Related Words:
- letup
collapse - a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- abridgment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- arrest,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- blunting,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- caesura,
- calming,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- check,
- cigarette break,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- contraction,
- dampening,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- delay,
- demulsion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- detention,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- downtime,
- drag,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- easing,
- enforced respite,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- fissure,
- flagging,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lull,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- minus acceleration,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- obstruction,
- off-time,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- recess,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- setback,
- simplicity,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- softening,
- soothing,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subtraction,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- tempering,
- time off,
- time out,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- vacation,
- weakening
- rhythm
collapse
- recurring at regular intervals
- the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" related words >
- Alexandrine,
- accent,
- accentuation,
- alternation,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- arrhythmia,
- arsis,
- bacchius,
- balance,
- beat,
- beating,
- beauty,
- cadence,
- cadency,
- caesura,
- catalexis,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- colon,
- concinnity,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- cyclicalness,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- dochmiac,
- downbeat,
- drumming,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- emphasis,
- epitrite,
- equilibrium,
- euphony,
- feminine caesura,
- flutter,
- foot,
- harmony,
- heartbeat,
- heartthrob,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- intermittence,
- intermittency,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- level of stress,
- lilt,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- measuredness,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metrics,
- metron,
- molossus,
- mora,
- movement,
- number,
- numbers,
- order,
- orderedness,
- oscillation,
- paeon,
- palpitation,
- pendulum motion,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- piston motion,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- primary stress,
- proceleusmatic,
- proportion,
- prosodics,
- prosody,
- pulsation,
- pulse,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- rat-a-tat,
- rataplan,
- reappearance,
- recurrence,
- regular wave motion,
- reoccurrence,
- return,
- rhyme,
- rhythmic pattern,
- rhythmical stress,
- seasonality,
- secondary stress,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- staccato,
- stress,
- stress accent,
- stress pattern,
- sweetness,
- swing,
- symmetry,
- syzygy,
- tempo,
- tertiary stress,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- time,
- timing,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- undulation,
- upbeat,
- weak stress
- hesitation
collapse
- the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
- indecision in speech or action related words >
- Fabian policy,
- Micawberism,
- abeyance,
- averseness,
- backwardness,
- balbuties,
- bashfulness,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- break,
- caesura,
- calculation,
- canniness,
- capriciousness,
- care,
- careful consideration,
- carefulness,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- cease-fire,
- chance,
- chanciness,
- changeableness,
- circumspection,
- compunction,
- courtesan,
- day off,
- delay,
- deliberate stages,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- demimondaine,
- demimonde,
- demirep,
- demur,
- demurral,
- diffidence,
- dilatoriness,
- discretion,
- doubt,
- drop,
- dubiety,
- dysphemia,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fancy woman,
- fickleness,
- gingerliness,
- guardedness,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- heed,
- heedfulness,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitating,
- hetaera,
- hold-off,
- holiday,
- incalculability,
- incertitude,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- indemonstrability,
- indeterminacy,
- indetermination,
- indeterminism,
- indisposition,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- irresolution,
- judiciousness,
- kept,
- lapse,
- laxness,
- layoff,
- letup,
- luck,
- lull,
- mindfulness,
- mistrust,
- modesty,
- mugwump,
- objection,
- palilalia,
- pause,
- pawkiness,
- prior consultation,
- procrastination,
- protest,
- prudence,
- prudentialness,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmishness,
- randomness,
- recess,
- recoil,
- regardfulness,
- reluctance,
- remission,
- remissness,
- respite,
- rest,
- safeness,
- safety first,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shyness,
- slackness,
- slowness,
- slowness to act,
- solicitude,
- stall,
- stammer,
- stammering,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stickling,
- stutter,
- stuttering,
- suspense,
- suspensefulness,
- suspension,
- temporization,
- tentativeness,
- thoroughness,
- to-and-fro,
- traulism,
- truce,
- unaccountability,
- uncertainness,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undecidedness,
- undeterminedness,
- unforeseeableness,
- unprecipitateness,
- unpredictability,
- unprovability,
- unsureness,
- unverifiability,
- vacation,
- vacillation,
- wavering,
- whimsicality,
- whore
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