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- ace
collapse - a serve that the receiver is unable to reach
- one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"
- serve an ace against (someone)
- play (a hole) in one stroke
- score an ace against; "He aced his opponents" related words >
- A per se,
- I,
- air force,
- amigo,
- associate,
- atom,
- beaut,
- bedfellow,
- bedmate,
- best bower,
- bit,
- bomber pilot,
- bosom buddy,
- boss,
- bower,
- bowshot,
- brief span,
- buddy,
- bunkie,
- bunkmate,
- butty,
- camarade,
- cards,
- chamberfellow,
- champion,
- chief,
- chum,
- classmate,
- close quarters,
- close range,
- clubs,
- colleague,
- comate,
- combat pilot,
- commander,
- companion,
- company,
- compeer,
- comrade,
- confrere,
- consociate,
- consort,
- copartner,
- corker,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crony,
- crumb,
- dab,
- daisy,
- dandy,
- darb,
- dean,
- deck,
- deuce,
- diamonds,
- dilly,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dream,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- dummy,
- dwarf,
- earreach,
- earshot,
- face cards,
- farthing,
- fellow,
- fellow student,
- fighter pilot,
- first-rater,
- fleck,
- flush,
- flyboy,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- fugleman,
- full house,
- genius,
- girl friend,
- gobbet,
- good hand,
- gossip,
- grain,
- granule,
- great,
- groat,
- gunshot,
- hair,
- hair space,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hand,
- handful,
- head,
- hearts,
- higher-up,
- honey,
- humdinger,
- inch,
- iota,
- jack,
- joker,
- jot,
- killer-diller,
- king,
- knave,
- knockout,
- laureate,
- leader,
- left bower,
- little,
- little bit,
- little ways,
- lollapaloosa,
- lota,
- lulu,
- magician,
- mahatma,
- man of genius,
- master,
- master hand,
- mastermind,
- mate,
- messmate,
- military pilot,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- monad,
- mote,
- naval pilot,
- no other,
- none else,
- nonpareil,
- nothing else,
- nought beside,
- nutshell,
- observer,
- old crony,
- one,
- one and only,
- ounce,
- pack,
- pair,
- pal,
- paragon,
- pard,
- pardner,
- particle,
- partner,
- past master,
- peach,
- pebble,
- picture cards,
- pinch,
- pip,
- pippin,
- pistol shot,
- pittance,
- playfellow,
- playing cards,
- playmate,
- point,
- practiced hand,
- principal,
- prodigy,
- queen,
- roommate,
- round,
- royal flush,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- ruler,
- sage,
- schoolfellow,
- schoolmate,
- scruple,
- senior,
- shipmate,
- short distance,
- short piece,
- short way,
- side partner,
- sidekick,
- singleton,
- skilled hand,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- spades,
- span,
- speck,
- spitting distance,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- star,
- step,
- straight,
- suicide pilot,
- superior,
- superman,
- superstar,
- sweetheart,
- teammate,
- the greatest,
- the most,
- the nuts,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- top dog,
- topnotcher,
- trey,
- trick,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- trump,
- unit,
- virtuoso,
- whisker,
- whit,
- whiz,
- wizard,
- workfellow,
- yokefellow,
- yokemate
- intemperate
collapse
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker"
- excessive in behavior; "intemperate rage"
- (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones" related words >
- Apician,
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- acute,
- all-devouring,
- bibacious,
- bibulous,
- bitter,
- bolting,
- boundless,
- brutal,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- cutting,
- dissipative,
- drastic,
- drunken,
- easy come,
- easy go,
- edacious,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- fierce,
- furious,
- gigantic,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- go-go,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- great,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- hard,
- harsh,
- high,
- hoggish,
- hyperbolic,
- hyperphagic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- inclement,
- incontinent,
- indulgent,
- inordinate,
- insatiable,
- intense,
- irrepressible,
- keen,
- lavish,
- lax,
- licentious,
- loose,
- monstrous,
- nonrestrictive,
- omnivorous,
- orgiastic,
- out of bounds,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overgenerous,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overindulgent,
- overindulging,
- overlarge,
- overlavish,
- overliberal,
- overmuch,
- overweening,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- permissive,
- piercing,
- piggish,
- polyphagic,
- pound-foolish,
- prodigal,
- profligate,
- profuse,
- rampant,
- rapacious,
- ravenous,
- reinless,
- rigorous,
- riotous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- self-indulgent,
- severe,
- sharp,
- spendthrift,
- splitting,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- too much,
- tough,
- unbridled,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconscionable,
- unconstrained,
- uncontinent,
- uncontrolled,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- undue,
- unforced,
- unfrugal,
- ungoverned,
- uninhibited,
- unlimited,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmuzzled,
- unreasonable,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsubdued,
- unsuppressed,
- untempered,
- unthrifty,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- voracious,
- wanton,
- wasteful,
- wild,
- wolfing
- interim
collapse
- the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
- serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement" related words >
- abeyance,
- acting,
- ad interim,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- breach,
- break,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- clearance,
- day off,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detention,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- double space,
- double take,
- dragging,
- drop,
- em space,
- en space,
- fissure,
- freeboard,
- gap,
- hair space,
- half space,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- interlude,
- intermediate space,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jam,
- jump,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leap,
- leeway,
- letup,
- logjam,
- lull,
- margin,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pro,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- remission,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- room,
- single space,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- space,
- space between,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- supply,
- suspension,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tie-up,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- truce,
- vacation,
- wait
- mortification
collapse
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Day of Atonement,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur,
- abasement,
- abashment,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- awkwardness,
- caries,
- carrion,
- chagrin,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- comedown,
- confusion,
- debasement,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- deflation,
- descent,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disgrace,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dry gangrene,
- dry rot,
- dump,
- embarrassment,
- eremitism,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- foulness,
- gangrene,
- gas gangrene,
- hair shirt,
- hangdog look,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- letdown,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- moist gangrene,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- necrosis,
- necrotic tissue,
- noma,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- put-down,
- putrefaction,
- putrescence,
- putridity,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-denial,
- self-diminishment,
- self-mortification,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- slough,
- sphacelation,
- sphacelus,
- spoilage,
- tooth decay,
- voluntary poverty
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