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enervate
collapse
weaken mentally or morally
related words >
abate
,
afflict
,
attenuate
,
beat
,
blunt
,
break
,
burn out
,
castrate
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
damp
,
dampen
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
defeat
,
demasculinize
,
dematerialize
,
derange
,
desex
,
desexualize
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
disembody
,
disorder
,
do in
,
do up
,
drain
,
dull
,
effeminize
,
emasculate
,
enfeeble
,
etherealize
,
etiolate
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fag
,
fag out
,
fatigue
,
flag
,
frazzle
,
gruel
,
harass
,
hospitalize
,
incapacitate
,
indispose
,
invalid
,
jade
,
knock out
,
knock up
,
lay low
,
lay up
,
mitigate
,
overfatigue
,
overstrain
,
overtire
,
overweary
,
poop
,
poop out
,
prostrate
,
rarefy
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
sicken
,
soften up
,
spiritualize
,
sterilize
,
strain
,
subtilize
,
tire
,
tire out
,
tire to death
,
tucker
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
use up
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear down
,
wear on
,
wear out
,
weary
,
wilt
,
wind
abbreviate
collapse
shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
related words >
abridge
,
abstract
,
attenuate
,
be telegraphic
,
blot out
,
blue-pencil
,
bob
,
boil down
,
bowdlerize
,
cancel
,
capsulize
,
censor
,
circumscribe
,
clip
,
coarct
,
compact
,
compress
,
concentrate
,
condense
,
consolidate
,
constrict
,
constringe
,
contract
,
cramp
,
crop
,
cross out
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
decrease
,
delete
,
dock
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw together
,
edit
,
edit out
,
elide
,
epitomize
,
erase
,
expunge
,
expurgate
,
extenuate
,
foreshorten
,
kill
,
knit
,
mow
,
narrow
,
nip
,
omit
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
pucker
,
pucker up
,
purse
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
rescind
,
retrench
,
rub out
,
shave
,
shear
,
shorten
,
slash
,
snub
,
solidify
,
strangle
,
strangulate
,
strike
,
strike off
,
strike out
,
stunt
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take in
,
telescope
,
trim
,
truncate
,
void
,
waste no words
,
wrinkle
gauzy
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
clear
,
clear as crystal
,
crystal
,
crystal-clear
,
crystalline
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphane
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
downy
,
ethereal
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
frail
,
fuzzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
light-pervious
,
limpid
,
lucid
,
misty
,
nonopaque
,
papery
,
peekaboo
,
pellucid
,
pubescent
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
refined
,
revealing
,
satin
,
satiny
,
see-through
,
sheer
,
silky
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smooth
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
transparent
,
transpicuous
,
unclouded
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
dispel
collapse
related words >
attenuate
,
be consumed
,
be gone
,
blow off
,
break up
,
cast forth
,
cast off
,
cease
,
cease to be
,
cease to exist
,
clear away
,
crumble
,
dematerialize
,
depart
,
die
,
die away
,
die out
,
dilute
,
disappear
,
disband
,
disintegrate
,
dismiss
,
disperse
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
diverge
,
do a fade-out
,
do away with
,
drive away
,
dwindle
,
eject
,
eliminate
,
erode
,
evanesce
,
evaporate
,
exit
,
expel
,
exterminate
,
fade
,
fade away
,
fade out
,
flee
,
fling off
,
fly
,
get rid of
,
go
,
go away
,
go separate ways
,
hide
,
leave no trace
,
leave the scene
,
liquidate
,
melt
,
melt away
,
oust
,
part
,
part company
,
pass
,
pass away
,
pass out
,
perish
,
purge
,
retire from sight
,
scatter
,
separate
,
shake off
,
shoo
,
sink
,
sink away
,
split up
,
suffer an eclipse
,
thin
,
thin out
,
throw away
,
throw off
,
unimportant
,
vanish
,
vanish from sight
,
volatilize
,
waste
,
waste away
,
wear away
satin
collapse
a smooth fabric of silk or rayon; has a glossy face and a dull back
related words >
alabaster
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
billiard table
,
blubber
,
bowling alley
,
bowling green
,
breeze
,
butter
,
clay
,
cushion
,
daintiness
,
dainty
,
delicacy
,
delicate
,
dough
,
down
,
downiness
,
downy
,
eiderdown
,
feather bed
,
feathers
,
filminess
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
fine-grainedness
,
fineness
,
finespun
,
flat
,
fleece
,
floss
,
flue
,
fluff
,
fluffiness
,
fluffy
,
foam
,
fuzz
,
fuzziness
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
glass
,
gossamer
,
gossameriness
,
gossamery
,
ice
,
ivory
,
kapok
,
level
,
mahogany
,
marble
,
peach fuzz
,
pillow
,
plane
,
plush
,
pubescence
,
pubescent
,
pudding
,
puff
,
putty
,
refined
,
refinement
,
rubber
,
satininess
,
satiny
,
silk
,
silkiness
,
silky
,
slide
,
smooth
,
smoothness
,
softness
,
swansdown
,
tennis court
,
thin-spun
,
thistledown
,
velutinous
,
velvet
,
velvetiness
,
velvety
,
wax
,
wiredrawn
,
wool
,
zephyr
despair
collapse
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!"
related words >
Schmerz
,
Slough of Despond
,
abandon
,
abandon hope
,
acedia
,
aching heart
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
anguish
,
apathy
,
bale
,
become suicidal
,
bitterness
,
blank despondency
,
bleeding heart
,
broken heart
,
cave of Trophonius
,
cave of despair
,
crushing
,
death wish
,
dejectedness
,
dejection
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desolation
,
despair of
,
desperateness
,
desperation
,
despond
,
despondency
,
despondentness
,
disconsolateness
,
discouragement
,
disheartenment
,
dispiritedness
,
distress
,
down trip
,
downcastness
,
downer
,
downheartedness
,
droop
,
drooping spirits
,
drop
,
extremity
,
falter
,
forlornness
,
give up
,
give up hope
,
give way
,
gloom
,
gloominess
,
grief
,
heartache
,
heartlessness
,
heavy heart
,
hit rock bottom
,
hopelessness
,
infelicity
,
languish
,
lose heart
,
lose hope
,
low spirits
,
lowness
,
lowness of spirit
,
malaise
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
miserableness
,
misery
,
no exit
,
no way
,
no way out
,
oppression
,
pessimism
,
plumb the depths
,
prostration
,
quit
,
reach the depths
,
relinquish
,
renounce
,
resign
,
resignation
,
sadness
,
self-destructive urge
,
sink
,
sink into despair
,
sinking heart
,
sloth
,
spiritlessness
,
suicidal despair
,
surrender
,
taedium vitae
,
touch bottom
,
weariness of life
,
woe
,
wretchedness
,
yield
,
yield to despair
undermine
collapse
related words >
abate
,
answer
,
answer conclusively
,
argue down
,
attenuate
,
blunt
,
bugger up
,
confound
,
confute
,
contradict
,
controvert
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
crush
,
damage
,
damp
,
dampen
,
dash
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
defeat
,
demolish
,
deny
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
dismiss
,
dispose of
,
drain
,
dull
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
finish
,
floor
,
foil
,
frustrate
,
gruel
,
harm
,
honeycomb
,
hurt
,
impair
,
lay low
,
mine
,
mitigate
,
nonplus
,
overset
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
overwhelm
,
parry
,
put to silence
,
queer
,
rattle
,
rebut
,
reduce
,
reduce to silence
,
refute
,
ruin
,
sabotage
,
sap
,
sap the foundations
,
settle
,
shake
,
shake up
,
shut up
,
silence
,
smash all opposition
,
soften up
,
spoil
,
squash
,
squelch
,
subvert
,
threaten
,
throw down
,
throw over
,
thwart
,
unbrace
,
undercut
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
upend
,
upset
,
weaken
,
wreck
diluted
collapse
reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid"
made less strong or severe; "a pale gleam of diluted sunlight"
related words >
adulterated
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
cut
,
dead
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
dilute
,
ethereal
,
fade
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flat
,
flavorless
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gaseous
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
gruelly
,
inane
,
indifferent
,
insipid
,
insubstantial
,
jejune
,
lacy
,
light
,
mild
,
milk-and-water
,
misty
,
papery
,
pappy
,
pulpy
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
reduced
,
sapless
,
savorless
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
spiceless
,
stale
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tasteless
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
unflavored
,
unsavory
,
unsubstantial
,
vague
,
vapid
,
vaporous
,
washy
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
waterish
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
windy
,
wiredrawn
,
wishy-washy
,
wispy
attenuate
collapse
reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording"
become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
related words >
Sanforize
,
abate
,
adulterate
,
alleviate
,
attenuated
,
baptize
,
bate
,
blow off
,
blunt
,
cast forth
,
clear away
,
constrict
,
consume
,
contract
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cut
,
damp
,
dampen
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
deflate
,
dematerialize
,
devitalize
,
dilute
,
disable
,
disembody
,
dispel
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
drive away
,
dry up
,
dull
,
ease
,
emacerate
,
emaciate
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
etherealize
,
evaporate
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
expand
,
extenuate
,
gruel
,
irrigate
,
lay low
,
lessen
,
macerate
,
mitigate
,
parch
,
preshrink
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
rarefy
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
reedy
,
remit
,
sap
,
sear
,
shake
,
shake up
,
shrink
,
shrivel
,
slacken
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
soften up
,
spiritualize
,
subtile
,
subtilize
,
subtle
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin away
,
thin down
,
thin out
,
twiggy
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
volatilize
,
waste
,
waste away
,
water
,
water down
,
weaken
,
weazen
,
wither
,
wizen
debilitate
collapse
related words >
abate
,
afflict
,
attenuate
,
beat
,
blunt
,
bugger
,
burn out
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-energize
,
deaden
,
derange
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
disenable
,
disorder
,
do in
,
do up
,
drain
,
dull
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fag
,
fag out
,
fatigue
,
flag
,
frazzle
,
gruel
,
hamstring
,
harass
,
hors de combat
,
hospitalize
,
hurt
,
inactivate
,
incapacitate
,
indispose
,
invalid
,
jade
,
kibosh
,
knock out
,
knock up
,
lame
,
lay low
,
lay up
,
maim
,
mar
,
mitigate
,
overfatigue
,
overstrain
,
overtire
,
overweary
,
poop
,
poop out
,
prostrate
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
sabotage
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
sicken
,
soften up
,
spike
,
spoil
,
tire
,
tire out
,
tire to death
,
tucker
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unfit
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
use up
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear down
,
wear on
,
wear out
,
weary
,
wilt
,
wind
,
wing
,
wreck
extenuate
collapse
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
related words >
abate
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
allow for
,
apologize
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
bank the fire
,
bate
,
blunt
,
chasten
,
color
,
constrain
,
control
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
devitalize
,
dilute
,
diminish
,
downplay
,
dull
,
ease
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
explain
,
gloss over
,
gruel
,
ignore
,
justify
,
keep within bounds
,
lay
,
lay low
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
make allowance for
,
mince
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
obtund
,
palliate
,
play down
,
qualify
,
rationalize
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
remit
,
restrain
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
slacken
,
slow down
,
slur over
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soft-pedal
,
soften
,
soften up
,
stifle
,
subdue
,
sugarcoat
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
underplay
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
varnish
,
veneer
,
water down
,
weaken
,
white
,
whiten
,
whitewash
willowy
collapse
related words >
adaptable
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
bendable
,
bending
,
boyish
,
compliant
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ductile
,
elastic
,
ethereal
,
extensible
,
extensile
,
fabricable
,
facile
,
fictile
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flexible
,
flexile
,
flexuous
,
flimsy
,
formable
,
formative
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
giving
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
impressible
,
impressionable
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
like putty
,
limber
,
lissome
,
lithe
,
lithesome
,
malleable
,
misty
,
moldable
,
papery
,
plastic
,
pliable
,
pliant
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
receptive
,
responsive
,
sensitive
,
sequacious
,
shapable
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
springy
,
submissive
,
subtle
,
supple
,
susceptible
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
tractable
,
tractile
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
whippy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
yielding
papery
collapse
thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"
related words >
airy
,
atrophied
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
breakable
,
brittle
,
cheap-jack
,
cobwebby
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
desiccated
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
dried-up
,
effeminate
,
emaciated
,
ethereal
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
gauzy
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lacy
,
light
,
lightweight
,
misty
,
namby-pamby
,
parchmenty
,
pasteboardy
,
puny
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
sere
,
shattery
,
shriveled
,
shrunken
,
sissified
,
sleazy
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tacky
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
unsubstantial
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
wasted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wilted
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
withered
,
wizened
,
womanish
,
wrinkled
,
,
take the edge off
collapse
related words >
abate
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
bank the fire
,
bate
,
blunt
,
calm
,
chasten
,
conciliate
,
constrain
,
control
,
cool
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
defuse
,
devitalize
,
diminish
,
disedge
,
downplay
,
draw the teeth
,
dulcify
,
dull
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
gruel
,
keep within bounds
,
lay
,
lay low
,
lay the dust
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
obtund
,
pacify
,
palliate
,
placate
,
play down
,
pour balm on
,
propitiate
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
repress
,
restrain
,
retund
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
slacken
,
slow down
,
smooth
,
smooth down
,
smooth over
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soften
,
soften up
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
subdue
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tranquilize
,
tune down
,
turn
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
underplay
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
subtile
collapse
related words >
Byzantine
,
Machiavellian
,
Machiavellic
,
acute
,
adulterated
,
air-built
,
airy
,
arch
,
artful
,
astute
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
cagey
,
calculating
,
canny
,
chimerical
,
clever
,
cloud-built
,
crafty
,
cunning
,
cut
,
cute
,
dainty
,
deceitful
,
deep
,
deep-laid
,
delicate
,
designing
,
devious
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
diplomatic
,
dreamlike
,
ethereal
,
fanciful
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
feline
,
fine
,
flimsy
,
foxy
,
gaseous
,
gossamery
,
guileful
,
illusory
,
imaginary
,
ingenious
,
insidious
,
insubstantial
,
inventive
,
knowing
,
pawky
,
phantomlike
,
politic
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
ready
,
resourceful
,
scheming
,
serpentine
,
shadowy
,
sharp
,
shifty
,
shrewd
,
slick
,
slight
,
slippery
,
sly
,
smooth
,
snaky
,
sneaky
,
sophistical
,
spirituous
,
stealthy
,
strategic
,
subtle
,
supple
,
tactical
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
trickish
,
tricksy
,
tricky
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
unreal
,
unsubstantial
,
vaporous
,
vulpine
,
wary
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
wily
,
windy
desolation
collapse
related words >
Arabia Deserta
,
Death Valley
,
Sahara
,
abandonment
,
aching heart
,
agonizingness
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
anguish
,
bale
,
barren
,
barren land
,
barrenness
,
barrens
,
bitterness
,
bleeding heart
,
bloodbath
,
blue ruin
,
breakup
,
broken heart
,
brush
,
bush
,
carnage
,
chaos
,
comfortlessness
,
consumption
,
crushing
,
damnation
,
decimation
,
defenselessness
,
depopulation
,
depredation
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desert
,
desertion
,
desolateness
,
despair
,
despoilment
,
despoliation
,
destruction
,
devastation
,
disconsolateness
,
disconsolation
,
disintegration
,
disorganization
,
dispeoplement
,
disruption
,
dissolution
,
distress
,
dolor
,
dreariness
,
dust bowl
,
excruciatingness
,
excruciation
,
extirpation
,
extremity
,
fatherlessness
,
forlornness
,
gloom
,
grief
,
havoc
,
heartache
,
heartbreak
,
heartsickness
,
heath
,
heavy heart
,
hecatomb
,
helplessness
,
holocaust
,
homelessness
,
howling wilderness
,
inconsolability
,
infelicity
,
karroo
,
kithlessness
,
lunar landscape
,
lunar waste
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
misery
,
motherlessness
,
obliteration
,
prostration
,
ravage
,
ravagement
,
ruin
,
ruination
,
sack
,
sadness
,
salt flat
,
shambles
,
slaughter
,
sorrow
,
spoliation
,
suicidal despair
,
torment
,
tormentingness
,
torture
,
torturousness
,
undoing
,
unhappiness
,
vandalism
,
waste
,
wasteland
,
weary waste
,
wild
,
wilderness
,
wilds
,
woe
,
wrack
,
wrack and ruin
,
wreck
,
wretchedness
alleviate
collapse
related words >
abate
,
allay
,
anesthetize
,
appease
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
bank the fire
,
bate
,
be light
,
benumb
,
blunt
,
chasten
,
constrain
,
control
,
cure
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deaden the pain
,
dilute
,
diminish
,
disburden
,
disencumber
,
downplay
,
dull
,
ease
,
ease matters
,
extenuate
,
foment
,
give relief
,
have little weight
,
keep within bounds
,
kick the beam
,
lay
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
lighten
,
lull
,
make light
,
make lighter
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
numb
,
obtund
,
off-load
,
pad
,
palliate
,
play down
,
poultice
,
pour balm into
,
pour oil on
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
reduce weight
,
relieve
,
remedy
,
remit
,
restrain
,
salve
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow down
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soften
,
soothe
,
stifle
,
stupe
,
subdue
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
unballast
,
unburden
,
underplay
,
unlade
,
unload
,
water down
,
weaken
,
weigh lightly
rarefied
collapse
reserved for an elite group
related words >
adulterated
,
air-built
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
chimerical
,
clannish
,
cliquish
,
cloud-built
,
cut
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
dreamlike
,
elevated
,
esoteric
,
ethereal
,
exalted
,
exclusive
,
fanciful
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gaseous
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
high
,
illusory
,
imaginary
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
lean
,
light
,
lofty
,
misty
,
noble
,
papery
,
phantomlike
,
private
,
rare
,
reduced
,
scant
,
scanty
,
select
,
shadowy
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
sparse
,
spirituous
,
sublime
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
unreal
,
unsubstantial
,
vague
,
vaporous
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
windy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
cripple
collapse
someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"
deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
related words >
abate
,
amputee
,
attenuate
,
blunt
,
bugger
,
burden
,
castrate
,
cramp
,
cumber
,
damage
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-energize
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
defective
,
deformity
,
devitalize
,
disable
,
disarm
,
disenable
,
dismember
,
drain
,
dull
,
emasculate
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fetter
,
gruel
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
handicapped person
,
hobble
,
hors de combat
,
idiot
,
imbecile
,
immobilize
,
impair
,
impede
,
inactivate
,
incapable
,
incapacitate
,
involve
,
kibosh
,
lame
,
lay low
,
lime
,
lumber
,
maim
,
mayhem
,
mitigate
,
mutilate
,
net
,
paralytic
,
paraplegic
,
press down
,
prostrate
,
put
,
quadriplegic
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
sabotage
,
saddle with
,
sap
,
shackle
,
shake
,
shake up
,
snarl
,
soften up
,
spike
,
tangle
,
the crippled
,
the handicapped
,
toil
,
trammel
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unfit
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
,
weigh down
,
wing
,
wreck
soften up
collapse
related words >
abate
,
affect
,
attenuate
,
beleaguer
,
bend
,
beset
,
besiege
,
bias
,
blarney
,
blockade
,
blunt
,
butter
,
butter up
,
color
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
devitalize
,
dispose
,
dull
,
ease
,
encircle
,
encompass
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
envelop
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fluff
,
gentle
,
get around
,
gruel
,
harass
,
harry
,
honey
,
incline
,
induce
,
influence
,
invest
,
jolly
,
kid along
,
knead
,
laxate
,
lay it on
,
lay low
,
lay siege to
,
lead
,
limber
,
limber up
,
loosen
,
mash
,
massage
,
mellow
,
milden
,
mitigate
,
mollify
,
move
,
oil
,
overdo it
,
persuade
,
play up to
,
plump
,
predispose
,
prompt
,
pulp
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
relax
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
smash
,
soap
,
soft-soap
,
soften
,
squash
,
string along
,
stroke
,
subdue
,
supple
,
surround
,
sway
,
tenderize
,
tinge
,
tone
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
,
wear down
,
weigh with
,
work
insanity
collapse
relatively permanent disorder of the mind
related words >
aberration
,
absurdity
,
alienation
,
amentia
,
arrested development
,
asininity
,
backwardness
,
battiness
,
blithering idiocy
,
brain disease
,
brainlessness
,
buffoonery
,
clownishness
,
crack-up
,
crackpottedness
,
crankiness
,
craziness
,
cretinism
,
daffiness
,
delirium
,
delusion
,
dementia praecox
,
derangement
,
desipience
,
distraction
,
dotage
,
dottiness
,
eccentricity
,
emotional disorder
,
emotional instability
,
fatuity
,
fatuousness
,
folly
,
foolery
,
foolheadedness
,
foolishness
,
frenzy
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
functional nervous disorder
,
giddiness
,
goofiness
,
half-wittedness
,
hallucination
,
hysteria
,
idiocy
,
idiotism
,
illusion
,
imbecility
,
impracticality
,
inanity
,
ineptitude
,
infantilism
,
insaneness
,
irrationality
,
irresponsibility
,
lunacy
,
madness
,
maladjustment
,
mania
,
manic-depressive psychosis
,
melancholia
,
mental defectiveness
,
mental deficiency
,
mental derangement
,
mental disorder
,
mental handicap
,
mental illness
,
mental retardation
,
mindlessness
,
mongolianism
,
mongolism
,
mongoloid idiocy
,
moronism
,
moronity
,
nervous breakdown
,
nervous disorder
,
neurosis
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
nugacity
,
nuttiness
,
paranoia
,
personality disorder
,
preposterousness
,
problems in living
,
profound idiocy
,
psychoneurosis
,
psychopathy
,
psychosis
,
queerness
,
reaction
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
sappiness
,
schizophrenia
,
screwiness
,
senselessness
,
silliness
,
simple-wittedness
,
simplemindedness
,
simpleness
,
simplicity
,
social maladjustment
,
stupidity
,
subnormality
,
thoughtlessness
,
triflingness
,
triviality
,
unbalance
,
unreasonableness
,
wackiness
,
weirdness
,
witlessness
,
zaniness
,
zanyism
woe
collapse
intense mournfulness
related words >
abomination
,
aching heart
,
affliction
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
anguish
,
atrocity
,
bad
,
bale
,
bane
,
befoulment
,
bemoaning
,
bewailing
,
bitter cup
,
bitter draft
,
bitter draught
,
bitter pill
,
bitterness
,
bleeding heart
,
blight
,
broken heart
,
bugbear
,
burden
,
burden of care
,
calamity
,
cankerworm of care
,
care
,
carking care
,
cataclysm
,
catastrophe
,
corruption
,
cross
,
crown of thorns
,
crushing
,
crushing burden
,
crying evil
,
curse
,
damage
,
death
,
defilement
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desolation
,
despair
,
despoliation
,
destruction
,
detriment
,
disease
,
distress
,
dole
,
encumbrance
,
evil
,
extremity
,
gall
,
gall and wormwood
,
grief
,
grievance
,
harm
,
havoc
,
heartache
,
heartbreak
,
heartfelt grief
,
heartgrief
,
heavy heart
,
hurt
,
ill
,
infection
,
infelicity
,
infliction
,
injury
,
lamentation
,
languishment
,
load
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
misadventure
,
mischief
,
misery
,
nemesis
,
open wound
,
oppression
,
outrage
,
pack of troubles
,
peck of troubles
,
pest
,
pestilence
,
pining
,
plague
,
poison
,
pollution
,
prostration
,
regret
,
rue
,
running sore
,
sadness
,
scourge
,
sea of troubles
,
sorrow
,
sorrowing
,
suicidal despair
,
the worst
,
thorn
,
torment
,
toxin
,
tragedy
,
trouble
,
unhappiness
,
venom
,
vexation
,
visitation
,
waters of bitterness
,
weight
,
wretchedness
,
wrong
parch
collapse
cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"
related words >
Sanforize
,
air-dry
,
anhydrate
,
attenuate
,
bake
,
be in heat
,
blaze
,
blister
,
bloom
,
blot
,
boil
,
brand
,
broil
,
brush
,
burn
,
burn in
,
burn off
,
cast
,
cauterize
,
char
,
choke
,
coal
,
combust
,
consume
,
cook
,
crack
,
cupel
,
cure
,
dehumidify
,
dehydrate
,
desiccate
,
drain
,
dry
,
dry up
,
emacerate
,
emaciate
,
evaporate
,
exsiccate
,
fire
,
flame
,
flame up
,
flare
,
flare up
,
flicker
,
flush
,
found
,
fry
,
gasp
,
glow
,
incandesce
,
insolate
,
kiln
,
macerate
,
mummify
,
oxidate
,
oxidize
,
pant
,
preshrink
,
pyrolyze
,
radiate heat
,
roast
,
rub
,
scald
,
scorch
,
sear
,
seethe
,
shimmer with heat
,
shrink
,
shrivel
,
shrivel up
,
simmer
,
singe
,
smoke
,
smolder
,
smother
,
soak up
,
solder
,
spark
,
sponge
,
steam
,
stew
,
stifle
,
suffocate
,
sun
,
sun-dry
,
swab
,
sweat
,
swelter
,
swinge
,
thin
,
toast
,
torrefy
,
towel
,
vesicate
,
vulcanize
,
waste
,
waste away
,
weazen
,
weld
,
wipe
,
wither
,
wizen
neurosis
collapse
a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
related words >
abulia
,
accident neurosis
,
anxiety hysteria
,
anxiety neurosis
,
arteriosclerotic psychosis
,
association neurosis
,
battle fatigue
,
blast neurosis
,
brain disease
,
certifiability
,
combat fatigue
,
compensation neurosis
,
compulsion neurosis
,
conversion hysteria
,
conversion neurosis
,
crack-up
,
dementia paralytica
,
dipsomania
,
drug addiction
,
emotional disorder
,
emotional instability
,
expectation neurosis
,
fixation neurosis
,
folie du doute
,
frayed nerves
,
frazzled nerves
,
fright neurosis
,
functional nervous disorder
,
functional psychosis
,
general paralysis
,
general paresis
,
homosexual neurosis
,
hypochondria
,
hypochondriasis
,
hysteria
,
insanity
,
jangled nerves
,
maladjustment
,
manic-depressive psychosis
,
melancholia
,
mental disorder
,
mental illness
,
metabolic psychosis
,
moral insanity
,
nervous breakdown
,
nervous disorder
,
nervous prostration
,
neurasthenia
,
neuroticism
,
obsessional neurosis
,
occupational neurosis
,
organic psychosis
,
paralytic dementia
,
paranoia
,
pathological drunkenness
,
pathoneurosis
,
personality disorder
,
phobia
,
presenile dementia
,
prison psychosis
,
problems in living
,
psychasthenia
,
psychoneurosis
,
psychoneurotic disorder
,
psychopathia
,
psychopathia martialis
,
psychopathia sexualis
,
psychopathic condition
,
psychopathic personality
,
psychopathy
,
psychosis
,
raw nerves
,
reaction
,
regression neurosis
,
schizophrenia
,
senile dementia
,
senile psychosis
,
senility
,
sexual pathology
,
shattered nerves
,
shell shock
,
situational neurosis
,
situational psychosis
,
social maladjustment
,
syphilitic paresis
,
toxic psychosis
,
twanging nerves
,
war neurosis
dejection
collapse
a state of melancholy depression
related words >
BM
,
Schmerz
,
Slough of Despond
,
abstraction
,
abulia
,
alienation
,
anxiety
,
anxiety equivalent
,
anxiety state
,
apathy
,
blank despondency
,
bloody flux
,
blues
,
bouderie
,
bowel movement
,
catatonic stupor
,
catharsis
,
compulsion
,
crap
,
death wish
,
defecation
,
dejecta
,
dejectedness
,
dejecture
,
depression
,
despair
,
desperation
,
despondency
,
despondentness
,
detachment
,
diarrhea
,
discharge
,
discouragement
,
disheartenment
,
dispiritedness
,
down trip
,
downcastness
,
downer
,
downheartedness
,
drooping spirits
,
dumpishness
,
dysentery
,
effluent
,
egesta
,
ejecta
,
ejectamenta
,
ejection
,
elation
,
emotionalism
,
euphoria
,
evacuation
,
excrement
,
excreta
,
excretes
,
extravasate
,
extravasation
,
exudate
,
exudation
,
flux
,
folie du doute
,
glumness
,
grimness
,
grumness
,
heartlessness
,
hopelessness
,
hypochondria
,
hysteria
,
hysterics
,
indifference
,
insensibility
,
lethargy
,
lientery
,
loose bowels
,
low spirits
,
lowness
,
lowness of spirit
,
malaise
,
mania
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
mental distress
,
moodiness
,
moodishness
,
mopishness
,
moroseness
,
movement
,
obsession
,
oppression
,
pathological indecisiveness
,
pessimism
,
preoccupation
,
psychalgia
,
psychomotor disturbance
,
purgation
,
purge
,
runs
,
self-destructive urge
,
shit
,
shits
,
sinking heart
,
spiritlessness
,
stool
,
stupor
,
suicidal despair
,
sulkiness
,
sullenness
,
surliness
,
taedium vitae
,
tic
,
transudate
,
transudation
,
trots
,
turistas
,
twitching
,
unresponsiveness
,
voidance
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
weariness of life
,
withdrawal
lighten
collapse
become lighter; "The room lightened up"
become more cheerful; "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit"
reduce the weight on; make lighter; "she lightened the load on the tired donkey"
make more cheerful; "the conversation lightened me up a bit"
related words >
abate
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
assuage
,
attemper
,
attenuate
,
bank the fire
,
be light
,
beacon
,
blunt
,
break
,
brighten
,
brighten up
,
chasten
,
cheer up
,
constrain
,
control
,
damp
,
dampen
,
dawn
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
dilute
,
diminish
,
disburden
,
disembarrass
,
disencumber
,
downplay
,
dull
,
ease
,
enlighten
,
extenuate
,
flood with light
,
floodlight
,
gladden
,
grow bright
,
grow light
,
have little weight
,
highlight
,
illume
,
illuminate
,
illumine
,
irradiate
,
keep within bounds
,
kick the beam
,
lay
,
lenify
,
lessen
,
light
,
light up
,
luminate
,
make light
,
make lighter
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
mollify
,
obtund
,
off-load
,
overshine
,
palliate
,
play down
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
reduce weight
,
relieve
,
relume
,
relumine
,
restrain
,
set at ease
,
shed light upon
,
shine
,
shine upon
,
slacken
,
slow down
,
smile
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soften
,
spotlight
,
stifle
,
subdue
,
suppress
,
tame
,
temper
,
thin
,
throw light upon
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
unballast
,
unburden
,
underplay
,
unfreight
,
unlade
,
unload
,
weaken
,
weigh lightly
gracile
collapse
slender and graceful
related words >
Attic
,
Ciceronian
,
aesthetic
,
aesthetically appealing
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
attractive
,
beauteous
,
beautiful
,
boyish
,
chaste
,
civilized
,
classic
,
clear
,
cultivated
,
cultured
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
direct
,
discriminating
,
easy
,
elegant
,
endowed with beauty
,
ethereal
,
exquisite
,
eye-filling
,
fastidious
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
finished
,
flimsy
,
flowerlike
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
graceful
,
gracious
,
handsome
,
heavy
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
limpid
,
lovely
,
lucid
,
misty
,
natural
,
neat
,
nice
,
papery
,
pellucid
,
perspicuous
,
plain
,
polished
,
pretty
,
pulchritudinous
,
pure
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
refined
,
restrained
,
round
,
simple
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
sophisticated
,
straightforward
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tasteful
,
tenuous
,
terse
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
trim
,
unaffected
,
unlabored
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
filmy
collapse
related words >
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
beclouded
,
blear
,
bleared
,
bleary
,
blurred
,
blurry
,
clear
,
clear as crystal
,
clouded
,
cloudy
,
cobwebby
,
confused
,
crystal
,
crystal-clear
,
crystalline
,
dainty
,
dark
,
delicate
,
diaphane
,
diaphanous
,
dim
,
downy
,
faint
,
feeble
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
foggy
,
foliaceous
,
foliated
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
half-seen
,
half-visible
,
hazy
,
ill-defined
,
in layers
,
inconspicuous
,
indefinite
,
indistinct
,
indistinguishable
,
insubstantial
,
lamellar
,
lamellate
,
lamellated
,
lamelliform
,
laminate
,
laminated
,
laminous
,
leaflike
,
leafy
,
light
,
light-pervious
,
limpid
,
low-profile
,
lucid
,
membranous
,
merely glimpsed
,
milky
,
misty
,
murky
,
nonopaque
,
obscure
,
opalescent
,
out of focus
,
pale
,
pearly
,
peekaboo
,
pellucid
,
pubescent
,
refined
,
revealing
,
satin
,
satiny
,
scummy
,
see-through
,
semivisible
,
shadowy
,
sheer
,
silky
,
smooth
,
spathic
,
spathose
,
stratified
,
stratiform
,
thin
,
thin-spun
,
three-ply
,
translucent
,
transparent
,
transpicuous
,
two-ply
,
uncertain
,
unclear
,
unclouded
,
undefined
,
unplain
,
unrecognizable
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
weak
,
wiredrawn
mania
collapse
an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
related words >
aberration
,
abnormality
,
abstraction
,
abulia
,
alienation
,
an universal wolf
,
anxiety
,
anxiety equivalent
,
anxiety state
,
apathy
,
appetence
,
appetency
,
appetite
,
appetition
,
brain damage
,
brainsickness
,
bug
,
catatonic stupor
,
clouded mind
,
compulsion
,
coveting
,
craving
,
craze
,
craziness
,
crazy fancy
,
daftness
,
dejection
,
dementedness
,
dementia
,
depression
,
derangement
,
desire
,
detachment
,
disorientation
,
distraction
,
elation
,
emotionalism
,
enthusiasm
,
euphoria
,
fad
,
fanaticism
,
fancy
,
fascination
,
fixation
,
fixed idea
,
folie
,
folie du doute
,
frenzy
,
furor
,
furore
,
fury
,
hangup
,
hunger
,
hypochondria
,
hysteria
,
hysterics
,
idee fixe
,
indifference
,
infatuation
,
insaneness
,
insanity
,
insensibility
,
irrationality
,
itch
,
itching
,
lethargy
,
loss of mind
,
loss of reason
,
lunacy
,
madness
,
manic-depressive psychosis
,
melancholia
,
mental deficiency
,
mental derangement
,
mental disease
,
mental disorder
,
mental distress
,
mental disturbance
,
mental illness
,
mental instability
,
mental sickness
,
mind overthrown
,
mindsickness
,
obsession
,
oddness
,
overambitiousness
,
overanxiety
,
overanxiousness
,
overeagerness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overzealousness
,
passion
,
pathological indecisiveness
,
pixilation
,
possession
,
preoccupation
,
prurience
,
pruriency
,
psychalgia
,
psychomotor disturbance
,
queerness
,
rabidness
,
rage
,
reasonlessness
,
senselessness
,
sexual desire
,
shattered mind
,
sick mind
,
sickness
,
strangeness
,
stupor
,
thing
,
thirst
,
tic
,
twitching
,
unbalance
,
unbalanced mind
,
unresponsiveness
,
unsaneness
,
unsound mind
,
unsoundness
,
unsoundness of mind
,
urge
,
withdrawal
,
witlessness
,
yearning
,
yen
,
zealotism
,
zealotry
bate
collapse
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"
flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm"
related words >
abate
,
ablate
,
abrade
,
abstract
,
alleviate
,
allow
,
attenuate
,
bar
,
be eaten away
,
blunt
,
charge off
,
close
,
consume
,
consume away
,
corrode
,
count out
,
crumble
,
curtail
,
cut
,
debar
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deduct
,
deliquesce
,
depreciate
,
derogate
,
detract
,
die away
,
die down
,
dilute
,
diminish
,
discount
,
disedge
,
disparage
,
dive
,
drain
,
draw the teeth
,
drop
,
drop off
,
dull
,
dwindle
,
ease
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
eat away
,
ebb
,
eliminate
,
erode
,
except
,
extenuate
,
extract
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
file away
,
impair
,
kick back
,
languish
,
leach
,
lessen
,
let down
,
let up
,
loose
,
loosen
,
make allowance
,
melt away
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
obtund
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
purify
,
rebate
,
reduce
,
refine
,
refund
,
relax
,
remit
,
remove
,
repress
,
retrench
,
retund
,
rub away
,
rule out
,
run low
,
sag
,
shorten
,
shrink
,
sink
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slake
,
subduct
,
subside
,
subtract
,
suspend
,
tail off
,
take a premium
,
take away
,
take from
,
take off
,
taper
,
taper off
,
thin
,
thin out
,
turn
,
unbend
,
unbrace
,
unstrain
,
unstring
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
water down
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear away
,
weed
,
withdraw
,
write off
infelicity
collapse
inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
related words >
Gothicism
,
abnormality
,
aching heart
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
anguish
,
anomaly
,
antiphrasis
,
bad taste
,
bale
,
barbarism
,
barbarousness
,
bitterness
,
bleeding heart
,
bombasticness
,
broken heart
,
cacology
,
cacophony
,
cheerlessness
,
clumsiness
,
coarseness
,
corruption
,
crudeness
,
crushing
,
cumbrousness
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desolation
,
despair
,
discontent
,
displeasure
,
dysphemism
,
extremity
,
futility
,
gracelessness
,
grief
,
grimness
,
grossness
,
harshness
,
heartache
,
heaviness
,
heavy heart
,
humorlessness
,
ill-balanced sentences
,
impoliticalness
,
impoliticness
,
impropriety
,
impurity
,
inadmissibility
,
inadvisability
,
inapplicability
,
inappositeness
,
inappropriateness
,
inaptitude
,
inaptness
,
inauspiciousness
,
inconcinnity
,
incongruity
,
inconvenience
,
inconveniency
,
incorrectness
,
indecorousness
,
inelegance
,
inelegancy
,
ineptitude
,
inexpedience
,
inexpediency
,
infestivity
,
inopportuneness
,
inopportunity
,
intempestivity
,
interruption
,
intrusion
,
irrelevance
,
irrelevancy
,
joylessness
,
lack of finish
,
lack of polish
,
lateness
,
leadenness
,
maladjustment
,
malapropism
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
mesalliance
,
mirthlessness
,
misalliance
,
misconstruction
,
misery
,
misjoinder
,
misjoining
,
mismatch
,
missaying
,
misusage
,
pompousness
,
ponderousness
,
poor diction
,
prematurity
,
prostration
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sadness
,
sesquipedalianism
,
sesquipedality
,
slipshod construction
,
solecism
,
stiltedness
,
suicidal despair
,
tastelessness
,
turgidity
,
uncheerfulness
,
uncongeniality
,
uncouthness
,
undesirability
,
uneuphoniousness
,
unfavorableness
,
unfitness
,
unfittingness
,
unfortunateness
,
ungracefulness
,
ungrammaticism
,
unhappiness
,
unjoyfulness
,
unmeetness
,
unmirthfulness
,
unprofitability
,
unprofitableness
,
unpropitiousness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unseasonableness
,
unseemliness
,
unsuitability
,
untimeliness
,
unwieldiness
,
unwiseness
,
uselessness
,
vulgarism
,
vulgarity
,
woe
,
worthlessness
,
wretchedness
,
wrongness
watered down
collapse
related words >
abated
,
ablated
,
adulterated
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
bated
,
belittled
,
boyish
,
consumed
,
contracted
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
dead
,
decreased
,
deflated
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
diminished
,
dissipated
,
dropped
,
eroded
,
ethereal
,
fade
,
fallen
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flat
,
flavorless
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gaseous
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
gruelly
,
inane
,
indifferent
,
insipid
,
insubstantial
,
jejune
,
lacy
,
less
,
lesser
,
light
,
lower
,
lowered
,
mild
,
milk-and-water
,
miniaturized
,
misty
,
papery
,
pappy
,
pulpy
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
reduced
,
retrenched
,
sapless
,
savorless
,
scaled-down
,
shorn
,
shorter
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smaller
,
spiceless
,
stale
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tasteless
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
unflavored
,
unsavory
,
unsubstantial
,
vague
,
vapid
,
vaporous
,
washy
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
waterish
,
watery
,
weak
,
weakened
,
willowy
,
windy
,
wiredrawn
,
wishy-washy
,
wispy
,
worn
expand
collapse
become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"
make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"
extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands"
related words >
add to
,
adulterate
,
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
attenuate
,
augment
,
balloon
,
beef up
,
bloat
,
blow up
,
bolster
,
boost
,
branch
,
branch out
,
broaden
,
build
,
build up
,
bulk
,
bulk out
,
complete
,
crescendo
,
cut
,
deal in generalities
,
deepen
,
deploy
,
descant
,
detail
,
develop
,
dilate
,
dilute
,
discourse
,
disperse
,
distend
,
ecumenicize
,
elaborate
,
embellish
,
enlarge
,
enlarge upon
,
enter into detail
,
etherealize
,
evolve
,
exalt
,
expatiate
,
explicate
,
extend
,
fan
,
fan out
,
fatten
,
fill out
,
flare
,
generalize
,
globalize
,
go into
,
greaten
,
grow
,
heighten
,
hike
,
hike up
,
huff
,
increase
,
inflate
,
jack up
,
jump up
,
labor
,
lengthen
,
magnify
,
make a generalization
,
maximize
,
mount
,
multiply
,
mushroom
,
open
,
open up
,
outspread
,
outstretch
,
overgrow
,
overrun
,
parlay
,
particularize
,
prolong
,
protract
,
puff
,
puff up
,
pump
,
pump up
,
put up
,
pyramid
,
raise
,
ramify
,
rarefy
,
rehearse in extenso
,
relate at large
,
snowball
,
spell out
,
splay
,
spraddle
,
sprangle
,
sprawl
,
spread
,
spread like wildfire
,
spread out
,
stretch
,
subtilize
,
sufflate
,
swell
,
thicken
,
thin
,
thin out
,
tumefy
,
unfold
,
universalize
,
up
,
upsurge
,
vise
,
water
,
water down
,
wax
,
widen
,
work out
lay low
collapse
related words >
abate
,
align
,
attenuate
,
blow down
,
blow over
,
blow to pieces
,
blow up
,
blunt
,
bowl down
,
bowl over
,
brain
,
bring down
,
bulldog
,
burn to death
,
cast down
,
chop down
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cut down
,
cut to pieces
,
damp
,
dampen
,
dash down
,
deaden
,
deal a deathblow
,
debilitate
,
deck
,
devitalize
,
disintegrate
,
down
,
drop
,
dull
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
equalize
,
even
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fell
,
fetch down
,
flatten
,
floor
,
flush
,
frag
,
give the quietus
,
grade
,
ground
,
gruel
,
gun down
,
hew down
,
incinerate
,
jugulate
,
knock down
,
knock over
,
lapidate
,
lay
,
lay down
,
lay flat
,
lay level
,
lay out
,
level
,
mitigate
,
mow
,
mow down
,
pistol
,
poleax
,
precipitate
,
prostrate
,
pull down
,
rase
,
rattle
,
raze
,
reduce
,
riddle
,
roll
,
roll flat
,
sap
,
send headlong
,
shake
,
shake up
,
shoot
,
shoot down
,
shoot to death
,
shotgun
,
silence
,
smooth
,
smooth out
,
smoothen
,
soften up
,
spread-eagle
,
stab to death
,
steamroll
,
steamroller
,
stone
,
stone to death
,
strike dead
,
supinate
,
take down
,
take off
,
throw
,
throw down
,
topple
,
trip
,
tumble
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
vaporize
,
weaken
,
whack down
anguish
collapse
extreme mental distress
extreme distress of body or mind
suffer great pains or distress
related words >
ache
,
aching heart
,
afflict
,
affliction
,
aggrieve
,
agonize
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
ail
,
angst
,
anxiety
,
atrocious pain
,
bale
,
barb the dart
,
bitterness
,
blanch
,
bleed
,
bleeding heart
,
blench
,
boredom
,
break down
,
bring to tears
,
broken heart
,
bruise
,
care
,
carking care
,
cheerlessness
,
crucifixion
,
crush
,
crushing
,
cut
,
cut up
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desolate
,
desolation
,
despair
,
discomfort
,
discomposure
,
discontent
,
dislike
,
displeasure
,
disquiet
,
dissatisfaction
,
distress
,
disturb
,
dole
,
draw tears
,
dread
,
dullness
,
embitter
,
emptiness
,
ennui
,
excruciation
,
existential woe
,
extremity
,
feel pain
,
feel the pangs
,
flatness
,
go hard with
,
grief
,
grieve
,
grimace
,
grimness
,
have a misery
,
heartache
,
heartbreak
,
heartfelt grief
,
heartgrief
,
heavy heart
,
hurt
,
hurt the feelings
,
infelicity
,
inquietude
,
inundate
,
joylessness
,
lack of pleasure
,
lamentation
,
languishment
,
malaise
,
martyrdom
,
martyrization
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
misery
,
nausea
,
nongratification
,
nonsatisfaction
,
oppress
,
overwhelm
,
pain
,
painfulness
,
pang
,
pierce
,
pining
,
pound
,
prick
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
rack
,
regret
,
rue
,
sadness
,
savorlessness
,
shoot
,
shrink
,
smart
,
sorrow
,
sorrowing
,
spleen
,
stab
,
staleness
,
sting
,
suffer
,
suffer anguish
,
suffering
,
suicidal despair
,
tastelessness
,
tediousness
,
tedium
,
thrill
,
throb
,
tingle
,
torment
,
torture
,
trouble
,
twinge
,
twist the knife
,
twitch
,
uncomfortableness
,
unease
,
uneasiness
,
unhappiness
,
unpleasure
,
unsatisfaction
,
upset
,
vexation of spirit
,
wince
,
woe
,
worry
,
wound
,
wretchedness
,
writhe
grief
collapse
something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"
intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
related words >
accident
,
ache
,
aching
,
aching heart
,
adversity
,
affliction
,
agony
,
agony of mind
,
anguish
,
apologies
,
attrition
,
ayenbite of inwit
,
bale
,
bemoaning
,
bewailing
,
bitterness
,
bleakness
,
bleeding heart
,
blow
,
broken heart
,
burden
,
calamity
,
care
,
carking care
,
casualty
,
cataclysm
,
catastrophe
,
cheerlessness
,
collision
,
come apart
,
come to grief
,
come unstuck
,
comfortlessness
,
contretemps
,
contriteness
,
contrition
,
crack-up
,
cramp
,
crash
,
crushing
,
curse
,
cut
,
dejection
,
depression
,
depth of misery
,
desolation
,
despair
,
despondency
,
difficulty
,
disaster
,
discomfort
,
dismalness
,
distress
,
distressfulness
,
dole
,
dolor
,
dreariness
,
extremity
,
fail
,
grievousness
,
heartache
,
heartbreak
,
heartfelt grief
,
heartgrief
,
heavy heart
,
hurt
,
ill hap
,
infelicity
,
injury
,
joylessness
,
lamentability
,
lamentation
,
lamenting
,
languishment
,
lesion
,
load
,
melancholia
,
melancholy
,
misadventure
,
miscarry
,
mischance
,
misery
,
misfortune
,
mishap
,
mournfulness
,
nasty blow
,
onus
,
ordeal
,
pain
,
painfulness
,
pang
,
passion
,
pathos
,
pileup
,
pining
,
pitiability
,
pitiableness
,
pitifulness
,
poignancy
,
prostration
,
regret
,
regretfulness
,
regrets
,
regrettableness
,
regretting
,
remorse
,
remorse of conscience
,
remorsefulness
,
repining
,
rue
,
ruth
,
sadness
,
shame
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
shamefulness
,
sharpness
,
shipwreck
,
shock
,
smash
,
smashup
,
sore
,
sore spot
,
sorriness
,
sorrow
,
sorrowfulness
,
sorrowing
,
spasm
,
staggering blow
,
stress
,
stress of life
,
stroke
,
suffering
,
suicidal despair
,
tender spot
,
throes
,
torment
,
tragedy
,
trauma
,
travail
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
trouble
,
unhappiness
,
wistfulness
,
woe
,
woebegoneness
,
woefulness
,
worry
,
wound
,
wreck
,
wrench
,
wretchedness
attentive
collapse
(often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor"
related words >
accommodating
,
accommodative
,
accurate
,
advertent
,
affable
,
agile
,
agog
,
agreeable
,
alert
,
alive
,
all ears
,
all eyes
,
assiduous
,
attenuate
,
awake
,
aware
,
bright
,
cap in hand
,
careful
,
cautious
,
ceremonious
,
circumspect
,
civil
,
close
,
complaisant
,
concentrated
,
concentrating
,
conscientious
,
conscious
,
considerate
,
correct
,
courteous
,
courtly
,
critical
,
curious
,
deferential
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
detailed
,
diligent
,
dutiful
,
eager
,
earnest
,
exact
,
exacting
,
exigent
,
exquisite
,
fair
,
fine
,
finical
,
finicking
,
finicky
,
fussy
,
gallant
,
graceful
,
gracious
,
heedful
,
helpful
,
honorific
,
indulgent
,
intense
,
intent
,
intentive
,
interested
,
keen
,
lenient
,
listening
,
loving
,
meticulous
,
mindful
,
mindful of others
,
minute
,
narrow
,
nice
,
niggling
,
nimble
,
obliging
,
observant
,
observing
,
on the
,
on the alert
,
on the ball
,
on the job
,
open-eared
,
open-eyed
,
openmouthed
,
particular
,
polite
,
precise
,
precisianistic
,
precisionistic
,
prompt
,
punctilious
,
punctual
,
qui vive
,
quick
,
ready
,
reedy
,
refined
,
regardful
,
religious
,
respectful
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
scrupulous
,
scrutinizing
,
sharp
,
sleepless
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
smart
,
solicitous
,
strict
,
subtle
,
tactful
,
tender
,
tenuous
,
thoughtful
,
tolerant
,
twiggy
,
unblinking
,
unnodding
,
unsleeping
,
unwinking
,
urbane
,
wakeful
,
watchful
,
wide-awake
stupor
collapse
related words >
KO
,
abstraction
,
abulia
,
acedia
,
alienation
,
aloofness
,
amnesia
,
anesthesia
,
anxiety
,
anxiety equivalent
,
anxiety state
,
apathy
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
benumbedness
,
blackout
,
blah
,
blahs
,
boredom
,
catalepsy
,
cataplexy
,
catatonia
,
catatonic stupor
,
catatony
,
coma
,
comatoseness
,
compulsion
,
daydreaming
,
daze
,
dejection
,
depression
,
detachment
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
dream state
,
drowsiness
,
dullness
,
elation
,
emotionalism
,
encephalitis lethargica
,
enervation
,
ennui
,
euphoria
,
faint
,
fatigue
,
folie du doute
,
fugue
,
fugue state
,
grayout
,
heartlessness
,
heaviness
,
hebetude
,
high
,
hopelessness
,
hypnotic trance
,
hypochondria
,
hysteria
,
hysterics
,
inanimation
,
inappetence
,
indifference
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
insensibility
,
insouciance
,
jadedness
,
kayo
,
knockout
,
lack of appetite
,
lackadaisicalness
,
languidness
,
languishment
,
languor
,
languorousness
,
lassitude
,
laziness
,
lenitude
,
lentor
,
lethargicalness
,
lethargy
,
lifelessness
,
lipothymia
,
lipothymy
,
listlessness
,
mania
,
melancholia
,
mental distress
,
narcohypnosis
,
narcolepsy
,
narcoma
,
narcosis
,
narcotic stupor
,
narcotization
,
nirvana
,
nirvana principle
,
nod
,
nonchalance
,
nothingness
,
numbness
,
oblivion
,
obliviousness
,
obsession
,
oscitancy
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
pathological indecisiveness
,
phlegm
,
phlegmaticalness
,
phlegmaticness
,
plucklessness
,
preoccupation
,
psychalgia
,
psychomotor disturbance
,
resignation
,
resignedness
,
reverie
,
satedness
,
sedation
,
semiconsciousness
,
senselessness
,
shock
,
sleep
,
sleepiness
,
sleeping sickness
,
sleepwalking
,
sloth
,
slothfulness
,
slowness
,
sluggishness
,
slumber
,
somnambulism
,
somnolence
,
sopor
,
soporifousness
,
spiritlessness
,
spunklessness
,
stupefaction
,
supineness
,
swoon
,
syncope
,
thanatosis
,
tic
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpitude
,
torpor
,
trance
,
twitching
,
unconcern
,
unconsciousness
,
unresponsiveness
,
weariness
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawnness
,
world-weariness
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
unman
collapse
cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience"
related words >
abase
,
abate
,
affright
,
alarm
,
attenuate
,
beat down
,
bend
,
blunt
,
break
,
break down
,
bring low
,
bring to terms
,
browbeat
,
bulldoze
,
bully
,
castrate
,
clamp down on
,
coerce
,
compel
,
conquer
,
cow
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
crush
,
curdle the blood
,
damp
,
dampen
,
dash
,
daunt
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
degrade
,
demasculinize
,
demoralize
,
deplete
,
desex
,
desexualize
,
despotize
,
devitalize
,
disqualify
,
disquiet
,
domineer
,
domineer over
,
drain
,
dull
,
effeminize
,
emasculate
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
enslave
,
etiolate
,
eviscerate
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
fright
,
frighten
,
funk
,
grind
,
grind down
,
gruel
,
henpeck
,
horripilate
,
humble
,
humiliate
,
impoverish
,
intimidate
,
keep down
,
keep under
,
knock down
,
lay low
,
lord it over
,
make one tremble
,
master
,
mitigate
,
oppress
,
overawe
,
overbear
,
overcome
,
overmaster
,
override
,
overwhelm
,
paralyze
,
press heavy on
,
prostrate
,
psych out
,
quell
,
raise apprehensions
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
repress
,
ride over
,
ride roughshod over
,
sap
,
scare
,
shake
,
shake up
,
soften up
,
spook
,
stagger
,
startle
,
sterilize
,
subdue
,
subjugate
,
suppress
,
terrorize
,
trample down
,
trample underfoot
,
trample upon
,
tread down
,
tread underfoot
,
tread upon
,
tyrannize
,
tyrannize over
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
undo
,
unfit
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
upset
,
walk all over
,
walk over
,
weaken
,
weigh heavy on
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