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collapse
a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
the way a garment hangs; "he adjusted the hang of his coat"
suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste; "hang the venison for a few days"
cause to be hanging or suspended; "Hang that picture on the wall"
place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction; "hang a door"
be placed in position as by a hinge; "This cabinet door doesn't hang right!"
be suspended or poised; "Heavy fog hung over the valley"
be suspended or hanging; "The flag hung on the wall"
fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
decorate or furnish with something suspended; "Hang wallpaper"
let drop or droop; "Hang one's head in shame"
kill by hanging; "The murdered was hanged on Friday"
prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive; "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"
be exhibited; "Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum"
related words >
act in concert
,
adhere
,
all depend
,
and quarter
,
art
,
aspire
,
associate with
,
attach
,
bag
,
be based on
,
be consistent
,
be contingent on
,
be dependent on
,
be dilatory
,
be logical
,
be poised
,
be predicated on
,
become airborne
,
beetle
,
carry on
,
cascade
,
claw skyward
,
cling
,
cling to
,
clutch
,
cohere
,
consort with
,
cooperate
,
correspond
,
craft
,
cut off
,
daggle
,
dally
,
dangle
,
decline
,
declivity
,
delay
,
depend
,
depend on
,
descent
,
dip
,
disconnect
,
downgate
,
downgrade
,
downhill
,
drabble
,
drag
,
draggle
,
drape
,
draw
,
droop
,
drop
,
endure
,
execute
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
falter
,
fasten up
,
feel
,
filibuster
,
fix
,
flap
,
float
,
flop
,
flow
,
fly
,
fly aloft
,
fraternize with
,
frequent
,
gain altitude
,
gain time
,
gibbet
,
go on
,
grab
,
grasp
,
grip
,
hang about
,
hang around
,
hang back
,
hang down
,
hang fire
,
hang in suspense
,
hang in there
,
hang on
,
hang on to
,
hang out
,
hang out with
,
hang over
,
hang together
,
hang up
,
hanging
,
haunt
,
hesitate
,
hinge
,
hinge on
,
hobnob with
,
hold off
,
hold on to
,
hold out
,
hold the phone
,
hold up
,
hook
,
hover
,
idle
,
join forces
,
jut
,
kill
,
kite
,
knack
,
lean over
,
leave the ground
,
lie on
,
lie with
,
linger
,
loiter
,
loll
,
lop
,
lynch
,
make sense
,
make time
,
mingle with
,
mix with
,
neck
,
nod
,
noose
,
overhang
,
pend
,
persevere
,
persist
,
pin
,
plane
,
play for time
,
poise
,
procrastinate
,
put up
,
rely on
,
remain
,
rest
,
rest on
,
rest with
,
revolve on
,
sag
,
scrag
,
shrink from
,
skill
,
sling
,
soar
,
spire
,
stall
,
stall for time
,
stall off
,
stand
,
stand on
,
stay
,
stick
,
stick together
,
stooge around
,
stop
,
stretch
,
string up
,
suspend
,
swag
,
swing
,
tack up
,
take off
,
talk against time
,
tarry
,
temporize
,
touch
,
trail
,
trick
,
turn
,
turn off
,
turn on
,
turn upon
,
unite
,
visit
,
wait
,
way
,
weep
,
zoom
overshoot
collapse
an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
aim too high; "The plan overshoots its aim"
shoot beyond or over (a target)
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alight
,
come down
,
come in
,
crash-land
,
descend
,
ditch
,
downwind
,
exaggerate
,
exceed
,
go beyond
,
land
,
level off
,
light
,
overdo
,
overgo
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overpass
,
overreach
,
overrun
,
overshoot the field
,
overshoot the mark
,
overstep
,
overstride
,
pancake
,
pass
,
settle down
,
superabound
,
surpass
,
talk down
,
touch down
,
transcend
,
upwind
play around
collapse
commit adultery; "he plays around a lot"
related words >
cast coquettish glances
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
eye
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget with
,
finger with
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
fribble
,
frivol
,
gallivant
,
gold-dig
,
horse around
,
idle
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
loiter
,
look sweet upon
,
make eyes at
,
mess
,
mess around
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
ogle
,
philander
,
piddle
,
play
,
play with
,
potter
,
putter
,
run around
,
smatter
,
tinker
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
twiddle
,
womanize
be still
collapse
related words >
abide
,
be a sideliner
,
coast
,
delay
,
do nothing
,
drift
,
freeze
,
hang fire
,
hibernate
,
idle
,
keep quiet
,
lie dormant
,
lie still
,
mark time
,
not breathe
,
not budge
,
not stir
,
remain
,
remain motionless
,
repose
,
rest
,
sit back
,
sit it out
,
stagnate
,
stand
,
stand fast
,
stand firm
,
stand still
,
stay
,
stay put
,
stick
,
stick fast
,
tarry
,
tread water
,
vegetate
,
wait and see
,
watch and wait
lecture
collapse
teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
related words >
address
,
admonish
,
admonishment
,
admonition
,
assignment
,
berate
,
berating
,
bring to book
,
call to account
,
castigation
,
censure
,
chalk talk
,
chastise
,
chastisement
,
chew out
,
chide
,
chiding
,
correct
,
correction
,
criticism
,
declaim
,
declamation
,
deliver a lecture
,
diatribe
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
dissertation
,
dress down
,
dressing-down
,
exercise
,
explain
,
exposit
,
exposition
,
expound
,
fulminate against
,
harangue
,
have words with
,
hold forth
,
homework
,
homily
,
instruction
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lesson
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
moralize
,
object lesson
,
objurgate
,
objurgation
,
orate
,
paper
,
philippic
,
point a moral
,
pontificate
,
preach
,
preachification
,
preachify
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
prelect
,
prelection
,
rail at
,
rate
,
rating
,
read a lesson
,
read a sermon
,
rebuke
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religious discourse
,
remonstration
,
reprehend
,
reprehension
,
reprimand
,
reproach
,
reprobation
,
reproof
,
reproval
,
reprove
,
scold
,
scolding
,
screed
,
sermon
,
sermonette
,
sermonize
,
set down
,
set straight
,
set task
,
skull session
,
spank
,
spanking
,
speech
,
straighten out
,
take down
,
take to task
,
talk
,
task
,
teaching
,
tell off
,
tongue-lash
,
tongue-lashing
,
travelogue
,
treatise
,
upbraid
,
upbraiding
,
warn
,
wig
ramble
collapse
an aimless amble on a winding course
related words >
Wanderjahr
,
afoot and lighthearted
,
airing
,
amble
,
babble
,
bat around
,
be insane
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blether
,
bum
,
bumming
,
chat
,
chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
constitutional
,
count ties
,
depart
,
deviate
,
digress
,
discursion
,
dither
,
divagate
,
divagation
,
diverge
,
dote
,
drift
,
drifting
,
drivel
,
drool
,
err
,
errantry
,
excurse
,
flit
,
flitting
,
forced march
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gad
,
gad about
,
gadding
,
gallivant
,
gas
,
get sidetracked
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go about
,
go adrift
,
go astray
,
go away
,
go off
,
go on
,
go the rounds
,
gossip
,
gush
,
have a demon
,
haver
,
hike
,
hit the road
,
hit the trail
,
hobo
,
hoboism
,
itineracy
,
itinerancy
,
jabber
,
jaunt
,
jaw
,
knock about
,
knock around
,
march
,
maunder
,
meander
,
mooch
,
mosey
,
mush
,
natter
,
nomadism
,
nomadize
,
palaver
,
parade
,
patter
,
perambulate
,
peregrinate
,
peregrination
,
pererrate
,
pererration
,
peripatetic journey
,
peripateticism
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prattle
,
promenade
,
prowl
,
rage
,
ramble on
,
rambling
,
range
,
rant
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
rave
,
reel off
,
roam
,
roaming
,
rove
,
roving
,
run about
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
run on
,
saunter
,
schlep
,
scramble
,
slaver
,
slobber
,
snake
,
spout
,
spout off
,
sprangle
,
spread-eagle
,
straddle
,
straggle
,
stray
,
straying
,
stretch
,
stroll
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
tittle-tattle
,
tour
,
traipse
,
traipsing
,
tramp
,
travel
,
trek
,
trudge
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twist
,
twist and turn
,
vagabond
,
vagabondage
,
vagabondia
,
vagabondism
,
vagabondize
,
vagrancy
,
waffle
,
walk
,
walk the tracks
,
walkabout
,
walking tour
,
wander
,
wandering
,
wanderlust
,
wayfare
,
wayfaring
,
wind
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
windbag
collapse
related words >
Captain Bobadil
,
Gascon
,
Texan
,
agreeable rattle
,
babbler
,
big mouth
,
big talker
,
blab
,
blabberer
,
blatherer
,
blower
,
blowhard
,
blusterer
,
boaster
,
brag
,
braggadocio
,
braggart
,
chatterbox
,
chatterer
,
fanfaron
,
gabber
,
gabbler
,
gasbag
,
gasconader
,
gibble-gabbler
,
great talker
,
hector
,
hot-air artist
,
idle chatterer
,
jabberer
,
jay
,
magpie
,
miles gloriosus
,
moulin a paroles
,
patterer
,
prater
,
prattler
,
rattle
,
windjammer
,
windy
,
word-slinger
not budge
collapse
related words >
balk
,
be a sideliner
,
be still
,
be unflappable
,
coast
,
delay
,
die hard
,
do nothing
,
drift
,
get home free
,
hang fire
,
hibernate
,
hold fast
,
hold out
,
hold up
,
idle
,
lie dormant
,
not stir
,
persevere
,
remain firm
,
rest
,
ride it out
,
sit back
,
sit it out
,
stagnate
,
stand fast
,
stand firm
,
stand out
,
stand pat
,
stay put
,
stick it out
,
stickle
,
take no denial
,
vegetate
,
wait and see
,
watch and wait
,
weather
,
weather the storm
wildest dream
collapse
related words >
apparition
,
appearance
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
chimera
,
delirium
,
eidolon
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
figment
,
figure
,
form
,
hallucination
,
idle fancy
,
idolum
,
illusion
,
image
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
myth
,
phantasm
,
phantasma
,
phantasmagoria
,
phantom
,
presence
,
romance
,
shade
,
shadow
,
shape
,
sick fancy
,
specter
,
thick-coming fancies
,
trip
,
vapor
,
vision
,
waking dream
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
,
wraith
trifle
collapse
sponge cake spread with jam and soaked in wine; served with a custard sauce
related words >
Charlotte
,
Danish pastry
,
French pastry
,
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
abandon
,
bagatelle
,
baklava
,
bauble
,
be foolish
,
be stupid
,
bean
,
beguile the time
,
bibelot
,
bill and coo
,
bit
,
blintz
,
brass farthing
,
bric-a-brac
,
burn daylight
,
button
,
carrot pudding
,
cent
,
chaff
,
chicken feed
,
chickenshit
,
chocolate eclair
,
chocolate mousse
,
cipher
,
clown
,
clown around
,
consume time
,
copulate
,
coquet
,
cream puff
,
curio
,
custard
,
cut
,
dab
,
dabble
,
dally
,
dally away
,
dandle
,
dash
,
details
,
diddle
,
diddle away
,
doodle
,
dowdy
,
dribble away
,
drivel away
,
drop
,
dud
,
duff
,
dummy
,
eclair
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget
,
fidget with
,
fig
,
finger with
,
flan
,
fleabite
,
flirt
,
flirt with
,
folderol
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool away
,
fool with
,
footle
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
fritter away
,
fritter away time
,
frivol
,
froth
,
gaud
,
get funny
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
gimcrackery
,
go haywire
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
hair
,
halfpenny
,
hardly anything
,
hill of beans
,
hollow man
,
horse around
,
idle
,
idle away
,
invite ridicule
,
iota
,
jackstraw
,
jerk off
,
jest
,
joke
,
jot
,
jump
,
junket
,
kickshaw
,
kid around
,
kill time
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
lay figure
,
lead on
,
leave
,
leave loose ends
,
leave undone
,
let alone
,
let be
,
let dangle
,
let go
,
little
,
loiter
,
lollygag
,
lose time
,
make love
,
make out
,
malinger
,
man of straw
,
mash
,
mere nothing
,
mess around
,
minikin
,
minutiae
,
miss
,
mite
,
mockery
,
molehill
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
mousse
,
muck
,
mucker
,
muddle away
,
nebbish
,
neck
,
next to nothing
,
nobody
,
nonentity
,
nothing
,
novelty
,
nullity
,
omit
,
pandowdy
,
pass over
,
pass the time
,
pass up
,
pastry
,
pasty
,
patisserie
,
patty
,
patty-shell
,
peanuts
,
peppercorn
,
pet
,
philander
,
picayune
,
piddle
,
pie
,
pin
,
pinch
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
piss away
,
play
,
play around
,
play the buffoon
,
play the fool
,
play with
,
plaything
,
plum pudding
,
potter
,
potter away
,
pretermit
,
procrastinate
,
pudding
,
puff
,
puppet
,
pushover
,
putter
,
quiche
,
rap
,
red cent
,
rennet
,
rosette
,
row of pins
,
rubbish
,
rush
,
scintilla
,
shade
,
shirk
,
shit
,
skip
,
slack
,
smack
,
small beer
,
small change
,
smatter
,
smidgen
,
smidgin
,
smooch
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sou
,
soupcon
,
spice
,
spoon
,
steamed pudding
,
straw
,
string along
,
strudel
,
suggestion
,
suspicion
,
sweet-talk
,
syllabub
,
tad
,
tapioca pudding
,
tart
,
thing of naught
,
timbale
,
tinker
,
tipsy cake
,
tittle
,
tomfool
,
touch
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trace
,
trash
,
trifle away
,
trifle with
,
trifles
,
trinket
,
trivia
,
triviality
,
trumpery
,
tuppence
,
turnover
,
twiddle
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
vanilla pudding
,
vol-au-vent
,
wanton
,
waste time
,
whatnot
,
whiff
,
while away
,
whim-wham
,
whisper sweet nothings
,
whit
,
zero
endearment
collapse
the act of showing affection
related words >
artful endearments
,
bait
,
baited trap
,
blandishments
,
caress
,
charm
,
come-on
,
decoy
,
decoy duck
,
drawcard
,
drawing card
,
ground bait
,
honeyed words
,
hook
,
lure
,
pat
,
snare
,
soft words
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
trap
toddle along
collapse
related words >
amble
,
be getting along
,
buzz off
,
claudicate
,
come away
,
crawl
,
creep
,
depart
,
dogtrot
,
drag
,
drag along
,
drag out
,
exit
,
gang along
,
get along
,
get away
,
get off
,
get on
,
get under way
,
go
,
go along
,
go away
,
go dead slow
,
go off
,
go on
,
go slow
,
hobble
,
idle
,
inch
,
inch along
,
jog-trot
,
laze
,
leave
,
limp
,
march off
,
mosey
,
move away
,
move off
,
move out
,
poke
,
poke along
,
pull out
,
sashay
,
sashay off
,
saunter
,
shuffle along
,
stagger along
,
stroll
,
take flight
,
take wing
,
toddle
,
totter along
,
traipse
,
up and go
,
waddle
,
walk
,
wing it
,
worm
,
worm along
smooch
collapse
snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
related words >
begrime
,
besoil
,
bill and coo
,
blow a kiss
,
buss
,
copulate
,
dally
,
dirty
,
foul
,
grime
,
kiss
,
lip
,
lollygag
,
make love
,
make out
,
neck
,
osculate
,
osculation
,
peck
,
pet
,
smack
,
smirch
,
smudge
,
spoon
,
sweet-talk
,
tarnish
,
toy
,
trifle
,
wanton
,
whisper sweet nothings
spill the beans
collapse
divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
related words >
babble
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blurt
,
blurt out
,
give away
,
inform
,
inform on
,
leak
,
let drop
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
peach
,
rat
,
reveal a secret
,
sing
,
spill
,
squeal
,
stool
,
talk
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tell on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
go slow
collapse
related words >
amble
,
claudicate
,
crawl
,
creep
,
crowd
,
dogtrot
,
drag
,
drag along
,
drag out
,
drive on
,
forge ahead
,
go dead slow
,
hobble
,
idle
,
inch
,
inch along
,
inch forward
,
jog-trot
,
laze
,
limp
,
mosey
,
muddle through
,
poke
,
poke along
,
press forward
,
press on
,
push
,
push forward
,
push on
,
saunter
,
shuffle along
,
stagger along
,
stroll
,
toddle
,
toddle along
,
totter along
,
traipse
,
waddle
,
walk
,
worm
,
worm along
groundless
collapse
related words >
baseless
,
bottomless
,
built on sand
,
chimerical
,
empty
,
flimsy
,
gratuitous
,
hypothetical
,
idle
,
ill-founded
,
illusory
,
imaginary
,
inconclusive
,
indecisive
,
not following
,
not proved
,
not well-founded
,
speculative
,
suppositional
,
tenuous
,
unascertained
,
unattested
,
unauthenticated
,
unbased
,
uncalled-for
,
uncertified
,
unconfirmed
,
uncorroborated
,
undemonstrated
,
undetermined
,
unestablished
,
unfixed
,
unfounded
,
ungrounded
,
unjustifiable
,
unjustified
,
unproved
,
unproven
,
unreasonable
,
unsettled
,
unshown
,
unsound
,
unsubstantiated
,
unsupportable
,
unsupported
,
unsupported by evidence
,
unsustainable
,
unsustained
,
untenable
,
untested
,
untried
,
unvalidated
,
unverified
,
unwarranted
,
vain
,
without basis
,
without foundation
,
without grounds
mumbo-jumbo
collapse
related words >
abracadabra
,
bilge
,
blather
,
blether
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunkum
,
chant
,
charm
,
claptrap
,
conjuration
,
crap
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
eyewash
,
formula
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hooey
,
humbug
,
incantation
,
jabberwocky
,
magic
,
malarkey
,
moonshine
,
nonsense
,
piffle
,
poppycock
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rite
,
ritual
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
spell
phrasing
collapse
the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line
related words >
adaptation
,
arrangement
,
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
harmonization
,
idiom
,
instrumentation
,
intonation
,
language
,
locution
,
modulation
,
orchestration
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
preparation
,
resolution
,
rhetoric
,
setting
,
solution
,
speech
,
suspension
,
talk
,
tone painting
,
transcription
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
lingo
collapse
related words >
argot
,
cant
,
dialect
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lingua
,
locution
,
mumbo jumbo
,
mumbo-jumbo
,
parlance
,
parole
,
patois
,
patter
,
personal usage
,
phraseology
,
pidgin
,
scatology
,
slang
,
speech
,
taboo language
,
talk
,
tongue
,
usage
,
vernacular
,
vocabulary
,
vulgar language
teaching
collapse
the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts"
related words >
a belief
,
adage
,
ana
,
analects
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
article of faith
,
assignment
,
autodidactic
,
axiom
,
belief
,
byword
,
canon
,
catchword
,
chalk talk
,
charge
,
coeducational
,
collected sayings
,
command
,
commission
,
credo
,
creed
,
cultural
,
current saying
,
dictate
,
dictum
,
didactic
,
direction
,
disciplinary
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
distich
,
doctrine
,
dogma
,
edifying
,
educating
,
educational
,
educative
,
enlightening
,
epigram
,
exercise
,
exhortatory
,
exposition
,
expression
,
faith
,
gnome
,
golden saying
,
harangue
,
homework
,
homiletic
,
homily
,
hortatory
,
illuminating
,
informative
,
initiatory
,
injunction
,
instruction
,
instructive
,
introductory
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lecturing
,
lesson
,
maxim
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
mot
,
motto
,
object lesson
,
oracle
,
order
,
orthodoxy
,
phrase
,
pithy saying
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
precept
,
preceptive
,
prescript
,
prescription
,
principle
,
propaedeutic
,
proverb
,
proverbial saying
,
proverbs
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religion
,
religious belief
,
religious faith
,
saw
,
saying
,
self-teaching
,
sentence
,
sententious expression
,
sermon
,
set task
,
skull session
,
sloka
,
stock saying
,
sutra
,
system of beliefs
,
talk
,
task
,
tenet
,
text
,
theology
,
tradition
,
tuitionary
,
verse
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
witticism
,
word
,
words of wisdom
win
collapse
a victory (as in a race or other competition); "he was happy to get the win"
be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game"
related words >
Cadmean victory
,
KO
,
Pyrrhic victory
,
accomplish
,
achieve
,
acquire
,
annex
,
argue into
,
ascendancy
,
attain
,
bag
,
be seized of
,
bear the palm
,
beat
,
beat all hollow
,
best
,
bring in
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
captivate
,
capture
,
carry
,
carry away
,
carry it
,
carry off
,
carry the day
,
catch
,
chalk up
,
championship
,
charm
,
clobber
,
come by
,
come in for
,
come into
,
come out first
,
con
,
conquer
,
conquest
,
contract
,
convince
,
corral
,
defeat
,
derive
,
drag down
,
draw
,
draw over
,
earn
,
easy victory
,
enter into possession
,
finish in front
,
fluke
,
gain
,
gain over
,
gain the day
,
get
,
grand slam
,
harvest
,
have
,
hook
,
hook in
,
knock down
,
knockout
,
landslide
,
landslide victory
,
lick
,
make
,
make a killing
,
mastery
,
moral victory
,
net
,
obtain
,
outtalk
,
overcome
,
persuade
,
pick up
,
picnic
,
prevail
,
prevail on
,
prevail upon
,
prevail with
,
procure
,
produce
,
pull down
,
pushover
,
reach
,
realize
,
reap
,
runaway victory
,
sack
,
score
,
secure
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
skin
,
subdual
,
subduing
,
success
,
sway
,
take
,
take the cake
,
talk into
,
talk over
,
total victory
,
triumph
,
trounce
,
victory
,
walkaway
,
walkover
,
wangle
,
wangle into
,
wear down
,
win out
,
win over
,
win the battle
,
win the laurels
,
win the palm
,
win the prize
,
win through
,
winning
,
winning streak
,
worst
,
yield
foul language
collapse
related words >
bad language
,
billingsgate
,
blue language
,
colorful language
,
cursing
,
cussing
,
dirty language
,
dirty talk
,
dysphemism
,
evil speaking
,
filth
,
filthy language
,
obscenity
,
profane swearing
,
profanity
,
ribaldry
,
scatology
,
strong language
,
swearing
,
unparliamentary language
,
unrepeatable expressions
,
vile language
,
vulgar language
bad language
collapse
related words >
billingsgate
,
blue language
,
colorful language
,
cursing
,
cussing
,
dirty language
,
dirty talk
,
dysphemism
,
evil speaking
,
filth
,
filthy language
,
foul language
,
obscenity
,
profane swearing
,
profanity
,
ribaldry
,
scatology
,
strong language
,
swearing
,
unparliamentary language
,
unrepeatable expressions
,
vile language
,
vulgar language
blue language
collapse
related words >
bad language
,
billingsgate
,
colorful language
,
cursing
,
cussing
,
dirty language
,
dirty talk
,
dysphemism
,
evil speaking
,
filth
,
filthy language
,
foul language
,
obscenity
,
profane swearing
,
profanity
,
ribaldry
,
scatology
,
strong language
,
swearing
,
unparliamentary language
,
unrepeatable expressions
,
vile language
,
vulgar language
dirty language
collapse
related words >
bad language
,
billingsgate
,
blue language
,
colorful language
,
cursing
,
cussing
,
dirty talk
,
dysphemism
,
evil speaking
,
filth
,
filthy language
,
foul language
,
obscenity
,
profane swearing
,
profanity
,
ribaldry
,
scatology
,
strong language
,
swearing
,
unparliamentary language
,
unrepeatable expressions
,
vile language
,
vulgar language
figment of the imagination
collapse
related words >
apparition
,
appearance
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
chimera
,
delirium
,
eidolon
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
figment
,
figure
,
form
,
hallucination
,
idle fancy
,
idolum
,
illusion
,
image
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
myth
,
phantasm
,
phantasma
,
phantasmagoria
,
phantom
,
presence
,
romance
,
shade
,
shadow
,
shape
,
sick fancy
,
specter
,
thick-coming fancies
,
trip
,
vapor
,
vision
,
waking dream
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dream
,
wildest dreams
,
wraith
entice
collapse
provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
related words >
allure
,
attract
,
bait
,
bait the hook
,
beguile
,
blandish
,
cajole
,
coax
,
decoy
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw on
,
ensnare
,
entrap
,
flirt
,
flirt with
,
give the come-on
,
inveigle
,
lead on
,
lure
,
offer bait to
,
persuade
,
prevail on
,
rope in
,
seduce
,
soft-soap
,
suck in
,
sweet-talk
,
tempt
,
toll
,
wheedle
,
woo
mosey
collapse
related words >
amble
,
be getting along
,
buzz off
,
claudicate
,
come away
,
crawl
,
creep
,
depart
,
dogtrot
,
drag
,
drag along
,
drag out
,
drift
,
exit
,
gang along
,
get along
,
get away
,
get off
,
get on
,
get under way
,
go
,
go along
,
go away
,
go dead slow
,
go off
,
go on
,
go slow
,
hobble
,
idle
,
inch
,
inch along
,
jog-trot
,
laze
,
leave
,
limp
,
linger
,
march off
,
mope
,
move away
,
move off
,
move out
,
muck
,
poke
,
poke along
,
pull out
,
sashay
,
sashay off
,
saunter
,
shuffle along
,
stagger along
,
stroll
,
take flight
,
take wing
,
toddle
,
toddle along
,
totter along
,
traipse
,
up and go
,
waddle
,
walk
,
wing it
,
worm
,
worm along
rhetoric
collapse
study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
using language effectively to please or persuade
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
articulateness
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
bluster
,
bombast
,
choice of words
,
command of language
,
command of words
,
composition
,
convolution
,
debating
,
declamation
,
demagogism
,
dialect
,
diction
,
effective style
,
elocution
,
eloquence
,
eloquent tongue
,
exaggeration
,
expression
,
expression of ideas
,
expressiveness
,
facundity
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
felicitousness
,
felicity
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
forensics
,
form of speech
,
formulation
,
fulsomeness
,
fustian
,
garishness
,
gasconade
,
gaudiness
,
gift of expression
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
grace of expression
,
grammar
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
graphicness
,
high-flown diction
,
highfalutin
,
homiletics
,
hot air
,
idiom
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
language
,
lecturing
,
lexiphanicism
,
literary style
,
locution
,
loftiness
,
long-windedness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
meaningfulness
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
oratory
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
parlance
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
platform oratory
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prolixity
,
prose run mad
,
public speaking
,
puffery
,
pyrotechnics
,
rabble-rousing
,
rant
,
rhapsody
,
rhetoricalness
,
rodomontade
,
sensationalism
,
sense of language
,
sententiousness
,
sesquipedality
,
showiness
,
silver tongue
,
slickness
,
smoothness
,
speaking
,
speech
,
speechcraft
,
speechification
,
speeching
,
speechmaking
,
stiltedness
,
strain
,
stump speaking
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
talk
,
tall talk
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trick
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
vein
,
verbiage
,
verbosity
,
vividness
,
way
,
windiness
,
wordage
,
wordcraft
,
wordiness
,
wording
putter
collapse
the iron normally used on the putting green
a golfer who is putting
move around aimlessly
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
related words >
beguile the time
,
burn daylight
,
consume time
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
diddle
,
doodle
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget with
,
finger with
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
footle
,
fribble
,
fritter away time
,
frivol
,
horse around
,
idle
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
kill time
,
loiter
,
lose time
,
mess
,
mess around
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
pass the time
,
piddle
,
play
,
play around
,
play with
,
potter
,
puddle
,
smatter
,
tinker
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
twiddle
,
waste time
unoccupied
collapse
not leased to or occupied by a tenant; "an unoccupied apartment"; "very little unclaimed and untenanted land"
not held or filled or in use; "an unoccupied telephone booth"; "unoccupied hours"
not seized and controlled; "unoccupied areas of France"
related words >
abandoned
,
at leisure
,
at liberty
,
at loose ends
,
available
,
blank
,
blankminded
,
calm
,
deserted
,
disengaged
,
empty
,
empty-headed
,
fallow
,
fatuous
,
forsaken
,
free
,
godforsaken
,
idle
,
inane
,
incogitant
,
jobless
,
leisure
,
leisured
,
lumpen
,
nirvanic
,
oblivious
,
off
,
off duty
,
off work
,
open
,
otiose
,
out of employ
,
out of harness
,
out of work
,
passive
,
quietistic
,
relaxed
,
retired
,
semiretired
,
spare
,
tenantless
,
thoughtfree
,
thoughtless
,
tranquil
,
unemployable
,
unemployed
,
unfilled
,
unideaed
,
uninhabited
,
unintellectual
,
unmanned
,
unpeopled
,
unpopulated
,
unreasoning
,
unstaffed
,
untaken
,
untenanted
,
untended
,
unthinking
,
vacant
,
vacuous
lollygag
collapse
related words >
bill and coo
,
copulate
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
delay
,
diddle
,
dillydally
,
doodle
,
drag
,
falter
,
flag
,
goof off
,
halt
,
lag
,
linger
,
loiter
,
make love
,
make out
,
neck
,
pet
,
piddle
,
poke
,
shilly-shally
,
smooch
,
spoon
,
sweet-talk
,
tarry
,
toy
,
trail
,
trifle
,
wanton
,
waste time
,
whisper sweet nothings
drivel
collapse
a worthless message
let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled"
related words >
Greek
,
absurdity
,
amphigory
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
balls
,
baloney
,
be insane
,
be stupid
,
bibble-babble
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blatherskite
,
blither
,
blow
,
blunder away
,
bombast
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
burble
,
cast away
,
chatter
,
claptrap
,
consume
,
crap
,
dither
,
dote
,
double-talk
,
dribble
,
drool
,
expectorate
,
expectoration
,
eyewash
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flapdoodle
,
flummery
,
foam
,
folderol
,
fritter
,
froth
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gab
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
garbage
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gobbledygook
,
have a demon
,
hawk
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hooey
,
hot air
,
humbug
,
jabber
,
jabberwocky
,
jargon
,
malarkey
,
maunder
,
mouth-watering
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
piffle
,
prate
,
prattle
,
ptyalism
,
rage
,
ramble
,
rant
,
rattle
,
rave
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rubbish
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
saliva
,
salivate
,
salivation
,
sialagogue
,
skimble-skamble
,
slabber
,
slaver
,
slobber
,
spew
,
spit
,
spittle
,
sputum
,
squander
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
talk nonsense
,
throw away
,
trash
,
trifle away
,
tripe
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
vapor
,
vaporing
,
waffle
,
waffling
,
wander
morality
collapse
concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
angelicalness
,
antimasque
,
assignment
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
behavior
,
bomb
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
chalk talk
,
charade
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy drama
,
conduct
,
critical success
,
customs
,
daytime serial
,
decency
,
dialogue
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
epic theater
,
ethicality
,
ethicalness
,
ethics
,
exercise
,
experimental theater
,
exposition
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
fair play
,
fairness
,
flop
,
gasser
,
giveaway
,
godliness
,
goodness
,
habits
,
happening
,
harangue
,
hit
,
hit show
,
homework
,
homily
,
honesty
,
ideals
,
improvisational drama
,
instruction
,
integrity
,
justice
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
legitimate drama
,
lesson
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
moral rectitude
,
morale
,
morality play
,
moralization
,
morals
,
mores
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
object lesson
,
opera
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
preachment
,
principles
,
probity
,
problem play
,
propriety
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
recital
,
recitation
,
rectitude
,
review
,
revue
,
right
,
right conduct
,
righteousness
,
rightness
,
saintlikeness
,
saintliness
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
sermon
,
set task
,
show
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sketch
,
skit
,
skull session
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
standards
,
straight drama
,
success
,
suspense drama
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk
,
talk show
,
task
,
teaching
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
theater of cruelty
,
total theater
,
uprightness
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
virtue
,
virtuousness
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
story
collapse
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
related words >
Clio
,
Muse of history
,
account
,
action
,
adventures
,
alibi
,
allegation
,
allegory
,
anagnorisis
,
anecdotage
,
anecdote
,
angle
,
annals
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
article
,
assertion
,
atmosphere
,
autobiography
,
back-fence gossip
,
background
,
band
,
beat
,
bed
,
bedding
,
belly laugh
,
belt
,
biographical sketch
,
biography
,
blague
,
blue story
,
book
,
budget of news
,
case history
,
catastrophe
,
characterization
,
chitchat
,
chronicle
,
chronicles
,
chronology
,
clerestory
,
cock-and-bull story
,
color
,
complication
,
confabulation
,
confessions
,
contention
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
copy
,
couche
,
course
,
curriculum vitae
,
deck
,
denouement
,
description
,
design
,
detective story
,
development
,
device
,
diary
,
dirty joke
,
dirty story
,
dispatch
,
double entendre
,
entresol
,
epic
,
episode
,
epos
,
ethnic joke
,
exaggeration
,
exclusive
,
excuse
,
experiences
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fabrication
,
facts
,
fairy
,
fairy tale
,
falling action
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
feature
,
fib
,
fiction
,
first floor
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flat
,
flimflam
,
floor
,
folktale
,
fortunes
,
fun
,
funny story
,
gag
,
gallery
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
gimmick
,
good one
,
good story
,
gossip
,
gossiping
,
gossipmongering
,
gossipry
,
ground floor
,
groundless rumor
,
hagiography
,
hagiology
,
half-truth
,
historiography
,
history
,
howler
,
idle talk
,
incident
,
information
,
item
,
jape
,
jest
,
jestbook
,
joke
,
journal
,
laugh
,
layer
,
ledge
,
legal fiction
,
legend
,
level
,
lie
,
life
,
life and letters
,
life story
,
line
,
little white lie
,
local color
,
martyrology
,
measures
,
memoir
,
memoirs
,
memorabilia
,
memorial
,
memorials
,
mendacity
,
mezzanine
,
mezzanine floor
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mystery
,
myth
,
mythos
,
narration
,
narrative
,
necrology
,
news
,
news item
,
newsmongering
,
obituary
,
overlayer
,
overstory
,
panic
,
parable
,
peripeteia
,
photobiography
,
piece
,
piece of gossip
,
pious fiction
,
plan
,
play
,
plot
,
point
,
prevarication
,
profile
,
recital
,
recognition
,
record
,
recounting
,
release
,
report
,
representation
,
resume
,
rez-de-chaussee
,
rib tickler
,
riot
,
rising action
,
romance
,
saga
,
scenario
,
scheme
,
scoop
,
scream
,
seam
,
secondary plot
,
shelf
,
sick joke
,
sidesplitter
,
sight gag
,
slant
,
slight stretching
,
sport
,
spot news
,
stage
,
statement
,
step
,
stratum
,
street floor
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
substratum
,
summary
,
superstratum
,
switch
,
tale
,
talebearing
,
taletelling
,
talk
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
tattle
,
testimony
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
theory of history
,
thickness
,
thriller
,
tidings
,
tier
,
tittle-tattle
,
tone
,
topic
,
topsoil
,
trumped-up story
,
twist
,
underlayer
,
understory
,
understratum
,
untruth
,
version
,
visual joke
,
wheeze
,
white lie
,
whodunit
,
wow
,
yarn
,
zone
sit
collapse
be seated
be in session; "When does the court of law sit?"
sit around, often unused; "The object sat in the corner"
related words >
be gravid
,
be knocked up
,
be pregnant
,
be seated
,
be with child
,
breed
,
brood
,
bum around
,
call together
,
carry
,
carry young
,
clock
,
convene
,
convoke
,
cover
,
do nothing
,
ensconce
,
gestate
,
goof off
,
hang around
,
hatch
,
hold a meeting
,
hold a session
,
idle
,
incubate
,
install
,
laze
,
lazy
,
lie around
,
loaf
,
loiter about
,
loll around
,
lollop around
,
lounge
,
lounge around
,
meet
,
mooch around
,
moon
,
moon around
,
open
,
perch
,
posture
,
remain seated
,
rest
,
roost
,
seat
,
set
,
settle
,
sit around
,
sit down
,
slouch
,
slouch around
,
squat
,
stand around
,
summon
alternating current
collapse
an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
related words >
AC
,
DC
,
absorption current
,
active current
,
conduction current
,
convection current
,
cycle
,
delta current
,
dielectric displacement current
,
direct current
,
displacement current
,
eddy current
,
electric current
,
electric stream
,
emission current
,
exciting current
,
free alternating current
,
galvanic current
,
high-frequency current
,
idle current
,
induced current
,
induction current
,
ionization current
,
juice
,
low-frequency current
,
magnetizing current
,
multiphase current
,
pulsating direct current
,
reactive current
,
rotary current
,
single-phase alternating current
,
stray current
,
thermionic current
,
thermoelectric current
,
three-phase alternating current
,
voltaic current
,
watt current
DC
collapse
related words >
AC
,
absorption current
,
active current
,
alternating current
,
conduction current
,
convection current
,
cycle
,
delta current
,
dielectric displacement current
,
direct current
,
displacement current
,
eddy current
,
electric current
,
electric stream
,
emission current
,
exciting current
,
free alternating current
,
galvanic current
,
high-frequency current
,
idle current
,
induced current
,
induction current
,
ionization current
,
juice
,
low-frequency current
,
magnetizing current
,
multiphase current
,
pulsating direct current
,
reactive current
,
rotary current
,
single-phase alternating current
,
stray current
,
thermionic current
,
thermoelectric current
,
three-phase alternating current
,
voltaic current
,
watt current
AC
collapse
related words >
DC
,
absorption current
,
active current
,
alternating current
,
conduction current
,
convection current
,
cycle
,
delta current
,
dielectric displacement current
,
direct current
,
displacement current
,
eddy current
,
electric current
,
electric stream
,
emission current
,
exciting current
,
free alternating current
,
galvanic current
,
high-frequency current
,
idle current
,
induced current
,
induction current
,
ionization current
,
juice
,
low-frequency current
,
magnetizing current
,
multiphase current
,
pulsating direct current
,
reactive current
,
rotary current
,
single-phase alternating current
,
stray current
,
thermionic current
,
thermoelectric current
,
three-phase alternating current
,
voltaic current
,
watt current
direct current
collapse
an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
related words >
AC
,
DC
,
absorption current
,
active current
,
alternating current
,
conduction current
,
convection current
,
cycle
,
delta current
,
dielectric displacement current
,
displacement current
,
eddy current
,
electric current
,
electric stream
,
emission current
,
exciting current
,
free alternating current
,
galvanic current
,
high-frequency current
,
idle current
,
induced current
,
induction current
,
ionization current
,
juice
,
low-frequency current
,
magnetizing current
,
multiphase current
,
pulsating direct current
,
reactive current
,
rotary current
,
single-phase alternating current
,
stray current
,
thermionic current
,
thermoelectric current
,
three-phase alternating current
,
voltaic current
,
watt current
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