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- defense mechanism
collapse - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance,
- avoidance mechanism,
- avoidance reaction,
- avoiding reaction,
- blame-shifting,
- block,
- blocking,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conversion,
- decompensation,
- defence,
- defense,
- defense in depth,
- defenses,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- deterrent capacity,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- dodge,
- duck,
- ego defenses,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emotional insulation,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- guard,
- isolation,
- jink,
- mental block,
- negative taxis,
- negativism,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- overcompensation,
- prevention,
- projection,
- protection,
- psychological defenses,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- repression,
- resistance,
- self-defense,
- self-preservation,
- self-protection,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- symbolization,
- the defensive,
- the runaround,
- ward,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- zigzag
- vehicle
collapse
- a conveyance that transports people or objects
- a medium for the expression or achievement of something; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"; "the play was just a vehicle to display her talents"
- a substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it related words >
- Charlie McCarthy,
- Grand Guignol,
- Passion play,
- Tom show,
- agency,
- agent,
- ancilla,
- antimasque,
- appliance,
- audience success,
- backing,
- ballet,
- bibliofilm,
- bipack,
- black-and-white film,
- bomb,
- broadcast drama,
- burlesque show,
- carrier,
- cartridge,
- channel,
- charade,
- chromogen,
- cliff hanger,
- closet drama,
- coat,
- coat of paint,
- coating,
- color,
- color film,
- color filter,
- color gelatin,
- color negative film,
- colorant,
- coloring,
- comedy drama,
- conduit,
- contrivance,
- conveyance,
- creature,
- critical success,
- daytime serial,
- dead-color,
- device,
- dialogue,
- distemper,
- documentary drama,
- dope,
- drama,
- dramalogue,
- dramatic play,
- dramatic series,
- drier,
- dry plate,
- dummy,
- duodrama,
- duologue,
- dupe,
- dye,
- dyestuff,
- emulsion,
- epic theater,
- experimental theater,
- exterior paint,
- extravaganza,
- failure,
- film,
- flat coat,
- flat wash,
- floor enamel,
- flop,
- frame,
- gasser,
- giveaway,
- go-between,
- ground,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- happening,
- hit,
- hit show,
- implement,
- improvisational drama,
- instrument,
- instrumentality,
- interagent,
- interior paint,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- legitimate drama,
- lever,
- masque,
- mean,
- means,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- melodrama,
- microfilm,
- midwife,
- minion,
- ministry,
- minstrel show,
- miracle,
- miracle play,
- monochromatic film,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- morality,
- morality play,
- motion-picture film,
- music drama,
- musical revue,
- mystery,
- mystery play,
- negative,
- opaque color,
- opera,
- organ,
- orthochromatic film,
- pack,
- pageant,
- paint,
- panchromatic film,
- panel show,
- pantomime,
- pastoral,
- pastoral drama,
- pawn,
- photographic paper,
- piece,
- pigment,
- plate,
- play,
- playlet,
- plaything,
- prime coat,
- primer,
- priming,
- printing paper,
- problem play,
- psychodrama,
- puppet,
- quiz show,
- radio drama,
- review,
- revue,
- roll,
- sensational play,
- serial,
- servant,
- show,
- sitcom,
- situation comedy,
- sketch,
- skit,
- slave,
- soap,
- soap opera,
- sociodrama,
- sound film,
- sound track,
- sound-on-film,
- soundstripe,
- spectacle,
- stage play,
- stage show,
- stain,
- stooge,
- straight drama,
- success,
- suspense drama,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- talk show,
- teleplay,
- television drama,
- television play,
- tempera,
- theater of cruelty,
- thinner,
- tinction,
- tincture,
- tool,
- total theater,
- toy,
- transparent color,
- transport,
- transportation,
- tripack,
- turpentine,
- turps,
- undercoat,
- undercoating,
- variety show,
- vaudeville,
- vaudeville show,
- wash,
- wash coat,
- word-of-mouth success,
- work
- antigen
collapse
- any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies) related words >
- Rh factor,
- Rh-negative,
- Rh-positive,
- Rh-type,
- Rhesus factor,
- acquired immunity,
- active immunity,
- agglutinin,
- allergen,
- anaphylactin,
- antiantibody,
- antibody,
- antiserum,
- antitoxic serum,
- antitoxin,
- antivenin,
- arterial blood,
- artificial immunity,
- blood,
- blood bank,
- blood cell,
- blood count,
- blood donor,
- blood donor center,
- blood group,
- blood grouping,
- blood picture,
- blood platelet,
- blood pressure,
- blood serum,
- blood substitute,
- bloodmobile,
- bloodstream,
- circulation,
- clinical dextran,
- congenital immunity,
- dextran,
- erythrocyte,
- familial immunity,
- globulin,
- gore,
- grume,
- hematics,
- hematologist,
- hematology,
- hematoscope,
- hematoscopy,
- hemocyte,
- hemoglobin,
- hemometer,
- humor,
- ichor,
- immunity,
- immunization,
- incomplete antibody,
- inherent immunity,
- inherited immunity,
- interferon,
- isoantibody,
- leukocyte,
- lifeblood,
- natural immunity,
- neutrophil,
- nonspecific immunity,
- nonsusceptibility to disease,
- opsonic immunity,
- opsonin,
- passive immunity,
- phagocyte,
- phagocytic immunity,
- plasma,
- plasma substitute,
- precipitin,
- racial immunity,
- red corpuscle,
- resistance,
- serum,
- specific immunity,
- toxin-antitoxin immunity,
- type O,
- venous blood,
- white corpuscle
- antibody
collapse
- any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response related words >
- Rh factor,
- Rh-negative,
- Rh-positive,
- Rh-type,
- Rhesus factor,
- acquired immunity,
- active immunity,
- agglutinin,
- allergen,
- anaphylactin,
- antiantibody,
- antigen,
- antiserum,
- antitoxic serum,
- antitoxin,
- antivenin,
- arterial blood,
- artificial immunity,
- blood,
- blood bank,
- blood cell,
- blood count,
- blood donor,
- blood donor center,
- blood group,
- blood grouping,
- blood picture,
- blood platelet,
- blood pressure,
- blood serum,
- blood substitute,
- bloodmobile,
- bloodstream,
- circulation,
- clinical dextran,
- congenital immunity,
- dextran,
- erythrocyte,
- familial immunity,
- globulin,
- gore,
- grume,
- hematics,
- hematologist,
- hematology,
- hematoscope,
- hematoscopy,
- hemocyte,
- hemoglobin,
- hemometer,
- humor,
- ichor,
- immunity,
- immunization,
- incomplete antibody,
- inherent immunity,
- inherited immunity,
- interferon,
- isoantibody,
- leukocyte,
- lifeblood,
- natural immunity,
- neutrophil,
- nonspecific immunity,
- nonsusceptibility to disease,
- opsonic immunity,
- opsonin,
- passive immunity,
- phagocyte,
- phagocytic immunity,
- plasma,
- plasma substitute,
- precipitin,
- racial immunity,
- red corpuscle,
- resistance,
- serum,
- specific immunity,
- toxin-antitoxin immunity,
- type O,
- venous blood,
- white corpuscle
- cohere
collapse
- have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"
- cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups" related words >
- accord,
- adhere,
- agglomerate,
- agree,
- answer to,
- assent,
- associate,
- assort with,
- be consistent,
- be of one,
- be uniform with,
- blend,
- bunch,
- check,
- check out,
- chime,
- clasp,
- cleave,
- clinch,
- cling,
- cling to,
- clot,
- cluster,
- coagulate,
- coalesce,
- coincide,
- combine,
- come together,
- communicate,
- comport,
- concur,
- conform,
- conform with,
- congeal,
- conglomerate,
- connect,
- consist with,
- converge,
- cooperate,
- correspond,
- dovetail,
- embrace,
- fall in together,
- fit in,
- fit together,
- freeze to,
- fuse,
- go,
- go together,
- go with,
- grasp,
- grow together,
- hang on,
- hang together,
- harmonize,
- hit,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold together,
- hug,
- intercommunicate,
- interlock,
- intersect,
- jibe,
- join,
- knit,
- lock,
- mass,
- match,
- meet,
- merge,
- overlap,
- parallel,
- persist,
- register,
- register with,
- respond to,
- set,
- sing in chorus,
- solidify,
- sort with,
- square,
- square with,
- stand together,
- stay,
- stay put,
- stick,
- stick together,
- take hold of,
- tally,
- unite
- dealing
collapse
- method or manner of conduct in relation to others; "honest dealing" related words >
- ESP,
- agency,
- answer,
- balance of trade,
- barter,
- bartering,
- big business,
- brokerage,
- business,
- business dealings,
- buying and selling,
- commerce,
- commercial affairs,
- commercial relations,
- communication,
- communion,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- correspondence,
- dealings,
- doing business,
- exchange,
- fair trade,
- free trade,
- give-and-take,
- horse trading,
- industry,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- jobbing,
- linguistic intercourse,
- market,
- marketing,
- mercantile business,
- merchandising,
- merchantry,
- message,
- multilateral trade,
- reciprocal trade,
- reply,
- response,
- restraint of trade,
- retailing,
- small business,
- social intercourse,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- swapping,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- the business world,
- the marketplace,
- touch,
- trade,
- trading,
- traffic,
- trafficking,
- truck,
- two-way communication,
- unilateral trade,
- wheeling and dealing,
- wholesaling
- overwhelm
collapse
- charge someone with too many tasks
- overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli related words >
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- amaze,
- anguish,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- argue down,
- astonish,
- astound,
- awe,
- awestrike,
- baptize,
- be prodigal with,
- be strong,
- beat,
- beat down,
- bedaze,
- bedazzle,
- bend,
- bewilder,
- blank,
- board,
- boggle,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bring low,
- bring to tears,
- bring to terms,
- bulldoze,
- bury,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- clobber,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confute,
- conquer,
- contradict,
- controvert,
- cream,
- crush,
- cut up,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- defeat,
- defeat utterly,
- deluge,
- demolish,
- demoralize,
- deny,
- desolate,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- dip,
- discombobulate,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- disturb,
- douse,
- downgrade,
- draw tears,
- drown,
- drown out,
- drub,
- duck,
- dumbfound,
- dumbfounder,
- dunk,
- embitter,
- engulf,
- escalade,
- finish,
- flabbergast,
- flood,
- flood the market,
- floor,
- foray,
- grieve,
- humble,
- humiliate,
- immerge,
- immerse,
- inroad,
- inundate,
- invade,
- jam,
- knock over,
- lick,
- lower,
- make a raid,
- make an inroad,
- master,
- merge,
- nonplus,
- oppress,
- outroar,
- outshout,
- overbear,
- overbrim,
- overcome,
- overdose,
- overequip,
- overflow,
- overfurnish,
- overlavish,
- overmaster,
- overpower,
- overprovender,
- overprovide,
- overprovision,
- overrun,
- oversell,
- overstock,
- oversupply,
- overtax,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- pack a punch,
- paralyze,
- parry,
- paste,
- perplex,
- petrify,
- plunge in water,
- pour out,
- pour over,
- prostrate,
- put to silence,
- quash,
- quell,
- raid,
- rebut,
- reduce,
- reduce to silence,
- refute,
- ruin,
- run over,
- scale,
- scale the walls,
- schmear,
- settle,
- shatter,
- shellac,
- shock,
- shout down,
- shut out,
- shut up,
- silence,
- sink,
- skunk,
- slop,
- slosh,
- smash all opposition,
- smear,
- smother,
- snow under,
- sorrow,
- souse,
- spill,
- spill out,
- spill over,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stagger,
- startle,
- steamroller,
- storm,
- strike dead,
- strike dumb,
- strike with wonder,
- stun,
- stupefy,
- subdue,
- submerge,
- submerse,
- subordinate,
- subvert,
- suppress,
- surprise,
- swamp,
- sweep,
- take aback,
- take by storm,
- thrash,
- torment,
- trample underfoot,
- tread underfoot,
- trim,
- tyrannize,
- undermine,
- unman,
- upset,
- weigh down,
- whelm,
- whitewash,
- whomp,
- whop,
- wreck
- arrest,
- backpedal,
- backslide,
- backwater,
- be found wanting,
- brake,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- cock,
- collapse,
- come short,
- curb,
- decelerate,
- decline,
- delay,
- detain,
- draw rein,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- fail,
- fall astern,
- fall away,
- fall behind,
- fall short,
- get behind,
- go backwards,
- go behind,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- impede,
- jerk back,
- keep back,
- lack,
- lag,
- lapse,
- let down,
- let up,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- moderate,
- not answer,
- not hack it,
- not make it,
- not make out,
- not measure up,
- not stretch,
- not suffice,
- obstruct,
- pull back,
- recede,
- recidivate,
- reef,
- regress,
- rein in,
- relapse,
- relax,
- retard,
- retrocede,
- retroflex,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- return,
- revert,
- run short,
- set back,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slip back,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slump,
- stay,
- stop short,
- take in sail,
- throttle down,
- want
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