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behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"
related words >
acquit
,
act
,
act toward
,
act well
,
be good
,
be nice
,
bear
,
behave toward
,
carry
,
comport
,
conduct
,
control
,
cope with
,
deal by
,
deal with
,
demean
,
deport
,
direct
,
disport
,
do
,
do by
,
do right
,
function
,
go on
,
handle
,
make
,
make as if
,
manage
,
misbehave
,
move
,
operate
,
perform
,
play
,
play the game
,
practice
,
proceed
,
quit
,
react
,
respond to
,
serve
,
take
,
treat
,
use
,
work
take steps
collapse
related words >
act on
,
act upon
,
bear a hand
,
clear the decks
,
consider every angle
,
do something
,
do something about
,
forearm
,
get with it
,
go
,
guard against
,
hedge
,
leave out nothing
,
lift a finger
,
make sure
,
make sure against
,
maneuver
,
overlook no possibility
,
play safe
,
prepare for
,
proceed
,
proceed with
,
provide a hedge
,
provide against
,
provide for
,
reef down
,
shorten sail
,
strike a blow
,
take a hand
,
take action
,
take measures
,
take precautions
provide for
collapse
related words >
accommodate
,
accommodate with
,
admit
,
admit exceptions
,
afford
,
allow
,
allow for
,
angel
,
arrange for
,
attend to
,
baby-sit
,
back
,
bankroll
,
capitalize
,
care for
,
chaperon
,
cherish
,
clear the decks
,
clothe
,
concede
,
conserve
,
consider
,
consider every angle
,
consider the circumstances
,
consider the source
,
contribute
,
discount
,
disregard
,
donate
,
endow
,
favor with
,
fill
,
fill up
,
finance
,
find
,
forearm
,
foster
,
fund
,
furnish
,
give
,
grant
,
grubstake
,
guard against
,
heap upon
,
hedge
,
indulge with
,
invest
,
keep
,
keep watch over
,
lavish upon
,
lay by
,
leave out nothing
,
lift temporarily
,
look after
,
look out for
,
look to
,
maintain
,
make allowance for
,
make available
,
make provision for
,
make sure
,
make sure against
,
matronize
,
mind
,
minister to
,
mother
,
nurse
,
nurture
,
overlook no possibility
,
patronize
,
pay for
,
play safe
,
pour on
,
prepare
,
prepare for
,
present
,
preserve
,
protege
,
provide
,
provide a hedge
,
provide against
,
recruit
,
reef down
,
refinance
,
relax
,
relax the condition
,
replenish
,
ride herd on
,
see after
,
see to
,
set aside
,
set up
,
shepherd
,
shorten sail
,
shower down upon
,
sponsor
,
stake
,
stock
,
store
,
subsidize
,
supply
,
support
,
take account of
,
take care of
,
take charge of
,
take into account
,
take into consideration
,
take measures
,
take precautions
,
take steps
,
tend
,
waive
,
watch
,
watch out for
,
watch over
,
yield
similarize
collapse
related words >
accommodate
,
accord
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
adjust to
,
approximate
,
assimilate
,
attune
,
bring near
,
connaturalize
,
coordinate
,
cut to
,
equalize
,
fit
,
fix
,
gear to
,
harmonize
,
homologate
,
homologize
,
key to
,
make plumb
,
make uniform
,
measure
,
proportion
,
put in tune
,
reconcile
,
rectify
,
regulate
,
right
,
set
,
set right
,
sync
,
synchronize
,
tailor
,
trim to
,
true
,
true up
,
tune
prep
collapse
related words >
arrange
,
arrangement
,
basic training
,
briefing
,
clear for action
,
clear the decks
,
clearing the decks
,
cure
,
deploy
,
dress
,
equipment
,
familiarization
,
fix
,
fix up
,
fixing
,
foundation
,
get ready
,
groundwork
,
make arrangements
,
make preparations
,
make ready
,
makeready
,
making ready
,
manufacture
,
marshal
,
mobilization
,
mobilize
,
plan
,
planning
,
prearrange
,
prearrangement
,
preliminaries
,
preliminary
,
preliminary act
,
preliminary step
,
preparation
,
preparatory study
,
prepare
,
preparing
,
prepping
,
prerequisite
,
pretreat
,
pretreatment
,
process
,
processing
,
propaedeutic
,
provide
,
provision
,
put in shape
,
ready
,
ready up
,
readying
,
settle preliminaries
,
spadework
,
tan
,
training
,
treat
,
treatment
,
trial
,
trim
,
try out
,
tryout
,
warm-up
perceptive
collapse
having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation"
of or relating to perception; "perceptive faculties"
related words >
acute
,
alert
,
alive
,
alive to
,
all-knowing
,
apperceptive
,
appercipient
,
apprehending
,
apprehensive
,
argute
,
astute
,
attentive
,
aware
,
cogent
,
cognizant
,
comprehending
,
conscious
,
discerning
,
farseeing
,
farsighted
,
foreseeing
,
foresighted
,
forethoughted
,
forethoughtful
,
gnostic
,
impressible
,
impressionable
,
impressive
,
incisive
,
insightful
,
intelligent
,
judicious
,
keen
,
knowing
,
knowledgeable
,
longheaded
,
longsighted
,
mindful
,
observant
,
omniscient
,
on the ball
,
penetrating
,
percipient
,
perspicacious
,
perspicuous
,
piercing
,
prehensile
,
prehensive
,
provident
,
quick
,
quick-witted
,
receptive
,
responsive
,
sagacious
,
sage
,
sensible
,
sensile
,
sensitive
,
sensitive to
,
sentient
,
sharp
,
shrewd
,
sophic
,
susceptible
,
susceptive
,
trenchant
,
understanding
,
wise
habituation
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a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
related words >
a habit
,
acclimation
,
acclimatization
,
accommodation
,
accustoming
,
acquired tolerance
,
acute alcoholism
,
adaption
,
addictedness
,
addiction
,
adjustment
,
alcoholism
,
amphetamine withdrawal symptoms
,
barbiturate addiction
,
barbiturism
,
breaking
,
breaking-in
,
case hardening
,
chain smoking
,
chronic alcoholism
,
cocainism
,
conditioning
,
crash
,
craving
,
dependence
,
dipsomania
,
domestication
,
drug addiction
,
drug culture
,
drug dependence
,
familiarization
,
hardening
,
housebreaking
,
inurement
,
naturalization
,
nicotine addiction
,
orientation
,
physical dependence
,
psychological dependence
,
seasoning
,
taming
,
tolerance
,
training
,
withdrawal sickness
,
withdrawal symptoms
wily
collapse
related words >
Byzantine
,
Machiavellian
,
Machiavellic
,
acute
,
arch
,
artful
,
astute
,
cagey
,
calculating
,
canny
,
chiseling
,
clever
,
collusive
,
covinous
,
crafty
,
cunning
,
cute
,
deceitful
,
deep
,
deep-laid
,
designing
,
devious
,
diplomatic
,
false
,
falsehearted
,
feline
,
finagling
,
foxy
,
fraudulent
,
furtive
,
guileful
,
indirect
,
ingenious
,
insidious
,
inventive
,
knowing
,
pawky
,
politic
,
ready
,
resourceful
,
sagacious
,
scheming
,
serpentine
,
sharp
,
shifty
,
shrewd
,
slick
,
slippery
,
sly
,
smooth
,
snaky
,
sneaky
,
sophistical
,
stealthy
,
strategic
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
supple
,
surreptitious
,
tactical
,
treacherous
,
trickish
,
tricksy
,
tricky
,
two-faced
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
vulpine
,
wary
prepossess
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make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand; "A prepossessing appearance"
cause to be preoccupied; "The idea of his failure prepossesses him"
possess beforehand
related words >
absorb
,
adopt
,
appropriate
,
arrogate
,
assume
,
bend
,
bias
,
busy
,
colonize
,
conquer
,
distort
,
engage
,
engross
,
enslave
,
hog
,
imbue
,
immerse
,
indent
,
influence
,
involve
,
jaundice
,
jump a claim
,
make free with
,
make use of
,
monopolize
,
occupy
,
overrun
,
preempt
,
preengage
,
prejudice
,
prejudice against
,
prejudice the issue
,
preoccupy
,
requisition
,
sit on
,
soak
,
squat on
,
subjugate
,
sway
,
take all of
,
take it all
,
take over
,
take possession of
,
take up
,
twist
,
usurp
,
warp
scowl
collapse
frown with displeasure
related words >
angry look
,
black look
,
color
,
dirty look
,
flush
,
frown
,
glare
,
gloom
,
glower
,
gnarl
,
grimace
,
growl
,
knit the brow
,
long face
,
look black
,
look daggers
,
look sullen
,
lour
,
lower
,
make a lip
,
make a moue
,
mantle
,
moue
,
mow
,
nasty look
,
offense
,
pique
,
pout
,
pull a face
,
redden
,
reproving look
,
snap
,
snarl
,
spit
,
umbrage
,
wry face
handshake
collapse
grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
related words >
accost
,
act up to
,
address
,
agree to anything
,
bob
,
bow
,
brown-nose
,
court
,
curry favor
,
curtsy
,
dance attendance on
,
embrace
,
fall all over
,
fall over
,
fawn upon
,
greeting
,
hail
,
hand-clasp
,
hello
,
how-do-you-do
,
hug
,
kiss
,
make court to
,
make up to
,
nod
,
pay court to
,
play up to
,
polish the apple
,
run after
,
salutation
,
salute
,
shine up to
,
smile
,
smile of recognition
,
suck up to
,
wave
mark down
collapse
reduce the price of
related words >
beat down
,
book
,
break
,
calendar
,
carve
,
catalog
,
chalk
,
chalk up
,
cheapen
,
check in
,
chronicle
,
clip
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut prices
,
decline
,
decry
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
devaluate
,
devalue
,
dive
,
docket
,
downgrade
,
engrave
,
enroll
,
enscroll
,
enter
,
fall
,
fall in price
,
file
,
fill out
,
give way
,
grave
,
impanel
,
incise
,
index
,
inscribe
,
insert
,
jew down
,
jot down
,
list
,
log
,
lower
,
make a memorandum
,
make a note
,
make an entry
,
make out
,
matriculate
,
minute
,
nose-dive
,
note
,
note down
,
pare
,
place upon record
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
poll
,
post
,
post up
,
put down
,
put in writing
,
put on paper
,
put on tape
,
record
,
reduce
,
reduce to writing
,
register
,
sag
,
set down
,
shave
,
slash
,
slump
,
tabulate
,
take down
,
tape
,
tape-record
,
trim
,
underprize
,
undervalue
,
videotape
,
write
,
write down
,
write in
,
write off
,
write out
,
write up
disencumber
collapse
related words >
alleviate
,
be light
,
clear
,
disburden
,
disembarrass
,
disembroil
,
disengage
,
disentangle
,
disinvolve
,
ease
,
extricate
,
free
,
free up
,
have little weight
,
kick the beam
,
liberate
,
lighten
,
make light
,
make lighter
,
off-load
,
reduce weight
,
relieve
,
set at ease
,
unballast
,
unburden
,
unclutter
,
unfreight
,
unlade
,
unload
,
unscramble
,
unsnarl
,
untangle
,
untie
,
untwine
,
weigh lightly
plagiarize
collapse
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
related words >
act like
,
adopt
,
affect
,
appropriate
,
assume
,
borrow
,
chorus
,
come again
,
copy
,
counterfeit
,
crib
,
derive from
,
ditto
,
do
,
do a repeat
,
do again
,
do like
,
do over
,
double
,
duplicate
,
echo
,
fake
,
forge
,
go like
,
hoke
,
hoke up
,
imitate
,
infringe
,
infringe a copyright
,
make like
,
make use of
,
mirror
,
mock
,
parrot
,
pirate
,
quote
,
redo
,
redouble
,
reduplicate
,
reecho
,
reflect
,
regurgitate
,
reincarnate
,
renew
,
repeat
,
reproduce
,
revive
,
say again
,
simulate
,
steal
,
take
,
take on
,
take over
step lively
collapse
related words >
bound
,
canter
,
drive
,
drive on
,
forge ahead
,
fox-trot
,
gallop
,
get
,
git
,
go ahead
,
go all out
,
hightail
,
hop
,
hop along
,
hotfoot
,
hustle
,
leap
,
lope
,
make things hum
,
make tracks
,
press on
,
push
,
run
,
scramble
,
shoot ahead
,
spring
,
sprint
,
step
,
step along
,
trip
,
trot
peppy
collapse
related words >
active
,
activist
,
activistic
,
acute
,
aggressive
,
alert
,
alive
,
animate
,
animated
,
bouncing
,
bouncy
,
breezy
,
bright
,
brisk
,
bubbly
,
chipper
,
dynamic
,
ebullient
,
effervescent
,
energetic
,
enterprising
,
enthusiastic
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
frisky
,
full of go
,
full of life
,
full of pep
,
gay
,
go-go
,
hearty
,
impetuous
,
incisive
,
intense
,
keen
,
kinetic
,
live
,
lively
,
living
,
lusty
,
mercurial
,
mettlesome
,
militant
,
perky
,
pert
,
piquant
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
quicksilver
,
racy
,
robust
,
smacking
,
snappy
,
spanking
,
sparkling
,
spirited
,
sprightly
,
spry
,
strenuous
,
strong
,
take-charge
,
take-over
,
trenchant
,
vibrant
,
vigorous
,
vivacious
,
vivid
,
zestful
,
zesty
,
zingy
,
zippy
guileful
collapse
related words >
Byzantine
,
Machiavellian
,
Machiavellic
,
acute
,
arch
,
artful
,
astute
,
cagey
,
calculating
,
canny
,
chiseling
,
clever
,
collusive
,
covinous
,
crafty
,
cunning
,
cute
,
deceitful
,
deep
,
deep-laid
,
designing
,
devious
,
diplomatic
,
duplicitous
,
false
,
falsehearted
,
feline
,
finagling
,
foxy
,
fraudulent
,
furtive
,
indirect
,
ingenious
,
insidious
,
inventive
,
knowing
,
pawky
,
politic
,
ready
,
resourceful
,
scheming
,
serpentine
,
sharp
,
shifty
,
shrewd
,
slick
,
slippery
,
sly
,
smooth
,
snaky
,
sneaking
,
sneaky
,
sophistical
,
stealthy
,
strategic
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
supple
,
surreptitious
,
tactical
,
treacherous
,
trickish
,
tricksy
,
tricky
,
two-faced
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
vulpine
,
wary
,
wily
get through
collapse
finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"
succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister"
related words >
KO
,
assail the ear
,
be heard
,
bring about
,
bring off
,
bring to effect
,
bring to pass
,
button up
,
call off
,
cancel
,
cap
,
caress the ear
,
carry into effect
,
carry into execution
,
carry off
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
carry to completion
,
clean up
,
climax
,
close out
,
close up
,
come through
,
come through with
,
complete
,
conclude
,
contact
,
crown
,
culminate
,
delete
,
dispose of
,
drop the curtain
,
end
,
end off
,
expunge
,
extinguish
,
finalize
,
finish
,
finish off
,
finish up
,
fold up
,
fulfill
,
gain a hearing
,
gain entree
,
get across
,
get done
,
get into
,
get it over
,
get over with
,
get through to
,
get through with
,
get to
,
give the quietus
,
go through
,
implement
,
interpenetrate
,
kayo
,
kibosh
,
kill
,
knock out
,
make an entrance
,
make an impression
,
make oneself heard
,
make way into
,
mop up
,
pass through
,
penetrate
,
perfect
,
pierce
,
polish off
,
pull off
,
put across
,
put in practice
,
put into effect
,
put into practice
,
put over
,
put paid to
,
put through
,
reach
,
reach the ear
,
register
,
round out
,
scrag
,
shoot down
,
terminate
,
top off
,
top out
,
translate into action
,
wind up
,
wipe out
,
work out
,
wrap up
,
zap
legislate
collapse
make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"
related words >
authorize
,
constitute
,
declare lawful
,
decree
,
enact
,
enact laws
,
establish
,
filibuster
,
formulate
,
get the floor
,
have the floor
,
kill
,
legalize
,
legitimate
,
legitimatize
,
legitimize
,
lobby through
,
logroll
,
make a regulation
,
make legal
,
ordain
,
pass
,
pigeonhole
,
pocket
,
prescribe
,
put in force
,
put through
,
railroad through
,
regulate
,
roll logs
,
sanction
,
table
,
take the floor
,
validate
,
veto
,
yield the floor
assure
collapse
assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence; "I assured him that traveling to Cambodia was safe"
inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!"
related words >
afford hope
,
and candle
,
ascertain
,
assert
,
assert under oath
,
asseverate
,
attest
,
augur well
,
avouch
,
back
,
be convincing
,
be sponsor for
,
bear up
,
bid fair
,
bolster
,
bond
,
book
,
brace up
,
bring home to
,
bring over
,
bring round
,
bring to reason
,
buck up
,
carry conviction
,
certify
,
cheer
,
cinch
,
clear up
,
clinch
,
comfort
,
condole with
,
confirm
,
console
,
convert
,
convict
,
convince
,
countersecure
,
countersign
,
decide
,
depone
,
depose
,
determine
,
dismiss all doubt
,
drive home to
,
ease
,
embolden
,
encourage
,
endorse
,
ensure
,
establish
,
find out
,
fix
,
get at
,
give comfort
,
give hope
,
guarantee
,
guaranty
,
have good prospects
,
hearten
,
hold out hope
,
hold out promise
,
inspire
,
inspire belief
,
inspire hope
,
inspirit
,
insure
,
justify hope
,
kiss the book
,
lead to believe
,
make a promise
,
make certain
,
make fair promise
,
make no doubt
,
make no mistake
,
make sure
,
make sure of
,
nail down
,
nerve
,
persuade
,
pledge
,
plight
,
promise
,
put at ease
,
raise expectations
,
raise hope
,
reassure
,
relieve
,
remove all doubt
,
satisfy
,
secure
,
see that
,
see to it
,
sell
,
sell one on
,
set at ease
,
set at rest
,
settle
,
sign
,
sign for
,
solace
,
sort out
,
sponsor
,
stabilize
,
stand behind
,
stand up for
,
state
,
subscribe to
,
support
,
swear
,
swear by bell
,
swear the truth
,
swear to
,
swear to God
,
swear to goodness
,
sympathize with
,
talk over
,
testify
,
troth
,
undersign
,
underwrite
,
vouch
,
vow
,
warrant
,
win over
clean up
collapse
make oneself clean, presentable or neat; "Clean up before you go to the party"
dispose of; "settle the bills"
make a big profit; often in a short period of time; "The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"
related words >
bleach
,
bowdlerize
,
button up
,
cap
,
capitalize on
,
carry to completion
,
cash in on
,
clean
,
clean out
,
cleanse
,
clear
,
clear out
,
clear the decks
,
clear up
,
climax
,
close out
,
close up
,
coin money
,
commercialize
,
complete
,
conclude
,
crown
,
culminate
,
delouse
,
depurate
,
deterge
,
dry-clean
,
dust
,
dust off
,
end
,
expurgate
,
finalize
,
finish
,
finish off
,
finish up
,
fix up
,
freshen
,
gain
,
gain by
,
get done
,
get it over
,
get through
,
get through with
,
groom
,
gross
,
lustrate
,
make
,
make a killing
,
make money
,
make money by
,
mop up
,
neaten
,
net
,
perfect
,
police
,
police up
,
profit
,
purge
,
purify
,
put in trim
,
realize
,
realize on
,
reform
,
round out
,
scavenge
,
spruce
,
spruce up
,
steam-clean
,
straighten up
,
sweep out
,
sweeten
,
terminate
,
tidy
,
tidy up
,
top off
,
top out
,
trig up
,
trim
,
trim up
,
turn a penny
,
turn to account
,
turn to profit
,
whiten
,
wind up
,
wipe
,
wipe off
,
wipe out
,
wipe up
,
wrap up
play the market
collapse
related words >
be caught short
,
be short
,
belong
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
deposit margin
,
go long
,
hold on
,
make a killing
,
make a scoop
,
margin up
,
miss the market
,
operate
,
overstay the market
,
plunge
,
pyramid
,
scalp
,
scoop the market
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
take a flier
,
trade on margin
,
venture
foreseeing
collapse
related words >
acute
,
anticipant
,
anticipatory
,
apocalyptic
,
apperceptive
,
appercipient
,
argute
,
astute
,
augural
,
auguring
,
clairvoyant
,
cogent
,
discerning
,
divinatory
,
farseeing
,
farsighted
,
fatidic
,
forecasting
,
forehanded
,
foreknowing
,
foresighted
,
foretelling
,
forethoughted
,
forethoughtful
,
forewarning
,
fortunetelling
,
haruspical
,
incisive
,
intuitive
,
longheaded
,
longsighted
,
mantic
,
oracular
,
penetrating
,
perceptive
,
percipient
,
perspicacious
,
perspicuous
,
piercing
,
precautional
,
precautionary
,
precautious
,
precognitive
,
precognizant
,
predictional
,
predictive
,
predictory
,
prefigurative
,
prefiguring
,
prepared
,
presageful
,
presaging
,
prescient
,
presignificative
,
presignifying
,
prognostic
,
prognosticative
,
prophetic
,
provident
,
providential
,
provisional
,
prudent
,
ready
,
sagacious
,
sibyllic
,
sibylline
,
trenchant
,
understanding
,
vaticinal
,
vaticinatory
,
weather-wise
make a killing
collapse
related words >
be caught short
,
be short
,
bear the palm
,
belong
,
break the bank
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
capitalize on
,
capture
,
carry
,
carry away
,
carry it
,
carry off
,
carry the day
,
cash in on
,
clean up
,
clear
,
coin money
,
come out first
,
commercialize
,
deposit margin
,
finish in front
,
fluke
,
gain
,
gain by
,
gain the day
,
go long
,
gross
,
hit it
,
hit the jackpot
,
hit the mark
,
hold on
,
make a scoop
,
make money
,
make money by
,
margin up
,
miss the market
,
net
,
operate
,
overstay the market
,
play the market
,
plunge
,
profit
,
pyramid
,
realize
,
realize on
,
ring the bell
,
scalp
,
scoop the market
,
score
,
score a success
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
take a flier
,
take the cake
,
trade on margin
,
turn a penny
,
turn to account
,
turn to profit
,
turn up trumps
,
venture
,
win
,
win out
,
win the battle
,
win the laurels
,
win the palm
,
win the prize
,
win through
alcoholism
collapse
habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
related words >
a habit
,
acquired tolerance
,
acute alcoholism
,
addictedness
,
addiction
,
alcoholic addiction
,
alcoholic psychosis
,
amphetamine withdrawal symptoms
,
barbiturate addiction
,
barbiturism
,
bottle nose
,
chain smoking
,
chronic alcoholism
,
cocainism
,
crash
,
craving
,
delirium tremens
,
dependence
,
dipsomania
,
drug addiction
,
drug culture
,
drug dependence
,
ebriosity
,
grog blossom
,
habitual drunkenness
,
habituation
,
heavy drinking
,
nicotine addiction
,
oenomania
,
oinomania
,
pathological drunkenness
,
physical dependence
,
problem drinking
,
psychological dependence
,
tolerance
,
withdrawal sickness
,
withdrawal symptoms
splitting
collapse
related words >
abscission
,
acute
,
amputation
,
apportionment
,
budgeting
,
butchering
,
catalysis
,
catalyst
,
chopping
,
cleavage
,
cutting
,
cutting the pie
,
decay
,
dialysis
,
dichotomy
,
dissociation
,
dividing
,
division
,
divvy
,
drastic
,
enucleation
,
excessive
,
excision
,
exorbitant
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
fierce
,
fission
,
furious
,
great
,
hydrolysis
,
hydrolyst
,
immoderate
,
intemperate
,
intense
,
keen
,
laceration
,
mutilation
,
outrageous
,
parceling
,
partition
,
partitioning
,
photolysis
,
piercing
,
portioning
,
rationing
,
rending
,
repartition
,
resection
,
rigorous
,
ripping
,
rough
,
scission
,
section
,
severance
,
severe
,
sharing
,
sharing out
,
sharp
,
slashing
,
slicing
,
surgery
,
tearing
,
thermolysis
,
tough
,
unconscionable
,
vehement
,
venomous
,
violent
,
virulent
crave
collapse
plead or ask for earnestly
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
related words >
ache
,
adjure
,
appeal
,
appeal to
,
apply for
,
ask
,
ask for
,
aspire after
,
beg
,
beg leave
,
beseech
,
bespeak
,
brace
,
call for
,
call for help
,
call on
,
call upon
,
choose
,
clamor for
,
conjure
,
covet
,
crave after
,
crawl after
,
cry for
,
cry on
,
cry to
,
demand
,
desiderate
,
desire
,
dream
,
entreat
,
file for
,
hanker
,
hanker after
,
hunger
,
hunger after
,
impetrate
,
implore
,
importune
,
imprecate
,
indent
,
invoke
,
kneel to
,
lust
,
lust after
,
make a request
,
make a requisition
,
make application
,
necessitate
,
obtest
,
order
,
pant after
,
pine
,
plead
,
plead for
,
pray
,
put in for
,
request
,
require
,
requisition
,
run mad after
,
run to
,
sigh
,
supplicate
,
take
,
thirst
,
thirst after
,
want
,
whistle for
,
wish
run riot
collapse
related words >
arise
,
bespread
,
carouse
,
cover
,
create a disturbance
,
create a riot
,
cut loose
,
debauch
,
dissipate
,
fill
,
flood
,
go berserk
,
grow over
,
insurge
,
insurrect
,
know no bounds
,
live hard
,
luxuriate
,
make a commotion
,
make an ado
,
make trouble
,
mount the barricades
,
mutineer
,
mutiny
,
overabound
,
overbrim
,
overflow
,
overgrow
,
overrun
,
overspill
,
overspread
,
overswarm
,
overthrow
,
plunge into dissipation
,
pullulate
,
raise a ruckus
,
raise a rumpus
,
raise a storm
,
rebel
,
reluct
,
reluctate
,
revolt
,
revolute
,
revolution
,
revolutionize
,
riot
,
rise
,
rise up
,
roil
,
roister
,
run amok
,
run wild
,
spill over
,
spread over
,
strike
,
subvert
,
superabound
,
swarm
,
swarm over
,
teem
,
teem over
,
wanton
lallygag
collapse
related words >
bill and coo
,
bum
,
copulate
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
delay
,
diddle
,
dillydally
,
doodle
,
drag
,
falter
,
flag
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
halt
,
lag
,
laze
,
linger
,
loaf
,
loiter
,
loll
,
lollygag
,
lounge
,
make love
,
make out
,
neck
,
pet
,
piddle
,
poke
,
shilly-shally
,
smooch
,
spoon
,
sweet-talk
,
tarry
,
toy
,
trail
,
trifle
,
wanton
,
waste time
,
whisper sweet nothings
operate
collapse
happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
related words >
act
,
angle
,
be caught short
,
be effective
,
be in action
,
be responsible for
,
be short
,
behave
,
belong
,
brew
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
cabal
,
carry on
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
chart a course
,
collude
,
complot
,
concoct
,
cond
,
conduct
,
conn
,
connive
,
conspire
,
control
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
coxswain
,
cut
,
deal with
,
deposit margin
,
direct
,
do with
,
drive
,
employ
,
engineer
,
exercise
,
exert
,
finagle
,
finesse
,
frame
,
frame up
,
function
,
go
,
go long
,
guide
,
handle
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
have effect
,
have free play
,
have play
,
have the conn
,
helm
,
hold on
,
intrigue
,
keep
,
lay a plot
,
machinate
,
make
,
make a killing
,
make a scoop
,
make go
,
make use of
,
manage
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
margin up
,
militate
,
miss the market
,
move
,
navigate
,
open up
,
ordain
,
overstay the market
,
percolate
,
perform
,
perform on
,
perk
,
pilot
,
play
,
play the market
,
plot
,
plunge
,
ply
,
practice
,
proceed
,
pyramid
,
react
,
rig
,
run
,
scalp
,
scheme
,
scoop the market
,
see to
,
serve
,
shape a course
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
steer
,
take
,
take a flier
,
take care of
,
take effect
,
tick
,
trade on margin
,
use
,
utilize
,
venture
,
wangle
,
wield
,
work
unload
collapse
take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van"
related words >
alleviate
,
be light
,
break bulk
,
clear the trade
,
close out
,
convert
,
convert into cash
,
cut under
,
debark
,
disburden
,
discharge
,
disembark
,
disembarrass
,
disencumber
,
dump
,
ease
,
effect a sale
,
empty
,
have little weight
,
jettison
,
job
,
kick the beam
,
land
,
lighten
,
liquidate
,
make a sale
,
make light
,
make lighter
,
market
,
merchandise
,
move
,
off-load
,
offload
,
reduce weight
,
relieve
,
resell
,
retail
,
sacrifice
,
sell
,
sell off
,
sell on consignment
,
sell out
,
sell over
,
sell retail
,
sell short
,
sell up
,
sell wholesale
,
set at ease
,
stevedore
,
terminate the account
,
turn into money
,
turn over
,
unballast
,
unburden
,
undercut
,
undersell
,
unfreight
,
unlade
,
unpack
,
unship
,
weigh lightly
,
wholesale
squirrel away
collapse
related words >
accumulate
,
amass
,
arrange for
,
backlog
,
collect
,
cumulate
,
forearm
,
garner
,
garner up
,
gather into barns
,
heap up
,
hide
,
hoard
,
hoard up
,
hold
,
keep
,
lay by
,
lay up
,
look out for
,
make provision for
,
make sure against
,
pile up
,
prepare for
,
provide against
,
provide for
,
put up
,
save
,
save up
,
secrete
,
squirrel
,
stock up
,
stockpile
,
store up
,
treasure
,
treasure up
demythologize
collapse
remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"
related words >
account for
,
allegorize
,
clarify
,
clear up
,
crack
,
decipher
,
demonstrate
,
elucidate
,
enlighten
,
euhemerize
,
exemplify
,
explain
,
explain away
,
explicate
,
exposit
,
expound
,
give reason for
,
give the meaning
,
illuminate
,
illustrate
,
make clear
,
make plain
,
popularize
,
rationalize
,
shed light upon
,
show
,
show how
,
show the way
,
simplify
,
solve
,
spell out
,
throw light upon
,
unfold
,
unlock
,
unravel
play by ear
collapse
related words >
accompany
,
ad-lib
,
be caught napping
,
be surprised
,
be taken unawares
,
be unprepared
,
chord
,
concertize
,
cook up
,
dash off
,
do
,
do offhand
,
execute
,
extemporize
,
fake
,
go off half-cocked
,
have no plan
,
improvisate
,
improvise
,
interpret
,
jury-rig
,
knock off
,
lash up
,
make music
,
make up
,
perform
,
play
,
render
,
scrap the plan
,
strike off
,
symphonize
,
throw off
,
throw together
,
toss off
,
toss out
,
vamp
,
whip up
,
whomp up
,
wing it
provoke
collapse
provide the needed stimulus for
evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
related words >
abet
,
abrade
,
activate
,
affect the interest
,
affront
,
agent provocateur
,
aggravate
,
agitate
,
alienate
,
amplify
,
anger
,
animate
,
annoy
,
answer back
,
antagonize
,
arouse
,
attract
,
augment
,
awaken
,
badger
,
bait
,
be at
,
bedevil
,
beset
,
bestir
,
blow the coals
,
bother
,
breed
,
bring
,
bring about
,
bring on
,
bristle
,
brown off
,
bug
,
build up
,
bullyrag
,
burn up
,
call forth
,
call up
,
cause
,
chafe
,
challenge
,
chivy
,
come between
,
compel
,
concern
,
contrive
,
deepen
,
deteriorate
,
devil
,
disaffect
,
discompose
,
distemper
,
distress
,
disturb
,
disunite
,
divide
,
dog
,
draw down
,
draw on
,
drive
,
effect
,
egg on
,
electrify
,
elicit
,
embitter
,
encourage
,
engender
,
enhance
,
enlarge
,
enliven
,
enrage
,
enthuse
,
envenom
,
estrange
,
evoke
,
exacerbate
,
exalt
,
exasperate
,
excite
,
excite interest
,
exercise
,
exhilarate
,
fan
,
fan the flame
,
fascinate
,
fash
,
feed the fire
,
ferment
,
fillip
,
fire
,
foment
,
force
,
fret
,
frustrate
,
gall
,
galvanize
,
get
,
get up
,
goad
,
grate
,
grate on
,
gravel
,
gripe
,
grit
,
harass
,
harry
,
hatch
,
heat
,
heat up
,
heckle
,
hector
,
heighten
,
hot up
,
hound
,
huff
,
impassion
,
impel
,
incense
,
incite
,
increase
,
induce
,
inflame
,
inform
,
infuriate
,
infuse life into
,
inspire
,
instigate
,
insult
,
intensify
,
interest
,
invigorate
,
invite
,
involve in
,
irk
,
irritate
,
jazz up
,
kindle
,
lead
,
light the fuse
,
lip
,
madden
,
magnify
,
make acute
,
make trouble
,
make worse
,
miff
,
molest
,
motivate
,
move
,
muster up
,
nag
,
needle
,
nettle
,
nudzh
,
obtain
,
occasion
,
offend
,
outrage
,
peeve
,
persecute
,
perturb
,
pester
,
pick on
,
pick up
,
pique
,
pit against
,
plague
,
pluck the beard
,
pother
,
prime
,
procure
,
produce
,
promote
,
prompt
,
push
,
put out
,
put up to
,
quicken
,
raise
,
rally
,
rankle
,
rasp
,
renew
,
resuscitate
,
revive
,
ride
,
rile
,
roil
,
rouse
,
ruffle
,
sass
,
sauce
,
separate
,
set
,
set against
,
set at odds
,
set at variance
,
set on
,
set on edge
,
set up
,
sharpen
,
sic on
,
sour
,
sow dissension
,
spur on
,
start
,
stimulate
,
stir
,
stir the blood
,
stir the embers
,
stir up
,
stir up trouble
,
summon up
,
superinduce
,
talk back
,
tantalize
,
tease
,
thrill
,
tickle
,
titillate
,
titivate
,
torment
,
trouble
,
try the patience
,
tweak the nose
,
upset
,
vex
,
wake
,
waken
,
whet
,
whip up
,
work up
,
worry
,
worsen
peaked
collapse
having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the island's peaked hills"
related words >
acicular
,
acuminate
,
acute
,
attenuated
,
cachectic
,
cadaverous
,
capped
,
corpselike
,
crested
,
crowned
,
cuspidate
,
debilitated
,
drained
,
emacerated
,
emaciate
,
emaciated
,
enervated
,
exhausted
,
failing
,
feeble
,
frail
,
haggard
,
headed
,
healthless
,
hollow-eyed
,
in poor health
,
infirm
,
invalid
,
jejune
,
languishing
,
marantic
,
marasmic
,
moribund
,
pale
,
peaking
,
peaky
,
pinched
,
plumed
,
poor
,
puny
,
reduced
,
reduced in health
,
run-down
,
sharp
,
shriveled
,
sick
,
sickly
,
skeletal
,
starved
,
starveling
,
tabetic
,
tabid
,
tipped
,
topped
,
underfed
,
undernourished
,
unhealthy
,
unsound
,
valetudinarian
,
valetudinary
,
wasted
,
weakened
,
weakly
,
weazeny
,
with low resistance
,
withered
,
wizened
,
wraithlike
vulgarize
collapse
act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
related words >
adulterate
,
alloy
,
canker
,
cheapen
,
clarify
,
coarsen
,
confound
,
contaminate
,
corrupt
,
debase
,
debauch
,
defile
,
deflower
,
degenerate
,
degrade
,
denature
,
deprave
,
desecrate
,
despoil
,
devalue
,
distort
,
elucidate
,
explain
,
explicate
,
get across
,
get over
,
infect
,
make clear
,
make it clear
,
misuse
,
pervert
,
poison
,
pollute
,
popularize
,
prostitute
,
put across
,
put over
,
ravage
,
ravish
,
simplify
,
spell out
,
taint
,
twist
,
ulcerate
,
violate
,
vitiate
,
warp
pun
collapse
a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
related words >
abuse of terms
,
acrostic
,
alliterate
,
alliteration
,
ambiguity
,
amphibologism
,
amphibology
,
amphiboly
,
anagram
,
assonance
,
assonate
,
be merry with
,
calembour
,
chime
,
clink
,
corruption
,
counterword
,
crack a joke
,
crack wise
,
double entendre
,
equivocal
,
equivocality
,
equivocation
,
equivoque
,
fleer at
,
fun
,
gibe at
,
jape
,
jest
,
jeu de mots
,
jingle
,
joke
,
josh
,
kid
,
kid around
,
logogram
,
logogriph
,
make a funny
,
make fun
,
make fun of
,
malapropism
,
metagram
,
missaying
,
mock
,
near rhyme
,
palindrome
,
paronomasia
,
play on words
,
poke fun at
,
polysemant
,
portmanteau word
,
punning
,
quip
,
rhyme
,
ridicule
,
scintillate
,
scoff at
,
slant rhyme
,
sparkle
,
spoonerism
,
squinting construction
,
utter a mot
,
weasel word
,
wisecrack
,
wordplay
hurtful
collapse
causing hurt; "her hurtful unconsidered words"
related words >
acute
,
afflictive
,
agonizing
,
atrocious
,
baleful
,
baneful
,
biting
,
corroding
,
corrosive
,
corrupting
,
corruptive
,
counterproductive
,
cramping
,
cruel
,
cutting
,
damaging
,
deadly
,
deleterious
,
destructive
,
detrimental
,
disadvantageous
,
disserviceable
,
distressing
,
excruciating
,
gnawing
,
grave
,
griping
,
hard
,
harmful
,
harrowing
,
harsh
,
hurting
,
injurious
,
lethal
,
malefic
,
malevolent
,
malicious
,
malign
,
malignant
,
mean
,
mischievous
,
nasty
,
noisome
,
noxious
,
ominous
,
painful
,
paroxysmal
,
pernicious
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
poisonous
,
prejudicial
,
pungent
,
racking
,
scatheful
,
severe
,
sharp
,
shooting
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
spiteful
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
tormenting
,
torturous
,
toxic
,
unkind
,
venenate
,
veneniferous
,
venenous
,
venomous
,
vicious
,
virulent
,
wounding
take liberties
collapse
related words >
abuse a privilege
,
be disrespectful
,
be overfamiliar with
,
bother
,
dare
,
deride
,
disesteem
,
disparage
,
disrespect
,
encroach upon
,
get fresh
,
get smart
,
have a nerve
,
have the cheek
,
have the gall
,
hold in contempt
,
impose on
,
impose upon
,
inconvenience
,
make bold
,
make free with
,
not respect
,
obtrude upon
,
overstep
,
presume
,
presume on
,
presume upon
,
rank low
,
ridicule
,
show disrespect for
,
take a liberty
,
take liberties with
,
taunt
,
treat with disrespect
,
trifle with
,
trouble
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