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grinding poverty
Related Words:
sanding
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
attrition
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
detrition
,
dressing
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
filing
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
limation
,
polishing
,
rasping
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
smoothing
,
wear
,
wearing away
exhausting
collapse
producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
related words >
arduous
,
burdensome
,
crippling
,
debilitating
,
devitalizing
,
difficult
,
draining
,
enervating
,
enfeebling
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
grinding
,
grueling
,
hard
,
harsh
,
heavy
,
killing
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
oppressive
,
overburdensome
,
punishing
,
sapping
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
trying
,
tyrannous
,
weakening
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
weighty
hardworking
collapse
characterized by hard work and perseverance
related words >
ardent
,
assiduous
,
diligent
,
drudging
,
energetic
,
fervent
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hard
,
indefatigable
,
industrious
,
laboring
,
laborious
,
never idle
,
pegging
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
relentless
,
sedulous
,
slaving
,
sleepless
,
slogging
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
striving
,
struggling
,
sweating
,
tireless
,
toiling
,
unflagging
,
unremitting
,
unsleeping
,
unsparing
,
unwearied
,
vehement
,
working
,
zealous
impecunious
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
destitute
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
in Queer Street
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
poverty-stricken
,
reduced
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
squeezed
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
Sabbatarian
collapse
one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)
pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance
related words >
Albigensian
,
Catharist
,
Franciscan
,
High-Churchist
,
Trappist
,
Waldensian
,
abstainer
,
abstinent
,
anchorite
,
anchoritic
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
bhikshu
,
bigoted
,
creedbound
,
dervish
,
dogmatic
,
eremitic
,
evangelical
,
fakir
,
flagellant
,
formalist
,
formularist
,
formulist
,
fundamentalist
,
hermit
,
hidebound
,
hyperorthodox
,
literalist
,
literalistic
,
liturgist
,
mendicant
,
precisianist
,
precisianistic
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanical
,
rigoristic
,
ritualist
,
sacramentarian
,
sannyasi
,
self-denying
,
staunch
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
wedded to poverty
,
yogi
,
yogin
dearth
collapse
an insufficient quantity or number
an acute insufficiency
related words >
absence
,
aridity
,
barrenness
,
birth control
,
contraception
,
default
,
defect
,
deficiency
,
dry womb
,
dryness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
family planning
,
famine
,
impotence
,
inadequacy
,
ineffectualness
,
infecundity
,
infertility
,
infrequency
,
insufficiency
,
lack
,
meagerness
,
miss
,
need
,
paucity
,
planned parenthood
,
poverty
,
privation
,
rareness
,
rarity
,
scant sufficiency
,
scantiness
,
scantness
,
scarceness
,
scarcity
,
shortage
,
sparseness
,
sparsity
,
sterileness
,
sterility
,
uncommonness
,
unfertileness
,
unfruitfulness
,
unproductiveness
,
want
,
withered loins
pauperized
collapse
related words >
bare-handed
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereft
,
deprived
,
disadvantaged
,
empty-handed
,
famished
,
fleeced
,
ghettoized
,
half-starved
,
ill off
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in want
,
indigent
,
mendicant
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
on relief
,
on short commons
,
out at elbows
,
poor
,
poverty-stricken
,
shorthanded
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
stripped
,
underfed
,
undermanned
,
undernourished
,
underprivileged
,
unfed
,
unprovided
,
unreplenished
,
unsupplied
impeccable
collapse
not capable of sin
related words >
absolute
,
accurate
,
beyond all praise
,
blameless
,
chaste
,
clean
,
correct
,
defectless
,
destitute
,
errorless
,
exact
,
exquisite
,
faultless
,
flawless
,
ideal
,
immaculate
,
impecunious
,
impoverished
,
indefectible
,
indefective
,
indigent
,
infallible
,
irreproachable
,
just right
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
nice
,
peerless
,
penurious
,
perfect
,
poverty-stricken
,
precise
,
proper
,
pure
,
right
,
sinless
,
spotless
,
stainless
,
taintless
,
unadulterated
,
unblemished
,
uncontaminated
,
undefiled
,
unerring
,
unfaultable
,
unflawed
,
unimpeachable
,
unmixed
,
unprosperous
,
unsoiled
,
unspotted
,
unsullied
,
untainted
,
white
stripped
collapse
with clothing stripped off
having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget"
related words >
bared
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereaved of
,
bereft
,
cut off
,
denudated
,
denuded
,
deprived
,
deprived of
,
disadvantaged
,
divested
,
exposed
,
fleeced
,
ghettoized
,
impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in want
,
indigent
,
lacking
,
laid bare
,
mendicant
,
minus
,
naked
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
nude
,
on relief
,
out at elbows
,
out of
,
parted from
,
pauperized
,
poverty-stricken
,
raw
,
robbed of
,
shorn of
,
showing
,
stark-naked
,
starveling
,
stripped of
,
unclad
,
unclothed
,
uncovered
,
underprivileged
,
undressed
,
unveiled
,
wanting
indigent
collapse
related words >
almsman
,
almswoman
,
bankrupt
,
beggar
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereft
,
casual
,
charity case
,
deprived
,
destitute
,
disadvantaged
,
down-and-out
,
down-and-outer
,
flat broke
,
fleeced
,
ghettoized
,
hard up
,
hardcase
,
impecunious
,
impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in want
,
mendicant
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
on relief
,
out at elbows
,
pauper
,
pauperized
,
penniless
,
penniless man
,
penurious
,
poor
,
poor devil
,
poor man
,
poorling
,
poverty-stricken
,
short
,
starveling
,
strapped
,
stripped
,
underprivileged
,
welfare client
monasticism
collapse
asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Catharism
,
Franciscanism
,
Sabbatarianism
,
Trappism
,
Waldensianism
,
Yoga
,
abstinence
,
anchoritic monasticism
,
anchoritism
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
bachelordom
,
bachelorhood
,
bachelorism
,
bachelorship
,
celibacy
,
continence
,
eremitism
,
fasting
,
flagellation
,
friarhood
,
maceration
,
maidenhead
,
maidenhood
,
mendicantism
,
misogamy
,
misogyny
,
monachism
,
monkery
,
mortification
,
puritanism
,
rigor
,
self-denial
,
self-mortification
,
single blessedness
,
single state
,
singleness
,
spinsterhood
,
unwed state
,
virgin state
,
virginity
,
voluntary poverty
tyrannical
collapse
related words >
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
autarchic
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
bossy
,
brutal
,
despotic
,
dictatorial
,
domineering
,
feudal
,
grinding
,
harsh
,
heavy-handed
,
high-handed
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
masterful
,
monocratic
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
peremptory
,
repressive
,
roughshod
,
severe
,
strict
,
suppressive
,
tyrannous
,
unjust
perusal
collapse
reading carefully with intent to remember
related words >
application
,
boning
,
brainwork
,
check
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
cram
,
cramming
,
drill
,
engrossment
,
examination
,
exercise
,
extensive study
,
grind
,
grinding
,
headwork
,
inspection
,
lucubration
,
mental labor
,
overhaul
,
overhauling
,
perlustration
,
practice
,
quality control
,
reading
,
restudy
,
restudying
,
review
,
run-through
,
scan
,
scanning
,
scrutiny
,
study
,
studying
,
subject
,
survey
,
swotting
,
visitation
,
wide reading
deprivation
collapse
related words >
abnegation
,
abridgment
,
absence
,
awayness
,
banishment
,
bare cupboard
,
bare subsistence
,
beggarliness
,
beggary
,
bereavement
,
blackballing
,
blank
,
cashiering
,
contradiction
,
cost
,
curtailment
,
damage
,
dead loss
,
debit
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
deconsecration
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
defrocking
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
denial
,
denudation
,
depluming
,
deportation
,
deposal
,
deposition
,
deprivement
,
despoilment
,
destitution
,
destruction
,
dethronement
,
detriment
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disassembly
,
disbarment
,
disbarring
,
disburdening
,
disburdenment
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discrownment
,
disenthronement
,
disentitlement
,
disfellowship
,
dismantlement
,
dismemberment
,
dismissal
,
disobedience
,
displacement
,
displuming
,
dispossession
,
dissent
,
divestment
,
drought
,
emptiness
,
empty purse
,
exclusion
,
excommunication
,
exile
,
expatriation
,
expense
,
expulsion
,
extradition
,
famine
,
firing
,
forced resignation
,
forfeit
,
forfeiture
,
fugitation
,
grinding poverty
,
gripe
,
hand-to-mouth existence
,
holding back
,
homelessness
,
impeachment
,
imperfection
,
impoverishment
,
incompleteness
,
indigence
,
injury
,
kicking upstairs
,
lack
,
liquidation
,
loser
,
losing
,
losing streak
,
loss
,
mendicancy
,
moneylessness
,
nay
,
necessitousness
,
necessity
,
need
,
neediness
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negativeness
,
negativity
,
neverness
,
nihility
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonbeing
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonentity
,
nonexistence
,
nonobservance
,
nonoccurrence
,
nonpresence
,
nonreality
,
nonsubsistence
,
not-being
,
nothingness
,
nowhereness
,
nullity
,
omission
,
ostracism
,
ostracization
,
ousting
,
outlawing
,
outlawry
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
pauperism
,
pauperization
,
pensioning off
,
penury
,
perdition
,
pinch
,
privation
,
purge
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
relegation
,
relieving
,
removal
,
repudiation
,
retention
,
retirement
,
robbery
,
ruin
,
rustication
,
sacrifice
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
spoliation
,
starvation
,
stripping
,
subtraction
,
superannuation
,
suspension
,
taking away
,
thumbs-down
,
total loss
,
transportation
,
turndown
,
unactuality
,
unchurching
,
undoing
,
unfrocking
,
unreality
,
unseating
,
unwillingness
,
vacancy
,
vacuity
,
vacuum
,
void
,
want
,
wantage
,
withholding
bereft
collapse
unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
related words >
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereaved of
,
bereft of
,
cut off
,
denuded
,
denuded of
,
deprived
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
disadvantaged
,
divested
,
empty of
,
fatherless
,
fleeced
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
ghettoized
,
impoverished
,
in default of
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in want
,
in want of
,
indigent
,
lacking
,
mendicant
,
minus
,
missing
,
motherless
,
necessitous
,
needing
,
needy
,
on relief
,
orphan
,
orphaned
,
out at elbows
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
parentless
,
parted from
,
pauperized
,
poverty-stricken
,
robbed of
,
scant of
,
shorn of
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
starveling
,
stripped
,
stripped of
,
unblessed with
,
underprivileged
,
unpossessed of
,
void of
,
wanting
,
widowed
feudal
collapse
of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism
related words >
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
bossy
,
client
,
dependent
,
despotic
,
dictatorial
,
domineering
,
feodal
,
feudatory
,
grinding
,
high-handed
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
inferior
,
liege
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
manorial
,
masterful
,
monocratic
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
peremptory
,
praedial
,
real
,
repressive
,
seigneurial
,
seignioral
,
servile
,
severe
,
strict
,
subject
,
subordinate
,
subservient
,
suppressive
,
tributary
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
,
vassal
galling
collapse
related words >
ablative
,
abradant
,
abrasive
,
afflictive
,
aggravating
,
annoying
,
attritive
,
bothering
,
bothersome
,
chafing
,
distasteful
,
disturbing
,
erosive
,
exasperating
,
fretting
,
gnawing
,
grating
,
grievous
,
grinding
,
harassing
,
importunate
,
importune
,
irking
,
irksome
,
irritant
,
irritating
,
irritative
,
painful
,
pesky
,
pestering
,
pestiferous
,
pestilent
,
pestilential
,
plaguesome
,
plaguey
,
plaguing
,
provoking
,
rasping
,
scratchy
,
stinging
,
teasing
,
tiresome
,
tormenting
,
troublesome
,
troubling
,
unpalatable
,
vexatious
,
vexing
,
wearisome
,
worrisome
,
worrying
jangling
collapse
like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"
related words >
ajar
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
at cross-purposes
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
at variance
,
at war
,
clashing
,
conflicting
,
confused
,
contradictory
,
contrary
,
cranky
,
cross
,
differing
,
disaccordant
,
disagreeable
,
disagreeing
,
discordant
,
discrepant
,
disharmonious
,
disproportionate
,
dissident
,
dissonant
,
divergent
,
grating
,
grinding
,
harsh
,
hostile
,
immiscible
,
inaccordant
,
incompatible
,
inharmonious
,
jangly
,
jarring
,
jostling
,
negative
,
out of accord
,
out of whack
,
rasping
,
raspy
,
repugnant
,
scraping
,
scrapy
,
scratching
,
scratchy
,
uncongenial
,
unharmonious
,
variant
,
warring
dead stop
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
bell
,
cessation
,
check
,
checkmate
,
cutoff
,
dead set
,
dead stand
,
deadlock
,
dying down
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
end
,
endgame
,
ending
,
final whistle
,
full stop
,
grinding halt
,
gun
,
halt
,
lock
,
lockout
,
sit-down strike
,
stalemate
,
stand
,
standoff
,
standstill
,
stay
,
stillstand
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
subsidence
,
walkout
,
wane
,
waning
,
work stoppage
full stop
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
bell
,
cessation
,
check
,
checkmate
,
cutoff
,
dead set
,
dead stand
,
dead stop
,
deadlock
,
dying down
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
end
,
endgame
,
ending
,
final whistle
,
grinding halt
,
gun
,
halt
,
lock
,
lockout
,
sit-down strike
,
stalemate
,
stand
,
standoff
,
standstill
,
stay
,
stillstand
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
subsidence
,
walkout
,
wane
,
waning
,
work stoppage
sit down strike
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
bell
,
boycott
,
boycottage
,
check
,
checkmate
,
cutoff
,
dead stop
,
deadlock
,
end
,
endgame
,
ending
,
final whistle
,
full stop
,
grinding halt
,
gun
,
halt
,
job action
,
lockout
,
outlaw strike
,
revolt
,
rulebook slowdown
,
sick-in
,
sit-down
,
slowdown
,
stalemate
,
stand
,
standoff
,
standstill
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
sympathy strike
,
tie-up
,
turnout
,
walkout
,
wildcat strike
,
work stoppage
work stoppage
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
bell
,
boycott
,
boycottage
,
check
,
checkmate
,
cutoff
,
dead stop
,
deadlock
,
end
,
endgame
,
ending
,
final whistle
,
full stop
,
grinding halt
,
gun
,
halt
,
job action
,
lockout
,
outlaw strike
,
revolt
,
rulebook slowdown
,
sick-in
,
sit-down
,
sit-down strike
,
slowdown
,
stalemate
,
stand
,
standoff
,
standstill
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
sympathy strike
,
tie-up
,
turnout
,
walkout
,
wildcat strike
scantiness
collapse
related words >
Lenten fare
,
austerity
,
chinchiness
,
chintziness
,
daintiness
,
dearth
,
defalcation
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
delicacy
,
diminutiveness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
fewness
,
inadequacy
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
infrequency
,
insignificance
,
insufficiency
,
jejuneness
,
jejunity
,
lack
,
leanness
,
littleness
,
meagerness
,
meanness
,
minuteness
,
miserliness
,
moderateness
,
narrowness
,
niggardliness
,
paltriness
,
parsimony
,
paucity
,
pettiness
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
poverty
,
puniness
,
rareness
,
rarity
,
restrictedness
,
scant sufficiency
,
scantness
,
scarceness
,
scarcity
,
scrawniness
,
scrimpiness
,
shortage
,
shortness
,
skimpiness
,
slenderness
,
slightness
,
slim pickings
,
slimness
,
smallness
,
spareness
,
sparseness
,
sparsity
,
stinginess
,
stringency
,
thinness
,
tightness
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
uncommonness
,
underage
,
undersize
,
unimportance
want
collapse
wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!"
have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"
related words >
absence
,
ache to
,
adulteration
,
aim at
,
ardor
,
arrearage
,
ask
,
awayness
,
bare cupboard
,
bare necessities
,
bare subsistence
,
be desirous of
,
be dying to
,
be found wanting
,
be hurting for
,
be in want
,
be indicated
,
be inferior
,
be insufficient
,
be pinched
,
be poor
,
become
,
befit
,
beggarliness
,
beggary
,
behoove
,
blank
,
break
,
burn to
,
call for
,
choose
,
choose to
,
claim
,
clamor for
,
collapse
,
come short
,
concupiscence
,
covet
,
crave
,
cry for
,
cry out for
,
curiosity
,
dearly love to
,
dearth
,
decline
,
defalcation
,
default
,
defect
,
defectibility
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
demand
,
demand for
,
deprivation
,
desiderate
,
desideration
,
desideratum
,
desire
,
destitution
,
discontinuity
,
drive
,
drought
,
eagerness
,
empty purse
,
erroneousness
,
essential
,
essentials
,
exact
,
exigency
,
exiguousness
,
fail
,
fail of
,
fall away
,
fall short
,
fall shy
,
fallibility
,
famine
,
fancy
,
fantasy
,
faultiness
,
favor
,
follow
,
gap
,
go on welfare
,
grinding poverty
,
gripe
,
hand-to-mouth existence
,
have designs on
,
have nothing on
,
have occasion for
,
hiatus
,
homelessness
,
hope
,
horme
,
immaturity
,
impairment
,
impecuniousness
,
imperfection
,
impoverishment
,
impurity
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
incompleteness
,
indigence
,
indispensable
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
insufficiency
,
intellectual curiosity
,
interval
,
itch to
,
kick the beam
,
lack
,
lacuna
,
lag
,
libido
,
like
,
like to
,
long to
,
lose ground
,
love
,
love to
,
lust
,
lust after
,
lust for learning
,
meagerness
,
mediocrity
,
mendicancy
,
mind
,
miss
,
missing link
,
moneylessness
,
must
,
must item
,
necessaries
,
necessities
,
necessitousness
,
necessity
,
need
,
need for
,
need to
,
neediness
,
neverness
,
nonexistence
,
nonoccurrence
,
nonpresence
,
not answer
,
not approach
,
not come near
,
not compare
,
not hack it
,
not make it
,
not make out
,
not measure up
,
not qualify
,
not stretch
,
not suffice
,
nowhereness
,
occasion
,
omission
,
ought
,
outage
,
passion
,
patchiness
,
pauperism
,
pauperization
,
penury
,
pinch
,
play second fiddle
,
pleasure
,
pleasure principle
,
poorness
,
prefer
,
prerequire
,
prerequirement
,
prerequisite
,
privation
,
rank under
,
require
,
requirement
,
requisite
,
requisition
,
run short
,
run short of
,
scantiness
,
serve
,
sexual desire
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
should
,
sketchiness
,
skimpiness
,
slump
,
starvation
,
starve
,
stop short
,
subserve
,
subtraction
,
take doing
,
take to
,
the necessary
,
the needful
,
thirst for knowledge
,
ullage
,
undevelopment
,
unevenness
,
unperfectedness
,
unsoundness
,
urge
,
want doing
,
want to
,
wantage
,
wanting
,
will
,
will and pleasure
,
wish
,
wish fulfillment
,
wish to
,
wish to goodness
,
wish very much
,
would fain do
fasting
collapse
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Catharism
,
Day of Atonement
,
Franciscanism
,
Lenten
,
Sabbatarianism
,
Trappism
,
Waldensianism
,
Yoga
,
Yom Kippur
,
abstinence
,
anchoritic monasticism
,
anchoritism
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
cold purgatorial fires
,
dog-hungry
,
empty
,
eremitism
,
famished
,
famishing
,
flagellation
,
hair shirt
,
half-famished
,
half-starved
,
hungering
,
hungry
,
lustration
,
maceration
,
mendicantism
,
monachism
,
monasticism
,
mortification
,
peckish
,
penance
,
penitence
,
penitential act
,
penitential exercise
,
pinched with hunger
,
purgation
,
purgatory
,
puritanism
,
quadragesimal
,
ravening
,
ravenous
,
repentance
,
rigor
,
sackcloth and ashes
,
self-denial
,
self-mortification
,
sharp-set
,
starved
,
starving
,
uneating
,
unfed
,
unfilled
,
voluntary poverty
,
voracious
,
wolfish
burdensome
collapse
not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"
related words >
Herculean
,
annoying
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
besetting
,
bothersome
,
crushing
,
cumbersome
,
cumbrous
,
demanding
,
distressing
,
effortful
,
encumbering
,
exacting
,
exhausting
,
exigent
,
forced
,
grievous
,
grinding
,
grueling
,
hampering
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
harsh
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
impedimental
,
impeding
,
impeditive
,
incumbent
,
irksome
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
lumpish
,
massive
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
overburdensome
,
painful
,
plaguey
,
punishing
,
strained
,
strenuous
,
superincumbent
,
taxing
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
tyrannous
,
unwieldy
,
uphill
,
vexatious
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
weighty
,
worrisome
,
worrying
down at the heel
collapse
related words >
beat-up
,
bedraggled
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereft
,
blowzy
,
careless
,
chintzy
,
deprived
,
dilapidated
,
disadvantaged
,
dowdy
,
down-at-heel
,
down-at-the-heels
,
drabbletailed
,
draggled
,
draggletailed
,
fleeced
,
frayed
,
frazzled
,
frowzy
,
frumpish
,
frumpy
,
full of holes
,
ghettoized
,
grubby
,
holey
,
impoverished
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in shreds
,
in tatters
,
in want
,
indigent
,
informal
,
loose
,
lumpen
,
mendicant
,
messy
,
mussy
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
negligent
,
on relief
,
out at elbows
,
patchy
,
pauperized
,
poky
,
poverty-stricken
,
ragged
,
raggedy
,
ratty
,
ruinous
,
scraggly
,
scruffy
,
seedy
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
slack
,
slatternly
,
slipshod
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
sordid
,
squalid
,
starveling
,
stripped
,
tacky
,
tattered
,
tatty
,
torn
,
underprivileged
,
unkempt
,
unneat
,
unsightly
,
untidy
flagellation
collapse
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Catharism
,
Day of Atonement
,
Franciscanism
,
Sabbatarianism
,
Trappism
,
Waldensianism
,
Yoga
,
Yom Kippur
,
abstinence
,
anchoritic monasticism
,
anchoritism
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
bastinado
,
basting
,
battery
,
beating
,
belting
,
buffeting
,
caning
,
clubbing
,
cold purgatorial fires
,
corporal punishment
,
cowhiding
,
cudgeling
,
drubbing
,
eremitism
,
fasting
,
flailing
,
flogging
,
fustigation
,
hair shirt
,
horsewhipping
,
lacing
,
lashing
,
lustration
,
maceration
,
mendicantism
,
monachism
,
monasticism
,
mortification
,
penance
,
penitence
,
penitential act
,
penitential exercise
,
pistol-whipping
,
purgation
,
purgatory
,
puritanism
,
rawhiding
,
repentance
,
rigor
,
sackcloth and ashes
,
scourging
,
self-denial
,
self-mortification
,
spanking
,
strapping
,
stripes
,
swingeing
,
switching
,
thrashing
,
trouncing
,
truncheoning
,
voluntary poverty
,
whipping
despotic
collapse
ruled by or characteristic of a despot; "moved from a feudal to a despotic order"; "his administration was arrogant and despotic"
belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot
related words >
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
autarchic
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
autonomous
,
bossy
,
bureaucratic
,
civic
,
civil
,
constitutional
,
democratic
,
dictatorial
,
domineering
,
fascist
,
federal
,
federalist
,
federalistic
,
feudal
,
governmental
,
grinding
,
gubernatorial
,
heteronomous
,
high-handed
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
masterful
,
matriarchal
,
matriarchic
,
monarchal
,
monarchial
,
monarchic
,
monocratic
,
official
,
oligarchal
,
oligarchic
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
parliamentarian
,
parliamentary
,
patriarchal
,
patriarchic
,
peremptory
,
pluralistic
,
political
,
repressive
,
republican
,
self-governing
,
severe
,
strict
,
suppressive
,
theocratic
,
totalitarian
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
standstill
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
bell
,
blind alley
,
box
,
cessation
,
check
,
checkmate
,
corner
,
cul-de-sac
,
cutoff
,
dead end
,
dead set
,
dead stand
,
dead stop
,
dead-end street
,
deadlock
,
dying down
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
end
,
endgame
,
ending
,
extremity
,
final whistle
,
full stop
,
grinding halt
,
gun
,
halt
,
hole
,
impasse
,
lock
,
lockout
,
pause
,
sit-down strike
,
stalemate
,
stand
,
standoff
,
stay
,
stillstand
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
subsidence
,
walkout
,
wane
,
waning
,
work stoppage
suppressive
collapse
tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest"
related words >
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
bossy
,
choking
,
constraining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
despotic
,
dictatorial
,
domineering
,
exclusive
,
feudal
,
forbidding
,
grinding
,
high-handed
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
inhibitory
,
interdictive
,
interdictory
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
masterful
,
monocratic
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
peremptory
,
preclusive
,
preventive
,
prohibiting
,
prohibitive
,
prohibitory
,
proscriptive
,
repressive
,
restraining
,
restrictive
,
severe
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
strict
,
stultifying
,
troublesome
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
defalcation
collapse
the sum of money that is misappropriated
related words >
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
arrear
,
arrearage
,
arrears
,
befoulment
,
break
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
debasement
,
decline
,
default
,
defect
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
defilement
,
delinquency
,
desecration
,
discontinuity
,
diversion
,
embezzlement
,
failing
,
failure
,
falling short
,
fault
,
fouling
,
gap
,
hiatus
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
inferiority
,
insufficiency
,
interval
,
lack
,
lacuna
,
laxness
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misapplication
,
misappropriation
,
misconduct
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
missing link
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
need
,
negligence
,
omission
,
outage
,
paucity
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
poverty
,
profanation
,
prostitution
,
remissness
,
scant
,
scantiness
,
scarceness
,
short measure
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
slackness
,
slump
,
ullage
,
underage
,
violation
,
want
,
wantage
repressive
collapse
related words >
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
bossy
,
brutal
,
choking
,
constraining
,
constrictive
,
contrary
,
counterproductive
,
crosswise
,
despotic
,
dictatorial
,
domineering
,
exclusive
,
feudal
,
forbidding
,
grinding
,
high-handed
,
hindering
,
hindersome
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
in the way
,
inhibiting
,
inhibitive
,
inhibitory
,
interdictive
,
interdictory
,
interrupting
,
interruptive
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
masterful
,
monocratic
,
obstructing
,
obstructive
,
obstruent
,
occlusive
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
peremptory
,
preclusive
,
preventive
,
prohibiting
,
prohibitive
,
prohibitory
,
proscriptive
,
restraining
,
restrictive
,
severe
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
strict
,
stultifying
,
suppressive
,
totalitarian
,
troublesome
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
irritating
collapse
causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
(used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent"
related words >
acerbic
,
acid
,
acrid
,
aggravating
,
aggravative
,
annoying
,
asperous
,
astringent
,
biting
,
bitter
,
bothering
,
bothersome
,
caustic
,
chafing
,
contentious
,
cutting
,
disturbing
,
escharotic
,
exasperating
,
exasperative
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grating
,
grinding
,
harassing
,
harsh
,
importunate
,
importune
,
irking
,
irksome
,
irritant
,
irritative
,
keen
,
mordant
,
nose-tickling
,
penetrating
,
pesky
,
pestering
,
pestiferous
,
pestilent
,
pestilential
,
piercing
,
piquant
,
plaguesome
,
plaguey
,
plaguing
,
poignant
,
provocative
,
provoking
,
pungent
,
rasping
,
rough
,
scratchy
,
severe
,
sharp
,
sour
,
stinging
,
teasing
,
tiresome
,
tormenting
,
trenchant
,
troublesome
,
troubling
,
vexatious
,
vexing
,
vitriolic
,
wearisome
,
worrisome
,
worrying
headwork
collapse
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
application
,
boning
,
brainwork
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
cram
,
cramming
,
creative thought
,
drill
,
engrossment
,
excogitation
,
exercise
,
extensive study
,
grind
,
grinding
,
heavy thinking
,
idea
,
ideation
,
imageless thought
,
inspection
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectualization
,
lucubration
,
mental act
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
noesis
,
perusal
,
practice
,
ratiocination
,
reading
,
reasoning
,
restudy
,
restudying
,
review
,
straight thinking
,
study
,
studying
,
subject
,
swotting
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
wide reading
onerous
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
annoying
,
arduous
,
arduously
,
backbreaking
,
besetting
,
bothersome
,
burdensome
,
burdensomely
,
crushing
,
cumbersome
,
cumbrous
,
demanding
,
difficult
,
difficultly
,
effortful
,
encumbering
,
exacting
,
exhausting
,
exigent
,
forced
,
grievous
,
grinding
,
grueling
,
hampering
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
hardly
,
harsh
,
heavy
,
heavy-handed
,
hefty
,
impedimental
,
impeding
,
impeditive
,
incumbent
,
irksome
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
laboriously
,
lumpish
,
massive
,
onerously
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
overburdensome
,
painful
,
plaguey
,
ponderous
,
punishing
,
strained
,
strenuous
,
superincumbent
,
taxing
,
toilsome
,
toilsomely
,
tough
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
tyrannous
,
unruly
,
unwieldy
,
uphill
,
vexatious
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
weighty
dictatorial
collapse
of or characteristic of a dictator; "dictatorial powers"
related words >
U
,
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
all-powerful
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
autonomous
,
bossy
,
bureaucratic
,
civic
,
civil
,
constitutional
,
democratic
,
despotic
,
domineering
,
elitist
,
fascist
,
federal
,
federalist
,
federalistic
,
feudal
,
governmental
,
grinding
,
gubernatorial
,
heteronomous
,
high and mighty
,
high-handed
,
hubristic
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
lordly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
masterful
,
matriarchal
,
matriarchic
,
monarchal
,
monarchial
,
monarchic
,
monocratic
,
official
,
oligarchal
,
oligarchic
,
omnipotent
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
parliamentarian
,
parliamentary
,
patriarchal
,
patriarchic
,
peremptory
,
pluralistic
,
political
,
repressive
,
republican
,
self-governing
,
severe
,
strict
,
suppressive
,
theocratic
,
totalitarian
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
,
unlimited
brainwork
collapse
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
application
,
boning
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
cram
,
cramming
,
creative thought
,
deliberation
,
drill
,
engrossment
,
excogitation
,
exercise
,
extensive study
,
grind
,
grinding
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
idea
,
ideation
,
imageless thought
,
inspection
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectualization
,
lucubration
,
mental act
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
noesis
,
perusal
,
practice
,
ratiocination
,
reading
,
reasoning
,
reflection
,
restudy
,
restudying
,
review
,
speculation
,
straight thinking
,
study
,
studying
,
subject
,
swotting
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
wide reading
lordly
collapse
related words >
U
,
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
affected
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
august
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
bossy
,
cavalier
,
courtly
,
despotic
,
dictatorial
,
dignified
,
disdainful
,
domineering
,
egotistic
,
elitist
,
feudal
,
grand
,
grandiose
,
grave
,
grinding
,
haughty
,
high and mighty
,
high-and-mighty
,
high-handed
,
hubristic
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
imposing
,
insolent
,
kingly
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
magnificent
,
majestic
,
masterful
,
monocratic
,
noble
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overruling
,
peremptory
,
princely
,
puffed
,
queenly
,
regal
,
repressive
,
royal
,
sedate
,
severe
,
snobbish
,
sober
,
solemn
,
stately
,
statuesque
,
strict
,
supercilious
,
superior
,
suppressive
,
swollen
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
,
venerable
,
worthy
standoff
collapse
related words >
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
,
aloof
,
arrest
,
bell
,
check
,
checkmate
,
cutoff
,
dead heat
,
dead stop
,
deadlock
,
distant
,
draw
,
end
,
endgame
,
ending
,
even break
,
even chance
,
fair shake
,
fifty-fifty
,
final whistle
,
full stop
,
grinding halt
,
gun
,
half a chance
,
halt
,
insociable
,
knotted score
,
lockout
,
neck-and-neck race
,
odds
,
photo finish
,
reserved
,
sit-down strike
,
solitary
,
square odds
,
stalemate
,
stand
,
standoffish
,
standstill
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
strike
,
the same
,
tie
,
toss
,
toss-up
,
touch and go
,
uncompanionable
,
walkout
,
withdrawn
,
work stoppage
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