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Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy
- nosy
collapse - offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day" related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- eavesdropping,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- spying
- fishing
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- the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
- the occupation of catching fish for a living related words >
- angling,
- casting,
- cynegetic,
- delving,
- digging,
- fishery,
- fly fishing,
- following,
- guddling,
- halieutic,
- harpooning,
- hunting,
- in full cry,
- in hot pursuit,
- in pursuit,
- in search of,
- jigging,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- piscation,
- piscatorial,
- piscatory,
- poking,
- probing,
- prying,
- pursuant,
- pursuing,
- questing,
- rod and reel,
- searching,
- seeking,
- still-fishing,
- trawling,
- trolling,
- whaling
- after,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- awaiting,
- certain,
- confident,
- delving,
- digging,
- eager,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fishing,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- gaping,
- hopeful,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in search of,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- nosy,
- not surprised,
- optimistic,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- prepared,
- probing,
- prying,
- ready,
- sanguine,
- searching,
- sure,
- unsurprised,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- watching for
- Socratic method,
- asking,
- bringing into question,
- catechetical method,
- catechization,
- catechizing,
- challenge,
- deepening,
- delving,
- depression,
- digging,
- dispute,
- drilling,
- examination,
- excavation,
- fishing,
- in search of,
- inquest,
- inquiring,
- inquisition,
- interpellation,
- interrogation,
- investigation,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- lowering,
- mining,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- probe,
- prying,
- pumping,
- querying,
- quest,
- questioning,
- quiz,
- quizzing,
- research,
- searching,
- seeking,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- tunneling
- deepening
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- a process of becoming deeper and more profound related words >
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- aggravation,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- augmentation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- contentiousness,
- deliberate aggravation,
- depression,
- deterioration,
- digging,
- drilling,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- exasperation,
- excavation,
- explosion,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- increase,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- irritation,
- lowering,
- magnification,
- mining,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- probing,
- provocation,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- sharpening,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- souring,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- tightening,
- tunneling,
- worsening
- searching
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- exploring thoroughly
- having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism" related words >
- chase,
- cynegetic,
- delving,
- digging,
- dogging,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- exploration,
- fishing,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- forage,
- frisk,
- halieutic,
- house-search,
- hue and cry,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- in full cry,
- in hot pursuit,
- in pursuit,
- in search of,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- perquisition,
- piscatorial,
- piscatory,
- poking,
- posse,
- probe,
- probing,
- prosecution,
- prying,
- pursuance,
- pursuant,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- questing,
- ransacking,
- rummage,
- search,
- search party,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- seeking,
- shadowing,
- stalk,
- stalking,
- still hunt,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- turning over
- ambling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- delving,
- digging,
- easy,
- faltering,
- fishing,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- in search of,
- indolent,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poky,
- probing,
- prying,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- searching,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- 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,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- waddling
- mining
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- the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment related words >
- architecture,
- assembly,
- avulsion,
- building,
- casting,
- coal mining,
- composition,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- cutting out,
- deepening,
- depression,
- deracination,
- devising,
- digging,
- disentanglement,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- elaboration,
- engraving,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- erection,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excavation,
- excision,
- expression,
- exsection,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- gold fever,
- gold mining,
- gold rush,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- indentation,
- lowering,
- machining,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- molding,
- placer claim,
- placer mining,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- pressing out,
- probing,
- processing,
- producing,
- pulling,
- quarrying,
- raising,
- refining,
- removal,
- ripping out,
- shaping,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- smelting,
- squeezing out,
- strip mining,
- tunneling,
- unrooting,
- uprooting,
- withdrawal,
- workmanship,
- wresting out
- indentation
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- the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) related words >
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- blaze,
- boss,
- bump,
- cleft,
- colophon,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- crena,
- cut,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- dent,
- depression,
- digging,
- dimple,
- dint,
- embossment,
- engraving,
- excavation,
- excrescence,
- feel,
- fingerprint,
- finish,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footstep,
- fossil footprint,
- furrow,
- gash,
- gouge,
- grain,
- granular texture,
- hack,
- hollow,
- honeycomb,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- incision,
- indent,
- indention,
- indenture,
- jag,
- jog,
- joggle,
- kerf,
- knub,
- lump,
- mark,
- mining,
- nap,
- nick,
- nock,
- notch,
- nub,
- pad,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- pile,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- print,
- protuberance,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- score,
- scotch,
- seal,
- shag,
- sigil,
- signet,
- stamp,
- step,
- structure,
- stud,
- sunken part,
- surface,
- surface texture,
- texture,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- vestige,
- wale,
- weave,
- woof
- research
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- systematic investigation to establish facts
- inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
- attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner; "The student researched the history of that word" related words >
- amassing evidence,
- analysis,
- assay,
- beat the bushes,
- bring to test,
- burrow,
- check out,
- close inquiry,
- confirm,
- cut and try,
- delve,
- delve into,
- delving,
- department of investigation,
- detection,
- detective work,
- dig,
- dig into,
- digging,
- enquiry,
- essay,
- examination,
- examine,
- exhaustive study,
- experiment,
- experimentation,
- exploration,
- explore,
- fact-finding,
- forage,
- frisk,
- give a try,
- give a tryout,
- go through,
- have a go,
- hearing,
- hunt,
- indagation,
- inquest,
- inquire into,
- inquiry,
- inquisition,
- inspect,
- inspection,
- investigate,
- investigation,
- investigative bureau,
- legislative investigation,
- legwork,
- look around,
- look round,
- look through,
- nose around,
- perscrutation,
- play around with,
- poke,
- poke around,
- practice upon,
- probe,
- probing,
- prove,
- pry,
- put to trial,
- quest,
- road-test,
- root,
- run a sample,
- sample,
- scrutinize,
- scrutiny,
- search,
- search through,
- shake down,
- sifting,
- sleuthing,
- smell around,
- study,
- substantiate,
- taste,
- test,
- try,
- try it on,
- try out,
- validate,
- verify,
- witch-hunt
- excavation
collapse
- the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
- a hole in the ground made by excavating related words >
- abysm,
- abyss,
- arroyo,
- avulsion,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- bringing to light,
- burrow,
- canyon,
- casual discovery,
- catching,
- cavity,
- chance discovery,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cutting out,
- cwm,
- deepening,
- defile,
- dell,
- depression,
- deracination,
- detection,
- determination,
- determining,
- dig,
- digging,
- diggings,
- dike,
- disclosure,
- discovery,
- disentanglement,
- distinguishment,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- engraving,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- espial,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excision,
- exhumation,
- exposure,
- expression,
- exsection,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fault,
- find,
- finding,
- finding out,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- indentation,
- invention,
- joint,
- kloof,
- leak,
- locating,
- location,
- lowering,
- lucky strike,
- mine,
- mining,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- pass,
- passage,
- pit,
- pressing out,
- probing,
- pulling,
- quarry,
- quarrying,
- ravine,
- recognition,
- rediscovery,
- removal,
- rent,
- revelation,
- rift,
- rime,
- ripping out,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- serendipity,
- shaft,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- slit,
- slot,
- split,
- spotting,
- squeezing out,
- strike,
- treasure trove,
- trench,
- trough,
- trouvaille,
- trove,
- tunnel,
- tunneling,
- uncovering,
- unearthing,
- unrooting,
- uprooting,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- well,
- withdrawal,
- workings,
- wresting out
- sinking
collapse
- a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength); "after several hours of sinking an unexpected rally rescued the market"; "he could not control the sinking of his legs"
- a descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"
- a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension; "with a sinking heart"; "a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach" related words >
- Brownian movement,
- advance,
- aging,
- angular motion,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial,
- axial motion,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward,
- backward motion,
- bad,
- baptism,
- burial,
- career,
- climbing,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- concavity,
- course,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- current,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decurrent,
- deepening,
- degenerate,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- depressed,
- depression,
- descendant,
- descending,
- descent,
- desolate,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- deteriorating,
- detrusion,
- digging,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dip,
- dipping,
- disintegrating,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- done for,
- doting,
- dousing,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- down-trending,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- downward motion,
- draining,
- drift,
- driftage,
- drifting,
- drilling,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- engulfment,
- excavation,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- flux,
- flying,
- forlorn,
- forward motion,
- fragmenting,
- fretful,
- getting on,
- given up,
- going,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- hauling down,
- heavy-laden,
- hollowness,
- hopeless,
- immergence,
- immersion,
- in articulo mortis,
- in extremis,
- incapable of life,
- inundation,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- languishing,
- low,
- lowering,
- marcescent,
- mining,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- mounting,
- mournful,
- near death,
- nervous,
- nonviable,
- oblique motion,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- passage,
- passing,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- probing,
- progress,
- progressive,
- queasy,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- receding,
- reduction,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- refluent,
- reflux,
- regression,
- regressive,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogression,
- retrogressive,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- run,
- running,
- rush,
- rushing,
- sagging,
- senescent,
- set,
- setting,
- shaky,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sideward,
- sideward motion,
- sinkage,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- slumping,
- soaring,
- souse,
- sousing,
- sternway,
- stream,
- streaming,
- stricken,
- submergence,
- submerging,
- submersion,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tense,
- terminal,
- thrusting under,
- tottering,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- tumbledown,
- tunneling,
- uneasy,
- unquiet,
- up-trending,
- upward,
- upward motion,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- woeful,
- worsening
- lowering
collapse
- the act of causing something to move to a lower level
- the act of causing to become less related words >
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- Cimmerian,
- Stygian,
- abatement,
- about to be,
- abridgment,
- abusive,
- alleviation,
- already in sight,
- apocalyptic,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- attenuation,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- beetle,
- beetle-browed,
- beetling,
- black,
- black-browed,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- break,
- brewing,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- cadence,
- catenary,
- cheapening,
- close,
- close at hand,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- coming,
- comminatory,
- concavity,
- contraction,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dark,
- dark and gloomy,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decline,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decurrence,
- deduction,
- deepening,
- deflation,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- denunciatory,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- descent,
- detrusion,
- devaluation,
- digging,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dire,
- dive,
- doomful,
- dour,
- dreary,
- drilling,
- droop,
- ducking,
- dull,
- dumpish,
- dying,
- dying off,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- excavation,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- fateful,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- forthcoming,
- frowning,
- funereal,
- future,
- gathering,
- gloom,
- gloomful,
- gloominess,
- glooming,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- going to happen,
- grim,
- grum,
- hauling down,
- heavy,
- hectoring,
- hollowness,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- inauspicious,
- incumbent,
- instant,
- intimidating,
- jutting,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- letup,
- looming,
- lower,
- lurking,
- markdown,
- melancholy,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- miniaturization,
- mining,
- mitigation,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mumpish,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- nose dive,
- nubilous,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- on the horizon,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- overhanging,
- overhung,
- pending,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- portending,
- portentous,
- preparing,
- price cut,
- price fall,
- price reduction,
- probing,
- projecting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- sag,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- scowling,
- simplicity,
- sinister,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- slash,
- slump,
- somber,
- somberness,
- sombrous,
- sombrousness,
- stormy,
- submergence,
- subsidence,
- subtraction,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- superincumbent,
- surly,
- swag,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- threatful,
- thrusting under,
- to come,
- tunneling,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- upcoming,
- waiting,
- weakening
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