Related Words:
- abate,
- abolish,
- abrogate,
- abscind,
- amputate,
- annul,
- ban,
- bar,
- bereave of life,
- blot out,
- bob,
- bring to naught,
- cancel,
- carry away,
- carry off,
- chloroform,
- clip,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- decimate,
- demolish,
- deprive of life,
- deracinate,
- destroy,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- do away with,
- do for,
- do to death,
- dock,
- efface,
- eliminate,
- end,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- execute,
- expunge,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- finish,
- finish off,
- immolate,
- invalidate,
- isolate,
- kill,
- knock off,
- launch into eternity,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- lynch,
- make away with,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- massacre,
- murder,
- mutilate,
- negate,
- negative,
- nip,
- nullify,
- obliterate,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- poison,
- prune,
- purge,
- put away,
- put down,
- put to death,
- put to sleep,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- raze,
- remove,
- remove from life,
- repeal,
- revoke,
- root out,
- root up,
- rout,
- ruin,
- rule out,
- sacrifice,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- slay,
- squash,
- stamp out,
- starve,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- suppress,
- sweep away,
- take life,
- take off,
- take out,
- truncate,
- unbuild,
- undo,
- uproot,
- vitiate,
- void,
- wipe out,
- wrack,
- wreck
- shorten
collapse - become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches" related words >
- abate,
- abbreviate,
- abrade,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- bate,
- be telegraphic,
- bob,
- bobtail,
- boil down,
- brief,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- circumscribe,
- clip,
- coarct,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- cramp,
- crop,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- derogate,
- detract,
- digest,
- diminish,
- disparage,
- dock,
- downgrade,
- drain,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- eat away,
- elide,
- epitomize,
- erode,
- excerpt,
- extract,
- file away,
- foreshorten,
- hem,
- impair,
- knit,
- leach,
- lessen,
- lower,
- minify,
- minimize,
- mow,
- narrow,
- nip,
- nutshell,
- outline,
- pare,
- poll,
- pollard,
- prune,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purify,
- purse,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- refine,
- remove,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- rub away,
- scale down,
- shave,
- shear,
- shrink,
- simplify,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- slash,
- snub,
- solidify,
- step down,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- stunt,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take away,
- take from,
- take in,
- telescope,
- thin,
- thin out,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- waste no words,
- wear away,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- wrinkle
- pare
collapse
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" related words >
- abridge,
- abscind,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ax,
- ban,
- bar,
- bark,
- beat down,
- bisect,
- bob,
- break,
- butcher,
- carve,
- cheapen,
- chop,
- cleave,
- clip,
- compress,
- crop,
- cull,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- cut prices,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decline,
- decorticate,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- devaluate,
- dichotomize,
- diminish,
- dissever,
- dive,
- dock,
- downgrade,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- excoriate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- fall,
- fall in price,
- fissure,
- flay,
- gash,
- give way,
- hack,
- halve,
- hew,
- incise,
- isolate,
- jew down,
- jigsaw,
- knock off,
- lance,
- lessen,
- lop,
- lower,
- mark down,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- nose-dive,
- peel,
- pick out,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- prune,
- reduce,
- rend,
- retrench,
- rive,
- roll back,
- root out,
- rule out,
- sag,
- saw,
- scale down,
- scalp,
- scissor,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- sever,
- shave,
- shave off,
- shear,
- shorten,
- shuck,
- simplify,
- skin,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- slump,
- snip,
- split,
- stamp out,
- step down,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- sunder,
- take from,
- take off,
- take out,
- tear,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- whittle,
- wipe out
- alight
collapse
- come down; "the birds alighted"
- to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him" related words >
- ablaze,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- ardent,
- bathed with light,
- bespangled,
- blazing,
- bright,
- brightened,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- candlelit,
- climb down,
- comburent,
- come down,
- come in,
- come to land,
- conflagrant,
- crash-land,
- debark,
- debus,
- deplane,
- descend,
- detrain,
- disembark,
- disemplane,
- dismount,
- ditch,
- dock,
- downwind,
- drop,
- drop anchor,
- effulgent,
- enlightened,
- fall,
- fiery,
- firelit,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flickering,
- fulgent,
- fuming,
- gaslit,
- get down,
- get off,
- glowing,
- go ashore,
- guttering,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- illuminated,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in flames,
- incandescent,
- inflamed,
- irradiate,
- irradiated,
- kindled,
- lamplit,
- land,
- lanternlit,
- level off,
- light,
- lighted,
- lightened,
- lit,
- lit up,
- live,
- living,
- luminous,
- make a landfall,
- make land,
- make port,
- moonlit,
- moor,
- on fire,
- overshoot,
- pancake,
- perch,
- put in,
- put into port,
- reach land,
- reeking,
- refulgent,
- roost,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- set down,
- settle,
- settle down,
- sit down,
- smoking,
- smoldering,
- spangled,
- sparking,
- star-spangled,
- star-studded,
- starlit,
- studded,
- sunlit,
- talk down,
- tie up,
- tinseled,
- touch down,
- tumble,
- unboat,
- unextinguished,
- unhorse,
- unquenched,
- upwind
- abjure,
- abscind,
- absolve,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- apart from,
- aside from,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- bate,
- beside,
- besides,
- bob,
- brush aside,
- but,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- clip,
- contemn,
- contradict,
- count out,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- debar,
- decline,
- deny,
- despise,
- disapprove,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disclaim,
- discount,
- discounting,
- disdain,
- dismiss,
- disown,
- dispense from,
- dispense with,
- disregard,
- dock,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- ex,
- except for,
- except that,
- excepting,
- exception taken of,
- excise,
- exclude,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- excuse,
- exempt,
- expostulate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- forswear,
- free,
- from,
- give dispensation from,
- grant immunity,
- however,
- if not,
- ignore,
- inveigh against,
- isolate,
- kick,
- knock off,
- leave out,
- leaving out,
- less,
- let alone,
- let go,
- let off,
- lop,
- minus,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- not counting,
- object,
- off,
- omit,
- omitting,
- other than,
- outside of,
- pare,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- peel,
- pick out,
- precluding,
- protest,
- prune,
- push aside,
- rebuff,
- recant,
- refuse,
- refuse to consider,
- reject,
- release,
- remise,
- remit,
- remonstrate,
- renounce,
- repel,
- repudiate,
- repulse,
- root out,
- rule out,
- save,
- save and except,
- save the necessity,
- saving,
- scout,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- shove away,
- spare,
- spurn,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- suspend,
- take off,
- take out,
- than,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- truncate,
- turn away,
- turn out,
- unless,
- unless that,
- waive,
- were it not,
- wipe out,
- without,
- yet
- levee
collapse
- an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
- a pier that provides a landing place on a river
- a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) related words >
- affair,
- arch dam,
- assemblee,
- assembly,
- assignation,
- at home,
- backstop,
- ball,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrage,
- barrier,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- berth,
- boom,
- brawl,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- caucus,
- cofferdam,
- colloquium,
- commission,
- committee,
- conclave,
- concourse,
- congregation,
- congress,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- convocation,
- council,
- dam,
- dance,
- date,
- defense,
- diet,
- dike,
- ditch,
- dock,
- earthwork,
- eisteddfod,
- embankment,
- fence,
- festivity,
- fete,
- forgathering,
- forum,
- gate,
- gathering,
- get-together,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- housewarming,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- leaping weir,
- logjam,
- matinee,
- meet,
- meeting,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- mound,
- panel,
- parapet,
- party,
- plenum,
- portcullis,
- prom,
- quay,
- quorum,
- rally,
- rampart,
- reception,
- rendezvous,
- reunion,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- salon,
- seance,
- seawall,
- session,
- shindig,
- shutter dam,
- sit-in,
- sitting,
- slip,
- sociable,
- social,
- social affair,
- social gathering,
- soiree,
- stews,
- stone wall,
- symposium,
- synod,
- tenderloin,
- turnout,
- wake,
- wall,
- weir,
- wicket dam,
- work
- abate,
- abolish,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- avulse,
- ban,
- bar,
- blot out,
- bob,
- buck off,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- clip,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- demolish,
- deport,
- depose,
- deracinate,
- destroy,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- disentangle,
- dislodge,
- dismount,
- dispose of,
- dock,
- draw,
- draw out,
- dredge,
- dredge up,
- eject,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- evolve,
- evulse,
- excavate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- exsect,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- extract,
- extricate,
- ferret out,
- fish out,
- get out,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- gouge out,
- grub up,
- hunt out,
- isolate,
- knock off,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- mine,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- outlaw,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- pluck out,
- pluck up,
- prune,
- pry out,
- pull,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- purge,
- quarry,
- rake out,
- raze,
- remove,
- rip out,
- root up,
- rule out,
- scout out,
- search out,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- spy out,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- strip,
- strip off,
- sweep away,
- take off,
- take out,
- tear out,
- throw off,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- truncate,
- unearth,
- unhorse,
- unplace,
- unravel,
- unsaddle,
- unseat,
- uproot,
- weed out,
- wipe out,
- withdraw,
- wrest out
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