Related Words:
- hem and haw
collapse - utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd" related words >
- about the bush,
- back and fill,
- back down,
- balance,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- debate,
- deliberate,
- demur,
- dodge,
- duck,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- falter,
- fear,
- fence,
- halt,
- hang back,
- haw,
- hedge,
- hem,
- hesitate,
- hover,
- hum,
- hum and haw,
- jib,
- mammer,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- palter,
- parry,
- pause,
- ponder,
- prevaricate,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- put off,
- recoil,
- retreat,
- scruple,
- sheer off,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sidestep,
- stammer,
- step aside,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stop to consider,
- straddle the fence,
- strain at,
- stumble,
- stutter,
- swerve,
- tergiversate,
- think twice about,
- waffle,
- ward off,
- weasel,
- withdraw,
- yield
- refrain
collapse
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
- resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping" related words >
- PS,
- Parthian shot,
- Spenserian stanza,
- abandon,
- abort,
- abstain,
- abstain from,
- addendum,
- afterthought,
- air,
- anacrusis,
- antistrophe,
- appendix,
- aria,
- arrest,
- avoid,
- back matter,
- bass passage,
- belay,
- bis,
- bob,
- book,
- bourdon,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- cancel,
- canto,
- cantus,
- cease,
- chant,
- check,
- chorus,
- coda,
- codicil,
- colophon,
- conclusion,
- consequence,
- constrain,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- couplet,
- curb,
- cut it out,
- descant,
- desist,
- development,
- discontinue,
- dispense with,
- distich,
- ditto,
- division,
- do without,
- double take,
- drop it,
- dying words,
- end,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- epode,
- eschew,
- exposition,
- figure,
- folderol,
- follow-through,
- follow-up,
- forbear,
- forgo,
- give over,
- give up,
- halt,
- harmonic close,
- have done with,
- heptastich,
- hexastich,
- hold,
- hold aloof from,
- hold back,
- hold off,
- inhibit,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- interrupt,
- introductory phrase,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in hand,
- knock it off,
- last words,
- lay,
- lay off,
- leave off,
- let alone,
- let go by,
- line,
- measure,
- melodia,
- melodic line,
- melody,
- monostich,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- never touch,
- not touch,
- not use,
- note,
- octastich,
- octave,
- octet,
- ornament,
- ottava rima,
- part,
- parting shot,
- pass up,
- passage,
- pentastich,
- period,
- peroration,
- phrase,
- postface,
- postfix,
- postlude,
- postscript,
- quatrain,
- quit,
- refrain from,
- relinquish,
- renounce,
- repeat,
- repetend,
- reprise,
- reserve,
- resolution,
- response,
- restrain,
- rhyme royal,
- ritornello,
- save,
- scrub,
- second thought,
- section,
- septet,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequelae,
- sequelant,
- sequent,
- sequitur,
- sestet,
- sextet,
- shun,
- solo,
- solo part,
- song,
- soprano part,
- spare,
- stand aloof from,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stave,
- stay,
- stop,
- strain,
- strophe,
- subscript,
- suffix,
- supplement,
- swan song,
- syllable,
- tag,
- tailpiece,
- tercet,
- terminate,
- terza rima,
- tetrastich,
- treble,
- triplet,
- tristich,
- tune,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- undersong,
- variation,
- verse,
- waive,
- withhold
- hysteron proteron
collapse
- the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
- reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born') related words >
- anastrophe,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- arsy-varsiness,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- chiasmus,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- clutter,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- fallacy,
- farrago,
- formal fallacy,
- hash,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hodgepodge,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- insincere argument,
- jumble,
- litter,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- mess,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- mishmash,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- palindrome,
- paralogism,
- parenthesis,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- scramble,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- tumble,
- turmoil,
- unholy mess,
- verbal fallacy,
- weak point,
- welter
- derive
collapse
- develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- come from; "The present name derives from an older form"
- obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" related words >
- accept,
- acquire,
- admit,
- arouse,
- arrive at,
- assume,
- bag,
- be seized of,
- bring forth,
- bring out,
- bring to light,
- call forth,
- call out,
- call up,
- capture,
- catch,
- collect,
- come by,
- come in for,
- come into,
- conclude,
- contract,
- corral,
- cull,
- deduce,
- derive from,
- develop,
- drag down,
- drag out,
- draw,
- draw a conclusion,
- draw an inference,
- draw forth,
- draw from,
- draw out,
- earn,
- educe,
- elaborate,
- elicit,
- emanate from,
- enter into possession,
- evoke,
- evolve,
- excogitate,
- extract,
- fetch,
- find,
- flow from,
- formulate,
- gain,
- gather,
- get,
- get from,
- get out of,
- glean,
- harvest,
- have,
- have coming in,
- induce,
- infer,
- issue from,
- judge,
- make,
- net,
- obtain,
- proceed from,
- procure,
- pull down,
- put,
- reach,
- reap,
- reason,
- reason that,
- receive,
- rouse,
- sack,
- score,
- secure,
- spring from,
- stem from,
- stimulate,
- summon forth,
- summon up,
- take,
- take as proved,
- take in,
- take on,
- take over,
- wangle,
- wangle out of,
- win,
- winkle out,
- winnow,
- worm out,
- worm out of
- scend
collapse
- rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" related words >
- be poised,
- billow,
- bore,
- break,
- breakers,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- comb,
- comber,
- crash,
- dash,
- dirty water,
- eagre,
- ebb and flow,
- flounder,
- gravity wave,
- ground swell,
- heave,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- hobbyhorse,
- lift,
- lop,
- lurch,
- make heavy weather,
- peak,
- pitch,
- pitch and toss,
- plunge,
- popple,
- pound,
- rear,
- reel,
- riffle,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rise and fall,
- rock,
- roll,
- roller,
- rough water,
- sea,
- send,
- smash,
- surf,
- surge,
- sway,
- swell,
- swing,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide wave,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- trough,
- tsunami,
- tumble,
- undulate,
- undulation,
- wallow,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- welter,
- white horses,
- whitecaps,
- yaw
- expressly
collapse
- with_specific_intentions; for the express purpose; "she needs the money expressly for her patients"
- in an explicit manner; "he stated expressly that the needed the money by tomorrow" related words >
- absolutely,
- apparently,
- apprehensibly,
- articulately,
- as well,
- categorically,
- clearly,
- coherently,
- comprehensibly,
- concretely,
- dead,
- definitely,
- directly,
- discernibly,
- distinctly,
- especially,
- even,
- evidently,
- exactly,
- explicitly,
- faithfully,
- in all respects,
- in detail,
- in every respect,
- in particular,
- in plain English,
- in plain terms,
- in plain words,
- intelligibly,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- item by item,
- just,
- limpidly,
- literally,
- literatim,
- lucidly,
- manifestly,
- minutely,
- noticeably,
- observably,
- obviously,
- on purpose,
- palpably,
- particularly,
- patently,
- pellucidly,
- perceivably,
- perceptibly,
- perspicuously,
- plainly,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- pointedly,
- positively,
- precisely,
- purposefully,
- purposely,
- right,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- separately,
- simply,
- singly,
- specially,
- specifically,
- square,
- squarely,
- straight,
- strictly,
- to be specific,
- to the letter,
- unambiguously,
- understandably,
- undeviatingly,
- unequivocally,
- unerringly,
- unmistakably,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- visibly,
- word by word,
- word for word
- Photostat,
- Xerox,
- Xerox copy,
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- access,
- aggravation,
- backfire,
- bang,
- beefing-up,
- blast,
- blaze of temper,
- blowing up,
- blowout,
- blueprint,
- boom,
- burst,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- contact printing,
- cyanotype,
- deepening,
- detonation,
- discharge,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- eruption,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- flare,
- flare-up,
- flash,
- fulguration,
- fulmination,
- glossy,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- high words,
- hologram,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- lantern slide,
- magnification,
- matte,
- microcopy,
- microprint,
- outburst,
- photocopy,
- photogravure,
- photostatic copy,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- positive,
- print,
- projection printing,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- report,
- scene,
- semi-matte,
- slide,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- storm,
- strengthening,
- tightening,
- transparency
- dumb
collapse
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals" related words >
- Boeotian,
- abiotic,
- anaudic,
- animal,
- animalian,
- animalic,
- animalistic,
- aphasic,
- aphonic,
- apish,
- asinine,
- awkward,
- azoic,
- batty,
- beastlike,
- beastly,
- beef-brained,
- beef-witted,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- bestial,
- blankminded,
- blockheaded,
- blockish,
- bovine,
- brainless,
- breathless,
- brief,
- brusque,
- brutal,
- brute,
- brutelike,
- brutish,
- buffoonish,
- callow,
- chumpish,
- cloddish,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- cockeyed,
- concise,
- cowish,
- crass,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- curt,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dense,
- dizzy,
- doltish,
- doting,
- dull,
- dullard,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstricken,
- dumbstruck,
- duncical,
- duncish,
- economical of words,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- exanimate,
- fat,
- fatheaded,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- flaky,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- gauche,
- goofy,
- green,
- groping,
- gross,
- gulled,
- idiotic,
- ignorant,
- imbecile,
- inane,
- inanimate,
- inanimated,
- inarticulate,
- incoherent,
- indisposed to talk,
- indistinct,
- ineducable,
- inept,
- inert,
- inexperienced,
- infatuated,
- innocent,
- insane,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insentient,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- klutzy,
- know-nothing,
- kooky,
- laconic,
- lifeless,
- loony,
- lumpish,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- maundering,
- mindless,
- moronic,
- mum,
- mute,
- naive,
- nescient,
- nonconscious,
- nonliving,
- nonrational,
- numskulled,
- nutty,
- oafish,
- opaque,
- quiet,
- raw,
- reticent,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- short,
- silent,
- silly,
- simple,
- snug,
- sottish,
- soulless,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- strange to,
- stricken dumb,
- stupid,
- subhuman,
- taciturn,
- tentative,
- terse,
- thick,
- thick-witted,
- thoughtless,
- tight-lipped,
- tongue-tied,
- tongueless,
- unacquainted,
- unanimated,
- unapprized,
- uncommunicative,
- uncomprehending,
- unconscious,
- unconversant,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unfeeling,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unloquacious,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unsure,
- untalkative,
- unteachable,
- unversed,
- vacuous,
- voiceless,
- wacky,
- wet,
- witless,
- word-bound,
- wordless,
- wrongheaded,
- zoic,
- zooidal,
- zoologic
- abuse of terms,
- agreement to disagree,
- argument,
- catachresis,
- clerical error,
- contorting,
- controversy,
- corrigendum,
- cross-purposes,
- difference,
- difference of opinion,
- difficulty,
- disagreement,
- discord,
- disparity,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- distortion,
- dividedness,
- division,
- eisegesis,
- erratum,
- error,
- failure,
- fault,
- faute,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- human error,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscalculation,
- miscarriage,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- miscount,
- misdeal,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misidentification,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misplay,
- misprint,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- miss,
- misstatement,
- mistake,
- mistaking,
- mistranslation,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- odds,
- perversion,
- polarization,
- quarrel,
- rift,
- squeezing,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- typo,
- typographical error,
- variance,
- wrenching,
- wrong impression
- Ferris wheel,
- Lissajous figure,
- alternate,
- alternation,
- back and fill,
- back-and-forth,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- carousel,
- chute-the-chutes,
- chutes,
- come and go,
- coming and going,
- ebb and flow,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flux and reflux,
- flying horses,
- go through phases,
- hitch and hike,
- merry-go-round,
- metronome,
- oscillate,
- oscillator,
- pass and repass,
- pendulate,
- pendulum,
- reciprocate,
- reciprocation,
- rhythmic play,
- ride and tie,
- ring the changes,
- rocker,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- roller coaster,
- roundabout,
- seesaw,
- seesawing,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- sine wave,
- stagger,
- sway,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-tottering,
- teeterboard,
- teetering,
- teetery-bender,
- to-and-fro,
- totter,
- tottering,
- turn,
- ups and downs,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- vibrator,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- whip,
- whirligig,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- wobble,
- zigzag
- bat around,
- bum,
- campaign,
- commute,
- count ties,
- course,
- cover ground,
- cruise,
- divagate,
- drift,
- fare,
- fare forth,
- fetch,
- flit,
- flow,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- gang,
- globe-trot,
- go,
- go about,
- go abroad,
- go along,
- go on safari,
- go overseas,
- go the rounds,
- hie,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- jaunt,
- journey,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- make a journey,
- make a pilgrimage,
- make a trip,
- meander,
- mooch,
- move,
- move along,
- move on,
- nomadize,
- pass,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- pilgrim,
- pilgrimage,
- progress,
- prowl,
- ramble,
- range,
- range the world,
- roam,
- roll,
- roll on,
- rove,
- rubberneck,
- run,
- run about,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- sight-see,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stream,
- stroll,
- take a trip,
- take the road,
- tour,
- travel,
- trek,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- voyage,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wend
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