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go lame
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manque
collapse
unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
related words >
abortive
,
bootless
,
failed
,
failing
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
lame
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
of no effect
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
unfortunate
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
crippled
collapse
disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
related words >
bad
,
castrated
,
damaged
,
debilitated
,
disabled
,
disarmed
,
disqualified
,
emasculated
,
game
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped
,
hobbling
,
hog-tied
,
incapacitated
,
inoperative
,
invalidated
,
lame
,
limping
,
maimed
,
paralyzed
,
prostrate
,
spavined
,
weak
,
weakened
de energize
collapse
related words >
bugger
,
cripple
,
debilitate
,
disable
,
disenable
,
drain
,
enfeeble
,
hamstring
,
hors de combat
,
inactivate
,
incapacitate
,
kibosh
,
lame
,
maim
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
sabotage
,
spike
,
unfit
,
weaken
,
wing
,
wreck
inactivate
collapse
make inactive; "they deactivated the file"
related words >
bugger
,
cripple
,
de-energize
,
debilitate
,
disable
,
disenable
,
drain
,
enfeeble
,
hamstring
,
hors de combat
,
incapacitate
,
kibosh
,
lame
,
maim
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
sabotage
,
spike
,
unfit
,
weaken
,
wing
,
wreck
failed
collapse
unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture"
related words >
abortive
,
bankrupt
,
bootless
,
broke
,
broken
,
busted
,
destitute
,
failing
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
in receivership
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
insolvent
,
lame
,
manque
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
of no effect
,
on the rocks
,
ruined
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
unfortunate
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
insolvent
collapse
unable to meet or discharge financial obligations; "an insolvent person"; "an insolvent estate"
related words >
bankrupt
,
broke
,
broken
,
busted
,
destitute
,
down-and-out
,
failed
,
failure
,
fortuneless
,
homeless
,
impoverished
,
in Queer Street
,
in receivership
,
in the gutter
,
in the red
,
indebted
,
insolvent debtor
,
lame duck
,
landless
,
moneyless
,
on the rocks
,
out of funds
,
penniless
,
propertyless
,
ruined
,
unsound
,
wiped out
,
without a sou
handicapped
collapse
related words >
amputee
,
bad
,
castrated
,
cripple
,
crippled
,
defective
,
deformity
,
disabled
,
emasculated
,
game
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped person
,
hobbling
,
idiot
,
imbecile
,
incapable
,
incapacitated
,
lame
,
limping
,
maimed
,
paralytic
,
paraplegic
,
quadriplegic
,
spavined
,
the crippled
,
the handicapped
unsturdy
collapse
related words >
abortive
,
bootless
,
crumbling
,
decrepit
,
disintegrating
,
failed
,
failing
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
infirm
,
lame
,
manque
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
of no effect
,
poor
,
poorish
,
rotten
,
rotten at
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
unfirm
,
unfortunate
,
unsolid
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsubstantial
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
running mate
collapse
a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices
related words >
also-ran
,
aspirant
,
baby kisser
,
buddy
,
candidate
,
chum
,
comate
,
companion
,
comrade
,
crony
,
dark horse
,
defeated candidate
,
dud
,
favorite son
,
hopeful
,
lame duck
,
office seeker
,
pal
,
political hopeful
,
presidential timber
,
stalking-horse
abortive
collapse
failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"
related words >
barren
,
bootless
,
failed
,
failing
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
gainless
,
immature
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
lame
,
manque
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
nonremunerative
,
of no effect
,
otiose
,
profitless
,
rewardless
,
sterile
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
unavailable
,
unavailing
,
unformed
,
unfortunate
,
unmatured
,
unproductive
,
unprofitable
,
unremunerative
,
unrewarding
,
unripe
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
,
vain
public servant
collapse
someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)
related words >
bureaucrat
,
civil servant
,
functionary
,
functionnaire
,
holdover
,
incumbent
,
ins
,
jack-in-office
,
lame duck
,
mandarin
,
new broom
,
office-bearer
,
officeholder
,
officer
,
official
,
officiary
,
petty tyrant
,
placeman
,
president-elect
,
public official
,
red-tapist
officeholder
collapse
someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year"
related words >
bureaucrat
,
civil servant
,
functionary
,
functionnaire
,
holdover
,
incumbent
,
ins
,
jack-in-office
,
lame duck
,
mandarin
,
new broom
,
office-bearer
,
officer
,
official
,
officiary
,
petty tyrant
,
placeman
,
president-elect
,
public official
,
public servant
,
red-tapist
stalking horse
collapse
related words >
alibi
,
also-ran
,
ambuscade
,
ambush
,
ambushment
,
apology
,
aspirant
,
baby kisser
,
bidet
,
blind
,
booby trap
,
candidate
,
carriage horse
,
cart horse
,
cavalry horse
,
cloak
,
color
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
dark horse
,
defeated candidate
,
device
,
draft horse
,
dray horse
,
driving horse
,
dud
,
excuse
,
facade
,
favorite son
,
feint
,
fill horse
,
filler
,
front
,
gigster
,
gloss
,
guise
,
hack
,
hackney
,
handle
,
hopeful
,
hunter
,
jument
,
lame duck
,
lame excuse
,
lead
,
leader
,
locus standi
,
lurking hole
,
mask
,
mount
,
office seeker
,
ostensible motive
,
pack horse
,
palfrey
,
plow horse
,
pole horse
,
political hopeful
,
polo pony
,
poor excuse
,
post-horse
,
presidential timber
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
refuge
,
remount
,
rider
,
riding horse
,
road horse
,
roadster
,
rouncy
,
running mate
,
saddle horse
,
saddler
,
screen
,
semblance
,
shadowing
,
shaft horse
,
sham
,
show
,
smoke screen
,
stratagem
,
subterfuge
,
sumpter
,
sumpter horse
,
surveillance
,
thill horse
,
thiller
,
trap
,
trick
,
varnish
,
veil
,
wheeler
,
wheelhorse
,
workhorse
emasculated
collapse
related words >
asexual
,
bad
,
castrated
,
cold
,
crippled
,
debilitated
,
demasculinized
,
devitalized
,
disabled
,
effeminized
,
emasculate
,
enervated
,
eunuchized
,
frigid
,
frustrated
,
game
,
gelded
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped
,
hobbling
,
impotent
,
incapacitated
,
lame
,
limping
,
lustless
,
maimed
,
marrowless
,
nerveless
,
neuter
,
neutral
,
pithless
,
sexless
,
sinewless
,
spavined
,
unmanned
,
unnerved
,
unsexed
,
unsexual
emasculate
collapse
remove the testicles of a male animal
deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
related words >
alter
,
castrate
,
cripple
,
debilitate
,
demasculinize
,
desex
,
desexualize
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
effeminate
,
effeminatize
,
effeminize
,
enervate
,
etiolate
,
eunuchize
,
exhaust
,
fix
,
forceless
,
geld
,
hamstring
,
hobble
,
impotent
,
inadequate
,
incapacitate
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
lame
,
maim
,
sissify
,
soften
,
spay
,
spineless
,
sterilize
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unsex
,
unstring
,
wan
,
weak
,
wing
,
womanize
incapacitated
collapse
related words >
ausgespielt
,
bad
,
burned-out
,
castrated
,
crippled
,
devitalized
,
disabled
,
disarmed
,
disqualified
,
drained
,
effete
,
emasculated
,
enervated
,
enfeebled
,
eviscerated
,
exhausted
,
fatigued
,
game
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped
,
hobbling
,
hog-tied
,
invalidated
,
lame
,
limping
,
maimed
,
paralyzed
,
played out
,
prostrate
,
run-down
,
sapped
,
spavined
,
spent
,
used up
,
wasted
,
weakened
,
worn
,
worn-out
disabled
collapse
people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled"
markedly unable to function as a consequence of injury or illness
so badly injured as to be excused from continuing; "disabled veterans"
related words >
ausgespielt
,
bad
,
burned-out
,
castrated
,
crippled
,
damaged
,
devitalized
,
disarmed
,
disqualified
,
drained
,
effete
,
emasculated
,
enervated
,
enfeebled
,
eviscerated
,
exhausted
,
fatigued
,
game
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped
,
harmed
,
hobbling
,
hog-tied
,
impaired
,
incapacitated
,
inoperative
,
invalidated
,
lame
,
limping
,
maimed
,
paralyzed
,
played out
,
prostrate
,
ruined
,
run-down
,
sapped
,
spavined
,
spent
,
used up
,
wasted
,
weakened
,
worn
,
worn-out
incapacitate
collapse
related words >
afflict
,
bugger
,
castrate
,
cripple
,
de-energize
,
deactivate
,
debilitate
,
derange
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
disarm
,
disenable
,
disorder
,
drain
,
emasculate
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
exhaust
,
hamstring
,
hobble
,
hors de combat
,
hospitalize
,
immobilize
,
impair
,
inactivate
,
indispose
,
invalid
,
kibosh
,
lame
,
lay up
,
maim
,
prostrate
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
reduce
,
sabotage
,
sicken
,
spike
,
unfit
,
weaken
,
wing
,
wound
,
wreck
castrated
collapse
deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes
related words >
asexual
,
bad
,
butchered
,
cold
,
crippled
,
cut short
,
debilitated
,
demasculinized
,
devitalized
,
disabled
,
docked
,
effeminized
,
emasculate
,
emasculated
,
enervated
,
eunuchized
,
frigid
,
frustrated
,
game
,
garbled
,
gelded
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped
,
hashed
,
hobbling
,
impotent
,
incapacitated
,
lame
,
limping
,
lopped
,
lustless
,
maimed
,
mangled
,
marrowless
,
mutilated
,
nerveless
,
neuter
,
neutral
,
pithless
,
sexless
,
sinewless
,
spavined
,
truncated
,
unmanned
,
unnerved
,
unsexed
,
unsexual
cover story
collapse
related words >
alibi
,
apology
,
blind
,
cloak
,
color
,
cover
,
cover-up
,
device
,
excuse
,
facade
,
feint
,
front
,
gloss
,
guise
,
handle
,
lame excuse
,
locus standi
,
mask
,
ostensible motive
,
poor excuse
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
refuge
,
screen
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
smoke screen
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
subterfuge
,
trick
,
varnish
,
veil
bootless
collapse
unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
related words >
abortive
,
barren
,
counterproductive
,
effete
,
empty
,
etiolated
,
failed
,
failing
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
feckless
,
fruitless
,
frustrating
,
futile
,
gainless
,
inadequate
,
inane
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
inoperative
,
invalid
,
lame
,
manque
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
nonremunerative
,
nugacious
,
nugatory
,
of no effect
,
of no force
,
otiose
,
pointless
,
profitless
,
purposeless
,
rewardless
,
sterile
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
unavailable
,
unavailing
,
unfortunate
,
unproductive
,
unprofitable
,
unremunerative
,
unrewarding
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
,
vain
,
wasteful
,
worthless
ins
collapse
related words >
bureaucracy
,
directorate
,
hierarchy
,
higher echelons
,
higher-ups
,
holdover
,
incumbent
,
jack-in-office
,
lame duck
,
management
,
ministry
,
new broom
,
office-bearer
,
officeholder
,
officialdom
,
prelacy
,
president-elect
,
public official
,
public servant
,
ruling class
,
ruling classes
,
the Establishment
,
the administration
,
the authorities
,
the ingroup
,
the interests
,
the people upstairs
,
the power elite
,
the power structure
,
the top
,
them
,
they
,
top brass
kibosh
collapse
related words >
KO
,
bugger
,
call off
,
cancel
,
complete
,
cripple
,
de-energize
,
debilitate
,
delete
,
disable
,
disenable
,
dispose of
,
drain
,
drop the curtain
,
end off
,
enfeeble
,
expunge
,
extinguish
,
finalize
,
finish
,
fold up
,
get it over
,
get over with
,
get through with
,
give the quietus
,
hamstring
,
hors de combat
,
inactivate
,
incapacitate
,
kayo
,
kill
,
knock out
,
lame
,
maim
,
perfect
,
polish off
,
put
,
put paid to
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
sabotage
,
scrag
,
shoot down
,
spike
,
unfit
,
weaken
,
wing
,
wipe out
,
wreck
,
zap
weigh down
collapse
be oppressive or disheartening to
related words >
ballast
,
bear hard upon
,
burden
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
fetter
,
go hard with
,
go ill with
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
hobble
,
impede
,
involve
,
lame
,
lead
,
lie on
,
lime
,
load
,
lumber
,
net
,
oppress
,
overburden
,
overload
,
press
,
press down
,
sadden
,
saddle with
,
sandbag
,
shackle
,
snarl
,
tangle
,
toil
,
trammel
,
try one
,
weigh heavy on
,
weigh on
,
weigh upon
,
weight
,
weight down
scalper
collapse
someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost; "he got theater tickets through a scalper"
related words >
adventurer
,
agent
,
big operator
,
clerk
,
floorwalker
,
gunslinger
,
lame duck
,
margin purchaser
,
operator
,
plunger
,
sales agent
,
sales engineer
,
sales force
,
sales manager
,
sales personnel
,
salesclerk
,
salesgirl
,
saleslady
,
salesman
,
salespeople
,
salesperson
,
saleswoman
,
seller
,
selling agent
,
shop assistant
,
shop clerk
,
smart operator
,
speculator
,
stag
,
store clerk
,
ticket scalper
also ran
collapse
related words >
aspirant
,
baby kisser
,
bankrupt
,
booby
,
candidate
,
dark horse
,
defeated candidate
,
defeatee
,
duck
,
dud
,
failure
,
fall guy
,
false alarm
,
favorite son
,
flop
,
game loser
,
good loser
,
good sport
,
hopeful
,
lame duck
,
loser
,
office seeker
,
political hopeful
,
presidential timber
,
running mate
,
sport
,
stalking-horse
,
stooge
,
the vanquished
,
underdog
,
victim
,
washout
disable
collapse
injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"
make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"
related words >
afflict
,
attenuate
,
batter
,
blunt
,
bugger
,
castrate
,
cripple
,
de-energize
,
debilitate
,
derange
,
devitalize
,
disarm
,
disenable
,
disorder
,
drain
,
emasculate
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
hamstring
,
harm
,
hobble
,
hors de combat
,
hospitalize
,
hurt
,
immobilize
,
inactivate
,
incapacitate
,
indispose
,
invalid
,
kibosh
,
lame
,
lay up
,
maim
,
mangle
,
mar
,
mutilate
,
prostrate
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
reduce
,
ruin
,
sabotage
,
sap
,
sicken
,
spike
,
spoil
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unfit
,
unstrengthen
,
weaken
,
wing
,
wreck
ensnarl
collapse
related words >
allure
,
bait the hook
,
birdlime
,
burden
,
catch
,
catch out
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
decoy
,
embarrass
,
embrangle
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnare
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
enweb
,
fetter
,
gin
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
hobble
,
hook
,
hook in
,
impede
,
inveigle
,
involve
,
lame
,
lime
,
lumber
,
lure
,
mesh
,
net
,
noose
,
perplex
,
press down
,
saddle with
,
shackle
,
snare
,
snarl
,
sniggle
,
spread the toils
,
tangle
,
toil
,
trammel
,
trap
,
trip
,
weigh down
,
wind
doggerel
collapse
a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"
related words >
Doric
,
Hudibrastic verse
,
amphigory
,
barbaric
,
barbarous
,
burlesque
,
cacophonous
,
caricatural
,
clumsy
,
coarse
,
crambo
,
crambo clink
,
crude
,
dysphemistic
,
farcical
,
graceless
,
gross
,
halting meters
,
harsh
,
improper
,
impure
,
in bad taste
,
inconcinnate
,
inconcinnous
,
incorrect
,
indecorous
,
inelegant
,
infelicitous
,
lame verses
,
limping meters
,
low
,
macaronic
,
macaronic verse
,
macaronics
,
nonsense verse
,
outlandish
,
parodic
,
rude
,
satiric
,
tasteless
,
uncourtly
,
uncouth
,
undignified
,
uneuphonious
,
unfelicitous
,
ungraceful
,
unpolished
,
unrefined
,
unseemly
,
vulgar
lame duck
collapse
an elected official still in office but not slated to continue
related words >
adventurer
,
also-ran
,
aspirant
,
baby kisser
,
bankrupt
,
big operator
,
candidate
,
dark horse
,
defeated candidate
,
dud
,
failure
,
favorite son
,
gunslinger
,
holdover
,
hopeful
,
incumbent
,
ins
,
insolvent
,
insolvent debtor
,
jack-in-office
,
margin purchaser
,
new broom
,
office seeker
,
office-bearer
,
officeholder
,
operator
,
plunger
,
political hopeful
,
president-elect
,
presidential timber
,
public official
,
public servant
,
running mate
,
scalper
,
smart operator
,
speculator
,
stag
,
stalking-horse
entwine
collapse
related words >
braid
,
burden
,
coil
,
corkscrew
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
curl
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enlace
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
fetter
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
hobble
,
impede
,
interknit
,
interlace
,
intertie
,
intertissue
,
intertwine
,
intertwist
,
interweave
,
intort
,
intwine
,
involve
,
knit
,
lace
,
lame
,
lime
,
loom
,
loop
,
lumber
,
mat
,
net
,
noose
,
plait
,
pleach
,
press down
,
raddle
,
saddle with
,
shackle
,
snarl
,
spiral
,
splice
,
tangle
,
tissue
,
toil
,
trammel
,
twill
,
twine
,
twist
,
wattle
,
weave
,
web
,
weigh down
,
wreathe
enfeeble
collapse
make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
related words >
abate
,
afflict
,
attenuate
,
blunt
,
bugger
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-energize
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
derange
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
disenable
,
disorder
,
drain
,
dull
,
enervate
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
gruel
,
hamstring
,
hors de combat
,
hospitalize
,
inactivate
,
incapacitate
,
indispose
,
invalid
,
kibosh
,
lame
,
lay low
,
lay up
,
maim
,
mitigate
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
sabotage
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
sicken
,
soften up
,
spike
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unfit
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
,
wing
,
wreck
speculator
collapse
someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
related words >
adventurer
,
armchair authority
,
betting ring
,
bettor
,
big operator
,
boneshaker
,
cardshark
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
casuist
,
compulsive gambler
,
cosmologist
,
crap shooter
,
doctrinaire
,
doctrinarian
,
gambler
,
gamester
,
gunslinger
,
hazarder
,
hypothesist
,
hypothesizer
,
lame duck
,
margin purchaser
,
metaphysician
,
operator
,
petty gambler
,
philosophaster
,
philosophe
,
philosopher
,
philosophizer
,
piker
,
player
,
plunger
,
punter
,
scalper
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
smart operator
,
sophist
,
sport
,
sporting man
,
sportsman
,
stag
,
theoretic
,
theoretician
,
theorist
,
theorizer
,
thinker
,
tinhorn
,
tipster
,
tout
,
venturer
,
wagerer
plunger
collapse
hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
related words >
adventurer
,
betting ring
,
bettor
,
big operator
,
boneshaker
,
cardshark
,
cardsharp
,
cardsharper
,
compulsive gambler
,
crap shooter
,
deep-sea diver
,
diver
,
free diver
,
frogman
,
gambler
,
gamester
,
gunslinger
,
hazarder
,
jumper
,
lame duck
,
margin purchaser
,
operator
,
parachute jumper
,
pearl diver
,
petty gambler
,
piker
,
player
,
punter
,
scalper
,
scuba diver
,
sharp
,
sharper
,
sharpie
,
skin diver
,
sky diver
,
smart operator
,
snorkel diver
,
speculator
,
sport
,
sporting man
,
sportsman
,
stag
,
tinhorn
,
tipster
,
tout
,
venturer
,
wagerer
candidate
collapse
someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
related words >
addict
,
agent
,
also-ran
,
applicant
,
appointee
,
aspirant
,
aspirer
,
assignee
,
baby kisser
,
bidder
,
campaigner
,
claimant
,
collector
,
coveter
,
dark horse
,
defeated candidate
,
deputy
,
desirer
,
devotee
,
dud
,
entrant
,
fancier
,
favorite son
,
freak
,
hankerer
,
has-been
,
hopeful
,
lame duck
,
licensee
,
lover
,
nominee
,
office seeker
,
petitioner
,
political hopeful
,
possibility
,
postulant
,
presidential timber
,
prospect
,
runner
,
running mate
,
seeker
,
selectee
,
solicitant
,
solicitor
,
stalking-horse
,
stumper
,
suitor
,
suppliant
,
supplicant
,
votary
,
wanter
,
whistle-stopper
,
wisher
,
yearner
alibi
collapse
(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
exonerate by means of an alibi
related words >
alibi out of
,
apologize for
,
apology
,
blind
,
cloak
,
color
,
cop-out
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover with excuses
,
cover-up
,
device
,
excuse
,
explain
,
explanation
,
facade
,
feint
,
front
,
gloss
,
guise
,
handle
,
lame excuse
,
lie out of
,
likely story
,
locus standi
,
make apology for
,
mask
,
offer excuse for
,
ostensible motive
,
out
,
plea
,
plead ignorance
,
poor excuse
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
refuge
,
right
,
screen
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
smoke screen
,
squirm out of
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
subterfuge
,
trick
,
varnish
,
veil
,
worm out of
holdover
collapse
an official who remains in office after his term
related words >
afterglow
,
afterimage
,
balance
,
butt
,
butt end
,
candle ends
,
chaff
,
debris
,
detritus
,
end
,
fag end
,
filings
,
fossil
,
husks
,
incumbent
,
ins
,
jack-in-office
,
lame duck
,
leavings
,
leftovers
,
new broom
,
odds and ends
,
office-bearer
,
officeholder
,
offscourings
,
orts
,
parings
,
president-elect
,
public official
,
public servant
,
rags
,
refuse
,
relics
,
remainder
,
remains
,
remnant
,
residue
,
residuum
,
rest
,
roach
,
rubbish
,
ruins
,
rump
,
sawdust
,
scourings
,
scraps
,
shadow
,
shavings
,
straw
,
stubble
,
stump
,
survival
,
sweepings
,
trace
,
vestige
,
waste
aspirant
collapse
an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"
desiring or striving for recognition or advancement
related words >
Leibnizian optimist
,
Pollyanna
,
addict
,
also-ran
,
applicant
,
aspirer
,
baby kisser
,
bidder
,
candidate
,
chiliast
,
claimant
,
collector
,
coveter
,
dark horse
,
defeated candidate
,
desirer
,
devotee
,
dud
,
fancier
,
favorite son
,
freak
,
hankerer
,
hopeful
,
hoper
,
irrepressible optimist
,
lame duck
,
lover
,
millenarian
,
millennialist
,
millennian
,
office seeker
,
optimist
,
perfectibilist
,
perfectibilitarian
,
perfectionist
,
petitioner
,
philosophical optimist
,
political hopeful
,
postulant
,
presidential timber
,
ray of sunshine
,
running mate
,
seeker
,
solicitant
,
solicitor
,
stalking-horse
,
suitor
,
suppliant
,
supplicant
,
utopian
,
votary
,
wanter
,
wisher
,
yearner
smoke screen
collapse
an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure; "requesting new powers of surveillance is just a smokescreen to hide their failures"
(military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements
related words >
alibi
,
apology
,
blind
,
camouflage
,
cloak
,
color
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
device
,
disguise
,
domino
,
excuse
,
facade
,
false colors
,
false face
,
false front
,
feint
,
front
,
gloss
,
guise
,
handle
,
incognito
,
lame excuse
,
locus standi
,
mask
,
masque
,
masquerade
,
mummery
,
ostensible motive
,
poor excuse
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
protective coloration
,
protestation
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
refuge
,
screen
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
subterfuge
,
trick
,
varnish
,
veil
,
visor
,
vizard
,
vizard mask
entrap
collapse
related words >
allure
,
bag
,
bait
,
bait the hook
,
birdlime
,
burden
,
catch
,
catch out
,
catch up
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
decoy
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnare
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entice
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entwine
,
enweb
,
fetter
,
foul
,
gin
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
harpoon
,
hobble
,
hook
,
hook in
,
impede
,
inveigle
,
involve
,
lame
,
land
,
lasso
,
lead
,
lime
,
lumber
,
lure
,
mesh
,
nail
,
net
,
noose
,
press down
,
rope
,
sack
,
saddle with
,
shackle
,
snag
,
snare
,
snarl
,
sniggle
,
spear
,
spread the toils
,
take
,
tangle
,
tangle up with
,
toil
,
toll
,
trammel
,
trap
,
trip
,
weigh down
,
wind
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