Related Words:
- culmination
collapse - (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon related words >
- Z,
- accomplishment,
- acme,
- acme of perfection,
- apex,
- apodosis,
- apogee,
- bitter end,
- brow,
- cap,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- climax,
- close,
- closure,
- cloud nine,
- coda,
- completing,
- completion,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- decease,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- doom,
- edge,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- end result,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- fate,
- final result,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- finishing,
- fulfillment,
- full development,
- goal,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- izzard,
- last,
- last act,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last word,
- last words,
- latter end,
- limit,
- maturation,
- maturity,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- omega,
- payoff,
- peak,
- perfection,
- period,
- peroration,
- pink,
- pink of perfection,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- quietus,
- realization,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- ridge,
- ripeness,
- rounding off,
- rounding out,
- seventh heaven,
- sky,
- spire,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- summit,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- topping off,
- topping-off,
- ultimate,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- vertex,
- very top,
- windup,
- zenith
- absorption
collapse
- (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
- (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium; "the absorption of photons by atoms or molecules" related words >
- Walter Mitty,
- ablation,
- absence of mind,
- absentmindedness,
- absorbed attention,
- absorbency,
- absorbent,
- abstractedness,
- abstraction,
- adsorbent,
- adsorption,
- application,
- assimilation,
- attrition,
- bemusement,
- bile,
- blotter,
- blotting,
- blotting paper,
- brown study,
- burning up,
- castle-building,
- chemisorption,
- chemosorption,
- close study,
- concentration,
- consumption,
- contemplation,
- contemplativeness,
- daydream,
- daydreamer,
- daydreaming,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- depletion,
- depth of thought,
- digestion,
- digestive system,
- drain,
- dream,
- dreaming,
- eating up,
- embarrassment,
- endosmosis,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- enmeshment,
- entanglement,
- erosion,
- exhaustion,
- exosmosis,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- fantasy,
- fantasying,
- finishing,
- fit of abstraction,
- gastric juice,
- gastrointestinal tract,
- imbibing,
- immersion,
- implication,
- impoverishment,
- inclusion,
- infiltration,
- ingestion,
- intentness,
- intestinal juice,
- involution,
- involvement,
- liver,
- meditation,
- melancholy,
- monomania,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- muse,
- musefulness,
- musing,
- muted ecstasy,
- obsession,
- osmosis,
- pancreas,
- pancreatic digestion,
- pancreatic juice,
- pensiveness,
- percolation,
- pipe dream,
- pipe-dreaming,
- predigestion,
- preoccupation,
- profound thought,
- rapt attention,
- reflectiveness,
- relation,
- reverie,
- saliva,
- salivary digestion,
- salivary glands,
- secondary digestion,
- seepage,
- single-mindedness,
- soaking-up,
- sorption,
- speculativeness,
- spending,
- sponge,
- sponging,
- squandering,
- stargazing,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submersion,
- taking-in,
- thoughtfulness,
- trance,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness,
- woolgathering
- attrition
collapse
- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation related words >
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- absorption,
- apologies,
- assimilation,
- atomization,
- attenuation,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- beating,
- bitterness,
- blunting,
- brecciation,
- buffing,
- burning up,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- corrosion,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- deliquescence,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- detrition,
- devitalization,
- digestion,
- dilution,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disintegration,
- disparagement,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- drain,
- dressing,
- dulling,
- eating up,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fatigue,
- filing,
- finishing,
- fragmentation,
- fretting,
- galling,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grief,
- grinding,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- inanition,
- ingestion,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- levigation,
- limation,
- loss,
- mashing,
- mitigation,
- penance,
- penitently,
- polishing,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- rasping,
- reduction,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rubbing away,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- shining,
- shortening,
- shredding,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- smashing,
- smoothing,
- softening,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- spending,
- squandering,
- thinning,
- trituration,
- truncation,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- weakening,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness
- ultimate
collapse
- the finest or most superior quality of its kind; "the ultimate in luxury"
- being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
- furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life" related words >
- absolute,
- acmatic,
- acme,
- acme of perfection,
- apical,
- apotheosis,
- approaching,
- basic,
- binding,
- boundary,
- capital,
- categorical,
- caudal,
- chief,
- climax,
- closing,
- collateral,
- coming,
- complete,
- completing,
- completive,
- completory,
- compulsory,
- conclude,
- concluding,
- conclusive,
- consummate,
- consummation,
- consummative,
- contingent,
- crowning,
- culminating,
- culmination,
- deciding,
- decisive,
- decretory,
- definitive,
- desired,
- destinal,
- destined,
- determinative,
- determine,
- determined,
- dictated,
- elemental,
- emergent,
- empyreal,
- empyrean,
- end,
- endmost,
- entailed,
- epitome,
- essential,
- eventual,
- exalted,
- extrapolated,
- extreme,
- farthermost,
- farthest,
- farthest off,
- fatal,
- fated,
- fatidic,
- final,
- finalizing,
- finish,
- finishing,
- forthcoming,
- fulfilling,
- fundamental,
- furthermost,
- furthest,
- future,
- futuristic,
- grand,
- greatest,
- hard-and-fast,
- head,
- headmost,
- height,
- hereafter,
- highest,
- highest pitch,
- hindmost,
- hoped-for,
- imminent,
- imperative,
- imposed,
- incomparable,
- indirect,
- irrevocable,
- lag,
- last,
- last word,
- later,
- latest,
- latter,
- limiting,
- lofty,
- mandated,
- mandatory,
- maximal,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- meridional,
- most distant,
- must,
- ne plus ultra,
- nearing,
- obligatory,
- overmost,
- paramount,
- peak,
- peremptory,
- perfection,
- pink,
- pink of perfection,
- pinnacle,
- planned,
- plotted,
- polar,
- predicted,
- preeminent,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- primary,
- probable,
- projected,
- prophesied,
- prospective,
- quintessence,
- remotest,
- required,
- secondary,
- sublime,
- summit,
- summital,
- supreme,
- surpassing,
- tail,
- terminal,
- terminate,
- terminating,
- terminative,
- tip-top,
- to come,
- to-be,
- top,
- topmost,
- towering,
- transcendent,
- transcendental,
- underlying,
- unmatchable,
- unsurpassable,
- upmost,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- uttermost,
- vertical,
- wind up,
- without appeal,
- wrap up,
- zenithal
- ending
collapse
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
- event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" related words >
- Z,
- annihilation,
- apodosis,
- arrest,
- bane,
- bell,
- biological death,
- capping,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- cessation of life,
- check,
- checkmate,
- clinical death,
- close,
- closing,
- coda,
- completing,
- completion,
- concluding,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- consummative,
- consummatory,
- crack of doom,
- crossing the bar,
- crowning,
- culminating,
- culmination,
- culminative,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- cutoff,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- demise,
- denouement,
- departure,
- desistance,
- destination,
- destiny,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- effect,
- end,
- end of life,
- end point,
- endgame,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eternal rest,
- exit,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final summons,
- final twitch,
- final whistle,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finger of death,
- finis,
- finish,
- finishing,
- full development,
- full stop,
- goal,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hand of death,
- izzard,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last,
- last breath,
- last debt,
- last gasp,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving life,
- lockout,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- maturation,
- maturity,
- omega,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- payoff,
- perfecting,
- perfection,
- perfective,
- period,
- perishing,
- peroration,
- quietus,
- release,
- resolution,
- rest,
- resting place,
- reward,
- ripeness,
- rounding off,
- rounding out,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- sit-down strike,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- stalemate,
- stand,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- stay,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- strike,
- summons of death,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- terminating,
- termination,
- terminus,
- topping off,
- walkout,
- windup,
- work stoppage
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