
,
cloistered
,
collapsing
,
coming apart
,
contractive
,
cool
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
deciduous
,
declining
,
declivitous
,
decreasing
,
decrescendo
,
decrescent
,
decurrent
,
degenerate
,
deliquescent
,
descendant
,
descending
,
deteriorating
,
diminishing
,
diminuendo
,
disintegrating
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dropping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
even-tenored
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
halcyon
,
hushed
,
impassive
,
isolated
,
languishing
,
lessening
,
marcescent
,
moldering
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
on the wane
,
pacific
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
pining
,
placid
,
plummeting
,
plunging
,
quiescent
,
quiet
,
reductive
,
regressive
,
reposeful
,
reposing
,
restful
,
resting
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
sagging
,
secluded
,
sequestered
,
sequestrated
,
setting
,
sheltered
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
smooth
,
still
,
still as death
,
stillish
,
stilly
,
stoic
,
stolid
,
submerging
,
tabetic
,
tottering
,
tranquil
,
tumbledown
,
unagitated
,
undisturbed
,
unmoved
,
unperturbed
,
unruffled
,
unstirring
,
untroubled
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
crumbling
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
beating
,
breakup
,
brecciation
,
coming apart
,
comminution
,
corrosion
,
cracking
,
crushing
,
decadent
,
decay
,
declining
,
decomposition
,
decrepit
,
degenerate
,
degradation
,
deteriorating
,
detrition
,
dilapidated
,
dilapidation
,
disintegrating
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissolution
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dusty
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
erosion
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmentation
,
fragmenting
,
fusty
,
going to pieces
,
gone to seed
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grinding
,
incoherence
,
infirm
,
languishing
,
levigation
,
marcescent
,
mashing
,
mildewed
,
moldering
,
moldy
,
moss-grown
,
moth-eaten
,
musty
,
pining
,
poor
,
poorish
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
ravages of time
,
regressive
,
resolution
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
rotten
,
rotten at
,
ruined
,
ruinous
,
rusty
,
shredding
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
smashing
,
stale
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
time-scarred
,
timeworn
,
trituration
,
unfirm
,
unsolid
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsturdy
,
unsubstantial
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worn
,
worsening
pining
collapse
a feeling of deep longing
related words >
Heimweh
,
aching
,
agony
,
anguish
,
bowed-down
,
care
,
carking care
,
cast down
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
dashed
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
dejected
,
depressed
,
desiderium
,
despairing
,
despondent
,
desponding
,
deteriorating
,
discouraged
,
disheartened
,
disintegrating
,
dispirited
,
down
,
downcast
,
downhearted
,
draining
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
feeling low
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
grief
,
hankering
,
heartfelt grief
,
heartgrief
,
heartless
,
homesick
,
homesickness
,
honing
,
hypochondriac
,
hypochondriacal
,
in low spirits
,
in the depths
,
in the doldrums
,
in the dumps
,
lamentation
,
languishing
,
languishment
,
longing
,
low
,
low-spirited
,
mal du pays
,
maladie du pays
,
marcescent
,
misery
,
nostalgia
,
nostalgic
,
nostomania
,
pessimistic
,
prostration
,
regressive
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
sorrow
,
sorrowing
,
spiritless
,
subdued
,
subsiding
,
suicidal
,
tabetic
,
waning
,
wasting
,
weary of life
,
wilting
,
wishful
,
wistful
,
withering
,
woe
,
woebegone
,
world-weary
,
worsening
,
yearnful
,
yearning
,
yen
longevity
collapse
the property of being long-lived
duration of service; "her longevity as a star"; "had unusual longevity in the company"
related words >
abidingness
,
advanced age
,
advanced years
,
age
,
age of retirement
,
an incurable disease
,
anility
,
animal spirits
,
animate existence
,
animation
,
antiquity
,
being alive
,
birth
,
caducity
,
constancy
,
continuance
,
debility
,
decline of life
,
declining years
,
decrepitude
,
defeat of time
,
defiance of time
,
diuturnity
,
dotage
,
durability
,
durableness
,
duration
,
eld
,
elderliness
,
endurance
,
existence
,
feebleness
,
green old age
,
hale old age
,
haleness
,
hardiness
,
having life
,
heartiness
,
hoary age
,
immortality
,
infirm old age
,
infirmity
,
infirmity of age
,
lastingness
,
life
,
lifetime
,
liveliness
,
living
,
long life
,
long standing
,
long-lastingness
,
long-livedness
,
lustiness
,
maintenance
,
old age
,
oldness
,
pensionable age
,
perdurability
,
perennation
,
permanence
,
perpetuity
,
persistence
,
ricketiness
,
ripe old age
,
robustness
,
ruggedness
,
second childhood
,
senectitude
,
senility
,
senior citizenship
,
spriteliness
,
stability
,
standing
,
steadfastness
,
strength
,
superannuation
,
survival
,
survivance
,
the downward slope
,
the golden years
,
vale of years
,
viability
,
vigor
,
vigorousness
,
vitality
,
vivacity
,
white hairs
disapproval
collapse
the act of disapproving or condemning
the expression of disapproval
a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
aggravation
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
annoyance
,
apostasy
,
belittling
,
censure
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
comedown
,
condemnation
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
counter-culture
,
criticism
,
declination
,
declining
,
decrial
,
denial
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
despisal
,
despising
,
detraction
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaffection
,
disaffinity
,
disagreement
,
disapprobation
,
discard
,
disclamation
,
discontent
,
discounting
,
discrediting
,
disfavor
,
disgrace
,
disinclination
,
dislike
,
dismissal
,
disownment
,
disparagement
,
disparity
,
displeasure
,
disregard
,
disrelish
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissidence
,
distaste
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
exasperation
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
faint praise
,
ignoring
,
indignity
,
irritation
,
knocking
,
lukewarm support
,
minimizing
,
minority opinion
,
nonacceptance
,
nonagreement
,
nonapproval
,
nonassent
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
nonconsideration
,
objection
,
opposition
,
passing by
,
putting away
,
putting down
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
renouncement
,
reproach
,
reproof
,
repudiation
,
repulse
,
resentfulness
,
resentment
,
scouting
,
secession
,
slighting
,
sour grapes
,
spurning
,
throwing out
,
turning out
,
underground
,
variance
,
vexation
,
withdrawal
lessening
collapse
related words >
abatement
,
abating
,
abridgment
,
allaying
,
allayment
,
alleviating
,
alleviation
,
analgesia
,
anesthesia
,
anesthetizing
,
appeasement
,
assuagement
,
assuaging
,
attenuation
,
attrition
,
blunting
,
calming
,
chastening
,
contraction
,
contractive
,
curtailment
,
cushioning
,
cut
,
cutting
,
dampening
,
damping
,
deadening
,
declining
,
decrease
,
decreasing
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
decrescendo
,
decrescent
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
deliquescent
,
demulsion
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
derogation
,
detraction
,
diminishing
,
diminishment
,
diminuendo
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disparagement
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dwindling
,
dying
,
dying off
,
ease
,
easement
,
easing
,
extenuation
,
extraction
,
fade-out
,
falling-off
,
hushing
,
impairment
,
languishing
,
languishment
,
leniency
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lowering
,
lulling
,
miniaturization
,
mitigating
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
numbing
,
on the wane
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
reducing
,
reduction
,
reductive
,
relaxation
,
relaxing
,
relief
,
remedy
,
remission
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
sagging
,
salving
,
scaling down
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
simplicity
,
slackening
,
softening
,
soothing
,
subduement
,
subduing
,
subsiding
,
subtraction
,
tempering
,
tranquilization
,
truncation
,
waning
,
weakening
dwindling
collapse
a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family"
gradually decreasing until little remains
related words >
at rest
,
calm
,
catabasis
,
cloistered
,
collapse
,
coming apart
,
contractive
,
cool
,
cracking
,
crash
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
declining
,
decreasing
,
decrescendo
,
decrescent
,
degenerate
,
deliquescent
,
deteriorating
,
diminishing
,
diminuendo
,
disintegrating
,
dive
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
draining
,
drooping
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
even-tenored
,
fading
,
failing
,
fall
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
halcyon
,
hushed
,
impassive
,
isolated
,
languishing
,
lapse
,
lessening
,
marcescent
,
moldering
,
on the wane
,
pacific
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
pining
,
placid
,
plunge
,
quiescent
,
quiet
,
receding
,
reductive
,
regressive
,
remission
,
reposeful
,
reposing
,
restful
,
resting
,
retiring
,
retreat
,
retreating
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
secluded
,
sequestered
,
sequestrated
,
sheltered
,
shrinking
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slowdown
,
slump
,
slumping
,
smooth
,
still
,
still as death
,
stillish
,
stilly
,
stoic
,
stolid
,
subsidence
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tranquil
,
unagitated
,
undisturbed
,
unmoved
,
unperturbed
,
unruffled
,
unstirring
,
untroubled
,
wane
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
retrograde
collapse
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
going from better to worse
go back over; "retrograde arguments"
move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
related words >
aft
,
after
,
aftermost
,
atavistic
,
back
,
backslide
,
backward
,
cock
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
decline
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
descend
,
deteriorate
,
deteriorating
,
disimprove
,
disintegrate
,
disintegrating
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
fall astern
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
get behind
,
get worse
,
go backwards
,
go behind
,
going to pieces
,
grow worse
,
hind
,
hinder
,
hindermost
,
hindhand
,
hindmost
,
invert
,
jerk back
,
languishing
,
lapse
,
lapse back
,
let down
,
lose ground
,
marcescent
,
pining
,
posterior
,
postern
,
pull back
,
reactionary
,
rear
,
rearmost
,
rearward
,
recede
,
recessive
,
recidivate
,
recidivist
,
recidivous
,
regress
,
regressive
,
relapse
,
retract
,
retral
,
retreat
,
retroactive
,
retrocede
,
retrocessive
,
retroflex
,
retrogress
,
retrogressive
,
retrorse
,
retroverse
,
retrovert
,
return
,
returnable
,
reverse
,
reversible
,
reversional
,
reversionary
,
revert
,
revertible
,
revulsionary
,
rot
,
shriveling
,
sicken
,
sink
,
sinking
,
slacken
,
sliding
,
slip back
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tail
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsen
,
worsening
retiring
collapse
not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"
related words >
Olympian
,
aloof
,
aseptic
,
backward
,
bashful
,
blank
,
boat-shaped
,
boatlike
,
bowl-shaped
,
bowllike
,
cavelike
,
cavernous
,
chilled
,
chilly
,
cold
,
concave
,
concaved
,
constrained
,
cool
,
coy
,
craterlike
,
cup-shaped
,
cupped
,
cymbiform
,
declining
,
demure
,
detached
,
diffident
,
diminishing
,
discreet
,
dish-shaped
,
dished
,
dishing
,
dishlike
,
distant
,
dwindling
,
dying
,
ebbing
,
expressionless
,
fading
,
forbidding
,
frigid
,
frosty
,
funnel-breasted
,
funnel-chested
,
funnel-shaped
,
guarded
,
hollow
,
hollowed
,
humble
,
icy
,
impassive
,
impersonal
,
inaccessible
,
incurved
,
incurving
,
incurvous
,
infundibular
,
infundibuliform
,
introverted
,
meek
,
modest
,
navicular
,
naviform
,
offish
,
quiet
,
rabbity
,
receding
,
reclusive
,
remote
,
removed
,
repressed
,
reserved
,
restrained
,
reticent
,
retreating
,
saucer-shaped
,
scaphoid
,
scyphate
,
self-effacing
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
sinking
,
spoonlike
,
standoff
,
standoffish
,
subdued
,
sunk
,
sunken
,
suppressed
,
timid
,
timorous
,
unaffable
,
unapproachable
,
unassertive
,
unassuming
,
unassured
,
uncongenial
,
undemonstrative
,
unexpansive
,
ungenial
,
unpretentious
,
unsociable
,
unsocial
,
waning
,
withdrawn
draining
collapse
having a debilitating effect; "an exhausting job in the hot sun"
related words >
aspiration
,
bleeding
,
bloodletting
,
breakdown
,
broaching
,
clamant
,
clamorous
,
cleaning out
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
collapse
,
coming apart
,
crack-up
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
crying
,
cupping
,
decadent
,
declining
,
defecation
,
degenerate
,
demanding
,
depletion
,
deteriorating
,
devitalizing
,
discharging cargo
,
disintegrating
,
drafting
,
drainage
,
drawing
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
egress
,
elimination
,
emptying
,
enervating
,
enfeebling
,
evacuation
,
exacting
,
excretion
,
exhaustedness
,
exhausting
,
exhaustion
,
exigent
,
exorbitant
,
extortionate
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
grasping
,
grueling
,
importunate
,
insistent
,
instant
,
killing
,
languishing
,
loud
,
marcescent
,
milking
,
nervous exhaustion
,
nervous prostration
,
off-loading
,
persistent
,
pertinacious
,
phlebotomy
,
pining
,
pipetting
,
pressing
,
prostration
,
pumping
,
punishing
,
regressive
,
removal
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
sapping
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
siphoning
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
straining
,
stressful
,
subsiding
,
sucking
,
suction
,
tabetic
,
tapping
,
taxing
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
trying
,
unloading
,
urgent
,
venesection
,
venting
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waning
,
wasting
,
weakening
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
sagging
collapse
related words >
abatement
,
abridgment
,
alleviation
,
attenuation
,
bagging
,
baggy
,
ballooning
,
collapsing
,
contraction
,
dampening
,
damping
,
debilitated
,
deciduous
,
declining
,
declivitous
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
decurrent
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
descendant
,
descending
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dropping
,
dying
,
dying off
,
enervated
,
enfeebled
,
extenuation
,
fade-out
,
fagged
,
faint
,
fainting
,
falling
,
fatigued
,
feeling faint
,
flagging
,
floppy
,
footsore
,
frazzled
,
good and tired
,
jaded
,
languid
,
languishment
,
lessening
,
letup
,
limp
,
loose
,
lop
,
lop-eared
,
loppy
,
lowering
,
miniaturization
,
mitigation
,
nodding
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
plummeting
,
plunging
,
ready to drop
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
run ragged
,
run-down
,
sagging in folds
,
saggy
,
scaling down
,
seedy
,
setting
,
simplicity
,
sinking
,
submerging
,
subsiding
,
subtraction
,
swag
,
tired
,
tired-winged
,
toilworn
,
tottering
,
tumbledown
,
unrefreshed
,
unrestored
,
way-weary
,
wayworn
,
weak
,
weakened
,
weakening
,
wearied
,
weariful
,
weary
,
weary-footed
,
weary-laden
,
weary-winged
,
weary-worn
,
wilting
,
worn
,
worn-down
nay
collapse
a negative; "the nays have it"
not this merely but also; not only so but; "each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"
related words >
Australian ballot
,
Hare system
,
No
,
abnegation
,
au contraire
,
aye
,
ballot
,
canvass
,
canvassing
,
casting vote
,
certainly not
,
con
,
contradiction
,
counting heads
,
cumulative voting
,
deciding vote
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disobedience
,
dissent
,
division
,
enfranchisement
,
fagot vote
,
far from it
,
franchise
,
graveyard vote
,
hand vote
,
holding back
,
indeed
,
interest
,
list system
,
naysaying
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negative attitude
,
negativeness
,
negativism
,
negativity
,
nein
,
nit
,
nix
,
no
,
no such thing
,
non
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonobservance
,
nontransferable vote
,
nope
,
not
,
not a bit
,
not a jot
,
not a whit
,
not really
,
not so
,
nyet
,
plebiscite
,
plebiscitum
,
plumper
,
plural vote
,
poll
,
polling
,
preferential voting
,
pro
,
proportional representation
,
proxy
,
quite the contrary
,
recantation
,
record vote
,
referendum
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
representation
,
repudiation
,
retention
,
right to vote
,
rising vote
,
say
,
secret ballot
,
show of hands
,
side
,
single vote
,
snap vote
,
straw vote
,
suffrage
,
the affirmative
,
the negative
,
thumbs-down
,
to the contrary
,
transferable vote
,
truly
,
turndown
,
unwillingness
,
verily
,
viva voce
,
voice
,
voice vote
,
vote
,
voting
,
voting right
,
withholding
,
write-in
,
write-in vote
,
yea
,
yeas and nays
,
yes
worsening
collapse
changing something with the result that it becomes worse
changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm"
related words >
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
aggravation
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
amplification
,
annoyance
,
apostasy
,
augmentation
,
betterment
,
break
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
coming apart
,
constructive change
,
contentiousness
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
declining
,
deepening
,
defection
,
degenerate
,
degeneration
,
degenerative change
,
deliberate aggravation
,
deteriorating
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
difference
,
discontinuity
,
disintegrating
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
embittering
,
embitterment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exacerbation
,
exasperation
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
fitting
,
flagging
,
flip-flop
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
gradual change
,
heightening
,
improvement
,
increase
,
intensification
,
irritation
,
languishing
,
magnification
,
marcescent
,
melioration
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
modulation
,
overthrow
,
pining
,
provocation
,
qualification
,
radical change
,
re-creation
,
realignment
,
redesign
,
reform
,
reformation
,
regressive
,
remaking
,
renewal
,
reshaping
,
restructuring
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
reversal
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
sharpening
,
shift
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
souring
,
subsiding
,
sudden change
,
switch
,
tabetic
,
total change
,
transition
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
upheaval
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
no
collapse
a negative; "his no was loud and clear"
used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc or especially to emphasize a negative statement; "no, you are wrong"
not in any degree or manner; not at all; "he is no better today"
referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present; "he was no heavier than a child"
related words >
Australian ballot
,
Hare system
,
I refuse
,
I will not
,
abnegation
,
au contraire
,
aye
,
ballot
,
by no means
,
canvass
,
canvassing
,
casting vote
,
certainly not
,
con
,
contradiction
,
count me out
,
counting heads
,
cumulative voting
,
deciding vote
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disobedience
,
dissent
,
division
,
enfranchisement
,
fagot vote
,
far from it
,
franchise
,
from scratch
,
graveyard vote
,
hand vote
,
holding back
,
impossible
,
in no way
,
include me out
,
interest
,
list system
,
nay
,
naysaying
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negative attitude
,
negativeness
,
negativism
,
negativity
,
nein
,
nix
,
no such thing
,
non
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
none
,
nonobservance
,
nontransferable vote
,
not
,
not a bit
,
not a jot
,
not a whit
,
not at all
,
not likely
,
not really
,
not so
,
nothing doing
,
nyet
,
plebiscite
,
plebiscitum
,
plumper
,
plural vote
,
poll
,
polling
,
preferential voting
,
pro
,
proportional representation
,
proxy
,
quite the contrary
,
recantation
,
record vote
,
referendum
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
representation
,
repudiation
,
retention
,
right to vote
,
rising vote
,
say
,
secret ballot
,
show of hands
,
side
,
single vote
,
snap vote
,
straw vote
,
suffrage
,
the affirmative
,
the negative
,
thumbs-down
,
to the contrary
,
transferable vote
,
turndown
,
unwillingness
,
viva voce
,
voice
,
voice vote
,
vote
,
voting
,
voting right
,
withholding
,
write-in
,
write-in vote
,
yea
,
yeas and nays
,
yes
debility
collapse
related words >
advanced age
,
advanced years
,
adynamia
,
age of retirement
,
an incurable disease
,
anemia
,
anility
,
atony
,
blah feeling
,
bloodlessness
,
brain fag
,
cachexia
,
cachexy
,
caducity
,
chronic ill health
,
cowardice
,
debilitation
,
decline of life
,
declining years
,
decrepitude
,
delicacy
,
delicate health
,
disease
,
dotage
,
dullness
,
eld
,
elderliness
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
etiolation
,
exhaustion
,
eyestrain
,
faintness
,
fatigue
,
feebleness
,
flabbiness
,
flaccidity
,
fragility
,
frailty
,
goneness
,
green old age
,
hale old age
,
healthlessness
,
heart strain
,
hoary age
,
hypochondria
,
hypochondriasis
,
ill health
,
impotence
,
infirm old age
,
infirmity
,
infirmity of age
,
invalidism
,
invalidity
,
jadedness
,
languishing
,
languishment
,
languor
,
lassitude
,
listlessness
,
longevity
,
malaise
,
mental fatigue
,
mental strain
,
morbidity
,
morbidness
,
old age
,
oldness
,
overstrain
,
overtiredness
,
peakedness
,
pensionable age
,
poor health
,
prostration
,
ricketiness
,
ripe old age
,
second childhood
,
senectitude
,
senility
,
senior citizenship
,
sickliness
,
sleepiness
,
sluggishness
,
softness
,
stance fatigue
,
strain
,
strengthlessness
,
superannuation
,
the downward slope
,
the golden years
,
tiredness
,
unhealthiness
,
unsoundness
,
unwholesomeness
,
vale of years
,
valetudinarianism
,
wasting
,
weakliness
,
weakness
,
wearifulness
,
weariness
,
white hairs
shrinking
collapse
the act of becoming less
process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
related words >
Olympian
,
Sanforizing
,
aloof
,
aseptic
,
atrophy
,
attenuation
,
backward
,
bashful
,
bashfulness
,
blank
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
chilled
,
chilly
,
cold
,
compunction
,
constrained
,
consumption
,
cool
,
cowardly
,
declining
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurring
,
detached
,
diffidence
,
diffident
,
diminishing
,
discreet
,
distant
,
drying
,
drying up
,
dwindling
,
dying
,
ebbing
,
emaceration
,
emaciation
,
expressionless
,
fading
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fearful
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
forbidding
,
frigid
,
frosty
,
goosy
,
guarded
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
icy
,
impassive
,
impersonal
,
in fear
,
inaccessible
,
introverted
,
jumpy
,
modest
,
modesty
,
mousy
,
nervous
,
objection
,
offish
,
parching
,
pause
,
preshrinkage
,
protest
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmish
,
qualmishness
,
quiet
,
rabbity
,
receding
,
recoil
,
remote
,
removed
,
repressed
,
reserved
,
restrained
,
reticent
,
retiring
,
retreating
,
scary
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulous
,
scrupulousness
,
searing
,
shaky
,
shivery
,
shrinkage
,
shriveling
,
shy
,
shyness
,
sinking
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
squeamish
,
standoff
,
standoffish
,
startlish
,
stickling
,
subdued
,
suppressed
,
thinning
,
timid
,
timorous
,
trembling
,
tremulous
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
unaffable
,
unapproachable
,
uncongenial
,
undemonstrative
,
unexpansive
,
ungenial
,
waning
,
wasting
,
withdrawn
,
withering
contempt
collapse
a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body
a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous
open disrespect for a person or thing
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"
related words >
abhorrence
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
affront
,
antipathy
,
arrogance
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
audacity
,
aversion
,
bold front
,
boldness
,
brash bearing
,
brashness
,
brassiness
,
bravado
,
brazenfacedness
,
brazenness
,
brickbat
,
bumptiousness
,
cheekiness
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
cockiness
,
contemptuousness
,
contradiction
,
contumacy
,
contumely
,
cut
,
daring
,
daringness
,
declination
,
declining
,
defial
,
defiance
,
defying
,
denial
,
denigration
,
deprecation
,
depreciation
,
derision
,
despisal
,
despising
,
despite
,
disapproval
,
discard
,
disclamation
,
discommendation
,
discounting
,
discredit
,
disdain
,
disesteem
,
disfavor
,
disgust
,
dishonor
,
dismissal
,
disownment
,
disparagement
,
dispraise
,
disregard
,
disrepute
,
disrespectfulness
,
distaste
,
disvaluation
,
dump
,
enormity
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
face of brass
,
flippancy
,
flout
,
flouting
,
freshness
,
gibe
,
hate
,
hatred
,
humiliation
,
ignominy
,
ignoring
,
impertinence
,
impudence
,
indignity
,
infamy
,
injury
,
insolence
,
insult
,
jeer
,
jeering
,
loathing
,
mock
,
mockery
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconsideration
,
odium
,
offense
,
opprobrium
,
outrage
,
passing by
,
pertness
,
put-down
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
renouncement
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
ridicule
,
rudeness
,
sauciness
,
scoff
,
scorn
,
scouting
,
scurrility
,
shame
,
spurning
,
stubbornness
,
taunt
,
throwing out
,
turning out
,
uncomplimentary remark
decrescendo
collapse
(music) a gradual decrease in loudness
gradually decreasing in volume
grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here"
related words >
a cappella
,
abbandono
,
accrescendo
,
adagietto
,
adagio
,
affettuoso
,
agilmente
,
agitato
,
allegretto
,
allegro
,
amabile
,
amoroso
,
andante
,
andantino
,
appassionatamente
,
appassionato
,
barely audible
,
brillante
,
capriccioso
,
catabasis
,
collapse
,
con affetto
,
con agilita
,
con agitazione
,
con amore
,
contractive
,
crash
,
crescendo
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
declining
,
decreasing
,
decreasingly
,
decrescent
,
deliquescent
,
dim
,
diminishing
,
diminishingly
,
diminuendo
,
dimness
,
distant
,
dive
,
dolce
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
drop
,
dwindling
,
ebb
,
ever less
,
faint
,
faint-voiced
,
faintness
,
fall
,
feeble
,
feebleness
,
flatness
,
forte
,
fortissimo
,
gentle
,
gentleness
,
half-heard
,
indistinct
,
indistinctness
,
lamentabile
,
languishing
,
lapse
,
larghetto
,
larghissimo
,
largo
,
legato
,
leggiero
,
less
,
less and less
,
lessening
,
low
,
lowness
,
marcando
,
morendo
,
murmured
,
on the wane
,
parlando
,
pianissimo
,
piano
,
pizzicato
,
plunge
,
prestissimo
,
presto
,
rallentando
,
reductive
,
remission
,
retreat
,
ritardando
,
ritenuto
,
scarcely heard
,
scherzando
,
scherzo
,
scherzoso
,
slowdown
,
slump
,
soft
,
soft-sounding
,
soft-voiced
,
softness
,
sordo
,
sotto voce
,
spiccato
,
staccato
,
stretto
,
subaudibility
,
subaudible
,
subdued
,
subduedness
,
subsidence
,
subsiding
,
tremolando
,
tremoloso
,
trillando
,
unclear
,
unclearness
,
wane
,
waning
,
weak
,
weak-voiced
,
weakness
,
whispered
recantation
collapse
related words >
abandonment
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
cancel
,
canceling
,
cancellation
,
cassation
,
cession
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
countermand
,
counterorder
,
crossing
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
defeasance
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
despisal
,
despising
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discounting
,
dismissal
,
disobedience
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissent
,
dumping
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
holding back
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
invalidation
,
letting go
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonconsideration
,
nonobservance
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recall
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renege
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repeal
,
repudiation
,
repulse
,
rescinding
,
rescindment
,
rescission
,
resignation
,
retention
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
reversal
,
revocation
,
revoke
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
scouting
,
setting aside
,
spurning
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
throwing out
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
turning out
,
unsaying
,
unwillingness
,
vacation
,
vacatur
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
waiver
,
waiving
,
withdrawal
,
withholding
,
write-off
,
yielding
withering
collapse
related words >
Sanforizing
,
acerb
,
acerbate
,
acerbic
,
acid
,
acidic
,
acidulent
,
acidulous
,
acrid
,
acrimonious
,
air-drying
,
anhydration
,
arrogant
,
atrophy
,
attenuation
,
baneful
,
biting
,
bitter
,
calamitous
,
cataclysmal
,
cataclysmic
,
catastrophic
,
caustic
,
clannish
,
cliquish
,
coming apart
,
consuming
,
consumption
,
consumptive
,
contemptuous
,
contumelious
,
corroding
,
corrosive
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
cutting
,
deadly
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
dehumidification
,
dehydration
,
demolishing
,
demolitionary
,
depredatory
,
desiccation
,
desolating
,
destroying
,
destructive
,
deteriorating
,
devastating
,
disastrous
,
disdainful
,
disintegrating
,
doomful
,
drainage
,
draining
,
drooping
,
drying
,
drying up
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
emaceration
,
emaciation
,
evaporation
,
exclusive
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
fatal
,
fateful
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
fratricidal
,
going to pieces
,
haughty
,
incisive
,
insolation
,
internecine
,
keen
,
languishing
,
marcescence
,
marcescent
,
mordacious
,
mordant
,
mummification
,
nihilist
,
nihilistic
,
parching
,
penetrating
,
piercing
,
pining
,
preshrinkage
,
ravaging
,
regressive
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
ruining
,
ruinous
,
scathing
,
scorching
,
scornful
,
searing
,
self-destructive
,
sharp
,
shrinkage
,
shrinking
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
sneering
,
sniffy
,
snobbish
,
snobby
,
snooty
,
snotty
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
subsiding
,
subversionary
,
subversive
,
suicidal
,
supercilious
,
tabetic
,
tart
,
thinning
,
toploftical
,
toplofty
,
trenchant
,
vandalic
,
vandalish
,
vandalistic
,
waning
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wasteful
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
worsening
senility
collapse
the state of being senile
related words >
aboriginality
,
abulia
,
advanced age
,
advanced years
,
age
,
age of retirement
,
an incurable disease
,
ancien regime
,
ancientness
,
anility
,
antiquity
,
arteriosclerotic psychosis
,
atavism
,
caducity
,
certifiability
,
childishness
,
cobwebs of antiquity
,
debility
,
decline
,
decline of life
,
declining years
,
decrepitude
,
dementia paralytica
,
dipsomania
,
dotage
,
dotardism
,
drug addiction
,
dust of ages
,
eld
,
elderliness
,
eldership
,
feebleness
,
folie du doute
,
functional psychosis
,
general paralysis
,
general paresis
,
great age
,
green old age
,
hale old age
,
hoary age
,
hoary eld
,
incapacity
,
infirm old age
,
infirmity
,
infirmity of age
,
insipidity
,
instability
,
invalidism
,
inveteracy
,
longevity
,
metabolic psychosis
,
moral insanity
,
neurosis
,
old age
,
old order
,
old style
,
oldness
,
organic psychosis
,
paralytic dementia
,
pathological drunkenness
,
pensionable age
,
presenile dementia
,
primitiveness
,
primogeniture
,
primordialism
,
primordiality
,
prison psychosis
,
psychopathia
,
psychopathia sexualis
,
psychopathic condition
,
psychopathic personality
,
psychopathy
,
psychosis
,
ricketiness
,
ripe old age
,
second childhood
,
senectitude
,
senescence
,
senile debility
,
senile dementia
,
senile psychosis
,
senile weakness
,
senilism
,
senior citizenship
,
seniority
,
sexual pathology
,
shakiness
,
situational psychosis
,
superannuation
,
syphilitic paresis
,
the downward slope
,
the golden years
,
toxic psychosis
,
unfirmness
,
unsoundness
,
unsteadiness
,
unsturdiness
,
unsubstantiality
,
vale of years
,
vapidity
,
venerableness
,
wateriness
,
white hairs
,
wishy-washiness
negation
collapse
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
the speech act of negating
a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
related words >
abnegation
,
abolishment
,
abolition
,
absence
,
annihilation
,
annulment
,
antagonism
,
argumentation
,
bucking
,
challenge
,
choking
,
choking off
,
clashing
,
conflict
,
contention
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contravention
,
contraversion
,
controversy
,
counteraction
,
counterworking
,
crosscurrent
,
crossing
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
deracination
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disconfirmation
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discrepancy
,
disharmony
,
disobedience
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disproval
,
disproving
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
elimination
,
emptiness
,
eradication
,
explosion
,
expose
,
exposure
,
extermination
,
extinction
,
extinguishment
,
extirpation
,
faction
,
gainsaying
,
head wind
,
holding back
,
impugnation
,
impugnment
,
inaccordance
,
inequality
,
invalidation
,
jarring
,
liquidation
,
nay
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negativeness
,
negativity
,
nihility
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonbeing
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonentity
,
nonexistence
,
nonobservance
,
nonoccurrence
,
nonreality
,
nonsubsistence
,
not-being
,
nothingness
,
nullification
,
nullity
,
opposing
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnancy
,
oppugnation
,
purge
,
rebutment
,
rebuttal
,
recantation
,
redargution
,
reductio ad absurdum
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
resistance
,
retention
,
rooting out
,
silencing
,
snuffing out
,
standing against
,
stifling
,
strangulation
,
suffocation
,
suppression
,
thumbs-down
,
traversal
,
turndown
,
unactuality
,
undercurrent
,
unharmoniousness
,
unreality
,
unwillingness
,
uprooting
,
vacancy
,
vacuity
,
vacuum
,
variance
,
void
,
voiding
,
withholding
flagging
collapse
a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
crumbling
,
debilitated
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
deliberate
,
deteriorating
,
disintegrating
,
draining
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dwindling
,
easy
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
enervated
,
enfeebled
,
fading
,
fagged
,
failing
,
faint
,
fainting
,
falling
,
faltering
,
fatigued
,
feeling faint
,
foot-dragging
,
footsore
,
fragmenting
,
frazzled
,
gentle
,
going to pieces
,
good and tired
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indolent
,
jaded
,
languid
,
languishing
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
marcescent
,
moderate
,
pining
,
poking
,
poky
,
ready to drop
,
regressive
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
run ragged
,
run-down
,
sagging
,
sauntering
,
seedy
,
shriveling
,
shuffling
,
sinking
,
slack
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
sluggish
,
slumping
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tentative
,
tired
,
tired-winged
,
toddling
,
toilworn
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
unrefreshed
,
unrestored
,
waddling
,
waning
,
wasting
,
way-weary
,
wayworn
,
weak
,
weakened
,
wearied
,
weariful
,
weary
,
weary-footed
,
weary-laden
,
weary-winged
,
weary-worn
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worn
,
worn-down
,
worsening
downgrade
collapse
the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends
rate lower; lower in value or esteem
related words >
abase
,
abridge
,
adown
,
aslant
,
aslantwise
,
aslope
,
at a slant
,
atilt
,
atrophy
,
belittle
,
below
,
break
,
bump
,
bust
,
cascade
,
cataract
,
chute
,
collapse
,
comedown
,
compress
,
crash
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
damp
,
dampen
,
debacle
,
debase
,
decadence
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
declined
,
declining
,
declivate
,
declivitous
,
declivity
,
declivous
,
decrease
,
decry
,
deduct
,
deflate
,
defluxion
,
degeneracy
,
degeneration
,
degrade
,
demerit
,
demote
,
denigrate
,
deplume
,
depose
,
depreciate
,
depress
,
descending
,
descension
,
descent
,
dethrone
,
devalue
,
devolution
,
diminish
,
dip
,
dipping
,
disenfranchise
,
disfranchise
,
disgrade
,
disparage
,
displace
,
displume
,
dispossess
,
down
,
down south
,
downbend
,
downcome
,
downcurve
,
downfall
,
downflow
,
downgate
,
downhill
,
downline
,
downplay
,
downpour
,
downright
,
downrush
,
downstairs
,
downstream
,
downstreet
,
downtown
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward
,
downward trend
,
downwards
,
downwith
,
drop
,
dropping
,
fall
,
falling
,
falling off
,
falling-off
,
grade
,
gradient
,
gravitation
,
hang
,
hanging
,
humble
,
inclination
,
lessen
,
lower
,
mark down
,
minimize
,
off plumb
,
on the downgrade
,
on the skids
,
on the wane
,
pare
,
play down
,
plummeting
,
pounce
,
rakingly
,
rapids
,
reduce
,
retrench
,
roll back
,
run down
,
scale down
,
shorten
,
simplify
,
slantingly
,
slantways
,
slantwise
,
slaunchways
,
slipping
,
slopeways
,
slopingly
,
step down
,
stoop
,
strip of rank
,
swoop
,
take from
,
tipsily
,
tune down
,
undervalue
,
upgrade
,
uphill
,
waning
,
waterfall
,
write down
,
write off
plunging
collapse
related words >
Brownian movement
,
abrupt
,
abysmal
,
abyssal
,
advance
,
angular motion
,
ascending
,
ascent
,
axial
,
axial motion
,
back
,
back-flowing
,
backflowing
,
backing
,
backward
,
backward motion
,
bluff
,
bold
,
bottomless
,
breakneck
,
career
,
cavernous
,
climbing
,
collapsing
,
course
,
current
,
deciduous
,
declining
,
declivitous
,
decurrent
,
deep as hell
,
deep-sea diving
,
descendant
,
descending
,
descent
,
diving
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
down-trending
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
downward motion
,
drift
,
driftage
,
drifting
,
drooping
,
dropping
,
ebbing
,
falling
,
fancy diving
,
fathomless
,
flight
,
flow
,
flowing
,
fluent
,
flux
,
flying
,
forward motion
,
gaping
,
going
,
gyrational
,
gyratory
,
headlong
,
high diving
,
mounting
,
oblique motion
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
ongoing
,
onrush
,
orthodiagonal
,
orthogonal
,
passage
,
passing
,
pearl diving
,
perpendicular
,
plumb
,
plumbless
,
plummeting
,
precipitous
,
progress
,
progressive
,
radial motion
,
random motion
,
rapid
,
reflowing
,
refluence
,
refluent
,
reflux
,
regression
,
regressive
,
retrogression
,
retrogressive
,
right-angle
,
right-angled
,
right-angular
,
rising
,
rotary
,
rotational
,
rotatory
,
run
,
running
,
rush
,
rushing
,
sagging
,
set
,
setting
,
sharp
,
sheer
,
sideward
,
sideward motion
,
sinking
,
skin diving
,
sky diving
,
soaring
,
soundless
,
steep
,
sternway
,
straight-up
,
straight-up-and-down
,
stream
,
streaming
,
submerging
,
subsiding
,
tottering
,
traject
,
trajet
,
trend
,
tumbledown
,
unfathomable
,
unfathomed
,
unsounded
,
up-and-down
,
up-trending
,
upward
,
upward motion
,
vertical
,
without bottom
,
yawning
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