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smoke screen
collapse
an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure; "requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures"
(military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements
related words >
alibi
,
apology
,
blind
,
camouflage
,
cloak
,
color
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
device
,
disguise
,
domino
,
excuse
,
facade
,
false colors
,
false face
,
false front
,
feint
,
front
,
gloss
,
guise
,
handle
,
incognito
,
lame excuse
,
locus standi
,
mask
,
masque
,
masquerade
,
mummery
,
ostensible motive
,
poor excuse
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protective coloration
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
refuge
,
screen
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
subterfuge
,
trick
,
varnish
,
veil
,
visor
,
vizard
,
vizard mask
demulcent
collapse
a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin
having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
related words >
alleviating
,
alleviative
,
analgesic
,
anesthetic
,
anodyne
,
assuasive
,
balm
,
balmy
,
balsam
,
balsamic
,
benumbing
,
brilliantine
,
calmant
,
calmative
,
cathartic
,
cerate
,
chrism
,
cleansing
,
cold cream
,
collyrium
,
cream
,
deadening
,
dulling
,
easing
,
embrocation
,
emollient
,
eye-lotion
,
eyewash
,
eyewater
,
face cream
,
hand lotion
,
inunction
,
inunctum
,
lanolin
,
lenitive
,
liniment
,
loosening
,
lotion
,
mitigating
,
mitigative
,
mollifying
,
nard
,
numbing
,
oil
,
ointment
,
pain-killing
,
palliative
,
pomade
,
pomatum
,
purgative
,
relaxing
,
relieving
,
remedial
,
salve
,
sedative
,
softening
,
soothing
,
soothing syrup
,
spikenard
,
subduing
,
unction
,
unguent
,
unguentum
,
vulnerary
tergiversate
collapse
related words >
alternate
,
apostatize
,
around the bush
,
back and fill
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
change
,
choplogic
,
come round
,
desert
,
dither
,
do a flip-flop
,
do an about-face
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
fluctuate
,
have second thoughts
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hum and haw
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
oscillate
,
palter
,
parry
,
pendulate
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
rat
,
renounce
,
repudiate
,
shift
,
shilly-shally
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
teeter
,
totter
,
turn
,
vacillate
,
vary
,
waffle
,
waver
,
weasel
,
wheel
,
wobble
coldness
collapse
a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner"
the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
related words >
Laodiceanism
,
absolute zero
,
algidity
,
aloofness
,
anesthesia
,
autism
,
backwardness
,
bashfulness
,
bitterness
,
blankness
,
bleakness
,
briskness
,
callosity
,
callousness
,
carnality
,
catatonia
,
chill
,
chilliness
,
cold
,
cold blood
,
cold heart
,
coldbloodedness
,
coldheartedness
,
constraint
,
cool
,
coolness
,
coolth
,
crispness
,
cryogenics
,
cryology
,
deadpan
,
decrease in temperature
,
detachment
,
disaffinity
,
discreetness
,
discretion
,
dispassion
,
dispassionateness
,
distance
,
dullness
,
emotional deadness
,
emotionlessness
,
enmity
,
expressionlessness
,
fervorlessness
,
flesh
,
fleshliness
,
freezing point
,
freshness
,
frigidity
,
frost
,
frostiness
,
gelidity
,
guardedness
,
halfheartedness
,
hardheartedness
,
hardness
,
hardness of heart
,
heart of stone
,
heartlessness
,
iciness
,
immovability
,
impassibility
,
impassiveness
,
impassivity
,
impersonality
,
impotence
,
inaccessibility
,
inclemency
,
incompatibility
,
incompatibleness
,
indifference
,
indifferentism
,
indifferentness
,
inexcitability
,
inhospitality
,
inimicality
,
insensitivity
,
insipidity
,
intense cold
,
introversion
,
keenness
,
lack of affect
,
lack of feeling
,
lack of touch
,
libido
,
love
,
lovemaking
,
low temperature
,
lukewarmness
,
marriage
,
modesty
,
neuterness
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
nip
,
nippiness
,
obduracy
,
objectivity
,
obtuseness
,
offishness
,
passionlessness
,
perfunctoriness
,
personal conflict
,
pitilessness
,
poker face
,
potency
,
rawness
,
remoteness
,
repression
,
reserve
,
reservedness
,
restraint
,
reticence
,
reticency
,
retirement
,
rigor
,
self-absorption
,
sensuality
,
severity
,
sex drive
,
sexiness
,
sexual instinct
,
sexual urge
,
sexualism
,
sexuality
,
sharp air
,
sharpness
,
soullessness
,
spiritlessness
,
standoffishness
,
straight face
,
strain
,
subduedness
,
suppression
,
tension
,
tepidness
,
unaffability
,
unamiability
,
unapproachability
,
uncongeniality
,
uncordiality
,
undemonstrativeness
,
unemotionalism
,
unexcitability
,
unexpansiveness
,
unfeeling
,
unfeelingness
,
unfriendliness
,
ungeniality
,
unimpressibility
,
unimpressionableness
,
unmercifulness
,
unnaturalness
,
unpassionateness
,
unresponsiveness
,
unsociability
,
unsusceptibility
,
unsympatheticness
,
untouchability
,
vapidity
,
voluptuousness
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawnness
,
zeallessness
cheek
collapse
either side of the face below the eyes
speak impudently to
related words >
arse
,
ass
,
backside
,
bank
,
beam
,
behind
,
border
,
bottom
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brazen boldness
,
breech
,
broadside
,
bum
,
butt
,
can
,
cheeks
,
chop
,
chutzpah
,
coast
,
confidence
,
crust
,
derriere
,
duff
,
face
,
fanny
,
flank
,
gall
,
hand
,
handedness
,
haunch
,
heroics
,
hip
,
hubris
,
improvidence
,
imprudence
,
impudence
,
indiscretion
,
injudiciousness
,
insolence
,
jowl
,
keister
,
laterality
,
many-sidedness
,
multilaterality
,
nerve
,
overboldness
,
overcarelessness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweeningness
,
planking
,
prat
,
presumption
,
profile
,
quarter
,
rashness
,
rusty-dusty
,
shore
,
side
,
siding
,
stern
,
tail
,
temerariousness
,
temerity
,
temple
,
tuchis
,
tush
,
tushy
,
unchariness
,
unilaterality
,
unwariness
golden
collapse
favoring or bringing good luck; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
suggestive of gold; "a golden voice"
marked by peace and prosperity; "a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade"
related words >
achingly sweet
,
advantageous
,
agreeable
,
agreeable-sounding
,
appealing
,
ariose
,
arioso
,
aureate
,
auric
,
auriferous
,
aurous
,
auspicious
,
beige
,
benign
,
benignant
,
beyond price
,
blessed
,
blissful
,
blond
,
brass
,
brassy
,
brazen
,
bright
,
brilliant
,
bronze
,
bronzy
,
buff
,
buff-yellow
,
canary
,
canary-yellow
,
canorous
,
cantabile
,
catchy
,
cherished
,
citron
,
citron-yellow
,
copper
,
coppery
,
cream
,
creamy
,
cupreous
,
cuprous
,
dazzling
,
dear
,
delightful
,
divine
,
dulcet
,
ecru
,
euphonic
,
euphonious
,
euphonous
,
excellent
,
exceptional
,
exquisite
,
exuberant
,
fair
,
fallow
,
favorable
,
favored
,
favoring
,
favorite
,
ferrous
,
ferruginous
,
fertile
,
fine-toned
,
flaxen
,
flourishing
,
fortunate
,
full of promise
,
gifted
,
gilded
,
gilt
,
gilt-edged
,
gleaming
,
glittering
,
glorious
,
glowing
,
gold
,
gold-colored
,
gold-filled
,
gold-plated
,
golden-tongued
,
golden-voiced
,
good
,
good as gold
,
halcyon
,
happy
,
heavenly
,
honeyed
,
immense
,
inestimable
,
invaluable
,
iron
,
ironlike
,
joyful
,
joyous
,
lead
,
leaden
,
lemon
,
lemon-yellow
,
liquid
,
lucky
,
lustrous
,
luteolous
,
lutescent
,
magnificent
,
marvelous
,
melic
,
mellifluent
,
mellifluous
,
mellisonant
,
mellow
,
melodic
,
melodious
,
mercurial
,
mercurous
,
music-flowing
,
music-like
,
musical
,
nickel
,
nickelic
,
nickeline
,
ocherish
,
ocherous
,
ochery
,
ochreous
,
ochroid
,
ochrous
,
ochry
,
of good omen
,
of great price
,
of happy portent
,
of promise
,
opportune
,
optimistic
,
or
,
outstanding
,
palmy
,
pet
,
pewter
,
pewtery
,
pleasant
,
pleasant-sounding
,
precious
,
priceless
,
primrose
,
primrose-colored
,
primrose-yellow
,
productive
,
promising
,
propitious
,
prosperous
,
quicksilver
,
radiant
,
resplendent
,
rich
,
rosy
,
saffron
,
saffron-colored
,
saffron-yellow
,
sallow
,
sand-colored
,
sandy
,
sensational
,
shining
,
shiny
,
silver
,
silver-plated
,
silver-toned
,
silver-tongued
,
silver-voiced
,
silvery
,
singable
,
songful
,
songlike
,
sonorous
,
sparkling
,
special
,
splendid
,
splendiferous
,
steel
,
steely
,
sterling
,
straw
,
straw-colored
,
successful
,
sunny
,
super
,
superb
,
supereminent
,
superexcellent
,
superfine
,
sweet
,
sweet-flowing
,
sweet-sounding
,
talented
,
terrific
,
thriving
,
tin
,
tinny
,
tremendous
,
tunable
,
tuneful
,
valuable
,
white-haired
,
wonderful
,
worthy
,
xanthic
,
xanthous
,
yellow
,
yellowish
escarpment
collapse
a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
bluff
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
cliff
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
crag
,
curtain
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
face
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
glacis
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
mound
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
palisades
,
parados
,
parapet
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
precipice
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
sally port
,
scar
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
steep
,
stockade
,
tenaille
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
work
gamble
collapse
a risky act or venture
money that is risked for possible monetary gain
play games for money
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"
related words >
accidentality
,
actuarial calculation
,
admit of
,
adventitiousness
,
ante
,
ante up
,
back
,
be liable
,
be subjected to
,
bet
,
bet on
,
bid fair to
,
blind bargain
,
borderline case
,
brave
,
break
,
call
,
cast lots
,
casualness
,
challenge
,
chance
,
compromise
,
contingency
,
count on
,
court destruction
,
cover
,
cut lots
,
cut the cards
,
dare
,
defy
,
defy danger
,
destiny
,
double contingency
,
draw lots
,
draw straws
,
encounter danger
,
endanger
,
expose
,
face
,
face up to
,
fade
,
fate
,
flukiness
,
forget the odds
,
fortuitousness
,
fortuity
,
fortune
,
gamble on
,
gamble with
,
game
,
good fortune
,
good luck
,
guess
,
hap
,
happenstance
,
happy chance
,
hazard
,
heedless hap
,
how they fall
,
imperil
,
incur danger
,
indeterminacy
,
indeterminateness
,
jeopard
,
jeopardize
,
jeopardy
,
law of averages
,
lay
,
lay a wager
,
lay down
,
lay open
,
lie under
,
lot
,
luck
,
make a bet
,
make book
,
match coins
,
meet a bet
,
moira
,
open question
,
opportunity
,
parlay
,
pass
,
peril
,
piece of guesswork
,
play
,
play against
,
play at dice
,
play the ponies
,
play with fire
,
plunge
,
predict
,
principle of indeterminacy
,
probability
,
problematicness
,
prognosticate
,
punt
,
put in danger
,
put in jeopardy
,
put on
,
question
,
raffle off
,
random sample
,
rely on
,
risk
,
run of luck
,
run the chance
,
run the risk
,
see
,
serendipity
,
set
,
shoot craps
,
sight-unseen transaction
,
speculate
,
speculation
,
sport
,
stake
,
stand a chance
,
stand fair to
,
stand pat
,
stand to gain
,
stand to lose
,
statistical probability
,
take a chance
,
take chances
,
tempt Providence
,
tempt fortune
,
the breaks
,
theory of probability
,
toss
,
toss-up
,
touch and go
,
uncertainty
,
uncertainty principle
,
undecided issue
,
venture
,
wager
,
whatever comes
self-reliance
collapse
related words >
Declaration of Independence
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
autarchy
,
autarky
,
autonomy
,
belief
,
boastfulness
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
conceit
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
courage
,
face
,
faith
,
haughtiness
,
home rule
,
hubris
,
independence
,
individualism
,
inner-direction
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
pardonable pride
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
purse-pride
,
rugged individualism
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-containment
,
self-determination
,
self-direction
,
self-esteem
,
self-government
,
self-importance
,
self-respect
,
self-sufficiency
,
settled belief
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
trust
,
vanity
emollient
collapse
related words >
alleviating
,
alleviative
,
analgesic
,
anesthetic
,
anodyne
,
assuasive
,
balm
,
balmy
,
balsam
,
balsamic
,
benumbing
,
brilliantine
,
cathartic
,
cerate
,
chrism
,
cleansing
,
cold cream
,
collyrium
,
cream
,
deadening
,
demulcent
,
dulling
,
easing
,
embrocation
,
eye-lotion
,
eyewash
,
eyewater
,
face cream
,
hand lotion
,
inunction
,
inunctum
,
lanolin
,
lenitive
,
liniment
,
loosening
,
lotion
,
lubricant
,
lubricating
,
lubricational
,
lubricative
,
mitigating
,
mitigative
,
mollifying
,
nard
,
numbing
,
oil
,
ointment
,
pain-killing
,
palliative
,
pomade
,
pomatum
,
purgative
,
relaxing
,
relieving
,
remedial
,
salve
,
softening
,
soothing
,
soothing syrup
,
spikenard
,
subduing
,
unction
,
unguent
,
unguentum
,
vulnerary
pica
collapse
magpies
related words >
analgesia
,
anesthesia
,
anxiety equivalent
,
ascender
,
back
,
bastard type
,
beard
,
belly
,
bevel
,
black letter
,
body
,
cap
,
capital
,
case
,
counter
,
depraved appetite
,
descender
,
em
,
en
,
face
,
fat-faced type
,
feet
,
font
,
groove
,
italic
,
letter
,
ligature
,
logotype
,
lower case
,
majuscule
,
minuscule
,
neurasthenia
,
nick
,
paresthesia
,
parorexia
,
pi
,
point
,
print
,
roman
,
sans serif
,
script
,
shank
,
shoulder
,
small cap
,
small capital
,
speech abnormality
,
stamp
,
stem
,
type
,
type body
,
type class
,
type lice
,
typecase
,
typeface
,
typefounders
,
typefoundry
,
upper case
din
collapse
instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students"
related words >
Bedlam let loose
,
awake the dead
,
babel
,
beat
,
bedlam
,
blast
,
blast the ear
,
blatancy
,
bobbery
,
boisterousness
,
boom
,
brawl
,
brouhaha
,
charivari
,
chirm
,
clamor
,
clamorousness
,
clangor
,
clap
,
clash
,
clatter
,
commotion
,
crash
,
crescendo
,
deafen
,
ding
,
discord
,
donnybrook
,
drum
,
drunken brawl
,
dustup
,
fill the air
,
flap
,
fracas
,
free-for-all
,
hammer
,
hell broke loose
,
howl
,
hubbub
,
hue and cry
,
hullabaloo
,
jangle
,
loud noise
,
music
,
noise
,
noise and shouting
,
outcry
,
pandemonium
,
peal
,
percussion
,
pound
,
racket
,
rattle
,
rattle the windows
,
rend the air
,
rend the ears
,
resound
,
rhubarb
,
ring
,
rise
,
roar
,
rock the sky
,
row
,
ruckus
,
ruction
,
rumble
,
rumpus
,
shindy
,
shivaree
,
sound
,
split the eardrums
,
split the ears
,
startle the echoes
,
stridency
,
stun
,
surge
,
swell
,
thunder
,
thunderclap
,
tintamarre
,
tumult
,
uproar
realignment
collapse
related words >
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
apostasy
,
betterment
,
break
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
constructive change
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
defection
,
degeneration
,
degenerative change
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
difference
,
discontinuity
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
fitting
,
flip-flop
,
gradual change
,
improvement
,
melioration
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
modulation
,
overthrow
,
qualification
,
radical change
,
re-creation
,
rearrangement
,
reconstitution
,
redesign
,
redisposition
,
redistribution
,
reform
,
reformation
,
remaking
,
renewal
,
reordering
,
reorganization
,
reshaping
,
restructuring
,
reversal
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
sudden change
,
switch
,
total change
,
transition
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
upheaval
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
worsening
sheathe
collapse
plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword"
cover with a protective sheathing; "sheathe her face"
related words >
apparel
,
array
,
attire
,
bedeck
,
bedrape
,
board
,
box
,
brick
,
bundle up
,
case
,
clad
,
clapboard
,
clothe
,
cover
,
crate
,
deck
,
dight
,
drape
,
dress
,
dud
,
embox
,
embrace
,
encapsulate
,
encase
,
enclothe
,
endue
,
enfold
,
enrobe
,
enshroud
,
envelop
,
enwrap
,
face
,
garb
,
garment
,
glass
,
glaze
,
habilitate
,
invest
,
jacket
,
lap
,
lath
,
muffle up
,
pack
,
package
,
panel
,
paper
,
plank
,
rag out
,
raiment
,
revet
,
robe
,
shake
,
shingle
,
shroud
,
side
,
skin
,
slate
,
smother
,
stone
,
surround
,
swaddle
,
swathe
,
thatch
,
tile
,
tire
,
veneer
,
wall in
,
wall up
,
wallpaper
,
weatherboard
,
wrap
,
wrap about
,
wrap up
fakery
collapse
the act of faking (or the product of faking)
related words >
acting
,
affectation
,
appearance
,
attitudinizing
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
cheating
,
color
,
coloring
,
copying
,
counterfeiting
,
deception
,
delusion
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
emulation
,
facade
,
face
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigning
,
feint
,
following
,
forgery
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
hit-off
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
imposture
,
impression
,
masquerade
,
meretriciousness
,
mimesis
,
mirroring
,
onomatopoeia
,
ostentation
,
outward show
,
parody
,
plagiarism
,
plagiary
,
playacting
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
repetition
,
representation
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
speciousness
,
takeoff
,
varnish
,
window dressing
hark back
collapse
go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
related words >
break back
,
bring back
,
bring to mind
,
call back
,
call to mind
,
call up
,
change back
,
conjure up
,
cry back
,
cry back to
,
do a flip-flop
,
do an about-face
,
evoke
,
flip-flop
,
go back
,
go back over
,
go back to
,
look back
,
mind
,
recall
,
recall to mind
,
recapture
,
recollect
,
recur to
,
reevoke
,
reflect
,
remember
,
retrace
,
retrospect
,
return to
,
revert to
,
review
,
review in retrospect
,
revive
,
see in retrospect
,
summon up
,
think back
,
think of
,
turn
,
turn about
,
turn around
,
turn back
,
use hindsight
first
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