Related Words:
- describe
collapse - give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" related words >
- be characteristic,
- bring to life,
- character,
- characterize,
- chronicle,
- construe,
- define,
- delineate,
- demarcate,
- depict,
- detail,
- diagnose,
- differentiate,
- distinguish,
- draw,
- earmark,
- evoke,
- explain,
- express,
- give words to,
- identify,
- interpret,
- keynote,
- label,
- limn,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- narrate,
- outline,
- paint,
- picture,
- portray,
- read,
- read into,
- recite,
- recount,
- relate,
- render,
- report,
- represent,
- retail,
- set apart,
- set forth,
- set the pace,
- set the tone,
- sketch,
- sound the keynote,
- specify,
- style,
- take,
- take it that,
- take to mean,
- trace,
- traverse,
- understand,
- understand by,
- write
- decrease
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- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- the amount by which something decreases
- a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- a process of becoming smaller or shorter
- decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- make smaller; "He decreased his staff" related words >
- abate,
- abatement,
- abbreviate,
- abbreviation,
- ablate,
- ablation,
- abrade,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- apportion,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- attrition,
- bate,
- be eaten away,
- bottleneck,
- calibrate,
- calibrated,
- cervix,
- circumscribe,
- circumscription,
- clip,
- close,
- coarct,
- coarctation,
- compact,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compress,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- consolidation,
- constrict,
- constriction,
- constringe,
- constringency,
- consume,
- consume away,
- consumption,
- contract,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- corrode,
- count,
- cramp,
- crumble,
- curtail,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cutting,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-escalate,
- de-escalation,
- decline,
- decrement,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- deliquesce,
- deplete,
- depletion,
- depreciate,
- depreciation,
- depress,
- derogate,
- derogation,
- detract,
- detraction,
- die away,
- differentiate,
- diminish,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- dissipate,
- dissipation,
- dive,
- divide,
- downgrade,
- drain,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- dribble away,
- drop,
- drop off,
- dwindle,
- dwindling,
- ease,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- eat away,
- ebb,
- erode,
- erosion,
- evaporation,
- exhaustion,
- expenditure,
- extract,
- extraction,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- falling off,
- file away,
- fix,
- gradational,
- grade,
- gradual,
- graduate,
- graduated,
- hierarchic,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- impair,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- increase,
- isthmus,
- knit,
- knitting,
- languish,
- leach,
- leakage,
- lessen,
- lessening,
- let up,
- lighten,
- lower,
- lowering,
- measure,
- melt away,
- mitigate,
- narrow,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- number,
- parcel,
- pare,
- peter out,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- progressive,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- puckering,
- purify,
- purse,
- pursing,
- quantify,
- quantize,
- rate,
- rebate,
- recede,
- reduce,
- reduction,
- refine,
- regular,
- remission,
- remove,
- retraction,
- retrench,
- retrenchment,
- roll back,
- rub away,
- run low,
- sag,
- scalar,
- scale down,
- shade off,
- shorten,
- shortening,
- shrink,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shrivel up,
- simplify,
- sink,
- slacken,
- slackening,
- solidification,
- solidify,
- squander,
- step down,
- strangle,
- stranglement,
- strangulate,
- strangulation,
- striction,
- stricture,
- subduct,
- subside,
- subsidence,
- subtract,
- systole,
- tail off,
- take away,
- take from,
- taper,
- taper off,
- thin,
- thin out,
- trim,
- truncation,
- tune down,
- using,
- using up,
- wane,
- wasp waist,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wear,
- wear away,
- wearing,
- wearing away,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- wrinkle,
- wrinkling
- sinister
collapse
- on or starting from the wearer's left; "bar sinister" related words >
- adverse,
- amoral,
- antagonistic,
- apocalyptic,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- base,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- circuitous,
- conflicting,
- conscienceless,
- contrary,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- counterclockwise,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- deflectional,
- detrimental,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diabolical,
- difficult,
- digressive,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doomful,
- doubtful,
- dreary,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- excursive,
- fateful,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- foreboding,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gloomy,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immoral,
- improper,
- in opposition,
- inaccurate,
- inauspicious,
- indirect,
- inexpedient,
- inferior,
- inimical,
- insidious,
- invalid,
- larboard,
- left,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- left-wing,
- left-wingish,
- levorotatory,
- liberal,
- lowering,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- miserable,
- near,
- nefarious,
- nigh,
- not easy,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- port,
- portending,
- portentous,
- questionable,
- radical,
- rigorous,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinful,
- sinistral,
- sinistrocerebral,
- sinistrocular,
- sinistrogyrate,
- sinistrorse,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- somber,
- stressful,
- suspicious,
- threatening,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhealthy,
- unkind,
- unlucky,
- unpleasant,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unskillful,
- unstraightforward,
- untoward,
- vicious,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wretched,
- wrong
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- ballyhoo,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- draw the longbow,
- exaggerate,
- exhaust,
- go overboard,
- go too far,
- hyperbolize,
- know no bounds,
- lay it on,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- overact,
- overcarry,
- overcharge,
- overdevelop,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overdrive,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasize,
- overestimate,
- overexercise,
- overexert,
- overexpend,
- overindulge,
- overlabor,
- overplay,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overspend,
- overstate,
- overstrain,
- overstress,
- overstudy,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overtrain,
- overuse,
- overwork,
- pass all bounds,
- pile it on,
- protest too much,
- puff,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tout,
- travesty
- jib
collapse
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) related words >
- avert,
- avoid,
- back down,
- balance,
- balk,
- balloon sail,
- batten,
- bear off,
- blench,
- blink,
- boggle,
- cringe,
- debate,
- deliberate,
- demur,
- dodge,
- draw aside,
- draw back,
- duck,
- ease off,
- edge off,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- falter,
- fear,
- fight shy,
- flinch,
- fly off,
- fly-by-night,
- flying kites,
- fore gaff-topsail,
- fore topgallant sail,
- fore-skysail,
- fore-topmast staysail,
- fore-topsail,
- foreroyal,
- foresail,
- forestaysail,
- gag,
- gee,
- glance,
- glance off,
- go off,
- hang back,
- haw,
- head off,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hover,
- hum and haw,
- jenny,
- jigger,
- jump,
- jump a mile,
- leg-of-mutton sail,
- loose-footed sail,
- lug,
- main gaff-topsail,
- main royal,
- main skysail,
- main-royal staysail,
- main-topsail,
- mainsail,
- make way for,
- mizzen,
- mizzen skysail,
- mizzen staysail,
- mizzen-royal staysail,
- mizzen-topgallant sail,
- moonraker,
- moonsail,
- move aside,
- panic,
- parachute spinnaker,
- pause,
- ponder,
- pull back,
- quail,
- recoil,
- reef,
- reef point,
- reel back,
- retreat,
- royal,
- scruple,
- sheer off,
- shilly-shally,
- shove aside,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shunt,
- shy,
- shy off,
- side,
- sidestep,
- sidetrack,
- sidle,
- skedaddle,
- skyscraper,
- spanker,
- spinnaker,
- spitfire,
- square sail,
- stampede,
- start,
- start aside,
- start back,
- startle,
- staysail,
- steer clear of,
- step aside,
- stern staysail,
- stick,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stop to consider,
- storm trysail,
- straddle the fence,
- strain,
- strain at,
- stumble,
- swerve,
- switch,
- think twice about,
- topsail,
- trysail,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn back,
- veer off,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- wince,
- withdraw,
- yield
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