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slippage
collapse
failing to hold or slipping out of place; "the knots allowed no slippage"
a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping
decline from a standard level of performance or achievement
related words >
avalanche
,
coast
,
comedown
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
glide
,
glissade
,
glissando
,
involution
,
landslide
,
landslip
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
regression
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
sideslip
,
skid
,
slide
,
slip
,
slither
,
slump
,
snowslide
,
snowslip
,
subsidence
,
wane
gumption
collapse
related words >
adventuresomeness
,
adventurousness
,
aggression
,
aggressiveness
,
ambitiousness
,
astuteness
,
audacity
,
backbone
,
balls
,
boldness
,
bottle
,
brains
,
cleverness
,
common sense
,
courage
,
daring
,
drive
,
dynamism
,
energy
,
enterprise
,
enterprisingness
,
force
,
forcefulness
,
gameness
,
get-up-and-get
,
get-up-and-go
,
getup
,
go
,
go-ahead
,
go-getting
,
go-to-itiveness
,
good sense
,
grit
,
guts
,
horse sense
,
hustle
,
initiative
,
judgement
,
judgment
,
mettle
,
mother wit
,
moxie
,
nerve
,
nous
,
perspicaciousness
,
perspicacity
,
pluck
,
push
,
pushfulness
,
pushiness
,
pushingness
,
resourcefulness
,
sagaciousness
,
sagacity
,
shrewdness
,
spirit
,
spunk
,
stamina
,
up-and-comingness
,
venturesomeness
,
venturousness
,
vigor
,
wisdom
subside
collapse
wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"
sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"
related words >
abate
,
ablate
,
advance
,
ascend
,
back
,
back up
,
bate
,
be eaten away
,
budge
,
calm
,
calm down
,
cave
,
cave in
,
cease
,
change
,
change place
,
circle
,
climb
,
consume
,
consume away
,
corrode
,
crumble
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deliquesce
,
descend
,
die
,
die away
,
die down
,
diminish
,
dive
,
droop
,
drop
,
drop down
,
drop off
,
dwindle
,
ebb
,
erode
,
fade
,
fail
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
flop
,
flop down
,
flow
,
flump
,
flump down
,
founder
,
get over
,
give way
,
go
,
go around
,
go down
,
go downhill
,
go off
,
go round
,
go sideways
,
gravitate
,
gyrate
,
halt
,
head
,
hit a slump
,
hit rock bottom
,
hit the skids
,
incline
,
languish
,
lapse
,
lead
,
lean
,
lessen
,
let up
,
lower
,
lull
,
melt away
,
moderate
,
molder
,
mount
,
move
,
move over
,
pacify
,
pass away
,
plop
,
plop down
,
plummet
,
plump
,
plunge
,
point
,
precipitate
,
progress
,
quiesce
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
reach the depths
,
recede
,
regress
,
retrogress
,
rise
,
rotate
,
run
,
run down
,
run low
,
sag
,
set
,
settle
,
settle down
,
shift
,
shrink
,
sink
,
sink down
,
slacken
,
slide
,
slip
,
slouch
,
slump
,
slump down
,
soar
,
soothe
,
spin
,
stir
,
stop
,
stream
,
submerge
,
swag
,
tail off
,
tend
,
tend to go
,
touch bottom
,
tranquilize
,
travel
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
wear
,
wear away
,
wear off
,
whirl
languish
collapse
become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
related words >
abate
,
ablate
,
bate
,
be eaten away
,
become suicidal
,
break
,
cave in
,
collapse
,
come apart
,
come unstuck
,
conk out
,
consume
,
consume away
,
corrode
,
crumble
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deliquesce
,
desiccate
,
despair
,
despond
,
deteriorate
,
die away
,
diminish
,
disintegrate
,
dive
,
droop
,
drop
,
drop off
,
dry up
,
dwindle
,
ebb
,
erode
,
fade
,
fade away
,
fail
,
faint
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
fizzle out
,
flag
,
give out
,
give way
,
go downhill
,
go soft
,
go to pieces
,
hit rock bottom
,
hit the skids
,
lessen
,
let up
,
lose heart
,
lose strength
,
melt away
,
peak
,
peg out
,
peter out
,
pine
,
plumb the depths
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
poop out
,
reach the depths
,
run down
,
run low
,
sag
,
sear
,
shrink
,
shrivel
,
sink
,
subside
,
tail off
,
touch bottom
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear away
,
wear thin
,
wilt
,
wither
,
wither away
,
wizen
,
yield
probationary
collapse
under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"
related words >
cut-and-try
,
empirical
,
experimental
,
heuristic
,
hit-or-miss
,
on probation
,
pilot
,
probational
,
probative
,
probatory
,
proving
,
provisional
,
tentative
,
test
,
testing
,
trial
,
trial-and-error
,
trying
,
verificatory
pupil
collapse
contractile aperture in the iris of the eye
related words >
apprentice
,
auditor
,
autodidact
,
baby blues
,
banjo eyes
,
beginner
,
bright eyes
,
catechumen
,
clear eyes
,
cornea
,
disciple
,
educatee
,
eye
,
eyeball
,
eyelid
,
goggle eyes
,
inquirer
,
iris
,
learner
,
lens
,
lid
,
monitor
,
naked eye
,
neophyte
,
nictitating membrane
,
novice
,
oculus
,
optic
,
optic nerve
,
orb
,
organ of vision
,
peeper
,
popeyes
,
praepostor
,
prefect
,
retina
,
saucer eyes
,
scholar
,
schoolboy
,
schoolgirl
,
sclera
,
self-taught person
,
starry orbs
,
student
,
studier
,
trainee
,
tyro
,
unaided eye
,
visual organ
heedlessly
collapse
related words >
a corps perdu
,
airily
,
any old way
,
any which way
,
anyhow
,
apathetically
,
bunglingly
,
carelessly
,
casually
,
clumsily
,
cursorily
,
desperately
,
disinterestedly
,
dispassionately
,
disregardfully
,
forgetfully
,
furiously
,
haphazardly
,
happen what may
,
hastily
,
head over heels
,
headfirst
,
headforemost
,
headlong
,
heels over head
,
helter-skelter
,
hit and miss
,
hit or miss
,
holus-bolus
,
hotheadedly
,
hurriedly
,
hurry-scurry
,
impetuously
,
inadvertently
,
inattentively
,
inconsiderately
,
indeliberately
,
insouciantly
,
involuntarily
,
lackadaisically
,
like crazy
,
like mad
,
listlessly
,
madly
,
messily
,
mindlessly
,
negligently
,
nonchalantly
,
offhand
,
offhandedly
,
once over lightly
,
overeagerly
,
overenthusiastically
,
overzealously
,
perfunctorily
,
precipitantly
,
precipitately
,
precipitously
,
promiscuously
,
ramble-scramble
,
recklessly
,
regardlessly
,
slam-bang
,
slap-bang
,
slapdash
,
sloppily
,
tactlessly
,
thoughtlessly
,
unadvisedly
,
uncalculatedly
,
unconcernedly
,
uncooperatively
,
undesignedly
,
unguardedly
,
unheedfully
,
unheedingly
,
unhelpfully
,
unintentionally
,
uninterestedly
,
unmindfully
,
unpremeditatedly
,
unreasoningly
,
unsolicitously
,
unthinkingly
,
unthoughtfully
,
unvigilantly
,
unwarily
,
wantonly
,
wildly
,
without premeditation
,
without willing
counterfeiting
collapse
related words >
coinage
,
coining
,
copying
,
emulation
,
fakery
,
following
,
forgery
,
hit-off
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
imposture
,
impression
,
mimesis
,
mintage
,
mirroring
,
onomatopoeia
,
parody
,
plagiarism
,
plagiary
,
repetition
,
simulation
,
stamping
,
striking
,
takeoff
ballad
collapse
a narrative poem of popular origin
a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
related words >
Brautlied
,
Christmas carol
,
English sonnet
,
Horatian ode
,
Italian sonnet
,
Kunstlied
,
Liebeslied
,
Petrarchan sonnet
,
Pindaric ode
,
Sapphic ode
,
Shakespearean sonnet
,
Volkslied
,
alba
,
anacreontic
,
anthem
,
art song
,
aubade
,
balada
,
ballade
,
ballata
,
barcarole
,
blues
,
blues song
,
boat song
,
bridal hymn
,
brindisi
,
bucolic
,
calypso
,
canso
,
canticle
,
canzone
,
canzonet
,
canzonetta
,
carol
,
cavatina
,
chanson
,
chant
,
chantey
,
clerihew
,
croon
,
croon song
,
dirge
,
dithyramb
,
ditty
,
drinking song
,
eclogue
,
elegy
,
epic
,
epigram
,
epithalamium
,
epode
,
epopee
,
epopoeia
,
epos
,
folk song
,
georgic
,
ghazel
,
haiku
,
hit
,
hit tune
,
hymeneal
,
idyll
,
jingle
,
lay
,
lied
,
light music
,
lilt
,
limerick
,
love song
,
love-lilt
,
lyric
,
madrigal
,
matin
,
minstrel song
,
minstrelsy
,
monody
,
narrative poem
,
national anthem
,
nursery rhyme
,
ode
,
palinode
,
pastoral
,
pastoral elegy
,
pastorela
,
pastourelle
,
poem
,
pop
,
pop music
,
popular music
,
popular song
,
prothalamium
,
rhyme
,
rondeau
,
rondel
,
roundel
,
roundelay
,
satire
,
serena
,
serenade
,
serenata
,
sestina
,
sloka
,
song
,
song hit
,
sonnet
,
sonnet sequence
,
tanka
,
tenso
,
tenzone
,
theme song
,
threnody
,
torch song
,
triolet
,
troubadour poem
,
verse
,
verselet
,
versicle
,
villanelle
,
virelay
,
war song
,
wedding song
inner nature
collapse
related words >
bosom
,
breast
,
center
,
center of life
,
core
,
deepest recesses
,
esoteric reality
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
inmost heart
,
inmost soul
,
inner
,
inner landscape
,
inner life
,
inner man
,
inner recess
,
inner self
,
inside
,
interior
,
interior man
,
intern
,
internal
,
intrados
,
inward
,
nerve center
,
penetralia
,
quick
,
recesses
,
secret heart
,
secret place
,
secret places
,
soul
,
spirit
,
true being
,
true inwardness
,
vital center
,
vital principle
,
vitals
beat it
collapse
related words >
be off
,
begone
,
blow
,
clear out
,
dog it
,
duck and run
,
duck out
,
flake off
,
get
,
get going
,
get lost
,
get out
,
git
,
hit the road
,
lam
,
make yourself scarce
,
scram
,
shove off
,
skin out
,
split
,
take a powder
,
vamoose
slap in the face
collapse
related words >
affront
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
blow
,
box
,
brickbat
,
buffet
,
casus belli
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
cuff
,
cut
,
despite
,
dump
,
enormity
,
flat refusal
,
flout
,
flouting
,
gibe
,
humiliation
,
indignity
,
injury
,
insult
,
jeer
,
jeering
,
mock
,
mockery
,
offense
,
outrage
,
point-blank refusal
,
provocation
,
put-down
,
raw nerve
,
rebuff
,
red rag
,
repulse
,
scoff
,
scurrility
,
short shrift
,
slap
,
smack
,
sore point
,
sore spot
,
summary negative
,
taunt
,
tender spot
,
token punishment
,
uncomplimentary remark
,
whack
,
whomp
depravation
collapse
related words >
abandon
,
abandonment
,
abjection
,
comedown
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demoralization
,
demotion
,
depravedness
,
depravity
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
dissoluteness
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
involution
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
moral pollution
,
moral turpitude
,
profligacy
,
regression
,
reprobacy
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
rottenness
,
slippage
,
slump
,
turpitude
,
wane
eyeball
collapse
the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
related words >
baby blues
,
banjo eyes
,
be vigilant
,
be watchful
,
bright eyes
,
clear eyes
,
cornea
,
eye
,
eyelid
,
follow
,
gaze at
,
goggle eyes
,
have a looksee
,
hold in view
,
iris
,
keep in sight
,
keep in view
,
keep under observation
,
lens
,
lid
,
look after
,
look at
,
look on
,
look upon
,
naked eye
,
nictitating membrane
,
observe
,
ocular
,
oculus
,
ophthalmic
,
optic
,
optic nerve
,
orb
,
organ of vision
,
peeper
,
popeyes
,
pupil
,
reconnoiter
,
regard
,
retina
,
saucer eyes
,
sclera
,
scout
,
scrutinize
,
seeing
,
spy upon
,
starry orbs
,
unaided eye
,
view
,
visible
,
visual
,
visual organ
,
watch
stiffen
collapse
make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"
become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room"
restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"
related words >
amplify
,
back
,
be tough
,
beef up
,
brace
,
brace up
,
buttress
,
case harden
,
charge
,
clot
,
coagulate
,
confirm
,
congeal
,
crystallize
,
electrify
,
endure
,
energize
,
fortify
,
galvanize
,
generate
,
gird
,
hang tough
,
harden
,
invigorate
,
jell
,
loop in
,
nerve
,
plug in
,
prop
,
refresh
,
reinforce
,
reinvigorate
,
restrengthen
,
rigidify
,
screw up
,
set
,
shock
,
shore up
,
short
,
short-circuit
,
solidify
,
steel
,
step down
,
step up
,
strengthen
,
support
,
sustain
,
switch off
,
switch on
,
tauten
,
temper
,
tense
,
thicken
,
tighten
,
toughen
,
trice up
,
turn off
,
turn on
,
undergird
deficient
collapse
inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
related words >
adulterated
,
amiss
,
arrested
,
bad
,
base
,
blemished
,
botched
,
bungling
,
callow
,
clumsy
,
damaged
,
defective
,
embryonic
,
erroneous
,
failing
,
fallible
,
faulty
,
flawed
,
found wanting
,
half-assed
,
haphazard
,
hit-and-miss
,
hit-or-miss
,
hypoplastic
,
immature
,
impaired
,
imperfect
,
imprecise
,
impure
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
in default
,
in short supply
,
in want of
,
inaccurate
,
inadequate
,
incompetent
,
incomplete
,
inexact
,
infant
,
inferior
,
infrequent
,
injured
,
insufficient
,
lacking
,
little
,
makeshift
,
maladroit
,
marred
,
mean
,
mediocre
,
messy
,
minus
,
missing
,
mixed
,
needing
,
not comparable
,
not enough
,
not in it
,
not perfect
,
off
,
out of it
,
part
,
partial
,
patchy
,
petty
,
promiscuous
,
rare
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scarce
,
scrappy
,
scrimpy
,
shabby
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
sketchy
,
skimpy
,
slipshod
,
slipshoddy
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
small
,
too little
,
trivial
,
uncommon
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unequal to
,
uneven
,
unfinished
,
unperfected
,
unqualified
,
unreached
,
unsatisfactory
,
unsatisfying
,
unskillful
,
unsound
,
unsufficing
,
unthorough
,
untidy
,
wanting
succeed
collapse
be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"
attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
related words >
accomplish
,
achieve
,
act for
,
advance
,
arrive
,
attain
,
attend
,
be a gas
,
be a hit
,
be a success
,
be blooded
,
be successful
,
be victorious
,
bill
,
bomb
,
boom
,
break the record
,
bring off
,
bring through
,
c
,
carry off
,
catch on
,
change hands
,
change ownership
,
change places with
,
clear
,
clear the hurdle
,
click
,
come after
,
come along
,
come by
,
come in for
,
come into
,
come off
,
come on
,
compass
,
connect
,
conquer
,
consummate
,
contrive
,
crowd out
,
crown with success
,
cut out
,
cut the mustard
,
deal with
,
descend
,
devolve
,
discharge
,
dispatch
,
displace
,
dispose of
,
do
,
do the job
,
do the trick
,
do well
,
double for
,
dow
,
dramatize
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
emanate
,
enact
,
engineer
,
enjoy prosperity
,
ensue
,
execute
,
fail
,
farewell
,
feature
,
fetch
,
fill in for
,
flop
,
flourish
,
follow
,
follow after
,
follow up
,
fulfill
,
gain
,
get ahead
,
get along
,
get by
,
get on
,
get on swimmingly
,
get on well
,
ghost
,
ghostwrite
,
go
,
go after
,
go great guns
,
go off
,
go on
,
go over
,
go over big
,
go to town
,
go well
,
graduate
,
hack it
,
headline
,
heir
,
hit the mark
,
inherit
,
issue
,
knock off
,
make
,
make a hit
,
make good
,
make headway
,
make it
,
make out
,
make progress
,
make the grade
,
manage
,
manage somehow
,
meet with success
,
melodramatize
,
mount
,
muddle through
,
negotiate
,
open
,
open a show
,
overtake
,
pan out
,
pass
,
pass on
,
perform
,
pinch-hit
,
polish off
,
premiere
,
present
,
prevail
,
preview
,
produce
,
progress
,
prosper
,
prove out
,
pull off
,
put across
,
put away
,
put on
,
put over
,
put through
,
qualify
,
reach
,
realize
,
relieve
,
replace
,
represent
,
result
,
scenarize
,
score
,
scrape along
,
set the stage
,
spell
,
spell off
,
stage
,
stand in for
,
star
,
subrogate
,
substitute for
,
succeed in
,
succeed to
,
supersede
,
supervene
,
supplant
,
swap places with
,
swing
,
swing the deal
,
take
,
take care of
,
theatricalize
,
thrive
,
track
,
trail
,
triumph
,
try out
,
turn out well
,
turn the trick
,
understudy for
,
win
,
win out
,
work
,
work out
,
work well
,
work wonders
,
worry along
work wonders
collapse
related words >
be blooded
,
be successful
,
catch on
,
click
,
come off
,
connect
,
farewell
,
go
,
go great guns
,
go off
,
go over
,
go over big
,
go to town
,
graduate
,
make a hit
,
meet with success
,
pass
,
prevail
,
prosper
,
qualify
,
succeed
,
take
,
work well
flake off
collapse
related words >
be off
,
beat it
,
begone
,
clear out
,
desquamate
,
exfoliate
,
flake
,
get
,
get going
,
get lost
,
get out
,
git
,
hit the road
,
make yourself scarce
,
peel
,
scale
,
scale off
,
scram
,
shove off
,
vamoose
go all out
collapse
perform a task as well as possible; "The cast gives full measure every night"
related words >
buckle down
,
carry through
,
cut loose
,
do to perfection
,
do up brown
,
drive
,
drive on
,
endeavor
,
exhaust every move
,
follow out
,
follow through
,
follow up
,
forge ahead
,
give way to
,
go ahead
,
go all lengths
,
go flat out
,
go for broke
,
go the limit
,
go unrestrained
,
go whole hog
,
hump
,
hump it
,
hustle
,
knuckle down
,
lay to
,
leave nothing hanging
,
leave nothing undone
,
let go
,
let her out
,
let loose
,
make things hum
,
open her up
,
open up
,
overlook nothing
,
ply the oar
,
press on
,
push
,
run wide open
,
run wild
,
scramble
,
see it through
,
see out
,
shoot ahead
,
shoot the works
,
spare no effort
,
step lively
,
strain every nerve
prowl
collapse
the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)
move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town"
loiter about, with no apparent aim
related words >
bat around
,
bum
,
clandestine behavior
,
clandestinity
,
couch
,
count ties
,
cover
,
covertness
,
crawl
,
creep
,
cruise
,
divagate
,
drift
,
flit
,
furtiveness
,
gad
,
gad about
,
gallivant
,
go about
,
go on tiptoe
,
go the rounds
,
grovel
,
gumshoe
,
hit the road
,
hit the trail
,
hobo
,
hunting
,
inch
,
inch along
,
jaunt
,
knock about
,
knock around
,
lay wait
,
lie in wait
,
lurk
,
meander
,
mooch
,
nightwalk
,
nomadize
,
pad
,
patrol
,
peregrinate
,
pererrate
,
prowling
,
pussyfoot
,
ramble
,
range
,
range over
,
roam
,
rove
,
run about
,
saunter
,
scavenge
,
scour
,
scrabble
,
scramble
,
searching
,
seeking
,
shadow
,
shiftiness
,
sidle
,
skulk
,
slink
,
slinkiness
,
slyness
,
snake
,
sneak
,
sneakiness
,
stalk
,
stalking
,
steal
,
steal along
,
stealth
,
stealthiness
,
straggle
,
stray
,
stroll
,
surreptitiousness
,
tippytoe
,
tiptoe
,
tracking
,
traipse
,
tramp
,
underground activity
,
underhand dealing
,
vagabond
,
vagabondize
,
walk the tracks
,
wander
,
wayfare
,
worm
,
worm along
reliability
collapse
related words >
acceptability
,
aplomb
,
authenticity
,
authoritativeness
,
balance
,
balanced personality
,
believability
,
believableness
,
calculability
,
conceivability
,
constancy
,
cool
,
credibility
,
credit
,
dependability
,
equilibrium
,
faithworthiness
,
fastness
,
firmness
,
homeostasis
,
imperturbability
,
incorruptibility
,
invariability
,
invincibility
,
inviolability
,
nerve
,
plausibility
,
predictability
,
responsibility
,
rootedness
,
sang-froid
,
secureness
,
security
,
solidity
,
soundness
,
stability
,
stable equilibrium
,
stable state
,
staunchness
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
steady nerves
,
steady state
,
substantiality
,
sureness
,
tenability
,
trustability
,
trustiness
,
trustworthiness
,
undeflectability
,
unerringness
,
unfalseness
,
uniformity
,
unperfidiousness
,
unshakable nerves
,
unshakableness
,
untreacherousness
,
validity
squeak by
collapse
escape; "She squeaked by me"
related words >
brush
,
brush by
,
caress
,
come in contact
,
contact
,
glance
,
graze
,
hit
,
impinge
,
kiss
,
nudge
,
osculate
,
rub
,
scrape
,
shave
,
sideswipe
,
skim
,
skirt
,
touch
lunge
collapse
(fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
make a thrusting forward movement
related words >
amble
,
barge
,
bound
,
bowl along
,
bundle
,
charge
,
clump
,
cut
,
cut and thrust
,
dash
,
dive
,
drag
,
feint
,
flail at
,
flail away at
,
flounce
,
foot
,
footslog
,
halt
,
hippety-hop
,
hit
,
hit at
,
hitch
,
hobble
,
home thrust
,
hop
,
jab
,
jog
,
jolt
,
jump
,
lash out at
,
leap
,
let drive at
,
let fly at
,
limp
,
lumber
,
lunge at
,
lurch
,
mince
,
pace
,
paddle
,
pass
,
peg
,
piaffe
,
piaffer
,
plod
,
plunge
,
poke at
,
pounce
,
prance
,
rack
,
roll
,
rush
,
sashay
,
saunter
,
scuff
,
scuffle
,
scuttle
,
shamble
,
shuffle
,
sidle
,
single-foot
,
skip
,
slink
,
slither
,
slog
,
slouch
,
spring
,
stab
,
stagger
,
stalk
,
stamp
,
stomp
,
straddle
,
straggle
,
stride
,
strike
,
strike at
,
strike out at
,
stroll
,
strut
,
stump
,
swagger
,
swing
,
swing at
,
swing on
,
thrust
,
thrust at
,
tittup
,
toddle
,
totter
,
traipse
,
trip
,
trudge
,
waddle
,
wamble
,
wiggle
,
wobble
bump off
collapse
related words >
assassinate
,
blast
,
blot out
,
cool
,
croak
,
do in
,
dust off
,
erase
,
execute
,
finish
,
fix
,
get
,
give the business
,
gun down
,
hit
,
ice
,
knock off
,
lay out
,
liquidate
,
off
,
polish off
,
put away
,
rub out
,
settle
,
take care of
,
waste
,
wipe out
,
zap
achieve
collapse
to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
related words >
accomplish
,
acquire
,
act
,
actualize
,
approach
,
arrive
,
arrive at
,
arrive in
,
attain
,
attain to
,
be productive
,
be received
,
blow in
,
bob up
,
bring about
,
bring into being
,
bring off
,
bring through
,
bring to fruition
,
bring to pass
,
carry off
,
carry out
,
cause
,
check in
,
clock in
,
come
,
come in
,
come to
,
come to hand
,
commit
,
compass
,
complete
,
conclude
,
conquer
,
consummate
,
crown with success
,
deal with
,
discharge
,
dispatch
,
dispose of
,
do
,
do the job
,
do the trick
,
do to
,
effect
,
effectuate
,
enact
,
engineer
,
execute
,
fetch
,
fetch up at
,
find
,
finish
,
fulfill
,
gain
,
get
,
get by
,
get in
,
get there
,
get to
,
go and do
,
hit
,
hit town
,
industrialize
,
inflict
,
knock off
,
make
,
make it
,
manage
,
mass-produce
,
obtain
,
overcome
,
overproduce
,
pay
,
perform
,
perpetrate
,
polish off
,
pop up
,
produce
,
pull in
,
pull off
,
punch in
,
put across
,
put away
,
put over
,
put through
,
reach
,
realize
,
render
,
ring in
,
roll in
,
score
,
secure
,
show up
,
sign in
,
succeed
,
succeed in
,
surmount
,
take and do
,
take care of
,
time in
,
turn the trick
,
turn up
,
up and do
,
volume-produce
,
win
,
work
,
work out
,
wreak
precipitous
collapse
characterized by precipices; "a precipitous bluff"
related words >
abrupt
,
accident-prone
,
acclivitous
,
arduous
,
bluff
,
bold
,
breakneck
,
breathless
,
careless
,
declivitous
,
desperate
,
devil-may-care
,
electrifying
,
furious
,
harum-scarum
,
hasty
,
headlong
,
hotheaded
,
hurried
,
impetuous
,
impulsive
,
mad
,
nerve-shattering
,
orthodiagonal
,
orthogonal
,
overeager
,
overenthusiastic
,
overzealous
,
panting
,
perpendicular
,
plumb
,
plunging
,
precipitant
,
precipitate
,
quick
,
rapid
,
rash
,
reckless
,
right-angle
,
right-angled
,
right-angular
,
rushing
,
sharp
,
sheer
,
shocking
,
sideling
,
slap-bang
,
slapdash
,
speedy
,
startling
,
steep
,
stickle
,
straight-up
,
straight-up-and-down
,
sudden
,
surprising
,
swift
,
unanticipated
,
unexpected
,
unforeseen
,
unlooked-for
,
unpredicted
,
up-and-down
,
vertical
,
wanton
,
wild
stapes
collapse
the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
related words >
Eustachian tube
,
anvil
,
auditory apparatus
,
auditory canal
,
auditory meatus
,
auditory nerve
,
auditory ossicles
,
auditory tube
,
auricle
,
basilar membrane
,
bony labyrinth
,
cauliflower ear
,
cochlea
,
conch
,
concha
,
drumhead
,
ear
,
ear lobe
,
eardrum
,
endolymph
,
external ear
,
hammer
,
incus
,
inner ear
,
lobe
,
lobule
,
lug
,
malleus
,
mastoid process
,
middle ear
,
organ of Corti
,
outer ear
,
oval window
,
perilymph
,
pinna
,
round window
,
secondary eardrum
,
semicircular canals
,
shell
,
stirrup
,
tympanic cavity
,
tympanic membrane
,
tympanum
,
vestibule
hardiness
collapse
related words >
assurance
,
audacity
,
brashness
,
bulldog courage
,
cohesiveness
,
decisiveness
,
durability
,
endurance
,
energy
,
force
,
fortitude
,
gameness
,
gaminess
,
grittiness
,
guts
,
gutsiness
,
haleness
,
hardihood
,
hardness
,
heartiness
,
infrangibility
,
intestinal fortitude
,
lastingness
,
leatherlikeness
,
longevity
,
lustihood
,
lustiness
,
mettlesomeness
,
might
,
mightiness
,
nerve
,
nerviness
,
obstinacy
,
pertinaciousness
,
pertinacity
,
pluckiness
,
potency
,
power
,
powerfulness
,
resistance
,
resoluteness
,
resolution
,
robustness
,
ropiness
,
ruggedness
,
spunkiness
,
stalwartness
,
stamina
,
staying power
,
sticking power
,
stiffness
,
stoutness
,
strength
,
strength of will
,
stringiness
,
stubbornness
,
sturdiness
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
toughness
,
unbreakability
,
unbreakableness
,
vigor
,
vigorousness
,
viscidity
,
vitality
slapdash
collapse
in a careless or reckless manner; "the shelves were put up slapdash"
related words >
a corps perdu
,
accident-prone
,
aimless
,
airily
,
amain
,
any old way
,
any which way
,
anyhow
,
apace
,
at once
,
breakneck
,
bunglingly
,
by forced marches
,
careless
,
carelessly
,
casually
,
clumsily
,
cursorily
,
cursory
,
designless
,
desperate
,
desperately
,
desultory
,
devil-may-care
,
disregardfully
,
expeditious
,
expeditiously
,
festinate
,
feverish
,
feverishly
,
flying
,
forgetfully
,
furious
,
furiously
,
hand over fist
,
haphazard
,
haphazardly
,
happen what may
,
harum-scarum
,
hastily
,
hasty
,
head over heels
,
headfirst
,
headforemost
,
headlong
,
heedlessly
,
heels over head
,
helter-skelter
,
hit and miss
,
hit or miss
,
hit-or-miss
,
holus-bolus
,
hotfoot
,
hotheaded
,
hotheadedly
,
hurried
,
hurriedly
,
hurry-scurry
,
immediate
,
immediately
,
impetuous
,
impetuously
,
in passing
,
inattentively
,
inconsiderately
,
indiscriminate
,
instant
,
instantly
,
irregular
,
last-minute
,
like crazy
,
like mad
,
mad
,
madly
,
messily
,
messy
,
offhand
,
offhandedly
,
on the run
,
on the spot
,
once over lightly
,
overeager
,
overeagerly
,
overenthusiastic
,
overenthusiastically
,
overzealous
,
overzealously
,
passing
,
pell-mell
,
perfunctorily
,
precipitant
,
precipitantly
,
precipitate
,
precipitately
,
precipitous
,
precipitously
,
promiscuous
,
promiscuously
,
prompt
,
promptly
,
quick
,
quickly
,
ramble-scramble
,
reckless
,
recklessly
,
regardlessly
,
slam-bang
,
slap-bang
,
sloppily
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
snap
,
speedily
,
speedy
,
spot
,
superficial
,
superficially
,
swift
,
swiftly
,
tactlessly
,
thoughtlessly
,
unguardedly
,
unheedfully
,
unheedingly
,
unmindfully
,
unsolicitously
,
unthinkingly
,
unthorough
,
untidy
,
unvigilantly
,
unwarily
,
urgent
,
wanton
,
wantonly
,
wild
,
wildly
,
with a rush
,
with all haste
,
with dispatch
,
with haste
onomatopoeia
collapse
using words that imitate the sound they denote
related words >
bowwow theory
,
copying
,
counterfeiting
,
echoic word
,
emulation
,
fakery
,
following
,
forgery
,
hit-off
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
imposture
,
impression
,
mimesis
,
mirroring
,
onomatope
,
onomatopoeic word
,
parody
,
plagiarism
,
plagiary
,
repetition
,
simulation
,
takeoff
vamoose
collapse
related words >
be off
,
beat it
,
begone
,
blow
,
clear out
,
decamp
,
dog it
,
duck and run
,
duck out
,
flake off
,
get
,
get going
,
get lost
,
get out
,
git
,
hightail
,
hit the road
,
kite
,
lam
,
make yourself scarce
,
scram
,
shove off
,
skedaddle
,
skin out
,
split
,
take a powder
,
take off
scram
collapse
leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!"
related words >
be off
,
beat it
,
begone
,
blow
,
clear out
,
decamp
,
dog it
,
duck and run
,
duck out
,
flake off
,
get
,
get going
,
get lost
,
get out
,
git
,
hightail
,
hit the road
,
kite
,
lam
,
make yourself scarce
,
shove off
,
skedaddle
,
skin out
,
split
,
take a powder
,
take off
,
vamoose
invent
collapse
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
related words >
beget
,
break ground
,
break the ice
,
breed
,
bring forth
,
bring into being
,
call into being
,
coin
,
conceit
,
conceive
,
conceptualize
,
concoct
,
contrive
,
cook up
,
counterfeit
,
create
,
design
,
determine
,
develop
,
devise
,
discover
,
dream up
,
engender
,
envision
,
evolve
,
experience imaginatively
,
fabricate
,
fake
,
fancy
,
fantasize
,
fictionalize
,
find
,
find out
,
forge
,
formulate
,
frame
,
fudge
,
generate
,
get
,
give being to
,
give rise to
,
hatch
,
hatch up
,
head
,
head up
,
hit
,
hit upon
,
hoke up
,
hunt down
,
ideate
,
imagine
,
improvise
,
inaugurate
,
initiate
,
innovate
,
introduce
,
introduce new blood
,
lead
,
lead off
,
lead the way
,
locate
,
make do with
,
make innovations
,
make up
,
manufacture
,
mature
,
mint
,
mold
,
neologize
,
neoterize
,
originate
,
pioneer
,
plan
,
precede
,
procreate
,
produce
,
rediscover
,
renew
,
renovate
,
revolutionize
,
run down
,
run to earth
,
shape
,
spawn
,
stand first
,
strike
,
strike out
,
suppose
,
take the initiative
,
take the lead
,
take the plunge
,
think out
,
think up
,
trace
,
trace down
,
track down
,
trump up
,
turn out
,
vamp up
come in
collapse
come into fashion; become fashionable
related words >
accomplish
,
accrue
,
accrue to
,
achieve
,
admit
,
alight
,
approach
,
arrive
,
arrive at
,
arrive in
,
attain
,
attain to
,
barge in
,
be admitted
,
be in heat
,
be received
,
blow in
,
bob up
,
break in
,
breeze in
,
burst in
,
bust in
,
check in
,
clock in
,
come
,
come barging in
,
come breezing in
,
come busting in
,
come down
,
come to
,
come to hand
,
crash-land
,
creep in
,
cross the threshold
,
crowd in
,
descend
,
desire
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
drop in
,
edge in
,
enter
,
estruate
,
fall to one
,
fetch
,
fetch up at
,
find
,
gain
,
gain admittance
,
get in
,
get there
,
get to
,
go in
,
go into
,
have an entree
,
have an in
,
hit
,
hit town
,
hop in
,
ingress
,
insert
,
intrude
,
irrupt
,
itch for
,
jam in
,
jump in
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
look in
,
lust
,
lust after
,
make
,
make it
,
overshoot
,
pack in
,
pancake
,
penetrate
,
pop in
,
pop up
,
press in
,
pull in
,
punch in
,
push in
,
put in
,
reach
,
rejoin
,
reply
,
respond
,
retort
,
return
,
ring in
,
roll in
,
rut
,
set foot in
,
settle down
,
show up
,
sign in
,
slip in
,
squeeze in
,
step in
,
take in
,
talk down
,
thrust in
,
time in
,
touch down
,
turn up
,
upwind
,
visit
,
wedge in
,
work in
cheek
collapse
either side of the face below the eyes
speak impudently to
related words >
arse
,
ass
,
backside
,
bank
,
beam
,
behind
,
border
,
bottom
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brazen boldness
,
breech
,
broadside
,
bum
,
butt
,
can
,
cheeks
,
chop
,
chutzpah
,
coast
,
confidence
,
crust
,
derriere
,
duff
,
face
,
fanny
,
flank
,
gall
,
hand
,
handedness
,
haunch
,
heroics
,
hip
,
hubris
,
improvidence
,
imprudence
,
impudence
,
indiscretion
,
injudiciousness
,
insolence
,
jowl
,
keister
,
laterality
,
many-sidedness
,
multilaterality
,
nerve
,
overboldness
,
overcarelessness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweeningness
,
planking
,
prat
,
presumption
,
profile
,
quarter
,
rashness
,
rusty-dusty
,
shore
,
side
,
siding
,
stern
,
tail
,
temerariousness
,
temerity
,
temple
,
tuchis
,
tush
,
tushy
,
unchariness
,
unilaterality
,
unwariness
pat on the back
collapse
related words >
abet
,
aid and abet
,
ask for
,
assurance
,
assure
,
bear up
,
best wishes
,
bless
,
blessing
,
bolster
,
brace up
,
buck up
,
cheer
,
comfort
,
compliment
,
condole with
,
congratulate
,
congratulation
,
console
,
countenance
,
ease
,
embolden
,
emboldening
,
encourage
,
encouragement
,
feed
,
felicitate
,
felicitation
,
foster
,
give a bouquet
,
give comfort
,
give encouragement
,
good wishes
,
gratulate
,
gratulation
,
hand it to
,
hearten
,
heartening
,
inspiration
,
inspire
,
inspirit
,
inspiriting
,
inspiritment
,
invite
,
keep in countenance
,
nerve
,
nourish
,
nurture
,
pay a compliment
,
put at ease
,
reassurance
,
reassure
,
rejoice with
,
relieve
,
set at ease
,
solace
,
support
,
sympathize with
carom
collapse
a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
make a carom
rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several lampposts"
related words >
appulse
,
backfire
,
backlash
,
backlashing
,
bang
,
bang into
,
boomerang
,
bounce
,
bounce back
,
bound
,
bound back
,
brunt
,
bulldozing
,
bulling
,
bump
,
bump into
,
cannon
,
cannon off
,
carambole
,
carom into
,
clash
,
collide
,
collision
,
come into collision
,
concuss
,
concussion
,
confront each other
,
contrecoup
,
crack up
,
crack-up
,
crash
,
crash into
,
crump
,
crunch
,
dap
,
dash into
,
encounter
,
fall foul of
,
fly back
,
foul
,
glance
,
graze
,
hammering
,
have repercussions
,
hit
,
hit against
,
hurt
,
hurtle
,
impact
,
impinge
,
impingement
,
kick
,
kick back
,
kickback
,
knock
,
knock against
,
lash back
,
mauling
,
meet
,
meeting
,
onslaught
,
percuss
,
percussion
,
ramming
,
rebound
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrate
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
repercuss
,
repercussion
,
repulse
,
resile
,
resilience
,
ricochet
,
run into
,
shock
,
sideswipe
,
skim
,
skip
,
slam into
,
sledgehammering
,
smack into
,
smash
,
smash into
,
smash up
,
smash-up
,
smashing
,
snap back
,
spring
,
spring back
,
strike
,
strike against
,
thrusting
,
whomp
parrot
collapse
usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words"
related words >
Babbitt
,
Middle American
,
Philistine
,
anal character
,
ape
,
bourgeois
,
burgher
,
come again
,
commit to memory
,
compulsive character
,
con
,
conformer
,
conformist
,
conventionalist
,
copier
,
copy
,
copycat
,
copyist
,
counterfeiter
,
cuckoo
,
dissembler
,
dissimulator
,
ditto
,
do a repeat
,
do again
,
do over
,
double
,
duplicate
,
echo
,
echoer
,
echoist
,
faker
,
forger
,
formalist
,
get by heart
,
get letter-perfect
,
have by heart
,
hit off
,
hit off on
,
hypocrite
,
imitate
,
imitator
,
impersonate
,
impersonator
,
impostor
,
know by heart
,
learn by heart
,
learn verbatim
,
memorize
,
methodologist
,
middle-class type
,
mime
,
mimer
,
mimic
,
mimicker
,
mock
,
mocker
,
mockingbird
,
model child
,
monkey
,
organization man
,
pedant
,
perfectionist
,
phony
,
plagiarist
,
plagiarize
,
plastic person
,
poll-parrot
,
polly
,
polly-parrot
,
poseur
,
precisian
,
precisianist
,
quote
,
recite
,
redo
,
redouble
,
reduplicate
,
reecho
,
regurgitate
,
reincarnate
,
reiterate
,
renew
,
repeat
,
repeat by heart
,
reproduce
,
revive
,
say again
,
sheep
,
simulator
,
square
,
study
,
swot up
,
take off
,
take off on
,
teenybopper
,
trimmer
,
yes-man
find out
collapse
trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
related words >
answer
,
ascertain
,
assure
,
be informed
,
become acquainted with
,
bottom
,
broaden the mind
,
catch on
,
certify
,
cinch
,
clear up
,
clinch
,
crack
,
cram the mind
,
debug
,
decide
,
decipher
,
decode
,
determine
,
discover
,
disentangle
,
dismiss all doubt
,
divine
,
do
,
dope
,
dope out
,
ensure
,
establish
,
explain
,
fathom
,
figure out
,
find
,
find out about
,
find the answer
,
find the solution
,
fix
,
gain knowledge
,
get
,
get at
,
get hold of
,
get right
,
guess
,
guess right
,
have it
,
hear
,
hit
,
hit it
,
hunt down
,
insure
,
interpret
,
invent
,
learn
,
learn about
,
load the mind
,
locate
,
make certain
,
make no doubt
,
make no mistake
,
make out
,
make sure
,
make sure of
,
nail down
,
open the lock
,
pick up information
,
plumb
,
psych
,
psych out
,
puzzle out
,
ravel
,
ravel out
,
reassure
,
rediscover
,
remove all doubt
,
resolve
,
riddle
,
run down
,
run to earth
,
see
,
see that
,
see to it
,
set at rest
,
settle
,
solve
,
sort out
,
strike
,
trace
,
trace down
,
track down
,
tumble
,
undo
,
unearth
,
unlock
,
unravel
,
unriddle
,
unscramble
,
untangle
,
untwist
,
unweave
,
work
,
work out
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