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collapse - partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances" related words >
- altering,
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- freeing from fear and anxiety related words >
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
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- analgesic,
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- balmy,
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- limiting
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- strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause" related words >
- altering,
- assuasive,
- bordering,
- borderline,
- boundary,
- bounding,
- caudal,
- claustral,
- coastal,
- conclusive,
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- defining,
- definitive,
- determinant,
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- endmost,
- eventual,
- exclusive,
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- extreme,
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- last,
- lenitive,
- limbic,
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- littoral,
- marginal,
- mitigating,
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- narrowing,
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- qualificative,
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- restricting,
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- rimming,
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- softening,
- surrounding,
- tail,
- terminal,
- terminating,
- terminative,
- threshold,
- ultimate
- restrictive
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- (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
- serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" related words >
- altering,
- assuasive,
- bounding,
- choking,
- confining,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- counterproductive,
- cramping,
- crosswise,
- defining,
- definitive,
- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- in the way,
- inadmissible,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- insular,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- lenitive,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
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- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- narrow,
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- obstructing,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- palliative,
- parochial,
- preclusive,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- qualificative,
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- qualifying,
- repressive,
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- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- snobbish,
- softening,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- suppressive,
- troublesome,
- xenophobic
- narrowing
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- the act of making something narrower
- an instance of becoming narrow
- a decrease in width related words >
- abbreviation,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- blockade,
- bottleneck,
- boycott,
- cervix,
- circumscription,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- confining,
- consolidation,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- cramping,
- curtailment,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- decrease,
- demarcation,
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- disentanglement,
- disinvolvement,
- distillation,
- embargo,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- inadmissibility,
- injunction,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- lockout,
- narrow place,
- neck,
- nonadmission,
- omission,
- preclusion,
- prohibition,
- puckering,
- purification,
- pursing,
- reduction,
- refinement,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repudiation,
- restricting,
- restriction,
- restrictive,
- shortening,
- simplification,
- solidification,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- streamlining,
- striction,
- stricture,
- stripping,
- stripping down,
- systole,
- taboo,
- taper,
- tapering,
- uncluttering,
- unscrambling,
- unsnarling,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
- palliative
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- remedy that alleviates pain without curing related words >
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- alleviator,
- allowance,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- apologetic,
- assuager,
- assuasive,
- balm,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- bounding,
- calmant,
- calmative,
- cathartic,
- cleansing,
- color,
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- decontamination,
- demulcent,
- dolorifuge,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emollient,
- excusatory,
- excusing,
- extenuating,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extenuation,
- extenuative,
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- gilding,
- gloss,
- justificatory,
- justifying,
- lenitive,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- mitigator,
- mitigatory,
- moderator,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulator,
- modulatory,
- mollifier,
- numbing,
- pacificator,
- pacifier,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- peacemaker,
- purgative,
- qualification,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- refuting,
- rehabilitative,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- restraining hand,
- restricting,
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- salve,
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- shock absorber,
- softening,
- soother,
- soothing,
- soothing syrup,
- stabilizer,
- subduing,
- temperer,
- tranquilizer,
- varnish,
- vindicative,
- vindicatory,
- whitewash,
- whitewashing,
- wiser head
- lenitive
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- remedy that eases pain and discomfort related words >
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- alleviator,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuager,
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- extenuating,
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- eye-lotion,
- eyewash,
- face cream,
- hand lotion,
- inunction,
- inunctum,
- lanolin,
- limitative,
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- unction,
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- definitive
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- supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem"
- clearly defined or formulated; "the plain and unequivocal language of the laws"- R.B.Taney related words >
- absolute,
- accurate,
- actual,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- arrant,
- authoritative,
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- caudal,
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- straight,
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- surpassing,
- tail,
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- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through and through,
- total,
- ultimate,
- unambiguous,
- unbearable,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unrelieved,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unspoiled,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- 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
- exclusive
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- a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops"
- not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" related words >
- Olympian,
- a certain,
- absolute,
- aloof,
- an,
- any,
- any one,
- apart from,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
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- atomic,
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- cool,
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- definitive,
- detached,
- disdainful,
- distant,
- either,
- elect,
- elegant,
- elite,
- ethnocentric,
- except for,
- excepting,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- exclusory,
- fashionable,
- fixed,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- haughty,
- high-hat,
- icy,
- ignoring,
- inaccessible,
- inadmissible,
- incompatible,
- individual,
- indivisible,
- inhibitive,
- inhibitory,
- inimical,
- insular,
- integral,
- interdictive,
- interdictory,
- irreducible,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limited,
- limiting,
- lone,
- modish,
- monadic,
- monistic,
- narrow,
- news item,
- not counting,
- offish,
- omitting,
- one,
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- parochial,
- pick,
- picked,
- piece,
- preclusive,
- preferred,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- private,
- privileged,
- prohibiting,
- prohibitive,
- prohibitory,
- proscriptive,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressive,
- restricted,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- scoop,
- scornful,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selected,
- selective,
- separative,
- simple,
- single,
- singular,
- smart,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- sole,
- solid,
- solitary,
- spot news,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- story,
- stylish,
- supercilious,
- suppressive,
- swank,
- swish,
- tony,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trendy,
- unanalyzable,
- unapproachable,
- undistracted,
- undivided,
- uniform,
- unique,
- unitary,
- unshared,
- unswerving,
- whole,
- with-it,
- withdrawn,
- withering,
- xenophobic
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