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Related Words:
chew the fat
collapse
talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
related words >
bandy words
,
chew the rag
,
chin
,
colloque
,
colloquize
,
commerce with
,
commune with
,
communicate
,
communicate with
,
confab
,
confabulate
,
converse
,
converse with
,
discourse with
,
shoot the breeze
,
speak with
,
take counsel with
,
talk together
,
visit with
blow off
collapse
come off due to an explosion or other strong force
related words >
attenuate
,
beef
,
bellyache
,
bitch
,
bleat
,
blow
,
blowhard
,
cast forth
,
clear away
,
crab
,
dilute
,
dispel
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
drive away
,
evaporate
,
fuss
,
shoot the shit
,
squawk
,
talk big
,
thin
,
thin out
,
volatilize
,
yammer
,
yawp
instigation
collapse
related words >
agitation
,
arousal
,
catalyst
,
exasperation
,
excitation
,
excitement
,
firing
,
fomentation
,
goad
,
impetus
,
impulse
,
incentive
,
incitation
,
incitement
,
inflammation
,
irritation
,
pep rally
,
pep talk
,
provocation
,
rabble-rousing
,
spur
,
stimulation
,
stirring
,
stirring-up
mudslinging
collapse
related words >
attack
,
blackening
,
character assassination
,
defamation
,
defamation of character
,
defilement
,
denigration
,
dirty politics
,
last-minute lie
,
malicious defamation
,
muckraking
,
mudslinging campaign
,
name-calling
,
political canard
,
revilement
,
roorback
,
smear
,
smear campaign
,
smear word
,
vilification
,
whispering campaign
muckraking
collapse
the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
related words >
attack
,
blackening
,
character assassination
,
defamation
,
defamation of character
,
defilement
,
denigration
,
dirty politics
,
last-minute lie
,
malicious defamation
,
mudslinging
,
mudslinging campaign
,
name-calling
,
political canard
,
revilement
,
roorback
,
smear
,
smear campaign
,
smear word
,
vilification
,
whispering campaign
drudgery
collapse
hard monotonous routine work
related words >
chore
,
dirty work
,
donkeywork
,
employment
,
fag
,
fatigue
,
grind
,
handiwork
,
handwork
,
industry
,
labor
,
lick
,
lick of work
,
manual labor
,
moil
,
plugging
,
rat race
,
scut work
,
slavery
,
slog
,
slogging
,
spadework
,
stroke
,
stroke of work
,
sweat
,
task
,
tiresome work
,
toil
,
travail
,
treadmill
,
work
intercommunicate
collapse
be interconnected, afford passage; "These rooms intercommunicate"
related words >
adhere
,
be in connection
,
be in contact
,
clinch
,
cohere
,
come together
,
commerce with
,
commune with
,
communicate
,
connect
,
converge
,
converse
,
deal with
,
embrace
,
grow together
,
hang together
,
have dealings with
,
have intercourse
,
have truck with
,
hold communication
,
hold together
,
interchange
,
join
,
knit
,
meet
,
merge
,
speak
,
talk
,
traffic with
,
unite
muck
collapse
remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
related words >
amble
,
ammonia
,
begrime
,
bemire
,
bemud
,
besmoke
,
bilge
,
bitch up
,
blow
,
blunder
,
bobble
,
bollix
,
botch
,
bugger up
,
bungle
,
carrion
,
castor-bean meal
,
clay
,
commercial fertilizer
,
compost
,
corruption
,
dandruff
,
debris
,
decay
,
destroy
,
dirt
,
dirty
,
dirty up
,
dressing
,
drift
,
droppings
,
dung
,
dust
,
enrichener
,
entangle
,
excrement
,
feculence
,
fertilizer
,
filth
,
fool around
,
foul matter
,
furfur
,
gangrene
,
garbage
,
glop
,
goo
,
gook
,
goop
,
grime
,
grind
,
grub
,
guano
,
gum up
,
gumbo
,
gunk
,
idle
,
junk
,
linger
,
litter
,
loiter
,
louse up
,
manure
,
mess
,
mess around
,
mess up
,
mire
,
mope
,
mosey
,
muck up
,
mucker
,
mucky
,
mucus
,
mud
,
muddle
,
muddy
,
murk
,
night soil
,
nitrate
,
nitrogen
,
obscenity
,
offal
,
ooze
,
ordure
,
organic fertilizer
,
perplex
,
phosphate
,
plod
,
pus
,
putrid matter
,
ravel
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
ruin
,
screw up
,
scum
,
scurf
,
scuz
,
sewage
,
slab
,
slave
,
slime
,
slip
,
slob
,
slog
,
slop
,
slosh
,
sludge
,
slum
,
slush
,
smirch
,
smoke
,
smooch
,
smudge
,
smut
,
snarl
,
snot
,
soot
,
sordes
,
splosh
,
squash
,
stroll
,
superphosphate
,
swill
,
tangle
,
toil
,
trash
,
waste
,
waste time
,
wreck
false witness
collapse
related words >
Ananias
,
Baron Munchausen
,
Father of Lies
,
Satan
,
Sir John Mandeville
,
consummate liar
,
dirty liar
,
equivocator
,
fabricator
,
fabulist
,
falsifier
,
fibber
,
fibster
,
frame
,
frame-up
,
habitual liar
,
liar
,
mythomaniac
,
palterer
,
pathological liar
,
perjurer
,
prevaricator
,
pseudologist
,
pseudologue
,
put-up job
,
spinner of yarns
,
storyteller
,
yarn spinner
,
yarner
speak to
collapse
related words >
accost
,
address
,
apostrophize
,
appeal to
,
approach
,
bespeak
,
buttonhole
,
call down
,
call to
,
come down on
,
dress down
,
give it to
,
greet
,
hail
,
halloo
,
invoke
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
salute
,
speak
,
speak fair
,
take aside
,
talk to
,
tell off
,
trim
talk to
collapse
related words >
accost
,
address
,
apostrophize
,
appeal to
,
approach
,
bespeak
,
buttonhole
,
call down
,
call to
,
come down on
,
dress down
,
give it to
,
greet
,
hail
,
halloo
,
invoke
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
salute
,
speak
,
speak fair
,
speak to
,
take aside
,
tell off
,
trim
blandishment
collapse
the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
flattery intended to persuade
related words >
adulation
,
agacerie
,
allure
,
allurement
,
appeal
,
artful endearments
,
attraction
,
attractiveness
,
beguilement
,
beguiling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
blandishments
,
blarney
,
bunkum
,
buttonholing
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
captivation
,
caress
,
charisma
,
charm
,
charmingness
,
coaxing
,
come-hither
,
compliment
,
conning
,
dunning
,
enchantment
,
endearment
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
enthrallment
,
enticement
,
entrapment
,
exhortation
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fascination
,
fawning
,
flattery
,
flirtation
,
forbidden fruit
,
glamour
,
grease
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
hortation
,
importunateness
,
importunity
,
incense
,
inducement
,
interest
,
inveiglement
,
invitation
,
jawboning
,
lobbying
,
magnetism
,
nagging
,
oil
,
palaver
,
pat
,
persuasion
,
pestering
,
plaguing
,
plying
,
praise
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
pressing
,
pressure
,
pretty lies
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
seducement
,
seduction
,
seductiveness
,
selling
,
sex appeal
,
snaring
,
snow job
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
soft words
,
solicitation
,
suasion
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
tantalization
,
teasing
,
temptation
,
urgency
,
urging
,
wheedling
,
winning ways
,
winsomeness
,
witchery
,
wooing
,
working on
bring round
collapse
cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"
related words >
about ship
,
argue into
,
assure
,
back and fill
,
be convincing
,
bear away
,
bear off
,
bear to starboard
,
beat
,
beat about
,
box off
,
break
,
bring about
,
bring around
,
bring home to
,
bring over
,
bring to reason
,
cant
,
cant round
,
captivate
,
carry conviction
,
cast
,
cast about
,
change course
,
change the heading
,
charm
,
come about
,
con
,
convert
,
convict
,
convince
,
cure
,
double a point
,
draw over
,
drive home to
,
fetch about
,
gain
,
gain over
,
go about
,
gybe
,
heal
,
heave round
,
hook
,
hook in
,
inspire belief
,
jibe
,
jibe all standing
,
lead to believe
,
miss stays
,
outtalk
,
persuade
,
ply
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
pull round
,
put about
,
put back
,
recure
,
remedy
,
restore to health
,
round a point
,
satisfy
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
sheer
,
shift
,
slew
,
sway
,
swerve
,
swing round
,
swing the stern
,
tack
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
throw about
,
turn
,
turn back
,
veer
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
wear
,
wear down
,
wear ship
,
win
,
win over
,
wind
,
work a cure
,
yaw
thunderstorm
collapse
a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
related words >
Donar
,
Indra
,
Jupiter Tonans
,
Thor
,
cyclone
,
deep
,
dirty weather
,
dread rattling thunder
,
foul weather
,
hurricane
,
line squall
,
peal of thunder
,
rainstorm
,
rough weather
,
snowstorm
,
squall
,
storm
,
stormy weather
,
tempest
,
tempestuous rage
,
thunder
,
thunderclap
,
thundercrack
,
thundering
,
thunderpeal
,
thundershower
,
thundersquall
,
thunderstroke
,
tornado
,
typhoon
,
windstorm
inducement
collapse
act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of sleep"
related words >
Trinkgeld
,
agacerie
,
allure
,
allurement
,
appeal
,
attraction
,
attractiveness
,
bait
,
beguilement
,
beguiling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
blandishment
,
bonus
,
bounty
,
bribe
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
captivation
,
carrot
,
charisma
,
charm
,
charmingness
,
coaxing
,
come-hither
,
come-on
,
conning
,
consideration
,
donative
,
double time
,
enchantment
,
encouragement
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
enthrallment
,
enticement
,
entrapment
,
exhortation
,
fascination
,
fee
,
fillip
,
flirtation
,
forbidden fruit
,
glamour
,
gratuity
,
gravy
,
grease
,
honorarium
,
hortation
,
incentive
,
incentive pay
,
incitement
,
interest
,
inveiglement
,
invitation
,
jawboning
,
lagniappe
,
largess
,
liberality
,
lobbying
,
lure
,
magnetism
,
palm oil
,
payment
,
percentage
,
perks
,
perquisite
,
persuasion
,
persuasive
,
pourboire
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
premium
,
profit
,
provocation
,
reward
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
salve
,
seducement
,
seduction
,
seductiveness
,
selling
,
sex appeal
,
snaring
,
snow job
,
soft soap
,
solicitation
,
something extra
,
sportula
,
spur
,
stimulation
,
stimulative
,
stimulus
,
suasion
,
sweet talk
,
sweetener
,
sweetening
,
tantalization
,
temptation
,
tip
,
wheedling
,
whet
,
winning ways
,
winsomeness
,
witchery
,
wooing
,
working on
drool
collapse
saliva spilling from the mouth
related words >
absurdity
,
amphigory
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
baloney
,
be insane
,
be stupid
,
bibble-babble
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blither
,
bombast
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
burble
,
bushwa
,
claptrap
,
dither
,
dote
,
double-talk
,
dribble
,
drivel
,
expectorate
,
expectoration
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flummery
,
foam
,
folderol
,
froth
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gobbledygook
,
guff
,
have a demon
,
hawk
,
hocus-pocus
,
hot air
,
humbug
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jazz
,
maunder
,
mouth-watering
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
piffle
,
prate
,
prattle
,
ptyalism
,
rage
,
ramble
,
rant
,
rattle
,
rave
,
rhapsodize
,
rhapsody
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rubbish
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
saliva
,
salivate
,
salivation
,
sialagogue
,
skimble-skamble
,
slabber
,
slaver
,
slobber
,
spew
,
spit
,
spittle
,
sputum
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
talk nonsense
,
trash
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
vapor
,
vaporing
,
waffle
,
waffling
,
wander
,
water
overreach
collapse
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
related words >
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
ballyhoo
,
bamboozle
,
beat
,
beguile
,
betray
,
bilk
,
bluff
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
cajole
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
cheat on
,
chouse
,
circumvent
,
conjure
,
cozen
,
deceive
,
defraud
,
delude
,
diddle
,
do
,
double-cross
,
draw the longbow
,
dupe
,
elude
,
evade
,
exaggerate
,
exceed
,
flimflam
,
foil
,
forestall
,
frustrate
,
gammon
,
get around
,
get round
,
give the runaround
,
give the slip
,
go beyond
,
go one better
,
go to extremes
,
gull
,
gyp
,
have
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
hornswaggle
,
humbug
,
hyperbolize
,
juggle
,
lay it on
,
let down
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
mock
,
outfigure
,
outflank
,
outfox
,
outgeneral
,
outguess
,
outmaneuver
,
outplay
,
outreach
,
outsmart
,
outwit
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overgo
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overpass
,
overpraise
,
overreact
,
overrun
,
oversell
,
overshoot
,
overshoot the field
,
overshoot the mark
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstep
,
overstress
,
overstride
,
pass
,
pass the buck
,
pigeon
,
pile it on
,
play one false
,
puff
,
put something over
,
snow
,
stonewall
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
string along
,
superabound
,
surpass
,
take in
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
tout
,
transcend
,
travesty
,
trick
,
two-time
,
undo
,
victimize
aggrandize
collapse
related words >
add to
,
advance
,
amplify
,
apotheose
,
apotheosize
,
augment
,
ballyhoo
,
beatify
,
beef up
,
bloat
,
blow up
,
boost
,
broaden
,
build
,
build up
,
bulk
,
bulk out
,
burlesque
,
canonize
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
crescendo
,
crown
,
deify
,
develop
,
dignify
,
dilate
,
distend
,
distinguish
,
draw the longbow
,
elevate
,
enlarge
,
ennoble
,
enshrine
,
enthrone
,
erect
,
exaggerate
,
exalt
,
expand
,
extend
,
fatten
,
fill out
,
glamorize
,
glorify
,
go to extremes
,
graduate
,
heighten
,
hike
,
hike up
,
honor
,
huff
,
hyperbolize
,
immortalize
,
increase
,
inflate
,
jack up
,
jump up
,
kick upstairs
,
knight
,
lay it on
,
lengthen
,
lionize
,
magnify
,
make legendary
,
make much of
,
maximize
,
multiply
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstress
,
parlay
,
pass
,
pile it on
,
prefer
,
promote
,
puff
,
puff up
,
pump
,
pump up
,
put up
,
pyramid
,
raise
,
rarefy
,
saint
,
sanctify
,
set up
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
sublime
,
sufflate
,
swell
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
thicken
,
throne
,
tout
,
travesty
,
up
,
upgrade
,
uplift
,
uprear
,
widen
pancake
collapse
a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
related words >
alight
,
blintz
,
buckwheat cake
,
cheese blintz
,
come down
,
come in
,
crash-land
,
crepe
,
descend
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
flapcake
,
flapjack
,
griddlecake
,
hot cake
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
overshoot
,
palacsinta
,
settle down
,
talk down
,
touch down
,
upwind
,
waffle
enhancement
collapse
an improvement that makes something more agreeable
related words >
Great Leap Forward
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
advance
,
advancement
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amelioration
,
amendment
,
amplification
,
annoyance
,
ascent
,
augmentation
,
ballyhoo
,
beefing-up
,
bettering
,
betterment
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boost
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
complement
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
consolidation
,
contentiousness
,
deepening
,
deliberate aggravation
,
deterioration
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
embittering
,
embitterment
,
enlargement
,
enrichment
,
eugenics
,
euthenics
,
exacerbation
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
exasperation
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
explosion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
furtherance
,
grandiloquence
,
headway
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
improvement
,
increase
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
inordinacy
,
intensification
,
irritation
,
lift
,
magnification
,
melioration
,
mend
,
mending
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
pickup
,
population explosion
,
preferment
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
progress
,
progression
,
promotion
,
provocation
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
recovery
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
restoration
,
revival
,
rise
,
sensationalism
,
sharpening
,
souring
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
tightening
,
touting
,
travesty
,
upbeat
,
uplift
,
upping
,
upswing
,
uptrend
,
upward mobility
,
worsening
unwashed
collapse
not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"
related words >
base
,
baseborn
,
canaille
,
contaminated
,
corrupted
,
dirty
,
dregs
,
humble
,
impure
,
infected
,
low
,
lowborn
,
lowly
,
masses
,
mean
,
mob
,
nonkosher
,
plebeian
,
polluted
,
proletariat
,
ragtag and bobtail
,
riffraff
,
ritually unclean
,
scum
,
the great unwashed
,
the masses
,
the mob
,
the populace
,
the population
,
trash
,
tref
,
unbathed
,
unclean
,
uncleaned
,
uncleanly
,
unpure
,
unscoured
,
unscrubbed
,
unswept
,
unwiped
raunchy
collapse
earthy and sexually explicit; "a raunchy novel"
related words >
Fescennine
,
Rabelaisian
,
bawdy
,
blue
,
coarse
,
dirty
,
disheveled
,
filthy
,
foul
,
foul-mouthed
,
foul-spoken
,
foul-tongued
,
fulsome
,
impure
,
indecent
,
ithyphallic
,
lewd
,
lurid
,
messy
,
nasty
,
obscene
,
offensive
,
pornographic
,
raw
,
ribald
,
salacious
,
scurrile
,
scurrilous
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
smoking-room
,
smutty
,
sultry
,
unchaste
,
unclean
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unprintable
,
unrepeatable
,
untidy
,
vile
,
vulgar
pomposity
collapse
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
bedizenment
,
belief
,
big talk
,
buckram
,
ceremonial
,
ceremoniousness
,
ceremony
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
convolution
,
courage
,
dignity
,
extrinsicality
,
faith
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
form
,
formality
,
formalization
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
gravity
,
high-flown diction
,
hubris
,
impersonality
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
poise
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomp
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
positiveness
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
pride
,
primness
,
prose run mad
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
rigidness
,
ritual
,
rituality
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
settled belief
,
showiness
,
solemnity
,
starchiness
,
stiffness
,
stiltedness
,
stuffiness
,
stylization
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trust
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
weight
gobbledegook
collapse
related words >
balderdash
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
circumlocution
,
crap
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
equivocation
,
eyewash
,
garbage
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
hogwash
,
humbug
,
jargon
,
malarkey
,
moonshine
,
mumbo-jumbo
,
nonsense
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
piffle
,
poppycock
,
quibbling
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
shiftiness
,
vagueness
scowl
collapse
frown with displeasure
related words >
angry look
,
black look
,
color
,
dirty look
,
flush
,
frown
,
glare
,
gloom
,
glower
,
gnarl
,
grimace
,
growl
,
knit the brow
,
long face
,
look black
,
look daggers
,
look sullen
,
lour
,
lower
,
make a lip
,
make a moue
,
mantle
,
moue
,
mow
,
nasty look
,
offense
,
pique
,
pout
,
pull a face
,
redden
,
reproving look
,
snap
,
snarl
,
spit
,
umbrage
,
wry face
cyclonic
collapse
of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm; "cyclonic destruction"
of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center; "cyclonic cloud pattern"
related words >
aerographic
,
aerologic
,
angry
,
baric
,
barographic
,
barometric
,
circumgyratory
,
circumvolutory
,
climatologic
,
cloudy
,
dirty
,
elemental
,
foul
,
gulfy
,
gyral
,
gyrational
,
gyratory
,
gyrostatic
,
high-pressure
,
isobaric
,
isometric
,
isopiestic
,
macroclimatic
,
meteorologic
,
microclimatic
,
microclimatologic
,
raging
,
rainy
,
rotary
,
rotational
,
rotatory
,
storming
,
stormy
,
swirly
,
tempestuous
,
tornadic
,
trochilic
,
turbulent
,
typhonic
,
typhoonish
,
vertiginous
,
vortical
,
whirlabout
,
whirligig
,
whirlwindish
,
whirlwindy
,
whirly
whispering campaign
collapse
the organized dissemination of derogatory rumors designed to discredit a candidate
related words >
aspersion
,
character assassination
,
dirt
,
dirty politics
,
gossip column
,
imputation
,
innuendo
,
insinuation
,
juicy morsel
,
last-minute lie
,
malicious gossip
,
muckraking
,
mudslinging
,
mudslinging campaign
,
personal remark
,
personality
,
political canard
,
reflection
,
roorback
,
scandal
,
scandalmongering
,
slander
,
slur
,
sly suggestion
,
smear campaign
,
suggestion
,
tidbit
,
uncomplimentary remark
pontificate
collapse
talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"
administer a pontifical office
related words >
Apostolic See
,
Barnumize
,
See of Rome
,
aedileship
,
archbishopric
,
archiepiscopacy
,
archiepiscopate
,
aristocracy
,
bishopric
,
blow
,
bombast
,
chairmanship
,
chancellery
,
chancellorate
,
chancellorship
,
chiefery
,
chiefry
,
chieftaincy
,
chieftainry
,
chieftainship
,
cock
,
consulate
,
consulship
,
deanery
,
dictatorship
,
dictature
,
directorship
,
dogmatize
,
emirate
,
episcopacy
,
governorship
,
headship
,
hegemony
,
hierarchy
,
inflate
,
lay it on
,
leadership
,
look big
,
lordship
,
magistracy
,
magistrateship
,
magistrature
,
masterdom
,
mastership
,
mastery
,
mayoralty
,
mayorship
,
metropolitanate
,
metropolitanship
,
nobility
,
oracle
,
oraculate
,
papacy
,
papality
,
pashadom
,
pashalic
,
patriarchate
,
patriarchy
,
peacock
,
pile it on
,
pontificality
,
popedom
,
popehood
,
popeship
,
prefectship
,
prefecture
,
premiership
,
presidency
,
presidentship
,
prime-ministership
,
prime-ministry
,
princedom
,
princeship
,
principality
,
proclaim
,
proconsulate
,
proconsulship
,
protectorate
,
protectorship
,
provostry
,
provostship
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
put on side
,
rectorate
,
rectorship
,
regency
,
regentship
,
ritz it
,
ruling class
,
seigniory
,
seneschalship
,
seneschalsy
,
sheikhdom
,
sheriffalty
,
sheriffcy
,
sheriffdom
,
shrievalty
,
supervisorship
,
suzerainship
,
suzerainty
,
swagger
,
swank
,
swell
,
swell it
,
talk big
,
talk highfalutin
,
the Vatican
,
tribunate
,
vapor
,
vizierate
,
viziership
task
collapse
assign a task to; "I tasked him with looking after the children"
related words >
accuse
,
affair
,
agency
,
agentship
,
allege
,
arraign
,
article
,
assignment
,
attempt
,
authority
,
authorization
,
blame
,
book
,
bother
,
brevet
,
bring accusation
,
bring charges
,
bring to book
,
burden
,
burden with
,
business
,
busy
,
busywork
,
call to account
,
calling
,
care
,
cargo
,
censure
,
chalk talk
,
chare
,
charge
,
chide
,
chore
,
cite
,
commission
,
commissioning
,
commitment
,
complain
,
consignment
,
contract
,
criticize
,
cure
,
deadweight
,
deal
,
delegated authority
,
delegation
,
demand
,
denounce
,
denunciate
,
deputation
,
devoir
,
devolution
,
devolvement
,
dirty work
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
donkeywork
,
drive
,
drudgery
,
duty
,
effort
,
embassy
,
employment
,
empowerment
,
encumber
,
engagement
,
enjoin
,
enterprise
,
entrusting
,
entrustment
,
errand
,
exact
,
executorship
,
exequatur
,
exercise
,
exposition
,
factorship
,
fag
,
fasten on
,
fasten upon
,
fatigue
,
finger
,
fish to fry
,
freight
,
freight with
,
full power
,
function
,
grind
,
handiwork
,
handwork
,
hang something on
,
harangue
,
headache
,
homework
,
homily
,
impeach
,
imply
,
impose
,
impose on
,
impose upon
,
impute
,
indict
,
industry
,
inflict on
,
inflict upon
,
inform against
,
inform on
,
insinuate
,
instruction
,
job
,
job of work
,
jurisdiction
,
keep busy
,
labor
,
lade
,
lay
,
lay charges
,
lay on
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
legation
,
lesson
,
levy
,
license
,
lick
,
lick of work
,
lieutenancy
,
load
,
lodge a complaint
,
lodge a plaint
,
lumber
,
make-work
,
mandate
,
manual labor
,
matters in hand
,
millstone
,
mission
,
moil
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
nuisance
,
object lesson
,
obligation
,
occupation
,
odd job
,
office
,
onus
,
operation
,
oppress
,
overdrive
,
overtask
,
overtax
,
overwork
,
pain
,
piece of work
,
pin on
,
place
,
plan
,
plenipotentiary power
,
power of attorney
,
power to act
,
preachment
,
prefer charges
,
press charges
,
procuration
,
program
,
project
,
proposition
,
province
,
proxy
,
purview
,
put
,
put down
,
put on
,
put on report
,
put upon
,
rat race
,
rebuke
,
recital
,
recitation
,
recriminate
,
regency
,
regentship
,
report
,
reprehend
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprove
,
responsibility
,
saddle
,
saddle with
,
scold
,
scut work
,
sermon
,
service
,
set
,
set task
,
skull session
,
slavery
,
spadework
,
stint
,
strain
,
stroke
,
stroke of work
,
struggle
,
subject to
,
sweat
,
take to task
,
talk
,
taunt with
,
tax
,
teaching
,
things to do
,
tiresome work
,
toil
,
travail
,
treadmill
,
trouble
,
trust
,
trusteeship
,
twit
,
undertaking
,
upbraid
,
venture
,
vicarious authority
,
vocation
,
warrant
,
weigh
,
weight
,
weight down with
,
work
,
yoke with
Priapus
collapse
(classical mythology) god of male procreative power and guardian of gardens and vineyards
related words >
Ashtoreth
,
Astarte
,
Baal
,
Cailleac
,
Ceres
,
Demeter
,
Dionysus
,
Faunus
,
Frey
,
Isis
,
Pan
,
Vidar
,
Vitharr
,
aphrodisiomaniac
,
corn spirit
,
dirty old man
,
eroticomaniac
,
erotomaniac
,
faun
,
fertility god
,
field spirit
,
forest god
,
goat
,
gynecomaniac
,
lecher
,
old goat
,
panisc
,
panisca
,
paniscus
,
satyr
,
silenus
,
sylvan deity
,
the goat god
,
vegetation spirit
,
whoremaster
,
whoremonger
wordage
collapse
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
locution
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
talk
,
thesaurus
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
vocabulary
,
wordhoard
,
wording
,
words
parlance
collapse
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
locution
,
parole
,
personal usage
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
talk
,
tongue
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
tight lipped
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
untalkative
collapse
related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight-lipped
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
word-bound
,
wordless
wheedling
collapse
related words >
adulation
,
adulatory
,
allurement
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
blarneying
,
bunkum
,
buttery
,
buttonholing
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
cajoling
,
coaxing
,
compliment
,
complimentary
,
conning
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
demanding
,
dunning
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
exhortation
,
exhortative
,
exhortatory
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
flattery
,
fulsome
,
grease
,
gushing
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
hortation
,
hortative
,
hortatory
,
importunate
,
importunateness
,
importunity
,
incense
,
inducement
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
insistent
,
jawboning
,
lobbying
,
mealymouthed
,
nagging
,
obsequious
,
oil
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
palaver
,
persuading
,
persuasion
,
persuasive
,
pestering
,
plaguing
,
plying
,
praise
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
pressing
,
pressure
,
pretty lies
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
selling
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
snow job
,
soap
,
soapy
,
soft soap
,
soft-soaping
,
solicitation
,
suasion
,
suasive
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
teasing
,
unctuous
,
urgency
,
urgent
,
urging
,
working on
overshoot
collapse
an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
aim too high; "The plan overshoots its aim"
shoot beyond or over (a target)
related words >
alight
,
come down
,
come in
,
crash-land
,
descend
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
exaggerate
,
exceed
,
go beyond
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
overdo
,
overgo
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overpass
,
overreach
,
overrun
,
overshoot the field
,
overshoot the mark
,
overstep
,
overstride
,
pancake
,
pass
,
settle down
,
superabound
,
surpass
,
talk down
,
touch down
,
transcend
,
upwind
chicanery
collapse
related words >
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
bag of tricks
,
baseness
,
bickering
,
blind
,
bluff
,
boggling
,
bosey
,
captiousness
,
catch
,
caviling
,
cheating
,
chicane
,
chouse
,
collusion
,
connivance
,
connivery
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
coup
,
covin
,
craft
,
curve
,
curve-ball
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
deception
,
degradation
,
design
,
device
,
deviousness
,
dirty deal
,
dirty trick
,
dishonesty
,
dodge
,
dodgery
,
dodging
,
double-dealing
,
duplicity
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
expedient
,
fakement
,
fast deal
,
feint
,
fencing
,
fetch
,
ficelle
,
foul play
,
fraud
,
furtiveness
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
googly
,
grift
,
hairsplitting
,
hanky-panky
,
hedging
,
hocus-pocus
,
intrigue
,
joker
,
juggle
,
jugglery
,
knavery
,
knavishness
,
little game
,
logic-chopping
,
machination
,
maneuver
,
moral turpitude
,
move
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
pass
,
pettifoggery
,
pettifogging
,
plot
,
ploy
,
prevarication
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
racket
,
rascality
,
rascalry
,
red herring
,
reprobacy
,
roguery
,
roguishness
,
ruse
,
scampishness
,
scheme
,
scoundrelism
,
scurvy trick
,
sharp practice
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
skulduggery
,
sleight
,
sleight of hand
,
sleight-of-hand trick
,
sophistry
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
subterfuge
,
supercherie
,
surreptitiousness
,
tactic
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
trick
,
trickery
,
turpitude
,
underhand dealing
,
underhandedness
,
vileness
,
villainousness
,
villainy
,
wile
,
wily device
lecture
collapse
teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
related words >
address
,
admonish
,
admonishment
,
admonition
,
assignment
,
berate
,
berating
,
bring to book
,
call to account
,
castigation
,
censure
,
chalk talk
,
chastise
,
chastisement
,
chew out
,
chide
,
chiding
,
correct
,
correction
,
criticism
,
declaim
,
declamation
,
deliver a lecture
,
diatribe
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
dissertation
,
dress down
,
dressing-down
,
exercise
,
explain
,
exposit
,
exposition
,
expound
,
fulminate against
,
harangue
,
have words with
,
hold forth
,
homework
,
homily
,
instruction
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lesson
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
moralize
,
object lesson
,
objurgate
,
objurgation
,
orate
,
paper
,
philippic
,
point a moral
,
pontificate
,
preach
,
preachification
,
preachify
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
prelect
,
prelection
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rating
,
read a lesson
,
read a sermon
,
rebuke
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religious discourse
,
remonstration
,
reprehend
,
reprehension
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprobation
,
reproof
,
reproval
,
reprove
,
scold
,
scolding
,
screed
,
sermon
,
sermonette
,
sermonize
,
set down
,
set straight
,
set task
,
skull session
,
spank
,
spanking
,
speech
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
talk
,
task
,
teaching
,
tell off
,
tongue-lash
,
tongue-lashing
,
travelogue
,
treatise
,
upbraid
,
upbraiding
,
warn
,
wig
rainy
collapse
related words >
angry
,
blinding
,
boggy
,
cat-and-doggish
,
cloudy
,
cyclonic
,
damp
,
dampish
,
dank
,
dewy
,
dirty
,
drippy
,
driving
,
drizzling
,
drizzly
,
drumming
,
fenny
,
foul
,
humid
,
marshy
,
misty
,
misty-moisty
,
mizzly
,
moist
,
muggy
,
pelting
,
pluvial
,
pluviose
,
pluvious
,
pouring
,
raging
,
roric
,
roriferous
,
showery
,
sticky
,
storming
,
stormy
,
streaming
,
swampy
,
tacky
,
tempestuous
,
tornadic
,
turbulent
,
typhonic
,
typhoonish
,
undried
,
wet
,
wettish
randy
collapse
related words >
animal
,
aphrodisiomaniacal
,
aroused
,
bawdy
,
carnal
,
clitoromaniacal
,
concupiscent
,
dirty
,
ejaculatory
,
erotic
,
eroticomaniacal
,
erotomaniacal
,
fast
,
fleshly
,
goatish
,
gynecomaniacal
,
horny
,
hot
,
hot-blooded
,
hysteromaniacal
,
in rut
,
incontinent
,
itching
,
ithyphallic
,
lascivious
,
lecherous
,
lewd
,
libertine
,
libidinous
,
lickerish
,
lubricious
,
lustful
,
nymphomaniacal
,
obscene
,
orgasmic
,
orgastic
,
passionate
,
priapic
,
prurient
,
rutting
,
salacious
,
satyric
,
sensual
,
sex-starved
,
sexual
,
sexy
,
steamy
,
unsatisfied
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