Related Words:
- quicksand
collapse - a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
- a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy related words >
- baygall,
- bind,
- bog,
- bottom,
- bottomland,
- bottoms,
- breakers ahead,
- buffalo wallow,
- cardhouse,
- cause for alarm,
- clutch,
- complication,
- coral heads,
- crisis,
- crunch,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- emergency,
- endangerment,
- everglade,
- fen,
- fenland,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- glade,
- hazard,
- hell to pay,
- hobble,
- hog wallow,
- holm,
- hot water,
- house of cards,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- imperilment,
- ironbound coast,
- jam,
- jeopardy,
- ledges,
- lee shore,
- marais,
- marish,
- marsh,
- marshland,
- meadow,
- menace,
- mere,
- mess,
- mire,
- mix,
- moor,
- moorland,
- morass,
- moss,
- mud,
- mud flat,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- peat bog,
- peril,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- pitfall,
- plight,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- quagmire,
- quicksands,
- risk,
- rockbound coast,
- rocks,
- rocks ahead,
- salt marsh,
- sandbank,
- sandbar,
- sands,
- scrape,
- shallows,
- shoals,
- slob land,
- slough,
- sough,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- straits,
- sump,
- swale,
- swamp,
- swampland,
- taiga,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- unholy mess,
- wallow,
- wash
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- arrest,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- bank the fire,
- block,
- blunt,
- bog down,
- boycott,
- brake,
- bridle,
- chasten,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- confine,
- constrain,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- curb,
- curtail,
- curtail expenses,
- cut back,
- cut corners,
- cut down,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deadlock,
- decelerate,
- decrease,
- delay,
- detain,
- diminish,
- dompt,
- downplay,
- drag,
- draw rein,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- enjoin,
- extenuate,
- go on strike,
- go out,
- govern,
- guard,
- halt,
- hang up,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold out,
- hold up,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- keep within bounds,
- lag,
- lay,
- lay under restraint,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- let down,
- let up,
- let up on,
- lighten,
- lock out,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- make late,
- mire,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- obstruct,
- obtund,
- palliate,
- pare down expenses,
- picket,
- play down,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- pull in,
- qualify,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- reef,
- rein,
- rein in,
- relax,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- revolt,
- roll back,
- set back,
- shut it down,
- sit down,
- slack,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slow,
- slow up,
- smother,
- snub,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- stall,
- stay,
- stifle,
- stop,
- straiten,
- strike,
- stymie,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- take a reef,
- take in sail,
- tame,
- temper,
- throttle down,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- unbend,
- underplay,
- unlax,
- unwind,
- walk out,
- weaken,
- withhold
- swamp
collapse
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" related words >
- baygall,
- be prodigal with,
- bind,
- bog,
- bottom,
- bottomland,
- bottoms,
- buffalo wallow,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- cesspool,
- cloaca,
- cloaca maxima,
- clutch,
- complication,
- crunch,
- deluge,
- dip,
- drain,
- drown,
- duck,
- dump,
- dunk,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- engulf,
- everglade,
- fen,
- fenland,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- float,
- flood,
- flood the market,
- flow on,
- founder,
- garbage dump,
- glade,
- hell to pay,
- hobble,
- hog wallow,
- holm,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- immerse,
- inundate,
- jam,
- marais,
- marish,
- marsh,
- marshland,
- meadow,
- mere,
- mess,
- mire,
- mix,
- moor,
- moorland,
- morass,
- moss,
- mud,
- mud flat,
- overbrim,
- overburden,
- overcome,
- overdose,
- overequip,
- overflow,
- overfurnish,
- overlavish,
- overload,
- overprovender,
- overprovide,
- overprovision,
- overrun,
- oversell,
- overstock,
- oversupply,
- overtax,
- overwhelm,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- peat bog,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- pour on,
- pour out,
- pour over,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- purgatory,
- quag,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- rain,
- run over,
- salt marsh,
- scrape,
- scuttle,
- septic tank,
- sewer,
- shaking,
- sink,
- slob land,
- slop,
- slosh,
- slough,
- sluice,
- snow under,
- sough,
- spill,
- spill out,
- spill over,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- strait,
- straits,
- submerge,
- sump,
- swale,
- swampland,
- sweep,
- taiga,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- unholy mess,
- view,
- wallow,
- wash,
- whelm
- gumbo
collapse
- a soup or stew thickened with okra pods
- long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
- any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water related words >
- adhesive,
- adobe,
- albumen,
- amylaceous,
- batter,
- bisque,
- bonnyclabber,
- borscht,
- bouillabaisse,
- bouillon,
- broth,
- burgoo,
- butter,
- chicken soup,
- chowder,
- clabber,
- clabbered,
- clam chowder,
- clammy,
- clay,
- clayey,
- clayish,
- clear soup,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- consomme,
- cornstarch,
- cream,
- curd,
- curdled,
- dough,
- doughy,
- earthy,
- egg drop soup,
- egg white,
- fish soup,
- gaum,
- gaumy,
- gazpacho,
- gel,
- gelatin,
- gelatinous,
- glair,
- glairy,
- glop,
- glue,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- gluten,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- goo,
- gooey,
- gook,
- goop,
- gravy soup,
- gruel,
- grumous,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- gunk,
- heavy,
- inspissated,
- jam,
- jell,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jelly,
- jellylike,
- julienne,
- loamy,
- loblolly,
- marly,
- matzo ball soup,
- minestrone,
- mire,
- misoshiru soup,
- mock turtle soup,
- molasses,
- mucilage,
- mucilaginous,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mud,
- mulligatawny,
- ooze,
- oxtail soup,
- pap,
- paste,
- pasty,
- porridge,
- pot-au-feu,
- potage,
- potage au tomate,
- potato soup,
- pottage,
- pudding,
- pulp,
- puree,
- putty,
- rob,
- ropy,
- semifluid,
- semiliquid,
- size,
- slabby,
- slime,
- slimy,
- slip,
- slithery,
- slob,
- slop,
- slosh,
- sludge,
- slush,
- soily,
- soup,
- squash,
- starch,
- starchy,
- sticky,
- sticky mess,
- stock,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- swill,
- syrup,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thick soup,
- thickened,
- thin soup,
- tomato soup,
- tough,
- treacle,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- turtle soup,
- vegetable soup,
- vichyssoise,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- won ton soup
- slosh
collapse
- spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" related words >
- asperge,
- avalanche,
- babble,
- bang,
- bash,
- bat,
- bedew,
- belt,
- bespatter,
- besprinkle,
- biff,
- blizzard,
- bolt,
- bubble,
- burble,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- catch,
- churn,
- clay,
- clout,
- crack,
- cram,
- crystal,
- dabble,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- deluge,
- dew,
- douche,
- douse,
- driven snow,
- engulf,
- flake,
- flood,
- flurry,
- foam,
- froth,
- glop,
- gobble,
- granular snow,
- guggle,
- gumbo,
- gunk,
- gurgle,
- gush,
- guzzle,
- hose,
- hose down,
- humect,
- humectate,
- humidify,
- igloo,
- ingurgitate,
- inundate,
- irrigate,
- lap,
- lapping,
- mantle of snow,
- mire,
- mogul,
- moisten,
- muck,
- mud,
- nail,
- ooze,
- overbrim,
- overflow,
- overrun,
- overwhelm,
- paddle,
- plash,
- pound,
- pour out,
- pour over,
- purl,
- ripple,
- roar,
- run over,
- rush,
- scum,
- shower,
- slab,
- slam,
- slime,
- slip,
- slob,
- slobber,
- slog,
- slop,
- sludge,
- slush,
- smack,
- smite,
- snow,
- snow banner,
- snow bed,
- snow blanket,
- snow blast,
- snow fence,
- snow flurry,
- snow roller,
- snow slush,
- snow squall,
- snow wreath,
- snow-crystal,
- snowball,
- snowbank,
- snowbridge,
- snowcap,
- snowdrift,
- snowfall,
- snowfield,
- snowflake,
- snowland,
- snowman,
- snowscape,
- snowshed,
- snowslide,
- snowslip,
- snowstorm,
- sock,
- sparge,
- spatter,
- spill,
- spill out,
- spill over,
- spindrift,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splosh,
- splurge,
- sponge,
- spray,
- sprinkle,
- spume,
- spurtle,
- squash,
- submerge,
- swamp,
- swash,
- sweep,
- swill,
- swish,
- syringe,
- trill,
- tumble,
- wallop,
- wash,
- washing,
- water,
- wet,
- wet down,
- wet snow,
- whack,
- whelm,
- whirl,
- wolf
- hang up
collapse
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle related words >
- adjourn,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blow up,
- bog down,
- bottleneck,
- bureaucratic delay,
- buzz,
- call,
- call up,
- catch,
- come to nothing,
- complex,
- compulsion,
- continue,
- cordon,
- curtain,
- decelerate,
- defer,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detain,
- detention,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- dial,
- difficulty,
- double take,
- drag out,
- dragging,
- drawback,
- explode,
- extend,
- fail miserably,
- fascination,
- fasten up,
- fixation,
- fixed idea,
- fizz out,
- fizzle,
- fizzle out,
- get nowhere,
- give a ring,
- go phut,
- halt,
- hang,
- hang fire,
- hazard,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hold off,
- hold over,
- hold the phone,
- hold up,
- holdup,
- hurdle,
- hypercathexis,
- idee fixe,
- interim,
- irresistible impulse,
- jam,
- joker,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- listen in,
- logjam,
- make a call,
- mire,
- misfire,
- monomania,
- moratorium,
- morbid drive,
- objection,
- obsession,
- obsessive compulsion,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- phone,
- pigeonhole,
- poop out,
- possession,
- postpone,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- push aside,
- put aside,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- put up,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reprieve,
- reserve,
- respite,
- retard,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- ring,
- ring off,
- ring up,
- rub,
- ruling passion,
- set aside,
- set back,
- set by,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- slacken,
- sleep on,
- sling,
- slow down,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- snag,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stretch out,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- table,
- take a recess,
- telephone,
- tic,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait,
- waive
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