Related Words:
- modulation
collapse - the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified related words >
- AM,
- FM,
- PM,
- abatement,
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplitude modulation,
- apostasy,
- arrangement,
- assuagement,
- betterment,
- blunting,
- break,
- calming,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- damping,
- deadening,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- demulsion,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- diminution,
- discontinuity,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- double sideband,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- falling-off,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- harmonization,
- hushing,
- improvement,
- inflection,
- instrumentation,
- intonation,
- intonation pattern,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- mollification,
- orchestration,
- overthrow,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- phrasing,
- pitch,
- pitch accent,
- preparation,
- qualification,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reduction,
- reform,
- reformation,
- relaxation,
- remaking,
- remission,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- resolution,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- setting,
- shift,
- side frequency,
- sideband,
- slackening,
- softening,
- solution,
- soothing,
- speech tune,
- subduement,
- sudden change,
- suprasegmental,
- suspension,
- switch,
- tempering,
- tone,
- tone painting,
- total change,
- tranquilization,
- transcription,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- worsening
- curtailment
collapse
- the temporal property of being cut short related words >
- abbreviation,
- abridgment,
- abstract,
- apocope,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- attrition,
- bereavement,
- bottleneck,
- cervix,
- check,
- cheeseparing,
- circumscription,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- cut,
- cutback,
- cutting,
- deceleration,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- deprivation,
- deprivement,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disburdening,
- disburdenment,
- disentitlement,
- disparagement,
- divestment,
- economization,
- economizing,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- epitome,
- extraction,
- foreshortening,
- hindrance,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- impairment,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- legal restraint,
- lessening,
- low growth rate,
- monopoly,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- precis,
- privation,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- puckering,
- pullback,
- pursing,
- rationing,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- reduction,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- rein,
- relieving,
- remission,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- retardation,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rollback,
- saving,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- self-control,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- skimping,
- slowdown,
- slowing down,
- solidification,
- sparing,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- striction,
- stricture,
- summary,
- summation,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- systole,
- tariff wall,
- telescoping,
- thought control,
- truncation,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
- remission
collapse
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- amnesty,
- assuagement,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- break,
- caesura,
- calming,
- catabasis,
- cease-fire,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- compurgation,
- crash,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescendo,
- deliverance,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- disparagement,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- easing,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- extraction,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- immunity,
- impairment,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lull,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pause,
- plunge,
- purgation,
- purging,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- recess,
- redemption,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- release,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- shortening,
- shrift,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- softening,
- soothing,
- sparing,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- truncation,
- vacation,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- wane
- abatement,
- acceptance,
- accommodatingness,
- agreeableness,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- assuagement,
- attentiveness,
- benevolence,
- blunting,
- calming,
- carelessness,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- clemency,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- complaisance,
- concern,
- condolence,
- condonation,
- considerateness,
- consideration,
- damping,
- deadening,
- delicacy,
- demulsion,
- diminution,
- downiness,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easiness,
- easing,
- easygoingness,
- endurance,
- falling-off,
- favor,
- featheriness,
- feeling,
- flossiness,
- fluffiness,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- forgiveness,
- fortitude,
- generousness,
- gentleness,
- grace,
- heedfulness,
- helpfulness,
- humanity,
- hushing,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- indifference,
- indulgence,
- insolidity,
- kindness,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- lenience,
- lenity,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- magnanimity,
- mellowness,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mindfulness,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- morbidezza,
- negligence,
- nonresistiveness,
- nonrigidity,
- obligingness,
- overindulgence,
- overpermissiveness,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- pity,
- plushiness,
- pulpiness,
- quarter,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- regard,
- regardfulness,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- relief,
- remission,
- remissness,
- reprieve,
- ruth,
- satininess,
- self-control,
- self-pity,
- silkiness,
- slackening,
- slackness,
- sloppiness,
- softening,
- softness,
- solicitousness,
- solicitude,
- soothing,
- sponginess,
- stoicism,
- subduement,
- sufferance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- sympathy,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tempering,
- tenderness,
- thought,
- thoughtfulness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- tranquilization,
- unrestraint,
- unsolidity,
- velvetiness,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out,
- weakness
- attrition
collapse
- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation related words >
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- absorption,
- apologies,
- assimilation,
- atomization,
- attenuation,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- beating,
- bitterness,
- blunting,
- brecciation,
- buffing,
- burning up,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- corrosion,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- deliquescence,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- detrition,
- devitalization,
- digestion,
- dilution,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disintegration,
- disparagement,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- drain,
- dressing,
- dulling,
- eating up,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fatigue,
- filing,
- finishing,
- fragmentation,
- fretting,
- galling,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grief,
- grinding,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- inanition,
- ingestion,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- levigation,
- limation,
- loss,
- mashing,
- mitigation,
- penance,
- penitently,
- polishing,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- rasping,
- reduction,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rubbing away,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- shining,
- shortening,
- shredding,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- smashing,
- smoothing,
- softening,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- spending,
- squandering,
- thinning,
- trituration,
- truncation,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- weakening,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness
- FCC,
- FM broadcasting,
- Federal Communications Commission,
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- alleviation,
- atmospherics,
- attenuation,
- be annihilated,
- be consumed,
- be destroyed,
- be gone,
- be no more,
- be wiped out,
- blackout,
- blanch,
- blaring,
- blasting,
- bleach,
- bleach out,
- blind spot,
- blocking,
- broadcasting,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- change color,
- contraction,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- dampening,
- damping,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- dematerialization,
- dematerialize,
- depart,
- departure,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- disappear,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- dispersion,
- dissipate,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- dissolving,
- do a fade-out,
- drift,
- dwindle,
- dying,
- dying off,
- eclipse,
- elimination,
- erasure,
- erode,
- evanesce,
- evanescence,
- evaporate,
- evaporation,
- exit,
- expire,
- extenuation,
- extinction,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- flee,
- fly,
- go,
- go away,
- going,
- grow pale,
- hide,
- interference,
- languishment,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- lessening,
- letup,
- lose color,
- lowering,
- melt,
- melt away,
- melting,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- mixing,
- noise,
- occultation,
- pale,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- passing,
- perish,
- peter out,
- radiobroadcasting,
- reception,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- retire from sight,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- simplicity,
- sink,
- sink away,
- standard broadcasting,
- static,
- subtraction,
- suffer an eclipse,
- tone control,
- transmission,
- turn pale,
- turn white,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- vestigial transmission,
- volume control,
- wan,
- waste,
- waste away,
- weakening,
- wear away,
- whiten,
- wipe
- letup
collapse
- a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- abridgment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- arrest,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- blunting,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- caesura,
- calming,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- check,
- cigarette break,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- contraction,
- dampening,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- delay,
- demulsion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- detention,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- downtime,
- drag,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- easing,
- enforced respite,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- fissure,
- flagging,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lull,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- minus acceleration,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- obstruction,
- off-time,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- recess,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- setback,
- simplicity,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- softening,
- soothing,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subtraction,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- tempering,
- time off,
- time out,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- vacation,
- weakening
- tempering
collapse
- moderating by making more temperate related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- ability,
- aging,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- arteriosclerosis,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- atherosclerosis,
- background,
- blaseness,
- blunting,
- calcification,
- callusing,
- calming,
- capability,
- case hardening,
- chastening,
- chisel temper,
- competence,
- competency,
- concretion,
- condition,
- cornification,
- crystallization,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dash,
- deadening,
- demulsion,
- development,
- die temper,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- experience,
- falling-off,
- firming,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- fortification,
- fossilization,
- granulation,
- hardening,
- hardness scale,
- heat treating,
- hint,
- hornification,
- hushing,
- indenter,
- induration,
- infusion,
- inkling,
- intimation,
- invigoration,
- lapidification,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- lithification,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mastery,
- maturation,
- maturescence,
- maturity,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- ossification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- past experience,
- petrifaction,
- petrification,
- practical knowledge,
- practice,
- precipitation hardening,
- preparedness,
- proficiency,
- qualification,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- razor temper,
- readiness,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- refreshment,
- reinforcement,
- reinvigoration,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- remission,
- restrengthening,
- revivification,
- ripeness,
- ripening,
- sagacity,
- sauce,
- saw file temper,
- sclerosis,
- seasoning,
- senescence,
- set temper,
- setting,
- shade,
- slackening,
- smack,
- softening,
- solidification,
- soothing,
- sophistication,
- soupcon,
- spice,
- spindle temper,
- sprinkling,
- steeling,
- stiffening,
- strengthening,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- suggestion,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- suitedness,
- suspicion,
- taint,
- temper,
- thought,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tool temper,
- touch,
- toughening,
- trace,
- tranquilization,
- trim,
- vestige,
- vitrifaction,
- vitrification,
- worldly wisdom
- extraction
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- the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
- the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means related words >
- affiliation,
- ancestry,
- apparentation,
- architecture,
- assembly,
- attraction,
- attrition,
- birth,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- bolting,
- branch,
- breed,
- building,
- casting,
- clarification,
- colature,
- common ancestry,
- composition,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- consanguinity,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decoction,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- deracination,
- derivation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- destructive distillation,
- detraction,
- devising,
- diminution,
- dip,
- direct line,
- disparagement,
- distaff side,
- distillate,
- distillation,
- draft,
- drawing,
- drayage,
- edulcoration,
- elaboration,
- elixir,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- eradication,
- erection,
- essence,
- essentialization,
- excerpt,
- excerption,
- extirpation,
- extract,
- extrication,
- fabrication,
- family,
- fashioning,
- female line,
- filiation,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- heaving,
- house,
- impairment,
- infusion,
- leaching,
- lessening,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- lixiviation,
- machining,
- making,
- male line,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- origin,
- parentage,
- passage,
- pedigree,
- percolation,
- phylum,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- producing,
- pull,
- pulling,
- pulling power,
- purification,
- quintessence,
- race,
- raising,
- reduction,
- refinement,
- refining,
- remission,
- removal,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- riddling,
- screening,
- seed,
- selected passage,
- selection,
- separation,
- sept,
- shaping,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- side,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- smelting,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- spirit,
- spiritualization,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- straining,
- sublimation,
- succession,
- sword side,
- towage,
- towing,
- traction,
- tractive power,
- truncation,
- tug-of-war,
- tugging,
- uprooting,
- winnowing,
- withdrawal,
- workmanship
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