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singsong
collapse
a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong
move as if accompanied by a singsong; "The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain"
related words >
alliterating
,
alliteration
,
alliterative
,
assonance
,
assonant
,
belabored
,
blah
,
broken-record
,
chanting
,
chime
,
chiming
,
cliche-ridden
,
clockwork regularity
,
constancy
,
daily round
,
dingdong
,
drearisome
,
dreary
,
drone
,
dry
,
dryasdust
,
dull
,
dusty
,
even pace
,
even tenor
,
everlasting
,
harping
,
humdrum
,
invariability
,
invariable
,
jingle
,
jingle-jangle
,
jog-trot
,
labored
,
long-winded
,
monologue
,
monotone
,
monotonous
,
monotonousness
,
monotony
,
near rhyme
,
orderliness
,
pitter-patter
,
prolix
,
regularity
,
repeated sounds
,
repetitiousness
,
repetitiveness
,
rhyme
,
rhymed
,
rhyming
,
sameliness
,
sameness
,
slant rhyme
,
smoothness
,
stale repetition
,
tedious
,
tedium
,
treadmill
,
trot
,
undeviation
,
undifferentiation
,
uneventful
,
unnecessary repetition
,
unvariation
,
unvarying
benumb
collapse
related words >
KO
,
abate
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
bedaze
,
bemuse
,
besot
,
bite
,
blunt
,
chill
,
chloroform
,
coldcock
,
cushion
,
cut
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
desensitize
,
diminish
,
dope
,
drug
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
etherize
,
foment
,
freeze
,
frost
,
frostbite
,
give relief
,
go through
,
kayo
,
knock out
,
knock senseless
,
knock stiff
,
knock unconscious
,
lay
,
lay out
,
lessen
,
lull
,
mitigate
,
mollify
,
mull
,
narcotize
,
nip
,
numb
,
obtund
,
pad
,
palliate
,
palsy
,
paralyze
,
penetrate
,
petrify
,
pierce
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
put to sleep
,
reduce
,
refrigerate
,
relieve
,
salve
,
slacken
,
slake
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stun
,
stupe
,
stupefy
,
subdue
nerveless
collapse
related words >
anemic
,
asthenic
,
bloodless
,
calm
,
castrated
,
chicken
,
coolheaded
,
cowardly
,
debilitated
,
demasculinized
,
devitalized
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dull
,
effeminized
,
effete
,
emasculate
,
emasculated
,
enervated
,
etiolated
,
eunuchized
,
faint
,
faintish
,
feeble
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
floppy
,
gelded
,
gone
,
gutless
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
inexcitable
,
languid
,
languorous
,
limber
,
limp
,
listless
,
lustless
,
marrowless
,
pithless
,
pooped
,
powerless
,
relaxed
,
rock-steady
,
rubbery
,
sapless
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
soft
,
spineless
,
steady
,
steady-handed
,
steady-nerved
,
steel-nerved
,
strengthless
,
strong-nerved
,
unblenching
,
unblinking
,
unfaltering
,
unflinching
,
unhardened
,
unmanned
,
unnerved
,
unnervous
,
unquivering
,
unsexed
,
unshaken
,
unshaky
,
unshrinking
,
unstrained
,
unstrung
,
untremulous
,
unwavering
,
weak
,
weakly
,
without a tremor
anesthetic
collapse
a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
related words >
Mickey Finn
,
Pentothal
,
alleviating
,
alleviative
,
analgesic
,
anodyne
,
assuasive
,
balmy
,
balsamic
,
benumbing
,
cathartic
,
chloroform
,
cleansing
,
cocaine
,
deadening
,
demulcent
,
dope
,
drug
,
dull
,
dulling
,
easing
,
emollient
,
ether
,
ethyl chloride
,
ethylene
,
gas
,
hard
,
hypnotic
,
impassible
,
impenetrable
,
impermeable
,
impervious
,
insensate
,
insensitive
,
knockout drop
,
lenitive
,
lullaby
,
mandrake
,
menthol
,
mitigating
,
mitigative
,
morphia
,
morphine
,
narcotic
,
nightcap
,
nitrous oxide
,
numbing
,
obtuse
,
opiate
,
opium
,
pain-killer
,
pain-killing
,
palliative
,
poppy
,
purgative
,
relieving
,
remedial
,
rocky
,
sedative
,
sleep-bringer
,
sleep-inducer
,
sleep-producer
,
sleeping pill
,
softening
,
somnifacient
,
soothing
,
soporific
,
stunning
,
stupefying
,
subduing
,
tranquilizer
incompetent
collapse
someone who is not competent to take effective action
not qualified or suited for a purpose; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"
related words >
awkward
,
base
,
blank cartridge
,
bungling
,
castrato
,
clumsy
,
defective
,
deficient
,
disqualified
,
dud
,
dull tool
,
eunuch
,
failing
,
found wanting
,
gauche
,
gelding
,
greenhorn
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-fitted
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
ill-qualified
,
imperfect
,
impotent
,
inadequate
,
incapable
,
incapable of
,
incomplete
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficient
,
ineligible
,
inept
,
inexpert
,
inferior
,
insufficient
,
invalid
,
lacking
,
little
,
maladjusted
,
maladroit
,
mean
,
mediocre
,
mediocrity
,
no conjuror
,
not comparable
,
not enough
,
not equal to
,
not in it
,
not up to
,
out of it
,
petty
,
shabby
,
small
,
too little
,
trivial
,
unable
,
unable to
,
unadapted
,
unadjusted
,
unarmed
,
unendowed
,
unequal to
,
unequipped
,
unfit
,
unfitted
,
ungifted
,
unprovided
,
unqualified
,
unsatisfactory
,
unsatisfying
,
unskilled
,
unskillful
,
unsufficing
,
unsuited
,
untalented
,
unworkmanlike
,
useless
,
wanting
,
weakling
anesthetize
collapse
make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"
related words >
KO
,
abate
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
appease
,
assuage
,
bedaze
,
benumb
,
besot
,
blunt
,
chloroform
,
coldcock
,
cushion
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
desensitize
,
diminish
,
dope
,
drug
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
entrance
,
etherize
,
foment
,
freeze
,
give relief
,
hypnotize
,
kayo
,
knock out
,
knock senseless
,
knock stiff
,
knock unconscious
,
lay
,
lay out
,
lessen
,
lull
,
lull to sleep
,
magnetize
,
mesmerize
,
mitigate
,
mollify
,
narcotize
,
numb
,
obtund
,
pad
,
palliate
,
palsy
,
paralyze
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
put to sleep
,
put under
,
reduce
,
relieve
,
rock to sleep
,
salve
,
sedate
,
slacken
,
slake
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stun
,
stupe
,
stupefy
,
subdue
,
trance
unimpassioned
collapse
free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness; "answered with an unimpassioned defense"; "the unimpassioned intellect"
related words >
affectless
,
anesthetized
,
arctic
,
autistic
,
blunt
,
catatonic
,
chill
,
chilly
,
cold
,
cold as charity
,
cold-blooded
,
coldhearted
,
common
,
commonplace
,
cool
,
dispassionate
,
drugged
,
dull
,
emotionally dead
,
emotionless
,
flat
,
frigid
,
frosted
,
frosty
,
frozen
,
heartless
,
humdrum
,
icy
,
immovable
,
impassible
,
impassive
,
inexcitable
,
insipid
,
insusceptible
,
matter-of-fact
,
mundane
,
nonemotional
,
objective
,
obtuse
,
ordinary
,
out of touch
,
passionless
,
pedestrian
,
plain
,
poetryless
,
prosaic
,
prose
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
self-absorbed
,
soulless
,
spiritless
,
tiresome
,
unaffectionate
,
unagitated
,
undisturbed
,
unembellished
,
unemotional
,
unexcited
,
unfeeling
,
unflustered
,
unidealistic
,
unimaginative
,
unimpressionable
,
unloving
,
unpassionate
,
unperturbed
,
unpoetic
,
unresponding
,
unresponsive
,
unromantic
,
unruffled
,
unstirred
,
unsusceptible
,
unsympathetic
,
untouchable
,
untroubled
,
vapid
extended
collapse
beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand"
related words >
accelerated
,
aggrandized
,
allegorical
,
ample
,
ampliate
,
amplified
,
amplitudinous
,
associational
,
augmented
,
beefed-up
,
bloated
,
boosted
,
broad
,
broadened
,
built-up
,
capacious
,
commodious
,
connotational
,
connotative
,
crescendoed
,
de longue haleine
,
deep
,
deepened
,
definable
,
denotational
,
denotative
,
dragged out
,
drawn
,
drawn out
,
drawn-out
,
elevated
,
elongate
,
elongated
,
endless
,
enhanced
,
enlarged
,
expanded
,
expansive
,
expressive
,
extending
,
extensional
,
extensive
,
far-flung
,
far-reaching
,
figurative
,
filled out
,
full of meaning
,
full of point
,
full of substance
,
heightened
,
hiked
,
increased
,
indicative
,
infinite
,
inflated
,
intelligible
,
intensified
,
intensional
,
interminable
,
interpretable
,
jazzed up
,
languishing
,
lasting
,
lengthened
,
lengthy
,
lingering
,
long
,
long-continuing
,
long-drawn
,
long-drawn-out
,
long-pending
,
long-spun
,
long-winded
,
longiloquent
,
magnified
,
marathon
,
meaning
,
meaningful
,
meaty
,
metaphorical
,
multiplied
,
overlong
,
padded
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pregnant
,
proliferated
,
prolix
,
prolongated
,
prolonged
,
protracted
,
pulled
,
raised
,
readable
,
referential
,
reinforced
,
roomy
,
scopic
,
sententious
,
significant
,
significative
,
spacious
,
spread
,
spread out
,
spreading
,
spun out
,
spun-out
,
stiffened
,
straggling
,
strained
,
strengthened
,
stretched
,
stretched out
,
stretched-out
,
strung out
,
substantial
,
suggestive
,
swollen
,
symbolic
,
talkative
,
taut
,
tense
,
tight
,
tightened
,
transferred
,
unrelenting
,
upped
,
vast
,
verbose
,
voluminous
,
wide
,
widened
,
widespread
,
windy
,
wordy
unsightly
collapse
unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"
related words >
beat-up
,
beautiless
,
bedraggled
,
blemished
,
blotted
,
blowzy
,
cacophonic
,
cacophonous
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
defaced
,
dilapidated
,
disfigured
,
drab
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
dull
,
dysphemistic
,
dysphemized
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
grubby
,
hideous
,
homely
,
horrible
,
ill-favored
,
ill-looking
,
ill-shaped
,
in rags
,
inelegant
,
informal
,
lackluster
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
marred
,
messy
,
mussy
,
negligent
,
plain
,
poky
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
short on looks
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
sordid
,
spoiled
,
squalid
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
uglified
,
ugly
,
ugly as hell
,
ugly as sin
,
unaesthetic
,
unattractive
,
unbeautiful
,
uncomely
,
unhandsome
,
unkempt
,
unlovely
,
unneat
,
unpleasing
,
unprepossessing
,
unpretty
,
unshapely
,
untidy
chloroform
collapse
a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"
anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"
related words >
KO
,
Pentothal
,
anesthetize
,
annihilate
,
bedaze
,
benumb
,
bereave of life
,
besot
,
blunt
,
carry away
,
carry off
,
cocaine
,
coldcock
,
cut down
,
cut off
,
deaden
,
deprive of life
,
desensitize
,
destroy
,
dispatch
,
dispose of
,
do away with
,
do for
,
do to death
,
dope
,
drug
,
dull
,
end
,
ether
,
etherize
,
ethyl chloride
,
ethylene
,
execute
,
exterminate
,
finish
,
finish off
,
freeze
,
gas
,
immolate
,
kayo
,
kill
,
knock out
,
knock senseless
,
knock stiff
,
knock unconscious
,
launch into eternity
,
lay out
,
liquidate
,
lynch
,
make away with
,
martyr
,
martyrize
,
menthol
,
narcotize
,
nitrous oxide
,
numb
,
obtund
,
palsy
,
paralyze
,
poison
,
purge
,
put away
,
put down
,
put to death
,
put to sleep
,
remove from life
,
sacrifice
,
slay
,
starve
,
stun
,
stupefy
,
take life
,
take off
mull
collapse
an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre"
heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider"
related words >
addle
,
ball up
,
befuddle
,
benumb
,
bewilder
,
blunt
,
botch
,
botchery
,
candy
,
chafe
,
chew over
,
con
,
consider
,
contemplate
,
cook
,
dally
,
deliberate over
,
desensitize
,
dillydally
,
discombobulate
,
distract
,
dulcify
,
dull
,
edulcorate
,
electric-heat
,
evaluate
,
examine
,
fire
,
fire up
,
foment
,
fuddle
,
gas-heat
,
glaze
,
hash
,
heat
,
honey
,
hot
,
hot up
,
hot-air-heat
,
hot-water-heat
,
linger
,
loiter
,
mix-up
,
muddle
,
mull over
,
muse on
,
muss
,
numb
,
overheat
,
poke
,
ponder
,
preheat
,
procrastinate
,
put off
,
recook
,
reheat
,
review
,
ruminate over
,
saccharify
,
shambles
,
steam
,
stoke up
,
study
,
sugar
,
sugar off
,
sugarcoat
,
superheat
,
sweeten
,
tarry
,
tepefy
,
think about
,
think over
,
throw off
,
turn over
,
warm
,
warm over
,
warm up
,
weigh
washed out
collapse
related words >
achromatic
,
achromic
,
all in
,
anemic
,
ashen
,
ashy
,
blanched
,
bleached
,
bleary
,
bled white
,
bloodless
,
cadaverous
,
chloranemic
,
colorless
,
dead
,
deadly pale
,
deathly pale
,
depleted
,
dim
,
dimmed
,
dingy
,
discolored
,
drained
,
dull
,
eroded
,
etiolated
,
exhausted
,
exsanguinated
,
exsanguine
,
exsanguineous
,
faded
,
faint
,
fallow
,
far-gone
,
flat
,
ghastly
,
gray
,
haggard
,
hueless
,
hypochromic
,
lackluster
,
leaden
,
livid
,
lurid
,
lusterless
,
mat
,
mealy
,
muddy
,
neutral
,
pale
,
pale as death
,
pale-faced
,
pallid
,
pasty
,
sallow
,
sickly
,
spent
,
tallow-faced
,
toneless
,
uncolored
,
used up
,
wan
,
waxen
,
weak
,
weather-battered
,
weather-beaten
,
weather-bitten
,
weather-eaten
,
weather-wasted
,
weathered
,
weatherworn
,
whey-faced
,
white
,
worn-out
summary
collapse
a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions"
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abbreviation
,
abridged
,
abridgement
,
abridgment
,
abrupt
,
abstract
,
account
,
accounts
,
alert
,
apocope
,
aposiopestic
,
apt
,
body count
,
brief
,
brusque
,
capitulation
,
census
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compacted
,
compendious
,
compendium
,
compressed
,
compression
,
concise
,
condensation
,
condensed
,
consolidation
,
conspectus
,
contracted
,
copy
,
core
,
count
,
crisp
,
critique
,
curt
,
curtailment
,
curtal
,
curtate
,
cut
,
decisive
,
decurtate
,
digest
,
distillate
,
docked
,
drumhead
,
dwelling upon
,
elaboration
,
elision
,
ellipsis
,
elliptic
,
encapsulation
,
epigrammatic
,
epitome
,
epitomization
,
essence
,
expeditious
,
foreshortening
,
gist
,
gnomic
,
going over
,
head count
,
immediate
,
instant
,
instantaneous
,
inventory
,
iteration
,
laconic
,
little
,
low
,
main point
,
meat
,
nose count
,
outline
,
peremptory
,
perfunctory
,
pith
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
practicing
,
precis
,
prompt
,
pruned
,
punctual
,
quick
,
ready
,
reaffirmation
,
recap
,
recapitulation
,
recital
,
reckoning
,
recount
,
recountal
,
recounting
,
reduction
,
rehash
,
rehearsal
,
reissue
,
reiteration
,
repertory
,
reprint
,
reserved
,
restatement
,
resume
,
retelling
,
retrenchment
,
review
,
roundup
,
run-through
,
rundown
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
shortening
,
speedy
,
statement
,
substance
,
succinct
,
sum
,
sum and substance
,
summation
,
summing
,
summing up
,
summing-up
,
swift
,
syncope
,
synopsis
,
synopsized
,
synoptic
,
taciturn
,
telescoping
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
transient
,
truncated
,
truncation
slake
collapse
make less active or intense
related words >
abate
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
bate
,
benumb
,
cloy
,
cram
,
cushion
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
diminish
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
engorge
,
feast
,
feed
,
fill
,
fill up
,
foment
,
fulfill
,
give relief
,
glut
,
gorge
,
gratify
,
jade
,
lay
,
lessen
,
let down
,
let up
,
loose
,
loosen
,
lull
,
mitigate
,
mollify
,
numb
,
overdose
,
overfeed
,
overfill
,
overgorge
,
oversaturate
,
overstuff
,
pad
,
pall
,
palliate
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
quench
,
reduce
,
regale
,
relax
,
relieve
,
remit
,
salve
,
sate
,
satiate
,
satisfy
,
saturate
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stuff
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
supersaturate
,
surfeit
,
unbend
,
unbrace
,
unstrain
,
unstring
long winded
collapse
related words >
all jaw
,
blah
,
broken-record
,
candid
,
chatty
,
communicative
,
conversational
,
de longue haleine
,
drawn-out
,
drearisome
,
dreary
,
dry
,
dryasdust
,
dull
,
dusty
,
effusive
,
endless
,
everlasting
,
expansive
,
extended
,
filled out
,
flip
,
fluent
,
frank
,
gabby
,
garrulous
,
gassy
,
glib
,
gossipy
,
gregarious
,
gushy
,
harping
,
humdrum
,
interminable
,
invariable
,
jog-trot
,
languishing
,
lasting
,
lengthened
,
lengthy
,
lingering
,
long
,
long-continuing
,
long-drawn
,
long-drawn-out
,
long-pending
,
long-spun
,
longiloquent
,
loquacious
,
marathon
,
monotonous
,
multiloquent
,
multiloquious
,
newsy
,
overlong
,
overtalkative
,
padded
,
prolix
,
prolonged
,
protracted
,
singsong
,
smooth
,
sociable
,
spun-out
,
stretched-out
,
talkative
,
talky
,
tedious
,
treadmill
,
uneventful
,
unrelenting
,
unvarying
,
verbose
,
voluble
,
windy
,
wordy
purblind
collapse
related words >
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
blear-eyed
,
bleary-eyed
,
blind
,
blindfold
,
blindfolded
,
borne
,
closed
,
constricted
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
dark
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
dim
,
dim-eyed
,
dim-sighted
,
dull-sighted
,
fanatical
,
feeble-eyed
,
filmy-eyed
,
gravel-blind
,
half-blind
,
hidebound
,
illiberal
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
insensible
,
insular
,
little
,
little-minded
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mind-blind
,
mole-eyed
,
myopic
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
nearsighted
,
nonunderstanding
,
parochial
,
petty
,
provincial
,
sand-blind
,
shortsighted
,
sightless
,
small
,
small-minded
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
unapprehending
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
uncomprehending
,
undiscerning
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unperceptive
,
weak-eyed
threadbare
collapse
having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"
related words >
back-number
,
banal
,
bare
,
bathetic
,
bewhiskered
,
boring
,
bromidic
,
cliche
,
cliche-ridden
,
cliched
,
common
,
commonplace
,
corny
,
cut-and-dried
,
damaged
,
deep-worn
,
dilapidated
,
dingy
,
dog-eared
,
down-at-heel
,
dull
,
fade
,
faded
,
familiar
,
frayed
,
fusty
,
hack
,
hackney
,
hackneyed
,
imitative
,
impaired
,
injured
,
monotonous
,
moth-eaten
,
musty
,
old hat
,
overused
,
overworked
,
platitudinous
,
played out
,
prosaic
,
ragged
,
run-down
,
scruffy
,
seedy
,
sere
,
set
,
shabby
,
shelfworn
,
shopworn
,
slovenly
,
sorry
,
square
,
stale
,
stereotyped
,
stock
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
tatty
,
tedious
,
timeworn
,
tired
,
tiresome
,
torn
,
trite
,
truistic
,
uncreative
,
unoriginal
,
warmed-over
,
well-known
,
well-worn
,
worn
,
worn out
,
worn ragged
,
worn thin
,
worn to rags
,
worn to threads
,
worn-down
,
worn-out
,
wretched
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