Related Words:
- leeway
collapse - (of a ship or plane) sideways drift related words >
- aesthetic distance,
- air space,
- ample scope,
- blank check,
- caesura,
- carte blanche,
- clearance,
- compass,
- deep space,
- depths of space,
- discontinuity,
- distance,
- distance between,
- divergence,
- double space,
- drift,
- driftway,
- elbowroom,
- em space,
- en space,
- extent,
- farness,
- field,
- free course,
- free hand,
- free play,
- free scope,
- freeboard,
- freedom,
- full scope,
- full swing,
- hair space,
- half space,
- headroom,
- headway,
- hiatus,
- infinity,
- interim,
- intermediate space,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jump,
- lacuna,
- latitude,
- leap,
- length,
- light-years,
- long rope,
- maneuvering space,
- margin,
- mileage,
- no holds barred,
- open space,
- parsecs,
- perspective,
- piece,
- play,
- progress,
- range,
- reach,
- remoteness,
- room,
- room to spare,
- rope,
- scope,
- sea room,
- separation,
- single space,
- slack,
- space,
- space between,
- span,
- spare room,
- steerageway,
- sternway,
- stretch,
- stride,
- swing,
- time interval,
- tolerance,
- way,
- ways,
- wide berth
- Pax Dei,
- Pax Romana,
- Peace of God,
- abandon,
- abdicate,
- abeyance,
- armistice,
- back out,
- be pensioned,
- be superannuated,
- beg off,
- break,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- cooling-off period,
- cry off,
- day off,
- demilitarized zone,
- demit,
- depart from,
- discard,
- drop,
- drop out,
- evacuate,
- forsake,
- give up,
- go back on,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hollow truce,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- jettison,
- jilt,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leave,
- leave behind,
- leave flat,
- letup,
- lull,
- maroon,
- modus vivendi,
- neutral territory,
- pacification,
- pause,
- pax in bello,
- peace,
- pension off,
- pull out,
- quit,
- quit cold,
- recess,
- relinquish,
- remission,
- renege,
- renounce the throne,
- resign,
- respite,
- rest,
- retire,
- retire from office,
- say goodbye to,
- stand aside,
- stay,
- step aside,
- superannuate,
- suspension,
- suspension of hostilities,
- take leave of,
- temporary arrangement,
- throw over,
- treaty of peace,
- truce,
- vacate,
- vacation,
- withdraw,
- withdraw from
- closure
collapse
- termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center"
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion" related words >
- accomplishment,
- ankle,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- articulation,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- boundary,
- butt,
- cease,
- cervix,
- cessation,
- check,
- clinch,
- clogging,
- close,
- closing,
- closing up,
- completion,
- conclusion,
- connecting link,
- connecting rod,
- connection,
- constriction,
- consummation,
- coupling,
- cramp,
- culmination,
- delay,
- desistance,
- detainment,
- detention,
- dovetail,
- elbow,
- embrace,
- end,
- ending,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- fulfillment,
- gliding joint,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- hinge,
- hinged joint,
- hip,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interface,
- interference,
- interruption,
- join,
- joining,
- joint,
- juncture,
- knee,
- knuckle,
- let,
- link,
- miter,
- mortise,
- neck,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- perfection,
- pivot,
- pivot joint,
- rabbet,
- realization,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- scarf,
- seam,
- setback,
- shoulder,
- squeeze,
- stitch,
- stop,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- suture,
- symphysis,
- termination,
- tie rod,
- toggle,
- toggle joint,
- topping-off,
- union,
- weld,
- wrist
- 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
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- bar,
- barrier,
- blank wall,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottleneck,
- burden,
- burthen,
- cargo,
- cecum,
- charge,
- check,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clog,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- constriction,
- costiveness,
- cramp,
- cross,
- cul-de-sac,
- cumbrance,
- curb,
- dead end,
- deadweight,
- delay,
- detainment,
- detention,
- difficulty,
- disadvantage,
- embarrassment,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- encumbrance,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- freight,
- gorge,
- hamper,
- hampering,
- handicap,
- hang-up,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hold-up,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hurdle,
- impasse,
- impedance,
- impedimenta,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- jam,
- let,
- load,
- lumber,
- mountain,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- onus,
- opposition,
- pack,
- penalty,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- rub,
- sealing off,
- setback,
- snag,
- squeeze,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- strangulation,
- stricture,
- stumbling block,
- suppression,
- trouble,
- weight,
- white elephant
- lacuna
collapse
- a blank gap or missing part related words >
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- antrum,
- aperture,
- armpit,
- arrearage,
- basin,
- bowl,
- breach,
- break,
- broaching,
- caesura,
- cavity,
- cessation,
- chasm,
- check,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- concave,
- concavity,
- crack,
- crater,
- crypt,
- cup,
- defalcation,
- defect,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- depression,
- dip,
- disclosure,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- double space,
- em space,
- en space,
- fenestra,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- fold,
- follicle,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- freeboard,
- funnel chest,
- gap,
- gape,
- gat,
- gulf,
- hair space,
- half space,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- hollow,
- hollow shell,
- inlet,
- interim,
- intermediate space,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jump,
- lack,
- laying open,
- leak,
- leap,
- leeway,
- letup,
- lull,
- margin,
- missing link,
- need,
- omission,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- outage,
- outlet,
- passageway,
- pause,
- pit,
- pocket,
- pore,
- punch bowl,
- room,
- scoop,
- shell,
- shortage,
- single space,
- sink,
- sinus,
- slot,
- socket,
- space,
- space between,
- split,
- stoma,
- suspension,
- throwing open,
- time interval,
- trough,
- ullage,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- vug,
- want,
- wantage,
- yawn
- fixation
collapse
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- the activity of fastening something firmly in position related words >
- Freudian fixation,
- anchorage,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrested development,
- arrestment,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- colonization,
- complex,
- compulsion,
- confirmation,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- craze,
- deep-rootedness,
- deep-seatedness,
- delay,
- detainment,
- detention,
- embedment,
- entrenchment,
- establishment,
- fascination,
- father fixation,
- fetish,
- fixed idea,
- fixedness,
- fixity,
- fixture,
- foot-dragging,
- foundation,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hypercathexis,
- idee fixe,
- immobility,
- impediment,
- implantation,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- inauguration,
- infantile fixation,
- infatuation,
- infixion,
- inhibition,
- initiation,
- installation,
- installment,
- interference,
- interruption,
- investiture,
- inveteracy,
- irresistible impulse,
- kick,
- let,
- libido fixation,
- lodgment,
- mania,
- monomania,
- mooring,
- morbid drive,
- mother fixation,
- motionlessness,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- parent fixation,
- peopling,
- plantation,
- population,
- possession,
- pregenital fixation,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- regression,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreat to immaturity,
- ruling passion,
- setback,
- settlement,
- settling,
- squeeze,
- stabilization,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- thing,
- tic
- intermittence
collapse
- the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping related words >
- abeyance,
- alternation,
- arrhythmia,
- beat,
- break,
- broken thread,
- brokenness,
- caesura,
- capriciousness,
- cease-fire,
- choppiness,
- coffee break,
- cyclicalness,
- day off,
- desultoriness,
- disconnectedness,
- disconnection,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinuity,
- discontinuousness,
- discreteness,
- disjunction,
- downtime,
- drop,
- eccentricity,
- episode,
- erraticness,
- fibrillation,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- fluctuation,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- incoherence,
- incompleteness,
- inconstancy,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittency,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- meter,
- non sequitur,
- noncontinuance,
- nonlinearity,
- nonseriality,
- nonuniformity,
- off-time,
- oscillation,
- parenthesis,
- patchiness,
- pause,
- pendulum motion,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- piston motion,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- pulsation,
- quiet spell,
- reappearance,
- recess,
- recurrence,
- regular wave motion,
- relief,
- remission,
- reoccurrence,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- return,
- rhythm,
- roughness,
- seasonality,
- spasticity,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- uncertainty,
- undulation,
- unevenness,
- unmethodicalness,
- unpredictability,
- unsteadiness,
- unsystematicness,
- vacation,
- variability,
- whimsicality,
- wobble
- detention
collapse
- a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police" related words >
- afterthought,
- apprehension,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bureaucratic delay,
- captivity,
- check,
- clogging,
- close arrest,
- closing up,
- closure,
- confinement,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- custody,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- double take,
- drag,
- dragging,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impediment,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- internment,
- interruption,
- jailing,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- logjam,
- minus acceleration,
- moratorium,
- nab,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pickup,
- pinch,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- setback,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- term of imprisonment,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait
- inappropriateness
collapse
- the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"; "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness"
- inappropriate conduct related words >
- Babbittry,
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- bad taste,
- bourgeois taste,
- camp,
- campiness,
- criminality,
- delinquency,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- disentitlement,
- empty claim,
- empty title,
- excess,
- false claim,
- futility,
- high camp,
- illegality,
- impoliticalness,
- impoliticness,
- improperness,
- impropriety,
- inadmissibility,
- inadvisability,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- inauspiciousness,
- incongruity,
- inconvenience,
- inconveniency,
- incorrectness,
- indecency,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indelicacy,
- indiscreetness,
- indiscretion,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- ineptitude,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- infelicity,
- infraction,
- inopportuneness,
- inopportunity,
- intempestivity,
- interruption,
- intrusion,
- invalid claim,
- irrelevance,
- irrelevancy,
- kitsch,
- lack of claim,
- lateness,
- low camp,
- maladjustment,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misjoinder,
- misjoining,
- mismatch,
- no claim,
- philistinism,
- poor taste,
- pop,
- pop culture,
- prematurity,
- sinfulness,
- tastelessness,
- unaestheticism,
- unaestheticness,
- unbecomingness,
- unchastity,
- uncongeniality,
- undeservedness,
- undeservingness,
- undesirability,
- undueness,
- unentitledness,
- unfavorableness,
- unfitness,
- unfittingness,
- unfortunateness,
- unlawfulness,
- unmeetness,
- unmeritedness,
- unprofitability,
- unprofitableness,
- unpropitiousness,
- unrighteousness,
- unripeness,
- unseasonableness,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- untimeliness,
- unwiseness,
- uselessness,
- violation,
- vulgar taste,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- vulgarness,
- wickedness,
- worthlessness,
- wrong,
- wrongfulness,
- wrongness
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assumption,
- bad faith,
- bankruptcy,
- borrowed plumes,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of law,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- breaking,
- civil disobedience,
- collapse,
- contravention,
- copying,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- damage,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- dilapidation,
- disablement,
- disobedience,
- disrepair,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entrenchment,
- frowardness,
- harm,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- imitation,
- impairment,
- impingement,
- imposition,
- incapacitation,
- incursion,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- infiltration,
- influx,
- infraction,
- injection,
- injury,
- inroad,
- insinuation,
- insubordination,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interloping,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- intractability,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- loss,
- maiming,
- mayhem,
- mischief,
- mocking,
- mutilation,
- naughtiness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obtrusion,
- offense,
- overstepping,
- passive resistance,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- recusancy,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- scathe,
- seizure,
- sickening,
- simulation,
- spoiling,
- taking,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unlawful entry,
- unsubmissiveness,
- usurpation,
- violation,
- violation of law,
- waywardness,
- weakening,
- willful disobedience
- intermezzo
collapse
- a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
- a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony related words >
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- anacrusis,
- bass passage,
- bit,
- bourdon,
- break,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- chaser,
- chorus,
- coda,
- coffee break,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- development,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- division,
- downtime,
- drop,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- exposition,
- expository scene,
- figure,
- finale,
- folderol,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- harmonic close,
- hesitation,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- introductory phrase,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- measure,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- number,
- off-time,
- ornament,
- part,
- passage,
- pause,
- period,
- phrase,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- refrain,
- relief,
- remission,
- resolution,
- respite,
- response,
- rest,
- resting point,
- ritornello,
- routine,
- scene,
- section,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stay,
- strain,
- striptease,
- suspension,
- tailpiece,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- vacation,
- variation,
- verse
- interjection
collapse
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts related words >
- Parthian shot,
- address,
- adjectival,
- adjective,
- adverb,
- adverbial,
- adversative conjunction,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- aside,
- assertion,
- attributive,
- averment,
- comment,
- conjunction,
- conjunctive adverb,
- coordinating conjunction,
- copulative,
- copulative conjunction,
- correlative conjunction,
- crack,
- cry,
- declaration,
- dictum,
- disjunctive,
- disjunctive conjunction,
- ejaculation,
- embedment,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entrenchment,
- episode,
- exclamation,
- exclamatory noun,
- expression,
- form class,
- form word,
- function class,
- gerundive,
- graft,
- grafting,
- greeting,
- impaction,
- impactment,
- impingement,
- implantation,
- imposition,
- incursion,
- infiltration,
- infix,
- infixion,
- influx,
- infringement,
- infusion,
- injection,
- inoculation,
- inroad,
- insert,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- intercalation,
- interference,
- interlineation,
- interlocution,
- interloping,
- interpolation,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- introduction,
- intromission,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- mention,
- note,
- obiter dictum,
- observation,
- obtrusion,
- parenthesis,
- part of speech,
- participle,
- particle,
- past participle,
- penetration,
- perfect participle,
- perfusion,
- phrase,
- position,
- preposition,
- present participle,
- pronouncement,
- question,
- reflection,
- remark,
- say,
- saying,
- sentence,
- side remark,
- statement,
- subjoinder,
- subordinating conjunction,
- tessellation,
- thought,
- tossing-in,
- transplant,
- transplantation,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- unlawful entry,
- utterance,
- verbal adjective,
- word
- intermission
collapse
- the act of suspending activity temporarily related words >
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- bit,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- caesura,
- catharsis,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- chaser,
- cigarette break,
- cleansing,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- cold storage,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- deliverance,
- discharge,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- doldrums,
- dormancy,
- downtime,
- drop,
- emotional release,
- enforced respite,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- expository scene,
- finale,
- fissure,
- freeing,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- latency,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- number,
- off-time,
- parenthesis,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- quiescence,
- quiescency,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- release,
- relief,
- remission,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- routine,
- scene,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stay,
- striptease,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- vacation
- vacation
collapse
- the act of making something legally void
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"
- spend or take a vacation related words >
- AWOL,
- Christmas,
- French leave,
- Sunday,
- abeyance,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abrogation,
- abscondence,
- absence,
- absence without leave,
- absentation,
- absenteeism,
- absenting,
- annulment,
- break,
- breathing space,
- caesura,
- cancel,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- cassation,
- cease-fire,
- coffee break,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- cut,
- day off,
- default,
- defeasance,
- departure,
- disappearance,
- downtime,
- drop,
- escape,
- excused absence,
- fleeing,
- furlough,
- go on furlough,
- go on leave,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hooky,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- invalidation,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leave,
- leave of absence,
- leaving,
- letup,
- liberty,
- lull,
- make holiday,
- nonappearance,
- nonattendance,
- nullification,
- off-time,
- paid holiday,
- paid vacation,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- recall,
- recantation,
- recess,
- relief,
- remission,
- renege,
- repeal,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retraction,
- reversal,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- running away,
- sabbatical,
- sabbatical leave,
- sabbatical year,
- setting aside,
- shore leave,
- sick leave,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- take a holiday,
- take leave,
- time off,
- time out,
- truancy,
- truantism,
- truce,
- unexcused absence,
- vacatur,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- weekend,
- withdrawal,
- write-off
- respite
collapse
- a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"
- a pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests" related words >
- abeyance,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blow,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caesura,
- catharsis,
- cease-fire,
- cigarette break,
- cleansing,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- day off,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- deliverance,
- detention,
- discharge,
- double take,
- downtime,
- dragging,
- drop,
- emotional release,
- enforced respite,
- extension,
- freeing,
- grace,
- grant a reprieve,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- logjam,
- lull,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- off-time,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- postponement,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- release,
- relief,
- remission,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- vacation,
- wait
- restriction
collapse
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
- a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" related words >
- allowance,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- boycott,
- brake,
- caging,
- cession,
- check,
- circumscription,
- clogging,
- closeness,
- closing up,
- closure,
- concession,
- condition,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- continence,
- control,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- crowdedness,
- curb,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- delay,
- demarcation,
- detainment,
- detention,
- discipline,
- embargo,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hampering,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- impoundment,
- inadmissibility,
- incapaciousness,
- incommodiousness,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interference,
- interruption,
- let,
- limit,
- limitation,
- lockout,
- lockup,
- mental reservation,
- moderation,
- modification,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowing,
- narrowness,
- nearness,
- negativism,
- nonadmission,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- omission,
- opposition,
- penning,
- preclusion,
- prescription,
- prohibition,
- proscription,
- provision,
- proviso,
- qualification,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repression,
- repudiation,
- reservation,
- resistance,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrictedness,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- salvo,
- setback,
- slenderness,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- squeeze,
- stint,
- stipulation,
- straitness,
- stranglehold,
- strictness,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tight squeeze,
- tightness,
- waiver
- occlusion
collapse
- (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed
- closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel) related words >
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- abdominal epilepsy,
- access,
- acquired epilepsy,
- activated epilepsy,
- affect epilepsy,
- akinetic epilepsy,
- apoplexy,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- attack,
- autonomic epilepsy,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- cardiac epilepsy,
- check,
- clogging,
- clonic spasm,
- clonus,
- closing,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constriction,
- convulsion,
- cortical epilepsy,
- cramp,
- cursive epilepsy,
- delay,
- detainment,
- detention,
- diurnal epilepsy,
- eclampsia,
- epilepsia,
- epilepsia gravior,
- epilepsia major,
- epilepsia minor,
- epilepsia mitior,
- epilepsia nutans,
- epilepsia tarda,
- epilepsy,
- falling sickness,
- fit,
- fixation,
- focal epilepsy,
- foot-dragging,
- frenzy,
- grand mal,
- hampering,
- haute mal,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hysterical epilepsy,
- ictus,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- larval epilepsy,
- laryngeal epilepsy,
- laryngospasm,
- latent epilepsy,
- let,
- lockjaw,
- matutinal epilepsy,
- menstrual epilepsy,
- musicogenic epilepsy,
- myoclonous epilepsy,
- negativism,
- nocturnal epilepsy,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- opposition,
- paroxysm,
- petit mal,
- physiologic epilepsy,
- psychic epilepsy,
- psychomotor epilepsy,
- reflex epilepsy,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- rotatoria,
- seizure,
- sensory epilepsy,
- serial epilepsy,
- setback,
- shutdown,
- shutting,
- shutting up,
- spasm,
- squeeze,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- stroke,
- suppression,
- tardy epilepsy,
- tetanus,
- tetany,
- throes,
- thromboembolism,
- thrombosis,
- tonic epilepsy,
- tonic spasm,
- torsion spasm,
- traumatic epilepsy,
- trismus,
- ucinate epilepsy,
- visitation
- quiescence
collapse
- quiet and inactive restfulness related words >
- a wise passiveness,
- abidingness,
- awful silence,
- changelessness,
- cold storage,
- constancy,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- dead,
- dead of night,
- deathlike silence,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- doldrums,
- dormancy,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- endurance,
- firmness,
- fixedness,
- frozenness,
- golden silence,
- hardening,
- hibernation,
- hush,
- hush of night,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- immovability,
- immovableness,
- immutability,
- inaction,
- inactiveness,
- inactivity,
- inaudibility,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- invariability,
- invariableness,
- inveteracy,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- lastingness,
- latency,
- long standing,
- lucid stillness,
- lull,
- meditation,
- motionlessness,
- mum,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noiselessness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- peace,
- permanence,
- permanency,
- perpetualness,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescency,
- quiet,
- quietism,
- quietness,
- quietude,
- rest,
- rigidity,
- silence,
- silentness,
- solemn silence,
- solidity,
- soundlessness,
- stability,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standing,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- steadfastness,
- still,
- stillness,
- suspension,
- tacitness,
- taciturnity,
- tomblike silence,
- torpor,
- tranquillity,
- unchangeability,
- unchangingness,
- underactivity,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting,
- whisht
- inhibition
collapse
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve" related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- ban,
- bar,
- barrier,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- censorship,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- corking up,
- cramp,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- deceleration,
- defence,
- delay,
- denial,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disallowance,
- embargo,
- exclusion,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- keeping,
- law,
- legal restraint,
- let,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- monopoly,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- psychological block,
- rationing,
- refusal,
- rein,
- rejection,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- retrenchment,
- ruling out,
- self-consciousness,
- self-control,
- setback,
- slowing down,
- squeeze,
- statute,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tariff wall,
- tenacity,
- thought control,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
- cessation
collapse
- a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" related words >
- Z,
- abandonment,
- abeyance,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- absentation,
- apodosis,
- breach,
- break,
- caesura,
- casting away,
- catastrophe,
- cease,
- ceasing,
- close,
- closing,
- coda,
- cold storage,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- death,
- decease,
- decline,
- denouement,
- desistance,
- destination,
- destiny,
- desuetude,
- discontinuance,
- disuse,
- doom,
- dying down,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- evacuation,
- expiration,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- fissure,
- forbearance,
- forsaking,
- full stop,
- gap,
- goal,
- halt,
- hiatus,
- homestretch,
- interim,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interval,
- izzard,
- jettison,
- jettisoning,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last lap,
- last round,
- last stage,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving,
- letup,
- lock,
- lull,
- nonexercise,
- omega,
- pause,
- payoff,
- period,
- peroration,
- pulling out,
- quietus,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- stand,
- standstill,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- throwing overboard,
- waiver,
- wane,
- waning,
- windup,
- withdrawal
- abnegation,
- alienation,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- blame-shifting,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- challenge,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- combative reaction,
- compensation,
- complaint,
- constriction,
- counteraction,
- cramp,
- cynicism,
- decompensation,
- defeatism,
- defense mechanism,
- defiance,
- delay,
- demur,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detainment,
- detention,
- dismalness,
- displacement,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissociation,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fixation,
- flight,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- gloominess,
- gloomy outlook,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- isolation,
- let,
- malism,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihilism,
- nix,
- no,
- noncooperation,
- nuisance value,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- overcompensation,
- passive resistance,
- pessimism,
- projection,
- protest,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- refractoriness,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repression,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreatism,
- revolt,
- setback,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- squeeze,
- stand,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- uncheerfulness,
- uncooperativeness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- withstanding
- alkali flat,
- alluvial plain,
- amount,
- basin,
- bench,
- bottomland,
- break,
- bushveld,
- caliber,
- campo,
- champaign,
- champaign country,
- coastal plain,
- coffee break,
- compass,
- cut,
- degree,
- delta,
- desert,
- down,
- downs,
- downtime,
- extent,
- fell,
- flat,
- flat country,
- flatland,
- flats,
- grade,
- grass veld,
- grassland,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- heath,
- height,
- highland,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lande,
- leap,
- letup,
- level,
- llano,
- lowland,
- lowlands,
- lull,
- lunar mare,
- mare,
- mark,
- measure,
- mesa,
- mesilla,
- moor,
- moorland,
- notch,
- nuance,
- off-time,
- open country,
- pampa,
- pampas,
- pas,
- pause,
- peg,
- peneplain,
- period,
- pitch,
- plain,
- plains,
- plane,
- playa,
- point,
- point of repose,
- prairie,
- proportion,
- quiet spell,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- recess,
- relief,
- remove,
- respite,
- resting point,
- round,
- rung,
- salt flat,
- salt marsh,
- salt pan,
- savanna,
- scale,
- scope,
- sebkha,
- shade,
- shadow,
- space,
- stair,
- standard,
- step,
- steppe,
- stint,
- table,
- table mountain,
- tableland,
- time off,
- time out,
- tread,
- tree veld,
- tundra,
- upland,
- vacation,
- vega,
- veld,
- weald,
- wide-open spaces,
- wold
- afterthought,
- armed robbery,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bureaucratic delay,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- dead time,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- detention,
- double take,
- drag,
- dragging,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gain,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- heist,
- highway robbery,
- hijacking,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- hysteresis,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- interruption,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- loan-sharking,
- logjam,
- minus acceleration,
- moratorium,
- mugging,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- output lag,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pocket picking,
- process lag,
- purse snatching,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- setback,
- shylocking,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- surcharge,
- suspension,
- throughput,
- tie-up,
- time constants,
- time lag,
- time lead,
- usury,
- wait
- remission
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- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- amnesty,
- assuagement,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- break,
- caesura,
- calming,
- catabasis,
- cease-fire,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- compurgation,
- crash,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescendo,
- deliverance,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- disparagement,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- easing,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- extraction,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- immunity,
- impairment,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lull,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pause,
- plunge,
- purgation,
- purging,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- recess,
- redemption,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- release,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- shortening,
- shrift,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- softening,
- soothing,
- sparing,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- truncation,
- vacation,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- wane
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- atavism,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backward deviation,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- betrayed hope,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- blow,
- buffet,
- check,
- checkmate,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- comedown,
- confusion,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- deceleration,
- defeat,
- delay,
- descent,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disappointment,
- discomfiture,
- disillusionment,
- dissatisfaction,
- down,
- drag,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- falling back,
- fiasco,
- fixation,
- fizzle,
- flagging,
- foil,
- foiling,
- foot-dragging,
- forlorn hope,
- frustration,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hope deferred,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- lag,
- lapse,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- minus acceleration,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recession,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recrudescence,
- recurrence,
- reentry,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- relapse,
- renewal,
- repression,
- repulse,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retrusion,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reverse of fortune,
- reversion,
- rollback,
- rout,
- severe check,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- sore disappointment,
- squeeze,
- sternway,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- stumbling block,
- suppression,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- throwback
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