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assuage
collapse
related words >
abate
,
adjust to
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
alter
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
attemper
,
bank the fire
,
benumb
,
blunt
,
box in
,
chasten
,
circumscribe
,
condition
,
constrain
,
control
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
diminish
,
downplay
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
extenuate
,
feast
,
feed
,
foment
,
give relief
,
gratify
,
hedge
,
hedge about
,
keep within bounds
,
lay
,
leaven
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
limit
,
lull
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
narrow
,
numb
,
obtund
,
pad
,
palliate
,
play down
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
qualify
,
quench
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
regale
,
regulate by
,
relieve
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
salve
,
sate
,
satiate
,
satisfy
,
season
,
set conditions
,
set limits
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
underplay
,
weaken
molder
collapse
related words >
ablate
,
age
,
antiquate
,
atomize
,
become extinct
,
become obsolete
,
break down
,
break up
,
calm
,
calm down
,
canker
,
carver
,
cease
,
chaser
,
clay modeler
,
come apart
,
consume
,
corrode
,
corrupt
,
crack up
,
crumble
,
crumble into dust
,
date
,
decay
,
decompose
,
die down
,
disintegrate
,
disjoin
,
disorganize
,
dissolve
,
dwindle
,
earth artist
,
ebb
,
erode
,
fade
,
fall into decay
,
fall to pieces
,
fester
,
figurer
,
figuriste
,
fission
,
fossilize
,
fust
,
gangrene
,
gem carver
,
go bad
,
go to pieces
,
graver
,
grow old
,
halt
,
lose currency
,
lull
,
mason
,
mildew
,
modeler
,
mold
,
monumental mason
,
mortify
,
necrose
,
obsolesce
,
outdate
,
pacify
,
perish
,
putrefy
,
putresce
,
quiesce
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
rankle
,
rot
,
rust
,
sculptor
,
sculptress
,
sculpturer
,
soothe
,
sphacelate
,
split
,
spoil
,
statuary
,
stonecutter
,
stop
,
subside
,
superannuate
,
suppurate
,
taint
,
tranquilize
,
turn
,
wane
,
waste away
,
wax modeler
,
wear away
,
wood carver
immobility
collapse
the quality of not moving
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abidingness
,
changelessness
,
constancy
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
durability
,
durableness
,
duration
,
endurance
,
firmness
,
fixation
,
fixedness
,
fixity
,
frozenness
,
hardening
,
hibernation
,
idleness
,
immobilization
,
immovability
,
immovableness
,
immutability
,
inaction
,
inactiveness
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
inextricability
,
inflexibility
,
invariability
,
invariableness
,
inveteracy
,
irremovability
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lastingness
,
long standing
,
lull
,
meditation
,
motionlessness
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
permanence
,
permanency
,
perpetualness
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
rigidity
,
solidity
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standing
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadfastness
,
suspension
,
torpor
,
unchangeability
,
unchangingness
,
underactivity
,
unmovability
,
unyieldingness
,
vegetation
,
vis inertiae
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
stand down
collapse
related words >
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
quell
collapse
overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
related words >
allay
,
alleviate
,
annihilate
,
appease
,
asphyxiate
,
assuage
,
beat down
,
bend
,
bottle up
,
break
,
break down
,
bring low
,
bring to terms
,
calm
,
calm down
,
censor
,
choke
,
choke off
,
clamp down on
,
compose
,
conquer
,
cool
,
cork
,
cork up
,
crack down on
,
cradle
,
crush
,
damp down
,
drown
,
dulcify
,
ease
,
even out
,
extinguish
,
fell
,
flatten
,
gag
,
gentle
,
hold down
,
humble
,
humiliate
,
hush
,
jump on
,
keep down
,
keep under
,
kill
,
lull
,
master
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
mollify
,
muzzle
,
overcome
,
overmaster
,
override
,
overwhelm
,
pacify
,
pour balm into
,
pour water on
,
prostrate
,
put down
,
put out
,
quash
,
quench
,
quiet
,
reduce
,
repress
,
rest
,
ride down
,
rock
,
rock to sleep
,
shut down on
,
silence
,
sit down on
,
sit on
,
smash
,
smooth
,
smooth down
,
smooth over
,
smoothen
,
smother
,
snuff out
,
soothe
,
squash
,
squelch
,
stabilize
,
stamp out
,
stanch
,
steady
,
stifle
,
still
,
strangle
,
stultify
,
subdue
,
subjugate
,
suffocate
,
suppress
,
throttle
,
trample down
,
trample out
,
trample underfoot
,
tranquilize
,
tread underfoot
,
tyrannize
,
unman
,
vanquish
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
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
palliate
collapse
related words >
abate
,
adjust to
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
allow for
,
alter
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
bank the fire
,
benumb
,
blunt
,
box in
,
camouflage
,
chasten
,
circumscribe
,
cloak
,
color
,
conceal
,
condition
,
condone
,
constrain
,
control
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
diminish
,
disguise
,
dissemble
,
downplay
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
excuse
,
extenuate
,
foment
,
give relief
,
gloss over
,
hedge
,
hedge about
,
hush up
,
ignore
,
keep within bounds
,
lay
,
leaven
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
limit
,
lull
,
make allowance for
,
mask
,
mince
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
narrow
,
numb
,
obtund
,
pad
,
play down
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
prettify
,
qualify
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
regulate by
,
relieve
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
salve
,
season
,
set conditions
,
set limits
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
slur over
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soft-pedal
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
sugarcoat
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
underplay
,
varnish
,
veneer
,
weaken
,
white
,
whiten
,
whitewash
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
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
allay
collapse
related words >
abate
,
alleviate
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
balm
,
bank the fire
,
benumb
,
blunt
,
calm
,
chasten
,
cloy
,
compose
,
conciliate
,
constrain
,
control
,
cool
,
cram
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
defuse
,
deliver
,
diminish
,
disburden
,
disembarrass
,
disencumber
,
downplay
,
dulcify
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
engorge
,
extenuate
,
feast
,
feed
,
fill
,
fill up
,
foment
,
free
,
give relief
,
glut
,
gorge
,
gratify
,
jade
,
keep within bounds
,
lay
,
lay the dust
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
lull
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
numb
,
obtund
,
overdose
,
overfeed
,
overfill
,
overgorge
,
oversaturate
,
overstuff
,
pacify
,
pad
,
pall
,
palliate
,
placate
,
play down
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour balm on
,
pour oil on
,
propitiate
,
quench
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
regale
,
release
,
relieve
,
restrain
,
salve
,
sate
,
satiate
,
satisfy
,
saturate
,
settle
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
smooth
,
smooth down
,
smooth over
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
still
,
stuff
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
supersaturate
,
suppress
,
surfeit
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tranquilize
,
tune down
,
underplay
,
weaken
inertia
collapse
(physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abeyance
,
apathy
,
catalepsy
,
catatonia
,
cautiousness
,
circumspection
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
creeping
,
deadliness
,
deathliness
,
deliberateness
,
deliberation
,
dilatoriness
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
drawl
,
dullness
,
entropy
,
ergophobia
,
faineancy
,
faineantise
,
firmness
,
foot-dragging
,
hibernation
,
hoboism
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
immobilization
,
immovability
,
immovableness
,
inaction
,
inactiveness
,
inactivity
,
indifference
,
indolence
,
inertness
,
inexertion
,
inextricability
,
inflexibility
,
irremovability
,
just being
,
laggardness
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languor
,
lassitude
,
latency
,
laziness
,
leisureliness
,
lentitude
,
lentor
,
listlessness
,
lotus-eating
,
lull
,
meditation
,
mere existence
,
mere tropism
,
motionlessness
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
pokiness
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
reluctance
,
remissness
,
rigidity
,
shiftlessness
,
slackness
,
sloth
,
slothfulness
,
slowness
,
sluggardy
,
sluggishness
,
solidity
,
spring fever
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
suspense
,
suspension
,
tentativeness
,
torpor
,
underactivity
,
unmovability
,
unyieldingness
,
vagrancy
,
vegetation
,
vis inertiae
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
poultice
collapse
a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
related words >
Ace bandage
,
Band-Aid
,
abate
,
adhesive tape
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
application
,
assuage
,
band
,
bandage
,
bandaging
,
bathe
,
benumb
,
binder
,
brace
,
butter
,
care for
,
cast
,
cataplasm
,
compress
,
cotton
,
court plaster
,
cravat
,
crush
,
cure
,
cushion
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
dental pulp
,
diagnose
,
diminish
,
doctor
,
dressing
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
elastic bandage
,
epithem
,
flux
,
foment
,
four-tailed bandage
,
gauze
,
give care to
,
give relief
,
heal
,
lay
,
lessen
,
lint
,
lull
,
mash
,
massage
,
minister to
,
mitigate
,
mollify
,
mush
,
numb
,
nurse
,
operate on
,
pad
,
palliate
,
paper pulp
,
paste
,
physic
,
pith
,
plaster
,
plaster cast
,
pledget
,
porridge
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
pudding
,
pulp
,
pulp lead
,
pulpwood
,
purge
,
rag pulp
,
reduce
,
relieve
,
remedy
,
roller
,
roller bandage
,
rub
,
rubber bandage
,
salve
,
sauce
,
slacken
,
slake
,
sling
,
smash
,
soften
,
soothe
,
splint
,
sponge
,
squash
,
strap
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
sulfate pulp
,
sulfite pulp
,
tampon
,
tape
,
tent
,
tourniquet
,
treat
,
triangular bandage
,
white lead
,
wood pulp
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
dwindle
collapse
become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"
related words >
abate
,
ablate
,
attenuate
,
bate
,
be consumed
,
be eaten away
,
be gone
,
calm
,
calm down
,
cease
,
cease to be
,
cease to exist
,
close
,
condense
,
consume
,
consume away
,
contract
,
corrode
,
crumble
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deliquesce
,
dematerialize
,
depart
,
die
,
die away
,
die down
,
die out
,
diminish
,
disappear
,
dispel
,
disperse
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
dive
,
do a fade-out
,
drift away
,
droop
,
drop
,
drop off
,
ebb
,
erode
,
evanesce
,
evaporate
,
exit
,
extenuate
,
fade
,
fade away
,
fade out
,
fail
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
fall short
,
flag
,
flee
,
fly
,
go
,
go away
,
halt
,
hide
,
languish
,
leave no trace
,
leave the scene
,
lessen
,
let up
,
lose strength
,
lull
,
melt
,
melt away
,
moderate
,
molder
,
move away
,
move off
,
pacify
,
pass
,
pass away
,
pass out
,
peak
,
perish
,
peter out
,
pine
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
pull away
,
quiesce
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
recede
,
reduce
,
retire
,
retire from sight
,
retreat
,
retrocede
,
run down
,
run low
,
sag
,
shrink
,
shrivel up
,
sink
,
sink away
,
soothe
,
stand off
,
stop
,
subside
,
suffer an eclipse
,
tail off
,
taper
,
taper off
,
thin
,
tranquilize
,
vanish
,
vanish from sight
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear away
,
widen the distance
,
wilt
,
withdraw
,
wither
,
wither away
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
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
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
quietude
collapse
related words >
Buddha-like composure
,
Oriental calm
,
arrangement
,
array
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
awful silence
,
brevity
,
briefness
,
brusqueness
,
calm disposition
,
calm of mind
,
calmness
,
composure
,
conciseness
,
concord
,
contemplation
,
cool
,
coolheadedness
,
coolness
,
countenance
,
curtness
,
dead
,
dead of night
,
deathlike silence
,
deployment
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
dumbness
,
easy mind
,
economy of words
,
formation
,
golden silence
,
harmony
,
hush
,
hush of night
,
icy calm
,
imperturbability
,
imperturbation
,
inaudibility
,
indisturbance
,
laconicalness
,
laconism
,
law and order
,
layout
,
lineup
,
lucid stillness
,
lull
,
marmoreal repose
,
marshaling
,
mental composure
,
mum
,
muteness
,
nirvana
,
noiselessness
,
obmutescence
,
order
,
orderliness
,
organization
,
pauciloquy
,
peace
,
peace and quiet
,
peace of mind
,
peacefulness
,
philosophic composure
,
philosophicalness
,
philosophy
,
placidity
,
placidness
,
proportion
,
quiescence
,
quiescency
,
quiet
,
quiet life
,
quiet mind
,
quietism
,
quietness
,
regularity
,
repose
,
rest
,
restfulness
,
routine
,
sangfroid
,
satori
,
serenity
,
setup
,
shortness
,
silence
,
silentness
,
silken repose
,
sleep
,
slumber
,
solemn silence
,
soothingness
,
soundlessness
,
sparingness of words
,
speechlessness
,
still
,
stillness
,
structure
,
symmetry
,
system
,
tacitness
,
taciturnity
,
terseness
,
tomblike silence
,
tranquillity
,
uniformity
,
unloquaciousness
,
unruffledness
,
untalkativeness
,
whisht
,
wise passiveness
,
wordlessness
subside
collapse
wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"
sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"
related words >
abate
,
ablate
,
advance
,
ascend
,
back
,
back up
,
bate
,
be eaten away
,
budge
,
calm
,
calm down
,
cave
,
cave in
,
cease
,
change
,
change place
,
circle
,
climb
,
consume
,
consume away
,
corrode
,
crumble
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deliquesce
,
descend
,
die
,
die away
,
die down
,
diminish
,
dive
,
droop
,
drop
,
drop down
,
drop off
,
dwindle
,
ebb
,
erode
,
fade
,
fail
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
flop
,
flop down
,
flow
,
flump
,
flump down
,
founder
,
get over
,
give way
,
go
,
go around
,
go down
,
go downhill
,
go off
,
go round
,
go sideways
,
gravitate
,
gyrate
,
halt
,
head
,
hit a slump
,
hit rock bottom
,
hit the skids
,
incline
,
languish
,
lapse
,
lead
,
lean
,
lessen
,
let up
,
lower
,
lull
,
melt away
,
moderate
,
molder
,
mount
,
move
,
move over
,
pacify
,
pass away
,
plop
,
plop down
,
plummet
,
plump
,
plunge
,
point
,
precipitate
,
progress
,
quiesce
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
reach the depths
,
recede
,
regress
,
retrogress
,
rise
,
rotate
,
run
,
run down
,
run low
,
sag
,
set
,
settle
,
settle down
,
shift
,
shrink
,
sink
,
sink down
,
slacken
,
slide
,
slip
,
slouch
,
slump
,
slump down
,
soar
,
soothe
,
spin
,
stir
,
stop
,
stream
,
submerge
,
swag
,
tail off
,
tend
,
tend to go
,
touch bottom
,
tranquilize
,
travel
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
wear
,
wear away
,
wear off
,
whirl
plateau
collapse
related words >
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
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
deaden
collapse
convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
related words >
KO
,
abate
,
absorb the shock
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
baffle
,
bank the fire
,
bedaze
,
benumb
,
besot
,
blunt
,
break the fall
,
chasten
,
chloroform
,
coldcock
,
constrain
,
control
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden the pain
,
deafen
,
debilitate
,
desensitize
,
devitalize
,
diminish
,
dope
,
downplay
,
drug
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
etherize
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
foment
,
freeze
,
give relief
,
gruel
,
kayo
,
keep within bounds
,
knock out
,
knock senseless
,
knock stiff
,
knock unconscious
,
lay
,
lay low
,
lay out
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
lull
,
mat
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
muffle
,
mull
,
mute
,
narcotize
,
neutralize
,
numb
,
obtund
,
offset
,
pad
,
palliate
,
palsy
,
paralyze
,
play down
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
put to sleep
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
relieve
,
restrain
,
salve
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
show consideration
,
show mercy
,
show pity
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soft-pedal
,
soften
,
soften the blow
,
soften up
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
stop
,
stun
,
stupe
,
stupefy
,
subdue
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
underplay
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
cease
collapse
(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
related words >
abandon
,
abdicate
,
abjure
,
abort
,
acknowledge defeat
,
ad infinitum
,
be consumed
,
be done for
,
be gone
,
be no more
,
belay
,
calm
,
calm down
,
cancel
,
cease to be
,
cease to exist
,
ceaselessly
,
cede
,
cessation
,
close
,
come to naught
,
come to nothing
,
conclude
,
conclusion
,
conk out
,
constantly
,
continually
,
continuously
,
cry quits
,
cut it out
,
dematerialize
,
depart
,
desist
,
desist from
,
desistance
,
determine
,
die
,
die away
,
die down
,
die out
,
disappear
,
discontinue
,
dispel
,
disperse
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
do a fade-out
,
drop
,
drop it
,
dwindle
,
ebb
,
end
,
ending
,
endlessly
,
erode
,
eternally
,
evanesce
,
evaporate
,
everlastingly
,
exit
,
expire
,
fade
,
fade away
,
fade out
,
finish
,
finish up
,
flee
,
fly
,
forever
,
forgo
,
forswear
,
give over
,
give up
,
go
,
go away
,
halt
,
hand over
,
have done with
,
hide
,
hold
,
incessantly
,
infinitely
,
interminably
,
intermit
,
knock it off
,
knock off
,
lay down
,
lay off
,
leave no trace
,
leave off
,
leave the scene
,
lull
,
melt
,
melt away
,
molder
,
pacify
,
pass
,
pass away
,
pass out
,
peg out
,
period
,
perish
,
perorate
,
perpetually
,
quiesce
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
quit
,
refrain
,
refrain from
,
relinquish
,
renounce
,
resign
,
resolve
,
retire from sight
,
run out
,
scrap
,
scratch
,
scrub
,
sink
,
sink away
,
soothe
,
stay
,
stop
,
subside
,
succumb
,
suffer an eclipse
,
surcease
,
surrender
,
terminate
,
termination
,
throw up
,
tranquilize
,
unendingly
,
unremittingly
,
vanish
,
vanish from sight
,
waive
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
wear away
,
wind up
,
without cease
,
yield
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