Related Words:
- uncertainty
collapse - being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income" related words >
- Pyrrhonism,
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- agitation,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambitendency,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- anxiety,
- apprehension,
- arrhythmia,
- bleariness,
- blur,
- blurriness,
- bother,
- break,
- brokenness,
- calculated risk,
- capriciousness,
- casualness,
- chance,
- chanciness,
- change of mind,
- changeableness,
- choppiness,
- cliff-hanging,
- complexity of meaning,
- concern,
- criticalness,
- darkness,
- defocus,
- delicacy,
- destiny,
- desultoriness,
- deviability,
- diffidence,
- dimness,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- disquiet,
- distress,
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- double-mindedness,
- doubt,
- doubtfulness,
- dread,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- eccentricity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- expectant waiting,
- faintness,
- fate,
- feebleness,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fibrillation,
- fickleness,
- filminess,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- flier,
- flightiness,
- fluctuation,
- flukiness,
- fogginess,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- freakishness,
- fuzziness,
- gamble,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- half-belief,
- half-visibility,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- hazard,
- hazardousness,
- haziness,
- heedless hap,
- hesitation,
- how they fall,
- impulsiveness,
- incertitude,
- inconsistency,
- inconstancy,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- indistinguishability,
- infirmity of purpose,
- insecurity,
- instability,
- intermittence,
- irony,
- irregularity,
- irresolution,
- jerkiness,
- law of averages,
- leeriness,
- levels of meaning,
- lot,
- low profile,
- luck,
- mercuriality,
- misdoubt,
- misgiving,
- mistiness,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- moira,
- moodiness,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- multivocality,
- opportunity,
- paleness,
- paronomasia,
- patchiness,
- perilousness,
- perturbation,
- pessimism,
- play,
- plunge,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- precariousness,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- punning,
- query,
- question,
- random sample,
- reserve,
- restlessness,
- richness of meaning,
- risk,
- riskiness,
- roughness,
- run of luck,
- salt,
- scruple,
- scrupulousness,
- second thoughts,
- self-doubt,
- semivisibility,
- serendipity,
- shadow of doubt,
- shadowiness,
- shakiness,
- shiftiness,
- skepticalness,
- skepticism,
- slipperiness,
- soft focus,
- spasticity,
- speculation,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- statistical probability,
- suspense,
- suspicion,
- suspiciousness,
- sword of Damocles,
- tergiversation,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- ticklish business,
- ticklishness,
- total skepticism,
- totteriness,
- touchiness,
- trouble,
- uncertainty principle,
- unclearness,
- undecidedness,
- undependability,
- undeterminedness,
- uneasiness,
- unevenness,
- unfixedness,
- unhealthiness,
- unmethodicalness,
- unplainness,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsafeness,
- unsettledness,
- unsettlement,
- unsoundness,
- unstableness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsureness,
- unsystematicness,
- untrustworthiness,
- vague appearance,
- vagueness,
- variability,
- variation,
- variety,
- venture,
- waiting,
- wantonness,
- wariness,
- waywardness,
- weakness,
- whatever comes,
- whimsicality,
- wobble,
- wonder,
- worry
- haltingly
collapse
- in a halting manner; "he spoke haltingly" related words >
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- cautiously,
- circumspectly,
- crawlingly,
- creepingly,
- deliberately,
- desultorily,
- dilatorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- easily,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- falteringly,
- fitfully,
- gently,
- idly,
- in low gear,
- in march time,
- in slow motion,
- in slow tempo,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- indolently,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- languidly,
- languorously,
- leisurely,
- limpingly,
- lingeringly,
- loiteringly,
- lurchingly,
- moderately,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- pokily,
- pokingly,
- relaxedly,
- reluctantly,
- roughly,
- slow,
- slowly,
- sluggishly,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- tarryingly,
- tentatively,
- uncertainly,
- under easy sail,
- unevenly,
- unhurriedly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- whimsically,
- with agonizing slowness,
- with deliberation,
- wobblingly
- ague
collapse
- a fit of shivering or shaking
- successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria related words >
- African lethargy,
- Asiatic cholera,
- Chagres fever,
- German measles,
- Haverhill fever,
- abscess,
- acute articular rheumatism,
- alkali disease,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- anthrax,
- apnea,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- bacillary dysentery,
- backache,
- bastard measles,
- black death,
- black fever,
- blackwater fever,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- breakbone fever,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- bumpiness,
- cachectic fever,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- chattering,
- chicken pox,
- chill,
- chills,
- cholera,
- chorea,
- cold shivers,
- colic,
- constipation,
- convulsion,
- coughing,
- cowpox,
- cyanosis,
- dandy fever,
- deer fly fever,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- diarrhea,
- diphtheria,
- dizziness,
- dropsy,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- edema,
- elephantiasis,
- emaciation,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- erysipelas,
- fainting,
- famine fever,
- fatigue,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- fits and starts,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- flux,
- frambesia,
- glandular fever,
- grippe,
- growth,
- hansenosis,
- hemorrhage,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- high blood pressure,
- histoplasmosis,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypotension,
- icterus,
- indigestion,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammation,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- insomnia,
- itching,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jail fever,
- jaundice,
- jerkiness,
- joltiness,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- labored breathing,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lockjaw,
- low blood pressure,
- lumbago,
- madness,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- marasmus,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- meningitis,
- milzbrand,
- mumps,
- nasal discharge,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- pain,
- palsy,
- paralysis,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- pertussis,
- pneumonia,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- pruritus,
- psittacosis,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quivering,
- rabbit fever,
- rabies,
- rash,
- rat-bite fever,
- relapsing fever,
- rheum,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- ringworm,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- sclerosis,
- seizure,
- septic sore throat,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shingles,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shock,
- shuddering,
- skin eruption,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- sneezing,
- sore,
- spasm,
- spasms,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- strep throat,
- succussion,
- swamp fever,
- tabes,
- tachycardia,
- tetanus,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- trembling,
- tremulousness,
- trench fever,
- trench mouth,
- tuberculosis,
- tularemia,
- tumor,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- undulant fever,
- upset stomach,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- vertigo,
- vibration,
- viral dysentery,
- vomiting,
- wasting,
- whooping cough,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zona,
- zoster
- stagger
collapse
- to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"
- walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
- walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow" related words >
- affright,
- agitate,
- alarm,
- alternate,
- amaze,
- amble,
- amplitude,
- arrhythmia,
- astonish,
- astound,
- awe,
- awestrike,
- back and fill,
- barge,
- be drunk,
- be incredible,
- be intoxicated,
- be unbelievable,
- bedaze,
- bedazzle,
- bewilder,
- blunder,
- boggle,
- bowl along,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- brokenness,
- bundle,
- burden,
- camber,
- capriciousness,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- choppiness,
- clump,
- come a cropper,
- confound,
- crack,
- crankle,
- curdle the blood,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- desultoriness,
- devastate,
- discombobulate,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- disquiet,
- disturb,
- dither,
- do,
- drag,
- droop,
- dumbfound,
- dumbfounder,
- ebb and flow,
- eccentricity,
- electrify,
- erraticness,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- falter,
- fare,
- fibrillation,
- fill with doubt,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- flabbergast,
- flight path,
- floor,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuation,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- foot,
- footslog,
- fright,
- frighten,
- funk,
- fuss,
- gait,
- gallop,
- get,
- get a cropper,
- go,
- go through phases,
- halt,
- have two minds,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hop,
- horripilate,
- inconstancy,
- intermittence,
- irregularity,
- jar,
- jerkiness,
- jog,
- jolt,
- jump,
- knock over,
- labor,
- limp,
- list,
- lock step,
- lumber,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- make one tremble,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- muddle through,
- nonplus,
- nonuniformity,
- oscillate,
- overcome,
- overpower,
- overwhelm,
- pace,
- paddle,
- paralyze,
- pass belief,
- pass out,
- patchiness,
- peg,
- pendulate,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- petrify,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- plod,
- plunge,
- pop,
- prance,
- puzzle,
- rack,
- raise apprehensions,
- rattle,
- rearrange,
- reel,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- roughness,
- ruffle,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scare,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- see double,
- seesaw,
- seethe,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shamble,
- shatter,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shock,
- shot,
- shuffle,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- skin effect,
- skin friction,
- skip,
- slap,
- slink,
- slip,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- space out,
- spasticity,
- spook,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stab,
- stalk,
- stammer,
- stamp,
- startle,
- step,
- stir,
- stiver,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stride,
- strike dead,
- strike dumb,
- strike with wonder,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- struggle,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- stun,
- stupefy,
- surprise,
- swagger,
- sway,
- swing,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- take aback,
- tax,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- traipse,
- tread,
- trip,
- trot,
- trouble,
- trudge,
- try,
- tumble,
- turn,
- turn turtle,
- uncertainty,
- unevenness,
- unman,
- unmethodicalness,
- unnerve,
- unpredictability,
- unsettle,
- unsteadiness,
- unstring,
- unsystematicness,
- upset,
- vacillate,
- variability,
- vary,
- velocity,
- volutation,
- waddle,
- walk,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wamble,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- weave,
- welter,
- whack,
- wheel,
- whiffle,
- whimsicality,
- whirl,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- carelessly
collapse
- without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment" related words >
- a corps perdu,
- airily,
- any old way,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- apathetically,
- at haphazard,
- at intervals,
- at random,
- bunglingly,
- by chance,
- by fits,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- casually,
- clumsily,
- cursorily,
- desperately,
- desultorily,
- disinterestedly,
- dispassionately,
- disregardfully,
- erratically,
- fitfully,
- forgetfully,
- furiously,
- haphazardly,
- happen what may,
- hastily,
- head over heels,
- headfirst,
- headforemost,
- headlong,
- heedlessly,
- heels over head,
- helter-skelter,
- hit and miss,
- hit or miss,
- holus-bolus,
- hotheadedly,
- hurriedly,
- hurry-scurry,
- impetuously,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inadvertently,
- inattentively,
- inconsiderately,
- indeliberately,
- indiscriminately,
- insouciantly,
- involuntarily,
- irregularly,
- lackadaisically,
- like crazy,
- like mad,
- listlessly,
- madly,
- messily,
- mindlessly,
- negligently,
- nonchalantly,
- offhand,
- offhandedly,
- once over lightly,
- overeagerly,
- overenthusiastically,
- overzealously,
- perfunctorily,
- precipitantly,
- precipitately,
- precipitously,
- promiscuously,
- ramble-scramble,
- randomly,
- recklessly,
- regardlessly,
- slam-bang,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- sloppily,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- tactlessly,
- thoughtlessly,
- unadvisedly,
- uncalculatedly,
- unconcernedly,
- undesignedly,
- unguardedly,
- unheedfully,
- unheedingly,
- unintentionally,
- uninterestedly,
- unmethodically,
- unmindfully,
- unpremeditatedly,
- unreasoningly,
- unsolicitously,
- unsystematically,
- unthinkingly,
- unthoughtfully,
- unvigilantly,
- unwarily,
- wantonly,
- wildly,
- without premeditation,
- without willing
- spasm
collapse
- (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
- a painful and involuntary muscular contraction related words >
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- abdominal epilepsy,
- abscess,
- access,
- ache,
- aching,
- acquired epilepsy,
- activated epilepsy,
- acute pain,
- ado,
- affect epilepsy,
- agitation,
- ague,
- akinetic epilepsy,
- amok,
- anemia,
- ankylosis,
- anoxia,
- apnea,
- apoplexy,
- arrest,
- asphyxiation,
- asthma,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- attack,
- autonomic epilepsy,
- backache,
- bite,
- blaze,
- bleeding,
- blennorhea,
- blockage,
- bloodless revolution,
- blow,
- boring pain,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bouleversement,
- breakdown,
- breakup,
- bumpiness,
- burst,
- bustle,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- cardiac epilepsy,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- charley horse,
- chill,
- chills,
- chorea,
- clean slate,
- clean sweep,
- climax,
- clonic spasm,
- clonus,
- cold shivers,
- colic,
- commotion,
- computer revolution,
- constipation,
- convulsion,
- cortical epilepsy,
- coughing,
- counterrevolution,
- cramp,
- cramps,
- crick,
- cursive epilepsy,
- cut,
- cyanosis,
- cyclone,
- darting pain,
- debacle,
- diarrhea,
- diastrophism,
- disaster,
- distress,
- diurnal epilepsy,
- dizziness,
- dolor,
- dropsy,
- dysentery,
- dyspepsia,
- dyspnea,
- eclampsia,
- edema,
- emaciation,
- epilepsia,
- epilepsia gravior,
- epilepsia major,
- epilepsia minor,
- epilepsia mitior,
- epilepsia nutans,
- epilepsia tarda,
- epilepsy,
- epitasis,
- eruption,
- explosion,
- fainting,
- falling sickness,
- fatigue,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fever,
- fibrillation,
- fidgetiness,
- fit,
- fits and starts,
- flap,
- flare-up,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteriness,
- flux,
- focal epilepsy,
- frenzy,
- fulgurant pain,
- furor,
- fury,
- fuss,
- fussiness,
- gale,
- girdle pain,
- gnawing,
- grand mal,
- grief,
- grip,
- griping,
- growth,
- gust,
- haute mal,
- hemorrhage,
- high blood pressure,
- hitch,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurricane,
- hurt,
- hydrops,
- hypertension,
- hypotension,
- hysterical epilepsy,
- icterus,
- ictus,
- indigestion,
- inflammation,
- injury,
- insomnia,
- irruption,
- itching,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jaundice,
- jerkiness,
- joltiness,
- jumping pain,
- kink,
- labored breathing,
- lancinating pain,
- larval epilepsy,
- laryngeal epilepsy,
- laryngospasm,
- latent epilepsy,
- lesion,
- lockjaw,
- low blood pressure,
- lumbago,
- maelstrom,
- marasmus,
- matutinal epilepsy,
- menstrual epilepsy,
- murderous insanity,
- musicogenic epilepsy,
- myoclonous epilepsy,
- nasal discharge,
- nasty blow,
- nausea,
- necrosis,
- nip,
- nocturnal epilepsy,
- occlusion,
- orgasm,
- outbreak,
- outburst,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- pain,
- palace revolution,
- palsy,
- pang,
- paralysis,
- paroxysm,
- passion,
- petit mal,
- physiologic epilepsy,
- pinch,
- pother,
- prick,
- pruritus,
- psychic epilepsy,
- psychokinesia,
- psychomotor epilepsy,
- quake,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quivering,
- radical change,
- rage,
- rash,
- reflex epilepsy,
- restlessness,
- revolt,
- revolution,
- revolutionary war,
- revulsion,
- rheum,
- rotatoria,
- sclerosis,
- scramble,
- seizure,
- sensory epilepsy,
- serial epilepsy,
- sexual climax,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- sharp pain,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shock,
- shoot,
- shooting,
- shooting pain,
- shuddering,
- skin eruption,
- sneezing,
- sore,
- sore spot,
- spasms,
- spell,
- spurt,
- stab,
- stabbing pain,
- stew,
- stir,
- stitch,
- stoppage,
- storm,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- striking alteration,
- stroke,
- subversion,
- succussion,
- suffering,
- sweat,
- sweeping change,
- swirl,
- tabes,
- tabula rasa,
- tachycardia,
- tardy epilepsy,
- technological revolution,
- temblor,
- tempest,
- tender spot,
- tetanus,
- tetany,
- thrill,
- throe,
- throes,
- thromboembolism,
- thrombosis,
- tidal wave,
- to-do,
- tonic epilepsy,
- tonic spasm,
- tormen,
- tornado,
- torsion spasm,
- total change,
- transilience,
- traumatic epilepsy,
- trembling,
- tremulousness,
- trismus,
- tsunami,
- tumor,
- tumult,
- tweak,
- twinge,
- twitch,
- ucinate epilepsy,
- unquiet,
- upheaval,
- upset,
- upset stomach,
- vertigo,
- vibration,
- violent change,
- visitation,
- vomiting,
- vortex,
- wasting,
- whirl,
- whirlwind,
- wound,
- wrench
- roughly
collapse
- with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"
- with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" related words >
- about,
- all but,
- all in all,
- all things considered,
- almost,
- altogether,
- approximately,
- approximatively,
- around,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as good as,
- at irregular intervals,
- at large,
- at random,
- austerely,
- awkwardly,
- badly,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- brokenly,
- brutally,
- by and large,
- by catches,
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- capriciously,
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- improperly,
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- in round numbers,
- in snatches,
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- in the rough,
- inartistically,
- inclemently,
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- indecently,
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- inexpertly,
- inhumanly,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jaggedly,
- jerkily,
- just about,
- lurchingly,
- mainly,
- maladroitly,
- mercilessly,
- more or less,
- most,
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- nearly,
- nonuniformly,
- normally,
- off and on,
- offensively,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- overall,
- painfully,
- patchily,
- pitilessly,
- practically,
- predominantly,
- prevailingly,
- primitively,
- raggedly,
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- rigorously,
- rough,
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- roundly,
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- rudely,
- ruthlessly,
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- say,
- severely,
- spasmodically,
- speaking generally,
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- unsystematically,
- untastefully,
- usually,
- variably,
- violently,
- vulgarly,
- well-nigh,
- whimsically,
- wobblingly
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