Related Words:
- compulsion
collapse - using force to cause something; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn`t have to use coercion"
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will related words >
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- alienation,
- amperage,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apathy,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- beef,
- black power,
- brute force,
- catatonic stupor,
- charge,
- charisma,
- clout,
- coercion,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- complex,
- compulsoriness,
- constraint,
- dejection,
- depression,
- detachment,
- dint,
- drive,
- driving,
- driving force,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- energy,
- euphoria,
- exigency,
- fascination,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- flower power,
- folie du doute,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- hang-up,
- hypercathexis,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- idee fixe,
- impellent,
- impelling,
- impelling force,
- impetus,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- incentive,
- incitement,
- indifference,
- influence,
- insensibility,
- irresistible force,
- irresistible impulse,
- lethargy,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- mandatedness,
- mandatoriness,
- mania,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moment,
- momentum,
- monomania,
- morbid drive,
- motive power,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- necessariness,
- necessitation,
- necessitude,
- necessity,
- need,
- obligation,
- obligatoriness,
- obligement,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- pinch,
- pizzazz,
- poop,
- possession,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- prepotency,
- press,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- propulsion,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- ruling passion,
- sinew,
- steam,
- strength,
- stress,
- strong arm,
- stupor,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- thrust,
- tic,
- twitching,
- unresponsiveness,
- urge,
- urgency,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- violence,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight,
- withdrawal
- dissipate
collapse
- live a life or pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption related words >
- ablate,
- attenuate,
- be consumed,
- be gone,
- be promiscuous,
- blow,
- blow off,
- blunder away,
- break up,
- burn up,
- carouse,
- cast forth,
- cease,
- cease to be,
- cease to exist,
- chase women,
- clear away,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- commit adultery,
- consume,
- crumble,
- debauch,
- decrease,
- dematerialize,
- depart,
- deplete,
- depreciate,
- die,
- die away,
- die out,
- diffuse,
- dilute,
- diminish,
- disappear,
- disintegrate,
- dispel,
- disperse,
- disseminate,
- dissolve,
- distribute,
- do a fade-out,
- drain,
- dribble away,
- drive away,
- dwindle,
- erode,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- exhaust,
- exit,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fade out,
- flee,
- fly,
- fool,
- fornicate,
- fritter away,
- gamble away,
- go,
- go away,
- go through,
- go to pot,
- go to seed,
- go to waste,
- grovel,
- hang the expense,
- hide,
- lavish,
- leak,
- leak away,
- leave no trace,
- leave the scene,
- live hard,
- make merry,
- melt,
- melt away,
- party,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- perish,
- peter out,
- philander,
- plunge into dissipation,
- rake,
- retire from sight,
- revel,
- roister,
- run riot,
- run through,
- run to seed,
- run to waste,
- scatter,
- seize the day,
- shrink,
- sink,
- sink away,
- slather,
- sleep around,
- sow,
- sow broadcast,
- spread out,
- squander,
- suffer an eclipse,
- swing,
- thin,
- thin out,
- throw away,
- throw money around,
- use up,
- vanish,
- vanish from sight,
- vaporize,
- volatilize,
- wallow,
- wanton,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wear,
- wear away,
- whore,
- womanize
- anxiety
collapse
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
- a relatively permanent state of anxiety occurring in a variety of mental disorders related words >
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- ache,
- ado,
- alacrity,
- alienation,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anguish,
- animation,
- annoyance,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- anxiousness,
- apathy,
- appetite,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- besetment,
- boredom,
- bother,
- breathless impatience,
- can of worms,
- catatonic stupor,
- chafing,
- cheerful readiness,
- cheerlessness,
- cliff-hanging,
- compulsion,
- concern,
- concernment,
- dejection,
- depression,
- desire,
- detachment,
- disadvantage,
- discomfort,
- discomposure,
- discontent,
- dislike,
- displeasure,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dissatisfaction,
- distress,
- doubt,
- dread,
- dullness,
- eagerness,
- elan,
- elation,
- emotionalism,
- emptiness,
- ennui,
- euphoria,
- evil,
- excitement,
- existential woe,
- expectant waiting,
- flatness,
- folie du doute,
- foreboding,
- forwardness,
- fretfulness,
- fretting,
- great ado,
- grimness,
- gust,
- gusto,
- haste,
- headache,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- impatience,
- impatientness,
- impetuousness,
- inconvenience,
- indifference,
- inquietude,
- insensibility,
- joylessness,
- keen desire,
- keenness,
- lack of pleasure,
- lather,
- lethargy,
- life,
- liveliness,
- longing,
- malaise,
- mania,
- matter,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- misery,
- misgiving,
- mistrust,
- nausea,
- nervousness,
- nongratification,
- nonsatisfaction,
- obsession,
- painfulness,
- panic,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- peck of troubles,
- pessimism,
- preoccupation,
- problem,
- promptness,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- qualm,
- qualmishness,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- restiveness,
- restlessness,
- savorlessness,
- sea of troubles,
- solicitude,
- spirit,
- spleen,
- staleness,
- stew,
- stupor,
- suffering,
- suspense,
- sweat,
- tastelessness,
- tediousness,
- tedium,
- tense readiness,
- thirst,
- tic,
- trouble,
- twitching,
- uncertainty,
- uncomfortableness,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unhappiness,
- unpatientness,
- unpleasure,
- unquietness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsatisfaction,
- verve,
- vexation of spirit,
- vitality,
- vivacity,
- waiting,
- withdrawal,
- worry,
- zest,
- zestfulness
- tenuous
collapse
- very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"
- having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid" related words >
- adulterated,
- aerial,
- air-built,
- airy,
- aloof,
- atomic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- broken,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- corpuscular,
- cut,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- detached,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- doubtful,
- dreamlike,
- dubious,
- embryonic,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- gapped,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- germinal,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- granular,
- hazy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- inappreciable,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- insignificant,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- invisible,
- lacy,
- light,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- misty,
- molecular,
- nebulous,
- negligible,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- open,
- paltry,
- papery,
- phantomlike,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reedy,
- shadowy,
- shaky,
- sketchy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- spirituous,
- subatomic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- trifling,
- twiggy,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unadhesive,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconnected,
- unjoined,
- unreal,
- unseeable,
- unsubstantial,
- untenacious,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- air-built,
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- capillary,
- cheap-jack,
- chimerical,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- cloud-built,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- downy,
- dreamlike,
- effeminate,
- ethereal,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flagelliform,
- flimsy,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frothy,
- funicular,
- fuzzy,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamer,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imponderous,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- leger,
- ligamental,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-pervious,
- lighter than vanity,
- lightweight,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mousse,
- namby-pamby,
- nonopaque,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- phantomlike,
- pubescent,
- puny,
- rarefied,
- refined,
- revealing,
- ropy,
- satin,
- satiny,
- see-through,
- shadowy,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- silky,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- smooth,
- souffle,
- spirituous,
- stringy,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- unclouded,
- unheavy,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- volatile,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yeasty
- fuzzy
collapse
- confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out; "a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance" related words >
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- baggy,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- bristly,
- broad,
- bushy,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- cirrose,
- clear as mud,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- dainty,
- dark,
- delicate,
- dim,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- distorted,
- downy,
- faint,
- feathery,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- fleecy,
- flocculent,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foggy,
- formless,
- frizzy,
- furry,
- gauzy,
- general,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- hairy,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- hirsute,
- hispid,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lanate,
- lax,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lumpen,
- matted,
- merely glimpsed,
- misty,
- muddy,
- murky,
- nappy,
- nebulous,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- peachy,
- pilose,
- pinnate,
- pubescent,
- random,
- refined,
- satin,
- satiny,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shapeless,
- silky,
- smooth,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- thin-spun,
- transcendent,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unshorn,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- weak,
- wiredrawn,
- woolly
- 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
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