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around the bush
,
back and fill
,
bargain
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
chaffer
,
choplogic
,
dicker
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
falsify
,
fence
,
fib
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
higgle
,
huckster
,
hum and haw
,
lie
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
parry
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
tergiversate
,
waffle
,
weasel
windbag
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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
weigh down
collapse
be oppressive or disheartening to
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ballast
,
bear hard upon
,
burden
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
fetter
,
go hard with
,
go ill with
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
hobble
,
impede
,
involve
,
lame
,
lead
,
lie on
,
lime
,
load
,
lumber
,
net
,
oppress
,
overburden
,
overload
,
press
,
press down
,
sadden
,
saddle with
,
sandbag
,
shackle
,
snarl
,
tangle
,
toil
,
trammel
,
try one
,
weigh heavy on
,
weigh on
,
weigh upon
,
weight
,
weight down
threaten
collapse
to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"
to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"
related words >
abuse
,
admonish
,
advise
,
afflict
,
aggrieve
,
alert
,
anticipate
,
apprehend
,
approach
,
augur
,
await
,
be destined
,
be fated
,
be imminent
,
be in store
,
be to be
,
be to come
,
befoul
,
bewitch
,
blight
,
bludgeon
,
bluster
,
bluster out of
,
bode
,
brew
,
browbeat
,
bulldoze
,
bully
,
caution
,
come
,
come on
,
comminate
,
condemn
,
confront
,
corrupt
,
cow
,
croak
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crucify
,
cry havoc
,
curse
,
damage
,
daunt
,
defile
,
demoralize
,
denounce
,
deprave
,
despoil
,
destroy
,
disadvantage
,
disserve
,
distress
,
do a mischief
,
do evil
,
do ill
,
do wrong
,
do wrong by
,
doom
,
dragoon
,
draw near
,
draw nigh
,
draw on
,
endanger
,
envenom
,
expect
,
face
,
forebode
,
foresee
,
foretell
,
forewarn
,
forthcome
,
gather
,
get into trouble
,
give fair warning
,
give notice
,
give warning
,
hang over
,
harass
,
harm
,
have a premonition
,
have a presentiment
,
hector
,
hex
,
hope
,
hover
,
huff
,
hurt
,
impair
,
impend
,
imperil
,
infect
,
injure
,
intimidate
,
issue an ultimatum
,
jeopardize
,
jinx
,
lie ahead
,
lie over
,
look black
,
look for
,
look forward to
,
look threatening
,
loom
,
lower
,
maltreat
,
menace
,
mistreat
,
molest
,
near
,
notify
,
outrage
,
overhang
,
persecute
,
plan
,
play havoc with
,
play hob with
,
plot
,
poison
,
pollute
,
portend
,
preapprehend
,
predict
,
prejudice
,
presage
,
project
,
prophesy
,
put in jeopardy
,
savage
,
scathe
,
sound the alarm
,
systematically terrorize
,
taint
,
terrorize
,
tip
,
tip off
,
torment
,
torture
,
utter a caveat
,
utter threats against
,
violate
,
warn
,
warn against
,
wound
,
wreak havoc on
,
wrong
loom
collapse
a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"
come into view indistinctly, often threateningly; "Another air plane loomed into the sky"
related words >
anticipate
,
appear
,
approach
,
arise
,
ascend
,
await
,
be destined
,
be fated
,
be imminent
,
be in store
,
be to be
,
be to come
,
become manifest
,
become visible
,
braid
,
brew
,
bulk
,
bulk large
,
come
,
come forth
,
come forward
,
come in sight
,
come on
,
come out
,
come to hand
,
come to light
,
come up
,
coming
,
confront
,
crop out
,
curl upwards
,
dominate
,
draw near
,
draw nigh
,
draw on
,
emerge
,
enlace
,
enter
,
entwine
,
exceed
,
expect
,
face
,
fade in
,
foresee
,
foretell
,
forthcome
,
forthcoming
,
futurity
,
gather
,
go up
,
grow up
,
hand loom
,
hang over
,
heave in sight
,
hope
,
hover
,
hover over
,
immediate future
,
imminence
,
impend
,
impendence
,
impendency
,
interknit
,
interlace
,
intertie
,
intertissue
,
intertwine
,
intertwist
,
interweave
,
intort
,
issue
,
issue forth
,
knit
,
knitting machine
,
lace
,
levitate
,
lie ahead
,
lie over
,
look for
,
look forth
,
look forward to
,
loom large
,
loop
,
lower
,
make up
,
mat
,
materialize
,
menace
,
mount
,
near
,
near future
,
net
,
noose
,
outcrop
,
outsoar
,
outstrip
,
overhang
,
overshadow
,
overtop
,
peep out
,
plait
,
plan
,
pleach
,
plot
,
predict
,
predominate
,
project
,
prophesy
,
raddle
,
rear
,
rear its head
,
rear up
,
rise
,
rise above
,
rise up
,
see the light
,
show
,
show up
,
shuttle
,
soar
,
spiral
,
spire
,
splice
,
stand out
,
stand up
,
stream forth
,
strike the eye
,
surface
,
surge
,
swarm up
,
sweep up
,
take form
,
take shape
,
threaten
,
tissue
,
tower
,
tower above
,
transcend
,
turn up
,
twill
,
twine
,
twist
,
up
,
upgo
,
upgrow
,
upheave
,
uprise
,
upspin
,
upstream
,
upsurge
,
upswarm
,
upwind
,
wattle
,
weave
,
weaver
,
web
,
wreathe
pit against
collapse
related words >
aggravate
,
alienate
,
bump heads
,
come between
,
confront
,
contend
,
contrapose
,
contraposit
,
contrast
,
counteract
,
disaffect
,
disunite
,
divide
,
estrange
,
face
,
fan the flame
,
front
,
irritate
,
lie opposite
,
light the fuse
,
make trouble
,
match
,
meet head-on
,
oppose
,
polarize
,
pose against
,
provoke
,
put in opposition
,
separate
,
set against
,
set at odds
,
set at variance
,
set on
,
set over against
,
sic on
,
sow dissension
,
stand opposed
,
stand opposite
,
stir up trouble
,
subtend
exaggeration
collapse
the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
making to seem more important than it really is
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amplification
,
beefing-up
,
blague
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boundlessness
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
command of language
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
confabulation
,
consolidation
,
deepening
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
equivocation
,
exacerbation
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
explosion
,
expression of ideas
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flight of fancy
,
flimflam
,
form of speech
,
garbling
,
ghost story
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
half-truth
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
intensification
,
inundation
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
literary style
,
litotes
,
little white lie
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overappraisal
,
overassessment
,
overcalculation
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overestimate
,
overestimation
,
overflowing
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overpass
,
overrating
,
overreaction
,
overreckoning
,
overrun
,
overrunning
,
overspreading
,
overstatement
,
overvaluation
,
peculiarity
,
perjury
,
personal style
,
perversion
,
pickup
,
pious fiction
,
population explosion
,
prevarication
,
radicalism
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
rhetoric
,
romance
,
sense of language
,
slanting
,
slight stretching
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
story
,
strain
,
straining
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superiority
,
surplus
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tall talk
,
taradiddle
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
tightening
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
trick
,
trumped-up story
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
,
untruth
,
vein
,
way
,
white lie
,
yarn
wildest dream
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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
romance
collapse
a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
the group of languages derived from Latin
relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"
tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"
have a love affair with
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
adventure
,
adventure story
,
affair
,
allegorize
,
allegory
,
amor
,
amour
,
apologue
,
apparition
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
balderdash
,
bedtime story
,
brainchild
,
brown-nose
,
bubble
,
butter up
,
canard
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
chimera
,
color
,
colorfulness
,
concoction
,
court
,
cuckoldry
,
dalliance
,
delirium
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
detective story
,
divertissement
,
dreamery
,
eidolon
,
entanglement
,
epic
,
eternal triangle
,
exaggeration
,
excitement
,
extravaganza
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fabrication
,
fabulize
,
fairy tale
,
fancy
,
fantasia
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fascination
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fictionalize
,
figment
,
flatter
,
flight of fancy
,
flirtation
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
forbidden love
,
forgery
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
glamor
,
hallucination
,
hanky-panky
,
horse opera
,
humoresque
,
ideal
,
idealism
,
ideality
,
idealization
,
idealize
,
idle fancy
,
idyll
,
illicit love
,
illusion
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imaginative exercise
,
imaginativeness
,
imagining
,
impracticality
,
infidelity
,
insubstantial image
,
intrigue
,
invention
,
legend
,
liaison
,
love
,
love affair
,
love story
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
medley
,
melodrama
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythicize
,
mythify
,
mythologize
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
narrate
,
narrative
,
nonsense
,
nostalgia
,
novel
,
novelize
,
nursery tale
,
pander to
,
parable
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
play of fancy
,
potpourri
,
prevarication
,
quixotism
,
quixotize
,
quixotry
,
recite
,
recount
,
rehearse
,
relate
,
relationship
,
report
,
retell
,
rhapsodize
,
romantic tie
,
romanticism
,
romanticize
,
romanza
,
science fiction
,
sentiment
,
shocker
,
sick fancy
,
soft-soap
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
storify
,
story
,
suspense story
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tell
,
tell a story
,
thick-coming fancies
,
thriller
,
triangle
,
trip
,
unfaithfulness
,
unfold a tale
,
unpracticalness
,
unrealism
,
unreality
,
utopianism
,
utopianize
,
vapor
,
vision
,
visionariness
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
white lie
,
whodunit
,
wildest dreams
,
wish fulfillment
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
woo
,
work of fiction
give birth
collapse
cause_to_be_born; "My wife had twins yesterday!"
create or produce an idea; "Marx and Engels gave birth to communism"
related words >
animate
,
be confined
,
bear
,
bear a child
,
bear young
,
breathe life into
,
bring into being
,
bring into existence
,
bring to life
,
call into being
,
call into existence
,
calve
,
cast
,
conceive
,
drop
,
endow with life
,
energize
,
farrow
,
fawn
,
foal
,
give life to
,
have
,
have a baby
,
have young
,
inspirit
,
kitten
,
labor
,
lamb
,
lie in
,
litter
,
pup
,
quicken
,
throw
,
travail
,
vitalize
,
vivify
,
whelp
,
yean
invention
collapse
the act of inventing
a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
the creation of something in the mind
related words >
Nachtmusik
,
absolute music
,
adaptation
,
air varie
,
aleatory
,
aleatory music
,
apparition
,
arrangement
,
artifact
,
authorship
,
beginning
,
brainchild
,
breakthrough
,
bringing to light
,
bubble
,
canard
,
casual discovery
,
catching
,
chamber music
,
chamber orchestra
,
chance discovery
,
child
,
chimera
,
coinage
,
composition
,
conception
,
concoction
,
contraption
,
contrivance
,
contriving
,
creation
,
creative effort
,
creativeness
,
creativity
,
creature
,
crowning achievement
,
delirium
,
descant
,
detection
,
determination
,
determining
,
development
,
device
,
devising
,
disclosure
,
discovery
,
distillation
,
distinguishment
,
effect
,
eidolon
,
electronic music
,
end product
,
espial
,
essence
,
etude
,
excavation
,
exercise
,
exhumation
,
exposure
,
extract
,
extravaganza
,
fable
,
fabrication
,
fake
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fecundity
,
fertile mind
,
fertility
,
fib
,
fiction
,
figment
,
find
,
finding
,
finding out
,
forgery
,
fruit
,
gadget
,
generation
,
gizmo
,
hallucination
,
handiwork
,
harmonization
,
hatching
,
idle fancy
,
illusion
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
improvisation
,
incidental music
,
ingenuity
,
innovation
,
instrumental music
,
insubstantial image
,
introduction
,
inventiveness
,
issue
,
leap
,
lie
,
locating
,
location
,
lucky strike
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
making do
,
manufacture
,
masterpiece
,
masterwork
,
mintage
,
myth
,
neologism
,
new mintage
,
new phase
,
nocturne
,
novelty
,
offspring
,
opera
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
orchestration
,
original
,
originality
,
origination
,
outcome
,
outgrowth
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
piece
,
pregnant imagination
,
prevarication
,
product
,
production
,
productivity
,
program music
,
prolificacy
,
recognition
,
rediscovery
,
result
,
revelation
,
ricercar
,
romance
,
score
,
serendipity
,
sham
,
sick fancy
,
sonata
,
sonatina
,
spotting
,
story
,
strike
,
string orchestra
,
string quartet
,
study
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
teeming imagination
,
theme and variations
,
thick-coming fancies
,
treasure trove
,
trio
,
trip
,
trouvaille
,
trove
,
uncovering
,
unearthing
,
vapor
,
variation
,
vision
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
,
work
,
yarn
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
character assassination
collapse
an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
related words >
attack
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
blackening
,
calumny
,
defamation
,
defamation of character
,
defilement
,
denigration
,
depreciation
,
dirt
,
dirty politics
,
disparagement
,
gossip column
,
juicy morsel
,
last-minute lie
,
malicious defamation
,
malicious gossip
,
muckraking
,
mudslinging
,
mudslinging campaign
,
name-calling
,
political canard
,
revilement
,
roorback
,
scandal
,
scandalmongering
,
slander
,
smear
,
smear campaign
,
smear word
,
tidbit
,
vilification
,
whispering campaign
take it easy
collapse
related words >
be careful
,
be cautious
,
bed
,
bed down
,
calm down
,
coast
,
collect oneself
,
compose oneself
,
cool it
,
cool off
,
couch
,
curl up
,
drift
,
get organized
,
go easy
,
go on tiptoe
,
go to bed
,
go to rest
,
lie down
,
loll
,
lounge
,
make haste slowly
,
make light of
,
make little of
,
not sweat it
,
pussyfoot
,
recline
,
relax
,
repose
,
rest
,
settle to rest
,
simmer down
,
snug down
,
sober down
,
sprawl
,
take life easy
,
think nothing of
,
think twice
,
tiptoe
,
unwind
,
walk on eggshells
jut
collapse
related words >
arch over
,
beetle
,
bestraddle
,
bestride
,
bridge
,
bristle up
,
bulge
,
cock up
,
elongate
,
extend
,
extend over
,
extrude
,
hang out
,
hang over
,
imbricate
,
impend
,
impend over
,
jut out
,
lap
,
lap over
,
lean over
,
lengthen
,
lie over
,
overarch
,
overhang
,
overlap
,
overlie
,
override
,
poke
,
poke out
,
pouch
,
pout
,
project
,
project over
,
protrude
,
protrusion
,
protuberance
,
protuberate
,
shingle
,
shoot out
,
shoot up
,
span
,
stand out
,
start up
,
stick out
,
stick up
,
thrust over
look for
collapse
related words >
address
,
angle for
,
anticipate
,
approach
,
ask for
,
await
,
be destined
,
be fated
,
be imminent
,
be to be
,
be to come
,
beat about for
,
bid for
,
calculate on
,
canvass
,
come
,
come on
,
count on
,
court
,
delve for
,
dig for
,
draw near
,
draw on
,
expect
,
fish for
,
follow
,
foresee
,
forestall
,
foretell
,
go gunning for
,
gun for
,
hope
,
hunt
,
hunt for
,
hunt up
,
lie ahead
,
look
,
look forward to
,
look out for
,
look to
,
look up
,
loom
,
near
,
plan
,
plot
,
pop the question
,
predict
,
project
,
prophesy
,
prowl after
,
pursue
,
quest
,
reckon on
,
search for
,
see to
,
seek
,
seek for
,
solicit
,
still-hunt
,
sue
,
sue for
,
threaten
,
try to find
,
watch out for
,
woo
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
nonsense talk
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gossip
,
guff
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
palaver
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
talkee-talkee
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
dawdler
collapse
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
related words >
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loafer
,
loiterer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
overburden
collapse
the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
burden with too much work or responsibility
load with excessive weight
related words >
bear hard upon
,
burden
,
burthen
,
charge
,
choke
,
congest
,
cram
,
crowd
,
cumber
,
drench
,
encumber
,
freight
,
glut
,
gluttonize
,
go hard with
,
go ill with
,
gorge
,
hamper
,
handicap
,
jam
,
jam-pack
,
lade
,
lie on
,
load
,
oppress
,
overcharge
,
overfeed
,
overfill
,
overlade
,
overload
,
overstuff
,
overtax
,
overweigh
,
overweight
,
pack
,
press hard upon
,
rest hard upon
,
saddle
,
satiate
,
saturate
,
soak
,
stuff
,
supercharge
,
supersaturate
,
surcharge
,
surfeit
,
tax
,
try one
,
weigh down
,
weigh heavy on
,
weigh on
,
weigh upon
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
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
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
lingerer
collapse
related words >
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
loafer
,
loiterer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
straggler
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
loiterer
collapse
someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place
related words >
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loafer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
straggler
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
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
make love
collapse
related words >
ball
,
be intimate
,
beget
,
bill and coo
,
breed
,
breed true
,
cohabit
,
come together
,
commit adultery
,
copulate
,
couple
,
cover
,
crossbreed
,
dally
,
diddle
,
engender
,
father
,
fornicate
,
frig
,
generate
,
get
,
have sex
,
have sexual relations
,
inbreed
,
lay
,
lie with
,
lollygag
,
make it with
,
make out
,
mate
,
mother
,
mount
,
multiply
,
neck
,
outbreed
,
pet
,
procreate
,
proliferate
,
propagate
,
reproduce in kind
,
screw
,
serve
,
service
,
sire
,
sleep with
,
smooch
,
spoon
,
sweet-talk
,
toy
,
trifle
,
wanton
,
whisper sweet nothings
misrepresent
collapse
represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
related words >
belie
,
bias
,
burlesque
,
camouflage
,
caricature
,
cloak
,
color
,
confuse
,
counterfeit
,
disguise
,
dissemble
,
distort
,
dress
,
dress up
,
embellish
,
embroider
,
equivocate
,
exaggerate
,
falsify
,
feign
,
fudge
,
garble
,
gild
,
gloss
,
gloss over
,
lie
,
mangle
,
mask
,
miscite
,
miscolor
,
misconstrue
,
misdirect
,
misinterpret
,
misquote
,
misrender
,
misreport
,
misstate
,
misteach
,
misuse
,
overdraw
,
overstate
,
palter
,
parody
,
pervert
,
prevaricate
,
simulate
,
slant
,
strain
,
titivate
,
torture
,
travesty
,
trick out
,
twist
,
understate
,
varnish
,
warp
,
weasel
,
whitewash
,
wrench
,
wrest
blab
collapse
related words >
agreeable rattle
,
babble
,
babblement
,
babbler
,
bavardage
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
bear witness against
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
betrayer
,
bibble-babble
,
big talker
,
blabber
,
blabberer
,
blabbermouth
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blatherer
,
blether
,
blethers
,
blow the whistle
,
blurt
,
blurt out
,
broadcast
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chatterbox
,
chatterer
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
delator
,
disclose
,
dither
,
divulge
,
expose
,
fink
,
gab
,
gabber
,
gabble
,
gabbler
,
gas
,
gasbag
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gibble-gabbler
,
give away
,
go on
,
gossip
,
great talker
,
guff
,
gush
,
haver
,
hot air
,
hot-air artist
,
idle chatterer
,
idle talk
,
inform
,
inform against
,
inform on
,
informer
,
jabber
,
jabberer
,
jaw
,
jay
,
leak
,
let drop
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
magpie
,
mere talk
,
moulin a paroles
,
narc
,
natter
,
noise about
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
patter
,
patterer
,
peach
,
peacher
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prater
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prattler
,
prittle-prattle
,
ramble on
,
rat
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
reveal
,
reveal a secret
,
rumor
,
run on
,
sell out
,
sing
,
snitch
,
snitch on
,
snitcher
,
spill
,
spill the beans
,
spout
,
spout off
,
spy
,
squeal
,
squealer
,
stool
,
stool pigeon
,
stoolie
,
talebearer
,
talk
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tattler
,
tattletale
,
tell on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
,
telltale
,
testify against
,
tittle-tattle
,
turn informer
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
waffle
,
whistle-blower
,
windbag
,
windjammer
,
word-slinger
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
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
hinge
collapse
a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"
attach with a hinge
related words >
accrue from
,
ankle
,
arbor
,
arise from
,
articulate
,
articulation
,
axis
,
axle
,
axle bar
,
axle shaft
,
axle spindle
,
axle-tree
,
batten
,
batten down
,
be based on
,
be contingent on
,
be dependent on
,
be due to
,
be predicated on
,
bolt
,
boundary
,
buckle
,
bud from
,
butt
,
button
,
cervix
,
clasp
,
cleat
,
climacteric
,
clinch
,
clip
,
closure
,
clutch
,
come from
,
come out of
,
connecting link
,
connecting rod
,
connection
,
convergence of events
,
coupling
,
crisis
,
critical juncture
,
critical point
,
crossroads
,
crucial period
,
crunch
,
depend
,
depend on
,
derive from
,
descend from
,
distaff
,
dovetail
,
elbow
,
emanate from
,
embrace
,
emerge from
,
emergency
,
ensue from
,
exigency
,
extremity
,
flow from
,
follow from
,
fulcrum
,
germinate from
,
gimbal
,
gliding joint
,
grow from
,
grow out of
,
gudgeon
,
hang
,
hang on
,
hasp
,
hinge on
,
hinged joint
,
hingle
,
hip
,
hitch
,
hook
,
hub
,
interface
,
issue from
,
jam
,
join
,
joining
,
joint
,
juncture
,
knee
,
knuckle
,
latch
,
lie on
,
lie with
,
link
,
lock
,
mandrel
,
miter
,
mortise
,
nail
,
nave
,
neck
,
oarlock
,
originate in
,
pass
,
peg
,
pin
,
pinch
,
pintle
,
pivot
,
pivot joint
,
pole
,
proceed from
,
push
,
rabbet
,
radiant
,
rest
,
rest on
,
rest with
,
revolve on
,
rivet
,
rowlock
,
rub
,
scarf
,
screw
,
seam
,
sew
,
shoulder
,
skewer
,
snap
,
spindle
,
spring from
,
sprout from
,
stand on
,
staple
,
stem from
,
stick
,
stitch
,
strait
,
suture
,
swivel
,
symphysis
,
tack
,
tie rod
,
toggle
,
toggle joint
,
trunnion
,
turn
,
turn on
,
turn upon
,
turning point
,
union
,
wedge
,
weld
,
wrist
,
zipper
embalm
collapse
preserve a dead body
related words >
anhydrate
,
aromatize
,
blast-freeze
,
brine
,
cense
,
corn
,
cure
,
dehydrate
,
desiccate
,
dry
,
dry-cure
,
dry-salt
,
eternalize
,
eternize
,
evaporate
,
freeze
,
freeze-dry
,
fume
,
fumigate
,
immortalize
,
incense
,
irradiate
,
jerk
,
keep alive
,
keep fresh
,
kipper
,
lay out
,
lie in state
,
marinade
,
marinate
,
monumentalize
,
mummify
,
odorize
,
perennialize
,
perfume
,
perpetuate
,
pickle
,
preservatize
,
preserve
,
preserve from oblivion
,
quick-freeze
,
refrigerate
,
salt
,
scent
,
season
,
smoke
,
smoke-cure
,
stuff
,
thurify
sluggard
collapse
an idle slothful person
related words >
bum
,
clock watcher
,
dallier
,
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
diddler
,
dillydallier
,
do-nothing
,
dolittle
,
doodler
,
drone
,
faineant
,
foot-dragger
,
gentleman of leisure
,
goldbrick
,
goldbricker
,
goof-off
,
idler
,
laggard
,
lazybones
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loafer
,
loiterer
,
loller
,
lotus-eater
,
lounger
,
lubber
,
mope
,
moper
,
plodder
,
potterer
,
procrastinator
,
putterer
,
shirker
,
sleepyhead
,
slouch
,
sloucher
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slowpoke
,
slug
,
slugabed
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
time killer
,
time waster
,
tortoise
,
trifler
,
waiter on Providence
nugatory
collapse
of no real value; "a nugatory law"
related words >
NG
,
airy
,
asinine
,
barren
,
bootless
,
catchpenny
,
cheap
,
counterproductive
,
effete
,
empty
,
etiolated
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
feckless
,
flimsy
,
foolish
,
fribble
,
fribbling
,
frivolous
,
frothy
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
good-for-naught
,
good-for-nothing
,
hollow
,
idle
,
inadequate
,
inane
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
inoperative
,
invalid
,
junk
,
junky
,
light
,
no-account
,
no-good
,
not worth having
,
not worth mentioning
,
not worthwhile
,
nugacious
,
of no force
,
otiose
,
shabby
,
shallow
,
shoddy
,
silly
,
slender
,
slight
,
sterile
,
superficial
,
trashy
,
trifling
,
trite
,
trivial
,
unavailing
,
useless
,
vacuous
,
vain
,
valueless
,
vapid
,
windy
,
worthless
toy with
collapse
related words >
be abstracted
,
be innocent of
,
brood
,
chew the cud
,
consider
,
contemplate
,
coquet
,
coquet with
,
dabble
,
dally
,
debate
,
deliberate
,
digest
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget with
,
finger with
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
fribble
,
frivol
,
give up
,
have no idea
,
horse around
,
idle
,
introspect
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
know a little
,
know not
,
know not what
,
know nothing of
,
loiter
,
meditate
,
mess around
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
muse
,
not know
,
not rightly know
,
pass
,
perpend
,
piddle
,
play
,
play around
,
play around with
,
play with
,
ponder
,
potter
,
putter
,
reflect
,
ruminate
,
scratch the surface
,
smatter
,
speculate
,
study
,
tinker
,
toy
,
trifle
,
twiddle
,
weigh
,
wonder
,
wonder whether
,
wot not of
prittle prattle
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
be closeted with
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
coze
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gam
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gossip
,
guff
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
make conversation
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
talkee-talkee
,
tete-a-tete
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
visit
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
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