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- evasion
collapse - the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth related words >
- abstention,
- airtight secrecy,
- anythingarianism,
- artifice,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- break,
- breakout,
- buck-passing,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circumvention,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- cop-out,
- cringe,
- crypticness,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defense mechanism,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-talk,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emergence,
- equivocating,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escapism,
- eschewal,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- extrication,
- fallback,
- fence-sitting,
- fencing,
- flight,
- flinch,
- foiling,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- freeing,
- frustration,
- fudging,
- getaway,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- haggling,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- jink,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nothingarianism,
- outguessing,
- outlet,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- passing the buck,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- prisonbreak,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- release,
- rescue,
- retreat,
- riddance,
- runaround,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- setting-free,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophistry,
- strict neutrality,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vent,
- weasel words,
- wince,
- zigzag
- reserve
collapse
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation"
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's" related words >
- Indian reservation,
- abstain,
- accessible,
- adjourn,
- allocate,
- allot,
- aloofness,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- aplomb,
- appoint,
- appropriate to,
- archives,
- assign,
- assign to,
- auxiliary,
- available,
- avoidance,
- backlog,
- backup,
- backwardness,
- bank,
- bashfulness,
- bespeak,
- bird sanctuary,
- blankness,
- book,
- brachylogy,
- brevity,
- brief,
- briefness,
- brusqueness,
- cache,
- charter,
- chilliness,
- coldness,
- compactness,
- compendiousness,
- conciseness,
- concision,
- conserve,
- constraint,
- continue,
- contract for,
- coolness,
- counterfeit,
- crispness,
- curtness,
- defer,
- delay,
- destine,
- detachment,
- detail,
- detain,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dispense with,
- distance,
- do without,
- dodging,
- drag out,
- dummy,
- earmark,
- employ,
- engage,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- evasion,
- expressionlessness,
- extend,
- extra,
- fake,
- fate,
- forbear,
- forest preserve,
- forgo,
- formality,
- fresh,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- fudging,
- fund,
- game reserve,
- guardedness,
- hang fire,
- hang up,
- hedging,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- hire,
- hoard,
- hold,
- hold back,
- hold off,
- hold over,
- hold up,
- husband,
- iciness,
- imitation,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impersonality,
- in abeyance,
- in hand,
- in readiness,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- inaccessibility,
- introversion,
- inventory,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep by one,
- keep in hand,
- keep in reserve,
- keep in store,
- keep on hand,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- let alone,
- library,
- limit,
- limitation,
- lot,
- make assignments,
- makeshift,
- mark off,
- mark out for,
- mint,
- mock,
- modesty,
- museum,
- national forest,
- national park,
- nest egg,
- new,
- not touch,
- not use,
- on call,
- on hand,
- on tap,
- ordain,
- original,
- paradise,
- park,
- phony,
- pigeonhole,
- pinch,
- pithiness,
- pointedness,
- portion off,
- postpone,
- preengage,
- preserve,
- pristine,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- push aside,
- put apart,
- put aside,
- put by,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- ready,
- recess,
- recruit,
- refrain,
- register,
- reinforcements,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reservation,
- reserve fund,
- reserve supply,
- reservedness,
- reserves,
- reservoir,
- resource,
- restraint,
- restrict,
- restrict to,
- restriction,
- retain,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- retiring disposition,
- sanctuary,
- save,
- save up,
- saved,
- savings,
- schedule,
- secondary,
- secure,
- self-control,
- self-restraint,
- sententiousness,
- set,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set by,
- set off,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- shortness,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- sign up for,
- sinking fund,
- sleep on,
- something in reserve,
- spare,
- stand over,
- standoffishness,
- state forest,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stock,
- stockpile,
- stopgap,
- store,
- stored,
- stretch out,
- subduedness,
- substitute,
- succinctness,
- summariness,
- supply,
- suppression,
- suspend,
- suspended,
- table,
- taciturnity,
- tag,
- take a recess,
- take into employment,
- take on,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- terseness,
- to spare,
- token,
- unaffability,
- unapplied,
- unapproachability,
- unbeaten,
- uncongeniality,
- unconsumed,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unemployed,
- unexercised,
- unexpansiveness,
- unexpended,
- unexpended balance,
- unhandled,
- unspent,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unutilized,
- utility,
- vicarious,
- waive,
- waived,
- wilderness preserve,
- wildlife preserve,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- withhold
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