Related Words:
- retraction
collapse - the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back; "the retraction of the landing gear"; "retraction of the foreskin"
- a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion related words >
- abandonment,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abrogation,
- absolute contradiction,
- annulment,
- attrition,
- cancel,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- cassation,
- cession,
- contradiction,
- contrary assertion,
- contravention,
- controversion,
- countering,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- crossing,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- defeasance,
- denial,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disaffirmation,
- disallowance,
- disavowal,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disowning,
- disownment,
- disparagement,
- dispensation,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- disproof,
- dumping,
- expatriation,
- extraction,
- forgoing,
- forswearing,
- gainsaying,
- getting rid of,
- giving up,
- impairment,
- impugnment,
- invalidation,
- lessening,
- letting go,
- nullification,
- palinode,
- palinody,
- recall,
- recantation,
- recedence,
- receding,
- recession,
- reduction,
- refutation,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- remission,
- renege,
- reneging,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repeal,
- repudiation,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- resignation,
- retirement,
- retractation,
- retractility,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- retrocedence,
- reversal,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- riddance,
- sacrifice,
- setting aside,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- surrender,
- suspension,
- swearing off,
- truncation,
- unsaying,
- vacation,
- vacatur,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- withdrawal,
- write-off,
- yielding
- appeasement
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- the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) related words >
- Eisenhower Doctrine,
- Monroe Doctrine,
- Nixon Doctrine,
- Truman Doctrine,
- United Nations troops,
- abatement,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetizing,
- assuagement,
- atonement,
- balance of power,
- brinkmanship,
- calming,
- coexistence,
- colonialism,
- compromise,
- conciliation,
- containment,
- deadening,
- detente,
- deterrence,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- diplomacy,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatics,
- dollar diplomacy,
- dollar imperialism,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- easing of relations,
- expansionism,
- foreign affairs,
- foreign policy,
- good-neighbor policy,
- imperialism,
- internationalism,
- isolationism,
- lessening,
- lulling,
- manifest destiny,
- mediation,
- militarism,
- mitigation,
- mollification,
- nationalism,
- neocolonialism,
- neutralism,
- nonresistance,
- numbing,
- open door,
- open-door policy,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- peace offensive,
- peace-keeping force,
- peaceful coexistence,
- peacemaking,
- peacemongering,
- placability,
- placation,
- preparedness,
- propitiation,
- reduction,
- relaxation of tension,
- relief,
- remedy,
- salving,
- shirt-sleeve diplomacy,
- shuttle diplomacy,
- softening,
- soothing,
- spheres of influence,
- subduement,
- the big stick,
- tough policy,
- tranquilization,
- world politics
- abasement,
- abatement,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- arrest,
- assuagement,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- betrayed hope,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blow,
- blunting,
- buffet,
- calming,
- check,
- comedown,
- cruel disappointment,
- damping,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- deadening,
- debasement,
- deceleration,
- defeat,
- deflation,
- delay,
- demulsion,
- descent,
- detention,
- diminution,
- disappointment,
- discomfiture,
- disgrace,
- disillusionment,
- dissatisfaction,
- drag,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dump,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- easing,
- embarrassment,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- falling-off,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- flagging,
- foiling,
- forlorn hope,
- frustration,
- hangdog look,
- holdup,
- hope deferred,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- hushing,
- lag,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- minus acceleration,
- mirage,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- mortification,
- obstruction,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- put-down,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-diminishment,
- setback,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- softening,
- soothing,
- sore disappointment,
- subduement,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- tempering,
- tranquilization
- abatement
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- the act of abating; "laws enforcing noise abatement" related words >
- abridgment,
- agio,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- allowance,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetizing,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- bank discount,
- blunting,
- breakage,
- calming,
- cash discount,
- chain discount,
- charge-off,
- concession,
- contraction,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- demulsion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- discount,
- drawback,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- kickback,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- penalty,
- penalty clause,
- percentage,
- premium,
- price reduction,
- price-cut,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- rebate,
- rebatement,
- reduction,
- refund,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- remedy,
- remission,
- rollback,
- sagging,
- salvage,
- salving,
- scaling down,
- setoff,
- simplicity,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subtraction,
- tare,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- time discount,
- trade discount,
- tranquilization,
- tret,
- underselling,
- weakening,
- write-off
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- alleviation,
- attenuation,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- ballooning,
- collapsing,
- contraction,
- dampening,
- damping,
- debilitated,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decurrent,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- descendant,
- descending,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dropping,
- dying,
- dying off,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- fagged,
- faint,
- fainting,
- falling,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- flagging,
- floppy,
- footsore,
- frazzled,
- good and tired,
- jaded,
- languid,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- letup,
- limp,
- loose,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- lowering,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- nodding,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- ready to drop,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- scaling down,
- seedy,
- setting,
- simplicity,
- sinking,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- subtraction,
- swag,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toilworn,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weakening,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- worn,
- worn-down
- disparagement
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- the act of speaking contemptuously of
- a communication that belittles somebody or something related words >
- airs,
- animadversion,
- arrogance,
- aspersion,
- attaint,
- attrition,
- backbiting,
- backstabbing,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- belittlement,
- bend sinister,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blot,
- blur,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- calumny,
- censure,
- champain,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- defamation,
- denigration,
- depletion,
- deprecation,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- despisal,
- despite,
- detraction,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discommendation,
- discourtesy,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disesteem,
- dishonor,
- dispraise,
- disrespect,
- disrespectfulness,
- disvaluation,
- exclusiveness,
- extraction,
- hauteur,
- impairment,
- impudence,
- imputation,
- insolence,
- insult,
- irreverence,
- lack of respect,
- lessening,
- mark of Cain,
- minimization,
- misestimation,
- misprision,
- misprizal,
- misprizing,
- onus,
- pillorying,
- point champain,
- reduction,
- reflection,
- remission,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- ridicule,
- scandal,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- slander,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smudge,
- smutch,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- stricture,
- superciliousness,
- taint,
- tale,
- tarnish,
- toploftiness,
- truncation,
- underestimate,
- underestimation,
- underrating,
- underreckoning,
- undervaluation
- softening
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- the process of becoming softer; "refrigeration delayed the softening of the fruit"; "he observed the softening of iron by heat" related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- allowance,
- altering,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- bounding,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- color,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decontamination,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- emollient,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuating,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extenuation,
- extenuative,
- extenuatory,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- gilding,
- gloss,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- languishment,
- laxation,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulation,
- modulatory,
- mollification,
- mollifying,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- padding,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- qualification,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- salving,
- slackening,
- softening-up,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- tranquilization,
- varnish,
- weakening,
- whitewash,
- whitewashing
- relaxation
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- a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
- an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"
- (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
- (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers related words >
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- amusement,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- bagginess,
- blunting,
- calming,
- carelessness,
- comfort,
- contraction,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- demulsion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- diversion,
- divertisement,
- divertissement,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easing,
- easygoingness,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- enjoyment,
- entertainment,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- fun,
- hushing,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- inactivity,
- inanition,
- indifference,
- languishment,
- laxation,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- leisure,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lulling,
- mellowing,
- miniaturization,
- mirth,
- mitigation,
- moderation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- mollifying,
- negligence,
- overindulgence,
- overpermissiveness,
- pacification,
- padding,
- palliation,
- passe-temps,
- pastime,
- permissiveness,
- pleasure,
- quiet,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- recreation,
- reduction,
- regalement,
- relaxedness,
- relief,
- remission,
- remissness,
- repose,
- rest,
- restfulness,
- ricketiness,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- shakiness,
- simplicity,
- slackening,
- slackness,
- sleep,
- sloppiness,
- softening,
- softening-up,
- softness,
- solace,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subtraction,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- tranquilization,
- tranquillity,
- unbuttoned ease,
- unrestraint,
- weakening,
- weakness
- soothing
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- affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn" related words >
- United Nations troops,
- abatement,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- appeasing,
- assuagement,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- calm,
- calmant,
- calmative,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- cleansing,
- comforting,
- conciliation,
- conciliatory,
- cradling,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- depressant,
- detente,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dreamy,
- drowsy,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- easing of relations,
- emollient,
- falling-off,
- gentling,
- hushing,
- hypnotic,
- irenic,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lubricant,
- lubricating,
- lubricational,
- lubricative,
- lulling,
- mediation,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- mollifying,
- narcotic,
- numbing,
- pacific,
- pacification,
- pacificatory,
- pacifying,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- paregoric,
- peace-keeping force,
- peaceful,
- peacemaking,
- peacemongering,
- placability,
- placation,
- placative,
- placatory,
- propitiation,
- propitiative,
- propitiatory,
- purgative,
- quiet,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reconciliatory,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxation of tension,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- restful,
- rocking,
- salving,
- sedative,
- serene,
- slackening,
- sleep-inducing,
- soft,
- softening,
- somnifacient,
- somniferous,
- soothful,
- soporific,
- stilling,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- tranquilizing
- modulation
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- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified related words >
- AM,
- FM,
- PM,
- abatement,
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplitude modulation,
- apostasy,
- arrangement,
- assuagement,
- betterment,
- blunting,
- break,
- calming,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- damping,
- deadening,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- demulsion,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- diminution,
- discontinuity,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- double sideband,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- falling-off,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- harmonization,
- hushing,
- improvement,
- inflection,
- instrumentation,
- intonation,
- intonation pattern,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- mollification,
- orchestration,
- overthrow,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- phrasing,
- pitch,
- pitch accent,
- preparation,
- qualification,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reduction,
- reform,
- reformation,
- relaxation,
- remaking,
- remission,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- resolution,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- setting,
- shift,
- side frequency,
- sideband,
- slackening,
- softening,
- solution,
- soothing,
- speech tune,
- subduement,
- sudden change,
- suprasegmental,
- suspension,
- switch,
- tempering,
- tone,
- tone painting,
- total change,
- tranquilization,
- transcription,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- worsening
- decrescendo
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- (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
- gradually decreasing in volume
- grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- barely audible,
- brillante,
- capriccioso,
- catabasis,
- collapse,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- contractive,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decreasingly,
- decrescent,
- deliquescent,
- dim,
- diminishing,
- diminishingly,
- diminuendo,
- dimness,
- distant,
- dive,
- dolce,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dwindling,
- ebb,
- ever less,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- faintness,
- fall,
- feeble,
- feebleness,
- flatness,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- gentle,
- gentleness,
- half-heard,
- indistinct,
- indistinctness,
- lamentabile,
- languishing,
- lapse,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- less,
- less and less,
- lessening,
- low,
- lowness,
- marcando,
- morendo,
- murmured,
- on the wane,
- parlando,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- plunge,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- rallentando,
- reductive,
- remission,
- retreat,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- scarcely heard,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- softness,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- subaudibility,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- subduedness,
- subsidence,
- subsiding,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- unclear,
- unclearness,
- wane,
- waning,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- weakness,
- whispered
- curtailment
collapse
- the temporal property of being cut short related words >
- abbreviation,
- abridgment,
- abstract,
- apocope,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- attrition,
- bereavement,
- bottleneck,
- cervix,
- check,
- cheeseparing,
- circumscription,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- cut,
- cutback,
- cutting,
- deceleration,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- deprivation,
- deprivement,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disburdening,
- disburdenment,
- disentitlement,
- disparagement,
- divestment,
- economization,
- economizing,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- epitome,
- extraction,
- foreshortening,
- hindrance,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- impairment,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- legal restraint,
- lessening,
- low growth rate,
- monopoly,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- precis,
- privation,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- puckering,
- pullback,
- pursing,
- rationing,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- reduction,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- rein,
- relieving,
- remission,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- retardation,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rollback,
- saving,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- self-control,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- skimping,
- slowdown,
- slowing down,
- solidification,
- sparing,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- striction,
- stricture,
- summary,
- summation,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- systole,
- tariff wall,
- telescoping,
- thought control,
- truncation,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
- remission
collapse
- (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
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnegation,
- aging,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- contempt,
- contractive,
- contradiction,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declined,
- declivate,
- declivitous,
- declivous,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- descendant,
- descending,
- despisal,
- despising,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- dipping,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- disintegrating,
- dismissal,
- disobedience,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- dissent,
- doting,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- holding back,
- ignoring,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonconsideration,
- nonobservance,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- on the wane,
- passing by,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- rebuff,
- recantation,
- receding,
- reductive,
- refusal,
- regressive,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- retention,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sagging,
- scouting,
- senescent,
- setting,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- spurning,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- throwing out,
- thumbs-down,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- turndown,
- turning out,
- unwillingness,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- withholding,
- worsening
- abatement,
- acceptance,
- accommodatingness,
- agreeableness,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- assuagement,
- attentiveness,
- benevolence,
- blunting,
- calming,
- carelessness,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- clemency,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- complaisance,
- concern,
- condolence,
- condonation,
- considerateness,
- consideration,
- damping,
- deadening,
- delicacy,
- demulsion,
- diminution,
- downiness,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easiness,
- easing,
- easygoingness,
- endurance,
- falling-off,
- favor,
- featheriness,
- feeling,
- flossiness,
- fluffiness,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- forgiveness,
- fortitude,
- generousness,
- gentleness,
- grace,
- heedfulness,
- helpfulness,
- humanity,
- hushing,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- indifference,
- indulgence,
- insolidity,
- kindness,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- lenience,
- lenity,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- magnanimity,
- mellowness,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mindfulness,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- morbidezza,
- negligence,
- nonresistiveness,
- nonrigidity,
- obligingness,
- overindulgence,
- overpermissiveness,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- pity,
- plushiness,
- pulpiness,
- quarter,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- regard,
- regardfulness,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- relief,
- remission,
- remissness,
- reprieve,
- ruth,
- satininess,
- self-control,
- self-pity,
- silkiness,
- slackening,
- slackness,
- sloppiness,
- softening,
- softness,
- solicitousness,
- solicitude,
- soothing,
- sponginess,
- stoicism,
- subduement,
- sufferance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- sympathy,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tempering,
- tenderness,
- thought,
- thoughtfulness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- tranquilization,
- unrestraint,
- unsolidity,
- velvetiness,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out,
- weakness
- attrition
collapse
- the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation related words >
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- absorption,
- apologies,
- assimilation,
- atomization,
- attenuation,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- beating,
- bitterness,
- blunting,
- brecciation,
- buffing,
- burning up,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- contriteness,
- contrition,
- corrosion,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- deliquescence,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- detrition,
- devitalization,
- digestion,
- dilution,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disintegration,
- disparagement,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- drain,
- dressing,
- dulling,
- eating up,
- effemination,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- expending,
- expenditure,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fatigue,
- filing,
- finishing,
- fragmentation,
- fretting,
- galling,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grief,
- grinding,
- impairment,
- impoverishment,
- inanition,
- ingestion,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- levigation,
- limation,
- loss,
- mashing,
- mitigation,
- penance,
- penitently,
- polishing,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- rasping,
- reduction,
- regret,
- regretfulness,
- regrets,
- regretting,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- remorse,
- remorse of conscience,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- repining,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rubbing away,
- rue,
- ruth,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shamefulness,
- shining,
- shortening,
- shredding,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- smashing,
- smoothing,
- softening,
- sorriness,
- sorrow,
- spending,
- squandering,
- thinning,
- trituration,
- truncation,
- using up,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wasting away,
- weakening,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wearing away,
- wearing down,
- wistfulness
- deterioration
collapse
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- aggravation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- apostasy,
- atrophy,
- augmentation,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- comedown,
- constructive change,
- contentiousness,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- crumbling,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decaying,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decomposition,
- deepening,
- defection,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- degradation,
- deliberate aggravation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- devaluation,
- deviation,
- devolution,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disintegration,
- dislocation,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- downfall,
- downgrade,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dry rot,
- dying,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effeteness,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- heightening,
- impairment,
- improvement,
- increase,
- intensification,
- involution,
- irritation,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- loss of tone,
- magnification,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- overthrow,
- provocation,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regression,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- rotting,
- ruin,
- sharpening,
- shift,
- slippage,
- slump,
- souring,
- spoiling,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- wane,
- waning,
- worsening
- FCC,
- FM broadcasting,
- Federal Communications Commission,
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- alleviation,
- atmospherics,
- attenuation,
- be annihilated,
- be consumed,
- be destroyed,
- be gone,
- be no more,
- be wiped out,
- blackout,
- blanch,
- blaring,
- blasting,
- bleach,
- bleach out,
- blind spot,
- blocking,
- broadcasting,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- change color,
- contraction,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- dampening,
- damping,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- dematerialization,
- dematerialize,
- depart,
- departure,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- disappear,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- dispersion,
- dissipate,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- dissolving,
- do a fade-out,
- drift,
- dwindle,
- dying,
- dying off,
- eclipse,
- elimination,
- erasure,
- erode,
- evanesce,
- evanescence,
- evaporate,
- evaporation,
- exit,
- expire,
- extenuation,
- extinction,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- flee,
- fly,
- go,
- go away,
- going,
- grow pale,
- hide,
- interference,
- languishment,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- lessening,
- letup,
- lose color,
- lowering,
- melt,
- melt away,
- melting,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- mixing,
- noise,
- occultation,
- pale,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- passing,
- perish,
- peter out,
- radiobroadcasting,
- reception,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- retire from sight,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- simplicity,
- sink,
- sink away,
- standard broadcasting,
- static,
- subtraction,
- suffer an eclipse,
- tone control,
- transmission,
- turn pale,
- turn white,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- vestigial transmission,
- volume control,
- wan,
- waste,
- waste away,
- weakening,
- wear away,
- whiten,
- wipe
- 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
- tempering
collapse
- moderating by making more temperate related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- ability,
- aging,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- arteriosclerosis,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- atherosclerosis,
- background,
- blaseness,
- blunting,
- calcification,
- callusing,
- calming,
- capability,
- case hardening,
- chastening,
- chisel temper,
- competence,
- competency,
- concretion,
- condition,
- cornification,
- crystallization,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dash,
- deadening,
- demulsion,
- development,
- die temper,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- experience,
- falling-off,
- firming,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- fortification,
- fossilization,
- granulation,
- hardening,
- hardness scale,
- heat treating,
- hint,
- hornification,
- hushing,
- indenter,
- induration,
- infusion,
- inkling,
- intimation,
- invigoration,
- lapidification,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- lithification,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mastery,
- maturation,
- maturescence,
- maturity,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- ossification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- past experience,
- petrifaction,
- petrification,
- practical knowledge,
- practice,
- precipitation hardening,
- preparedness,
- proficiency,
- qualification,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- razor temper,
- readiness,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- refreshment,
- reinforcement,
- reinvigoration,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- remission,
- restrengthening,
- revivification,
- ripeness,
- ripening,
- sagacity,
- sauce,
- saw file temper,
- sclerosis,
- seasoning,
- senescence,
- set temper,
- setting,
- shade,
- slackening,
- smack,
- softening,
- solidification,
- soothing,
- sophistication,
- soupcon,
- spice,
- spindle temper,
- sprinkling,
- steeling,
- stiffening,
- strengthening,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- suggestion,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- suitedness,
- suspicion,
- taint,
- temper,
- thought,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tool temper,
- touch,
- toughening,
- trace,
- tranquilization,
- trim,
- vestige,
- vitrifaction,
- vitrification,
- worldly wisdom
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