Related Words:
- worsen
collapse - grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
- make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" related words >
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- agent provocateur,
- aggravate,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- amplify,
- annoy,
- augment,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- better,
- blast,
- blight,
- bottom out,
- break,
- break up,
- build up,
- change,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- come about,
- come around,
- come round,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- damage,
- debase,
- decline,
- deepen,
- deform,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denature,
- descend,
- deteriorate,
- deviate,
- dilapidate,
- disimprove,
- disintegrate,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- embitter,
- endamage,
- enhance,
- enlarge,
- exacerbate,
- exasperate,
- fall back,
- fit,
- flop,
- foul,
- get worse,
- grow worse,
- harm,
- haul around,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hot up,
- humble,
- hurt,
- impair,
- improve,
- increase,
- injure,
- intensify,
- irritate,
- jibe,
- let down,
- lower,
- magnify,
- make acute,
- make worse,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- overthrow,
- provoke,
- put back,
- qualify,
- re-create,
- realign,
- rebuild,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- refit,
- reform,
- regress,
- relapse,
- remake,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restructure,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- revamp,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- rot,
- sharpen,
- shift,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- sicken,
- sink,
- slacken,
- slip back,
- sour,
- subvert,
- swerve,
- tack,
- taint,
- take a turn,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn upside down,
- undergo a change,
- vary,
- veer,
- warp,
- weaken,
- work a change
- accommodate,
- acculturate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- advance,
- air,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- better,
- boost,
- bottom out,
- break,
- break up,
- bring forward,
- change,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- civilize,
- come about,
- come along,
- come around,
- come on,
- come round,
- convert,
- deform,
- degenerate,
- denature,
- descant,
- deteriorate,
- develop,
- deviate,
- diapason,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- edify,
- educate,
- elevate,
- emend,
- enhance,
- enlighten,
- enrich,
- fatten,
- favor,
- fit,
- flop,
- forward,
- foster,
- gain,
- gain ground,
- get ahead,
- get along,
- go ahead,
- go forward,
- go straight,
- graduate,
- grow better,
- haul around,
- improve,
- improve upon,
- jibe,
- lard,
- lay,
- lift,
- look up,
- make an improvement,
- make headway,
- make progress,
- make strides,
- measure,
- melodia,
- mend,
- mitigate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- nurture,
- overthrow,
- perk up,
- pick up,
- progress,
- promote,
- qualify,
- raise,
- re-create,
- realign,
- rebuild,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- refine upon,
- refit,
- reform,
- remake,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restructure,
- revamp,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- shape up,
- shift,
- shift the scene,
- show improvement,
- shuffle the cards,
- skyrocket,
- socialize,
- straighten out,
- strain,
- subvert,
- swerve,
- tack,
- take a turn,
- take off,
- transfigure,
- transform,
- tune,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn upside down,
- undergo a change,
- upgrade,
- uplift,
- vary,
- veer,
- warble,
- warp,
- work a change,
- worsen
- bypass
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- a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" related words >
- Autobahn,
- US highway,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- ambages,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- avoid,
- back door,
- back road,
- back stairs,
- back street,
- back way,
- belt highway,
- bestride,
- blind alley,
- boulevard,
- burke,
- by-lane,
- bypath,
- byroad,
- bystreet,
- byway,
- camino real,
- carriageway,
- causeway,
- causey,
- chaussee,
- circuit,
- circumbendibus,
- circumferential,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- close,
- corduroy road,
- county road,
- court,
- crescent,
- cross,
- cul-de-sac,
- dead-end street,
- detour,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- digress,
- digression,
- dike,
- dirt road,
- drive,
- driveway,
- evade,
- excursion,
- expressway,
- ford,
- freeway,
- get ahead of,
- get round,
- give the go-by,
- go across,
- go around,
- go by,
- go round,
- go round about,
- gravel road,
- highroad,
- highway,
- highways and byways,
- ignore,
- interstate highway,
- lane,
- local road,
- main drag,
- main road,
- make a detour,
- mews,
- motorway,
- overstride,
- parkway,
- pass,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- pave,
- paved road,
- pike,
- place,
- plank road,
- primary highway,
- private road,
- right-of-way,
- ring road,
- road,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- route nationale,
- row,
- royal road,
- secondary road,
- shoot ahead of,
- side door,
- side road,
- side street,
- sidestep,
- skirt,
- speedway,
- state highway,
- step over,
- straddle,
- street,
- superhighway,
- terrace,
- thoroughfare,
- through street,
- thruway,
- toll road,
- township road,
- turnpike,
- wynd
- go around
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- become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
- be sufficient; "There's not enough to go around" related words >
- advance,
- answer,
- ascend,
- avail,
- back,
- back up,
- be equal to,
- bear,
- budge,
- bypass,
- change,
- change place,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circuiteer,
- circulate,
- circumambulate,
- circummigrate,
- circumnavigate,
- circumrotate,
- circumvent,
- circumvolute,
- climb,
- close,
- close the circle,
- come full circle,
- compass,
- compass about,
- corner,
- crank,
- cycle,
- descend,
- describe a circle,
- detour,
- deviate,
- digress,
- do,
- do it,
- double a point,
- ebb,
- embay,
- embosom,
- embrace,
- encircle,
- enclasp,
- enclose,
- encompass,
- enfold,
- envelop,
- environ,
- enwrap,
- fill the bill,
- flank,
- flow,
- fulfill,
- get by,
- get over,
- girdle,
- girdle the globe,
- go,
- go about,
- go round,
- go round about,
- go sideways,
- go the round,
- gyrate,
- gyre,
- hack it,
- hold,
- invest,
- involve,
- just do,
- lap,
- make a circuit,
- make a detour,
- make the grade,
- meet,
- meet requirements,
- mount,
- move,
- move over,
- orbit,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- pirouette,
- pivot,
- plunge,
- progress,
- qualify,
- reach,
- regress,
- retrogress,
- revolve,
- rise,
- rotate,
- round,
- round a bend,
- round a corner,
- round a point,
- run,
- satisfy,
- screw,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- shift,
- sink,
- skirt,
- soar,
- spin,
- spiral,
- stand,
- stand up,
- stir,
- stream,
- stretch,
- subside,
- suffice,
- surround,
- swing,
- swivel,
- take it,
- travel,
- turn,
- turn a corner,
- turn a pirouette,
- turn around,
- turn round,
- twist,
- wamble,
- wane,
- wheel,
- whirl,
- wind,
- work,
- wrap
- modulate
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- vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
- adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
- change the key of, in music; "modulate the melody" related words >
- abate,
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- balance,
- bank the fire,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- better,
- blunt,
- bottom out,
- box in,
- break,
- break up,
- change,
- chasten,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- circumscribe,
- come about,
- come around,
- come round,
- condition,
- constrain,
- control,
- convert,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deform,
- degenerate,
- denature,
- deteriorate,
- deviate,
- diminish,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- downplay,
- dull,
- extenuate,
- fit,
- flop,
- haul around,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- improve,
- inflect,
- intonate,
- jibe,
- keep within bounds,
- lay,
- leaven,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- limit,
- lower,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- mutate,
- narrow,
- obtund,
- overthrow,
- palliate,
- play down,
- qualify,
- re-create,
- realign,
- rebuild,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- refit,
- reform,
- regulate,
- regulate by,
- remake,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restructure,
- revamp,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- season,
- set,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- shift,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- stifle,
- subdue,
- subvert,
- suppress,
- swerve,
- tack,
- take a turn,
- tame,
- temper,
- tone down,
- tune,
- tune down,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn upside down,
- undergo a change,
- underplay,
- vary,
- veer,
- warp,
- weaken,
- work a change,
- worsen
- illegal,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- improper,
- improved,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- indirect,
- infamous,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- lesbian,
- maggoty,
- mannish,
- maverick,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- metamorphosed,
- metastasized,
- misfit,
- modified,
- mutant,
- nonconformable,
- nonconforming,
- nonconformist,
- nonjuror,
- nonobservant,
- not done,
- not right,
- not the thing,
- not true,
- nutty,
- oblique,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the track,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- off-key,
- original,
- out,
- out-of-line,
- out-of-the-way,
- peccant,
- peculiar,
- perverse,
- pervert,
- perverted,
- planetary,
- preternatural,
- qualified,
- queer,
- quirky,
- rambling,
- rebuilt,
- recalcitrant,
- recusant,
- reformed,
- refractory,
- renewed,
- revived,
- revolutionary,
- roving,
- sacrilegious,
- sapphic,
- scandalous,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- self-contradictory,
- serpentine,
- sex criminal,
- sex fiend,
- sexual deviant,
- sexual deviate,
- sexual pervert,
- sexual psychopath,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shifting,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinful,
- singular,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- snaky,
- strange,
- stray,
- straying,
- subversive,
- swerving,
- swinger,
- terrible,
- transformed,
- translated,
- transmuted,
- transvestite,
- tribadistic,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- ugly duckling,
- unadaptable,
- unadjustable,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- unconformist,
- unconventional,
- undirected,
- undue,
- unfactual,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unlawful,
- unmitigated,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unregular,
- unrepresentative,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unsubmissive,
- unsuitable,
- untrue,
- untypical,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- whimsical,
- wicked,
- wide,
- winding,
- worse,
- wrong,
- wrongful,
- yippie,
- zigzag
- peculiar
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- markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- another,
- appropriate,
- appropriate to,
- arbitrary,
- atypical,
- bizarre,
- categorical,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- classificational,
- classificatory,
- connotative,
- contrastive,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- curious,
- defining,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotative,
- designative,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviative,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- different,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinct,
- distinctive,
- distinguished,
- distinguishing,
- divergent,
- divisional,
- divisionary,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- else,
- emblematic,
- erratic,
- evidential,
- exceptional,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extraordinary,
- fey,
- figural,
- figurative,
- flaky,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicative,
- in character,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- intrinsic,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- maggoty,
- marked,
- meaningful,
- metaphorical,
- naming,
- native to,
- natural to,
- not that sort,
- not the same,
- not the type,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- of a sort,
- of another sort,
- of sorts,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- ordinal,
- other,
- other than,
- otherwise,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- outlandish,
- particular,
- passing strange,
- pathognomonic,
- personal,
- personalizing,
- private,
- proper,
- quaint,
- queer,
- quintessential,
- quirky,
- rare,
- representative,
- rum,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- separative,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- single,
- singular,
- sort,
- special,
- specific,
- strange,
- subdivisional,
- suggestive,
- sui generis,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- taxonomic,
- true to form,
- twisted,
- typal,
- typical,
- uncommon,
- unconventional,
- uncustomary,
- unearthly,
- unique,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unusual,
- wacky,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wondrous strange
- skew
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- having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"
- turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- angle,
- angle off,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- asymmetric,
- awry,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bent,
- bias,
- branching off,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- circuitousness,
- cockeyed,
- corner,
- crook,
- crooked,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflect,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diffract,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- digression,
- dip,
- disbalance,
- discursion,
- disequilibrate,
- disparate,
- disperse,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- distort,
- distorted,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- edge,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- go crabwise,
- go sideways,
- goggle,
- hairpin,
- ill-matched,
- ill-sorted,
- inadequate,
- indirection,
- inflective,
- insufficient,
- irregular,
- lateral,
- lateralize,
- look asquint,
- lurch,
- make leeway,
- mismatched,
- oblique,
- obliquity,
- odd,
- out of proportion,
- overbalance,
- pererration,
- pull,
- rambling,
- refract,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- scatter,
- scattered,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- sideslip,
- sidestep,
- sidle,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- skid,
- slant,
- slaunchways,
- slide,
- slip,
- slue,
- squinch,
- squint,
- squint the eye,
- squinting,
- straying,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- throw off balance,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unbalance,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- upset,
- variation,
- veer,
- wamper-jawed,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wry,
- yaw,
- yaw-ways,
- zigzag
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