Related Words:
- pollute
collapse - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" related words >
- abuse,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alloy,
- bastardize,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- booze up,
- boozify,
- canker,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- crock,
- crucify,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defalcate,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denaturalize,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devalue,
- dilute,
- dirty,
- disadvantage,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- divert,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doctor,
- doctor up,
- doom,
- embezzle,
- envenom,
- fortify,
- foul,
- fuddle,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- impair,
- infect,
- injure,
- jinx,
- lace,
- maladminister,
- maltreat,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- misapply,
- misappropriate,
- misemploy,
- mishandle,
- mismanage,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- nasty,
- outrage,
- overtake,
- peculate,
- persecute,
- pervert,
- pickle,
- pilfer,
- plaster,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- prejudice,
- profane,
- prostitute,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- savage,
- scathe,
- soil,
- souse,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stain,
- stew,
- stone,
- sully,
- swack,
- taint,
- tamper with,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- tipsify,
- torment,
- torture,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- water,
- water down,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
- baffle
collapse
- a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
- check the emission of (sound) related words >
- addle,
- amaze,
- babble,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- ball up,
- bamboozle,
- be Greek to,
- be beyond one,
- be too deep,
- beat,
- beat one,
- befuddle,
- bewilderment,
- bilk,
- blast,
- boggle,
- bother,
- brave,
- buffalo,
- cast down,
- challenge,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- confound,
- confoundment,
- confront,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- contravene,
- counter,
- counteract,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- daze,
- deaden,
- deafen,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- dilemma,
- disappoint,
- discomfit,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfy,
- disturbance,
- dull,
- dumbfound,
- elude,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- enigma,
- escape one,
- faze,
- fix,
- floor,
- flummox,
- fog,
- foil,
- frustrate,
- fuddle,
- get,
- gibber,
- jam,
- keep in suspense,
- knock the chocks,
- let down,
- lick,
- lose one,
- maze,
- mix up,
- muddle,
- muffle,
- mute,
- mystery,
- mystify,
- need explanation,
- nonplus,
- not make sense,
- not penetrate,
- pass comprehension,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- plight,
- pother,
- predicament,
- problem,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- quandary,
- rattle,
- riddle,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- speak in tongues,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stew,
- stick,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stump,
- subdue,
- talk double Dutch,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- throw,
- thwart,
- tone down,
- unassuredness,
- upset
- confuse
collapse
- mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her" related words >
- abash,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- agitate,
- baffle,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befog,
- befuddle,
- bemuse,
- bewilder,
- blur,
- blur distinctions,
- bollix up,
- botch,
- bother,
- buffalo,
- bug,
- cap,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- cloud,
- color,
- complicate,
- confound,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deform,
- derange,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dishevel,
- dismay,
- disorder,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disquiet,
- distort,
- distract,
- disturb,
- dizzy,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- faze,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fog up,
- foul up,
- fuddle,
- fumble,
- fuss,
- fuzz,
- garble,
- implicate,
- involve,
- jumble,
- jumble together,
- knock galley-west,
- knot,
- louse up,
- make uncertain,
- maze,
- mess up,
- miscolor,
- misdeem,
- misguide,
- misidentify,
- mislead,
- mist,
- mix,
- mix up,
- mizzle,
- moider,
- mortify,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- muddy,
- mull,
- mystify,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- overlook distinctions,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pervert,
- pi,
- play hob with,
- pose,
- pother,
- put out,
- puzzle,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- ruffle,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- shame,
- shuffle,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- stumble,
- tangle,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- tumble,
- twist,
- unform,
- unsettle,
- unshape,
- upset,
- warp,
- wrench,
- wrest
- addled,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- babbling,
- beery,
- bemused,
- besotted,
- blind drunk,
- brainless,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- delirious,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- drenched,
- drunk,
- drunken,
- eccentric,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- faint,
- far-gone,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- flustered,
- fluttery,
- fou,
- freakish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- full,
- gaga,
- gay,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- glorious,
- happy,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in liquor,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- inebriate,
- inebriated,
- inebrious,
- infirm,
- intoxicated,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- jolly,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lightheaded,
- maudlin,
- mazy,
- mellow,
- mercurial,
- merry,
- moody,
- muddled,
- nappy,
- off,
- rambling,
- ranting,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- raving,
- reckless,
- reeling,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- shapeless,
- shatterbrained,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shikker,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skittish,
- sodden,
- sotted,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- swimming,
- thoughtless,
- tiddly,
- tipsy,
- turned around,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- under the influence,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vertiginous,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- witless,
- woozy,
- yeasty
- entangle
collapse
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"
- entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" related words >
- absorb,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- allure,
- bag,
- bait the hook,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- bewilder,
- birdlime,
- bother,
- bug,
- burden,
- capture,
- catch,
- catch out,
- catch up,
- catch up in,
- clog,
- cloud,
- complicate,
- concern,
- confound,
- confuse,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- decoy,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disturb,
- draw in,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- embroil,
- encumber,
- engage,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- enweb,
- fetter,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- foul,
- foul up,
- fuddle,
- fuss,
- gin,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- harpoon,
- hobble,
- hook,
- hook in,
- impede,
- implicate,
- interest,
- intertwine,
- interweave,
- inveigle,
- involve,
- knot,
- lame,
- land,
- lasso,
- lime,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- lure,
- maze,
- mesh,
- mess up,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- nail,
- net,
- noose,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pother,
- press down,
- put out,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- rope,
- ruffle,
- sack,
- saddle with,
- screw up,
- shackle,
- snag,
- snare,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- sniggle,
- spear,
- spread the toils,
- suck into,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- throw into confusion,
- toil,
- trammel,
- trap,
- trip,
- twist,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- weigh down,
- wind
- raise hell
collapse
- take strong and forceful action, as to object or express discontent; "She raised hell when she found out that she wold not be hired again" related words >
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- ball up,
- be livid,
- be noisy,
- be pissed,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- bewilder,
- bluster,
- boil,
- bother,
- brawl,
- bring trouble,
- browned off,
- bug,
- burn,
- carouse,
- carry on,
- cause trouble,
- celebrate,
- chafe,
- chirm,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- cloud,
- confuse,
- cut loose,
- cut up,
- cut up rough,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- debauch,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disturb,
- embarrass,
- entangle,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fret,
- fuddle,
- fume,
- fuss,
- go on,
- have a conniption,
- hell around,
- horse around,
- jollify,
- jolly,
- lark,
- let go,
- let loose,
- let off steam,
- maffick,
- make a noise,
- make a racket,
- make an uproar,
- make merry,
- make whoopee,
- maze,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- muddle,
- noise,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pissed off,
- play hell,
- play hob,
- play the deuce,
- pother,
- put out,
- racket,
- rage,
- raise Cain,
- raise a clamor,
- raise merry hell,
- raise sand,
- raise the deuce,
- raise the devil,
- raise the roof,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rattle,
- rave,
- revel,
- roar,
- roister,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- ruffle,
- rumpus,
- see life,
- seethe,
- simmer,
- sizzle,
- skylark,
- smoke,
- smolder,
- spree,
- step out,
- stew,
- storm,
- take on,
- throw a fit,
- throw into confusion,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- wanton,
- whoop it up
- discomfiture
collapse
- anxious embarrassment related words >
- abashment,
- agitation,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- balking,
- beating,
- befuddlement,
- betrayed hope,
- bewilderment,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blow,
- bother,
- botheration,
- buffet,
- chagrin,
- chaos,
- check,
- checkmate,
- cloud,
- comedown,
- commotion,
- confounding,
- confusion,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- daze,
- debacle,
- defeasance,
- defeat,
- derangement,
- descent,
- disappointment,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- discombobulation,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disillusionment,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disproportion,
- disquiet,
- disruption,
- dissatisfaction,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- down,
- drubbing,
- embarrassment,
- entropy,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- foil,
- foiling,
- forlorn hope,
- frenzy,
- frustration,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- haphazardness,
- haze,
- hope deferred,
- incoherence,
- indiscriminateness,
- inharmonious harmony,
- irregularity,
- jumble,
- letdown,
- licking,
- maze,
- mess,
- mirage,
- mist,
- mortification,
- most admired disorder,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- overthrow,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pother,
- prickles,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- pucker,
- randomness,
- rebuff,
- repulse,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- rout,
- ruffle,
- setback,
- shellacking,
- shuffle,
- sore disappointment,
- stew,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- thwarting,
- tizzy,
- turbulence,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unsettlement,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- upset,
- vanquishment
- frivolous
collapse
- not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" related words >
- aimless,
- airy,
- amorphous,
- asinine,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- brainless,
- buxom,
- capricious,
- casual,
- catchpenny,
- childish,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- dizzy,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- fitful,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fluffy,
- fluttery,
- foolish,
- formless,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- gleeful,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- hilarious,
- hit-or-miss,
- idle,
- immethodical,
- inane,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsequential,
- indiscriminate,
- insignificant,
- irregular,
- irresponsible,
- jocular,
- jocund,
- jolly,
- jovial,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- laughter-loving,
- light,
- meaningless,
- merry,
- minor,
- mirth-loving,
- mirthful,
- misshapen,
- niggling,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderless,
- otiose,
- paltry,
- peripheral,
- petty,
- planless,
- playful,
- promiscuous,
- puerile,
- random,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- rejoicing,
- risible,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- senseless,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shatterbrained,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- small-time,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- superficial,
- systemless,
- thoughtless,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- twopenny,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unimportant,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unprofound,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- vapid,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- windy,
- witless,
- worthless
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- admix,
- alloy,
- amalgamate,
- anarchy,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- bemingle,
- bewilder,
- blend,
- bollix up,
- botch,
- botchery,
- bother,
- bug,
- chaos,
- cloud,
- coalesce,
- combine,
- commingle,
- commix,
- commixture,
- complicate,
- compose,
- composite,
- compound,
- concoct,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- conglomerate,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- derange,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disjoint,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disrupt,
- distemper,
- distract,
- disturb,
- dizzy,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- emulsify,
- entangle,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- foul up,
- foul-up,
- fuddle,
- fumble,
- fuse,
- fusion,
- fuss,
- garble,
- hash,
- hassle,
- homogenize,
- immingle,
- immix,
- immixture,
- implicate,
- integrate,
- interblend,
- interfusion,
- interlace,
- interlard,
- intermingle,
- intermix,
- intermixture,
- intertwine,
- interweave,
- involve,
- jumble,
- knead,
- knot,
- license,
- louse up,
- maze,
- merge,
- mess up,
- mingle,
- mingle-mangle,
- misdeem,
- misidentify,
- misrule,
- mist,
- mix,
- moider,
- morass,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- mull,
- muss,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pi,
- play hob with,
- pother,
- put out,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- ruffle,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- shambles,
- shuffle,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- stir up,
- syncretize,
- tangle,
- throw into confusion,
- throw together,
- toss together,
- tumble,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- work
- perplexity
collapse
- trouble or confusion resulting from complexity related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- amorphousness,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- baffling problem,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bind,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brain twister,
- catch-22,
- chaos,
- cloud,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- convolution,
- crabbedness,
- crossword puzzle,
- crux,
- dark,
- darkness,
- daze,
- difficulty,
- dilemma,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- doubt,
- embarrassment,
- enigma,
- enigmatic question,
- entanglement,
- fix,
- floorer,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- frenzy,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fuzziness,
- haze,
- impenetrability,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- jam,
- jigsaw puzzle,
- jumble,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- maze,
- mess,
- mind-boggler,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- node,
- nodus,
- nonplus,
- nut to crack,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscurity,
- opacity,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- perplexed question,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- plight,
- pons asinorum,
- poser,
- pother,
- predicament,
- problem,
- pucker,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- puzzler,
- quandary,
- question,
- question mark,
- ramification,
- reconditeness,
- riddle,
- ruffle,
- scrape,
- shapelessness,
- shuffle,
- sixty-four dollar question,
- stew,
- sticker,
- stumper,
- subtlety,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tanglement,
- teaser,
- technicality,
- tizzy,
- tough proposition,
- unassuredness,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- unplainness,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vagueness,
- vexed question,
- why
- abash,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- annoy,
- badger,
- bait,
- ball up,
- be at,
- be tedious,
- beat,
- beat up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- bedevil,
- befuddle,
- beset,
- bewilder,
- bore,
- bother,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bug,
- bullyrag,
- burn up,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- chivy,
- churn,
- churn up,
- cloud,
- confound,
- confuse,
- convulse,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- derange,
- devil,
- disagree,
- disarrange,
- disarray,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discontent,
- dishevel,
- dismay,
- disorder,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disquiet,
- distemper,
- distract,
- disturb,
- dog,
- electrify,
- embarrass,
- embroil,
- entangle,
- exasperate,
- excite,
- exercise,
- fash,
- ferment,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fret,
- fuddle,
- fuss,
- get,
- gripe,
- harass,
- harry,
- heckle,
- hector,
- hound,
- irk,
- jar,
- jolt,
- jumble,
- knock galley-west,
- leave unsatisfied,
- maze,
- mess up,
- miff,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- molest,
- mortify,
- muddle,
- nag,
- needle,
- nettle,
- nudzh,
- paddle,
- peeve,
- perplex,
- persecute,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- pester,
- pick on,
- pique,
- plague,
- pluck the beard,
- pother,
- provoke,
- psych,
- put out,
- raise hell,
- rattle,
- ride,
- rile,
- ripple,
- rock,
- roil,
- roughen,
- ruffle,
- rummage,
- rumple,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shock,
- spook,
- stagger,
- stir,
- stir up,
- swirl,
- tease,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- torment,
- trouble,
- try the patience,
- tweak the nose,
- unhinge,
- unsettle,
- untune,
- upset,
- vex,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whisk,
- work up,
- worry
- Gordian knot,
- abecedarian,
- addle,
- amaze,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- argue down,
- astonish,
- astound,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- bamboozle,
- beat,
- bewilderment,
- blast,
- boggle,
- bother,
- brave,
- bring up short,
- buffalo,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- confound,
- confoundment,
- confront,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- confute,
- contradict,
- contravene,
- controvert,
- counter,
- counteract,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- crush,
- crux,
- dabbler,
- dash,
- daze,
- defeat,
- defy,
- demolish,
- deny,
- destroy,
- dilemma,
- dilettante,
- discomfit,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- dismay,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- disrupt,
- disturbance,
- dumbfound,
- elude,
- embarrassment,
- enigma,
- faze,
- finish,
- fix,
- floor,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- foil,
- frustrate,
- fuddle,
- get,
- jam,
- keep in suspense,
- knock the chocks,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- lick,
- maze,
- muddle,
- mystery,
- mystify,
- node,
- nodus,
- nonprofessional,
- overcome,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- paralyze,
- parry,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- plight,
- pons asinorum,
- poser,
- pother,
- predicament,
- problem,
- put to silence,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- quandary,
- rattle,
- rebut,
- reduce to silence,
- refute,
- riddle,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- settle,
- shock,
- shut up,
- silence,
- smash all opposition,
- smatterer,
- spike,
- spoil,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stew,
- stick,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stump,
- stun,
- stymie,
- subvert,
- take aback,
- teaser,
- throw,
- thwart,
- tyro,
- unassuredness,
- undermine,
- upset,
- vexed question
- dense
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- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
- having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
- hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" related words >
- Boeotian,
- adamantine,
- asinine,
- beef-brained,
- beef-witted,
- blockheaded,
- blockish,
- bony,
- bovine,
- bristling,
- broad-bodied,
- bulky,
- bullnecked,
- cement,
- cemental,
- chumpish,
- cloddish,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- coarse,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- congested,
- consolidated,
- corneous,
- corpulent,
- cowish,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- crass,
- crawling,
- crowded,
- diamondlike,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- doltish,
- dull,
- dullard,
- dumb,
- duncical,
- duncish,
- durable,
- dure,
- enduring,
- exuberant,
- fat,
- fatheaded,
- firm,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- flourishing,
- foolish,
- full,
- full-bodied,
- gluey,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- gross,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardhearted,
- heaped,
- heavy,
- heavyset,
- horny,
- impassable,
- impassive,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- ineducable,
- iron-hard,
- ironlike,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- jungled,
- jungly,
- klutzy,
- lapideous,
- lasting,
- lethargic,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- lumpish,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- massed,
- massive,
- nonporous,
- numskulled,
- oafish,
- obdurate,
- obtuse,
- opaque,
- osseous,
- overgrown,
- overrun,
- packed,
- phlegmatic,
- piled,
- populous,
- rank,
- resistant,
- resistive,
- riotous,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- rugged,
- serried,
- slow,
- slow-witted,
- sluggish,
- solid,
- sottish,
- sound,
- stable,
- steady,
- steellike,
- steely,
- stolid,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- stout,
- strong,
- stupid,
- sturdy,
- substantial,
- swarming,
- teeming,
- thick,
- thick-bodied,
- thick-growing,
- thick-witted,
- thickheaded,
- thickset,
- three-dimensional,
- tight,
- torpid,
- tough,
- unteachable,
- unweeded,
- unyielding,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- weed-choked,
- weed-ridden,
- weedy,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-made,
- wrongheaded
- pucker
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- an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
- become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" related words >
- abbreviate,
- agitation,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bother,
- botheration,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- chaos,
- circumscribe,
- cloud,
- coarct,
- cocker,
- cockle,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- concern,
- concernment,
- condense,
- confusion,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- cramp,
- crankle,
- crease,
- crimp,
- crimple,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- crumple,
- curtail,
- daze,
- decrease,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertion,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dither,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- dread,
- embarrassment,
- fear,
- flap,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flusteration,
- flustration,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fold,
- foofaraw,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- furrow,
- fuss,
- gather,
- haze,
- inquietude,
- jumble,
- knit,
- knot,
- lather,
- malaise,
- maze,
- mess,
- misgiving,
- mist,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- narrow,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- overanxiety,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pins and needles,
- pleat,
- pother,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- reduce,
- ridge,
- rimple,
- ripple,
- rivel,
- ruche,
- ruck,
- ruckle,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- screw up,
- shirr,
- shirring,
- shorten,
- shuffle,
- solicitude,
- solidify,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- strain,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- suspense,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tension,
- tighten,
- tizzy,
- trouble,
- tuck,
- twitter,
- twitteration,
- uneasiness,
- unquietness,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vexation,
- wimple,
- wrinkle,
- wrinkling,
- zeal
- lumpish
collapse
- mentally sluggish related words >
- Boeotian,
- all thumbs,
- apathetic,
- asinine,
- awkward,
- beef-brained,
- beef-witted,
- benumbed,
- blase,
- blockish,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- boorish,
- bored,
- bovine,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- burdensome,
- butterfingered,
- caked,
- cakey,
- careless,
- carlish,
- chumpish,
- churlish,
- clabbered,
- cloddish,
- clodhopping,
- clotted,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- coagulated,
- congealed,
- countrified,
- country-born,
- country-bred,
- cowish,
- crass,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- curded,
- curdled,
- dead,
- debilitated,
- dense,
- doltish,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dull,
- dullard,
- dumb,
- duncical,
- duncish,
- elephantine,
- enervated,
- exanimate,
- farmerish,
- fat,
- fingers all thumbs,
- from the sticks,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- gelatinized,
- graceless,
- gross,
- grumous,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- hayseed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hebetudinous,
- hick,
- hicky,
- hobnailed,
- hooliganish,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- inanimate,
- incrassate,
- incumbent,
- ineducable,
- inelegant,
- inert,
- inspissate,
- inspissated,
- inurbane,
- jaded,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- klutzy,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languorous,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- listless,
- loobyish,
- loutish,
- lowbred,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpen,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- moribund,
- numb,
- oafish,
- onerous,
- opaque,
- oppressive,
- phlegmatic,
- ponderous,
- pooped,
- raffish,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rowdyish,
- rube,
- ruffianly,
- sated,
- sleepy,
- sloppy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- somnolent,
- sottish,
- splay,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- stiff,
- stultified,
- stupid,
- superincumbent,
- supine,
- thick,
- thickened,
- torpid,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unteachable,
- unwieldy,
- up-country,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wan,
- weary,
- world-weary,
- wrongheaded,
- yokel,
- yokelish
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