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over straining
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struggling
collapse
engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"
related words >
battling
,
contending
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
disputant
,
drudging
,
fighting
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hardworking
,
laboring
,
pegging
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
quarrelsome
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
straining
,
striving
,
sweating
,
toiling
,
warlike
,
warring
,
working
tiring
collapse
related words >
boresome
,
boring
,
draining
,
drudging
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
grueling
,
irksome
,
killing
,
punishing
,
straining
,
stressful
,
stupefyingly boring
,
stuporific
,
tedious
,
tiresome
,
toilsome
,
trying
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
yawny
breaking point
collapse
the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks
(psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial
related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
distension
,
extreme tension
,
inflation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swelling
,
tension
overexpansion
collapse
related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
breaking point
,
distension
,
extreme tension
,
inflation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overextension
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swelling
,
tension
fatiguing
collapse
related words >
boresome
,
boring
,
devitalizing
,
draining
,
enervating
,
enfeebling
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
grueling
,
irksome
,
killing
,
punishing
,
sapping
,
straining
,
stressful
,
stupefyingly boring
,
stuporific
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
trying
,
weakening
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
yawny
wearying
collapse
related words >
boresome
,
boring
,
burdensome
,
draining
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
grinding
,
grueling
,
harsh
,
heavy
,
irksome
,
killing
,
onerous
,
oppressive
,
overburdensome
,
punishing
,
straining
,
stressful
,
stupefyingly boring
,
stuporific
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
trying
,
tyrannous
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
weighty
,
yawny
misrepresentation
collapse
a misleading falsehood
related words >
canard
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
corruption
,
distortion
,
equivocation
,
exaggeration
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
fib
,
lie
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdirection
,
misinterpretation
,
misstatement
,
misuse
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
prevarication
,
slanting
,
story
,
straining
,
tale
,
torturing
,
untruth
exhausting
collapse
producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
related words >
arduous
,
burdensome
,
crippling
,
debilitating
,
devitalizing
,
difficult
,
draining
,
enervating
,
enfeebling
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
grinding
,
grueling
,
hard
,
harsh
,
heavy
,
killing
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
oppressive
,
overburdensome
,
punishing
,
sapping
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
trying
,
tyrannous
,
weakening
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
weighty
hardworking
collapse
characterized by hard work and perseverance
related words >
ardent
,
assiduous
,
diligent
,
drudging
,
energetic
,
fervent
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hard
,
indefatigable
,
industrious
,
laboring
,
laborious
,
never idle
,
pegging
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
relentless
,
sedulous
,
slaving
,
sleepless
,
slogging
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
striving
,
struggling
,
sweating
,
tireless
,
toiling
,
unflagging
,
unremitting
,
unsleeping
,
unsparing
,
unwearied
,
vehement
,
working
,
zealous
falsification
collapse
the act of determining that something is false
the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
a willful perversion of facts
related words >
abstractionism
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
equivocation
,
exaggeration
,
expressionism
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsifying
,
garbling
,
hyperbole
,
inaccuracy
,
injustice
,
litotes
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
nonrealism
,
overdrawing
,
overstatement
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
prevarication
,
slanting
,
straining
,
twisting
,
understatement
stressful
collapse
related words >
adverse
,
antagonistic
,
conflicting
,
contrary
,
counter
,
counteractive
,
detrimental
,
difficult
,
draining
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
grueling
,
hard
,
harmful
,
hostile
,
in opposition
,
inimical
,
killing
,
miserable
,
not easy
,
opposed
,
opposing
,
opposite
,
punishing
,
rigorous
,
sinister
,
straining
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
troublesome
,
troublous
,
trying
,
unfavorable
,
untoward
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
wretched
filtration
collapse
the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter
the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium
related words >
bolting
,
clarification
,
colature
,
destructive distillation
,
distillation
,
edulcoration
,
effusion
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
essentialization
,
excretion
,
exfiltration
,
extraction
,
extravasation
,
exudation
,
filtering
,
leaching
,
lixiviation
,
ooze
,
oozing
,
percolating
,
percolation
,
purification
,
refinement
,
riddling
,
screening
,
seep
,
seepage
,
separation
,
sieving
,
sifting
,
spiritualization
,
straining
,
sublimation
,
transudation
,
weep
,
weeping
,
winnowing
filtering
collapse
related words >
bolting
,
clarification
,
colature
,
destructive distillation
,
distillation
,
edulcoration
,
effusion
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
essentialization
,
excretion
,
exfiltration
,
extraction
,
extravasation
,
exudation
,
filtration
,
leaching
,
lixiviation
,
ooze
,
oozing
,
percolating
,
percolation
,
purification
,
refinement
,
riddling
,
screening
,
seep
,
seepage
,
separation
,
sieving
,
sifting
,
spiritualization
,
straining
,
sublimation
,
transudation
,
weep
,
weeping
,
winnowing
perjury
collapse
criminal offense of making false statements under oath
related words >
artfulness
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
craftiness
,
credibility gap
,
deceitfulness
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
equivocation
,
exaggeration
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falseheartedness
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
forswearing
,
fraud
,
insincerity
,
intrigue
,
lying
,
mendaciousness
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
perversion
,
prevarication
,
sharp practice
,
straining
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
unfrankness
,
unsincereness
,
untruthfulness
misdirection
collapse
incorrect directions or instructions
an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge
related words >
bad policy
,
bum steer
,
college of Laputa
,
corruption
,
false coloring
,
impolicy
,
inexpedience
,
inexpediency
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
misadministration
,
misconduct
,
misconstruction
,
misfeasance
,
misgovernment
,
misguidance
,
mishandling
,
misinformation
,
misinstruction
,
misinterpretation
,
misknowledge
,
misleading
,
mismanagement
,
misrepresentation
,
misrule
,
misteaching
,
misuse
,
mystification
,
neglect
,
negligence
,
nonfeasance
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
obscuration
,
omission
,
perversion
,
slanting
,
sophistry
,
straining
,
torturing
,
wrongdoing
stickling
collapse
related words >
bashful
,
bashfulness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
cautious
,
compunction
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurring
,
diffidence
,
diffident
,
falter
,
faltering
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
jibbing
,
modest
,
modesty
,
objection
,
pause
,
protest
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmish
,
qualmishness
,
recoil
,
scruple
,
scrupling
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulous
,
scrupulousness
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
shyness
,
squeamish
,
sticking
,
straining
,
tentative
,
timid
overextension
collapse
related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
breaking point
,
distension
,
extreme tension
,
franticness
,
frenziedness
,
haul
,
heave
,
hyperactivity
,
hyperkinesia
,
hyperkinesis
,
inflation
,
officiousness
,
overactivity
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overexertion
,
overexpansion
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstress
,
overstretching
,
overtaxing
,
pull
,
rack
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stress
,
stress and strain
,
stressfulness
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swelling
,
taxing
,
tension
,
tug
torturing
collapse
related words >
abuse of terms
,
agonizing
,
catachresis
,
contorting
,
corruption
,
distortion
,
eisegesis
,
error
,
false coloring
,
garbling
,
gloss
,
harrowing
,
malentendu
,
malobservation
,
misapplication
,
misapprehension
,
miscitation
,
misconception
,
misconstruction
,
misdirection
,
misexplanation
,
misexplication
,
misexposition
,
misintelligence
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misquotation
,
misreading
,
misrendering
,
misrepresentation
,
mistranslation
,
misunderstanding
,
misuse
,
misuse of words
,
perversion
,
racking
,
slanting
,
squeezing
,
straining
,
tearing
,
tormenting
,
torturous
,
twisting
,
wrenching
excretion
collapse
related words >
cleaning out
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
defecation
,
depletion
,
discharging cargo
,
drainage
,
draining
,
effusion
,
egress
,
elimination
,
emptying
,
evacuation
,
exfiltration
,
exhausting
,
exhaustion
,
external secretion
,
extravasation
,
exudation
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
internal secretion
,
lacrimation
,
lactation
,
leaching
,
lixiviation
,
off-loading
,
ooze
,
oozing
,
percolating
,
percolation
,
removal
,
secernment
,
secreta
,
secretion
,
seep
,
seepage
,
straining
,
transudation
,
unloading
,
venting
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
weep
,
weeping
punishing
collapse
resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
related words >
Herculean
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
burdensome
,
castigatory
,
chastening
,
chastising
,
corrective
,
crushing
,
demanding
,
disciplinary
,
draining
,
effortful
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
forced
,
grueling
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
inflictive
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
penal
,
penological
,
punitive
,
punitory
,
retributive
,
strained
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
taxing
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
torturous
,
tough
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
uphill
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
shilly shallying
collapse
related words >
caution
,
cautious
,
cautiousness
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
demurring
,
diffidence
,
diffident
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dragging
,
equivocation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fluctuating
,
fluctuation
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hesitation
,
jibbing
,
lag
,
lagging
,
lingering
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
oscillating
,
oscillation
,
oscillatory
,
pendulating
,
pendulation
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
scrupling
,
shilly-shally
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
tarrying
,
tentative
,
tentativeness
,
timid
,
vacillating
,
vacillation
,
vacillatory
,
wavering
,
wobbling
,
wobbly
hesitating
collapse
related words >
agnostic
,
ambiguous
,
balbutient
,
bashful
,
boggling
,
capricious
,
cautious
,
chancy
,
changeable
,
demurring
,
dicey
,
diffident
,
doubting
,
equivocal
,
erratic
,
faltering
,
fickle
,
halting
,
hesitant
,
incalculable
,
indecisive
,
indemonstrable
,
irresolute
,
jibbing
,
modest
,
polysemous
,
qualmish
,
scrupling
,
scrupulous
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
skeptical
,
squeamish
,
stammering
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
stumbling
,
stuttering
,
tentative
,
timid
,
touch-and-go
,
unaccountable
,
uncertain
,
unconfirmable
,
unconvinced
,
undivinable
,
unforeseeable
,
unpersuaded
,
unpredictable
,
unprovable
,
unsure
,
unverifiable
,
variable
,
wavering
,
whimsical
diffident
collapse
lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"
related words >
bashful
,
boggling
,
cautious
,
cowardly
,
coy
,
demure
,
demurring
,
deprecative
,
deprecatory
,
faltering
,
fearful
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
goosy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
in fear
,
jibbing
,
jumpy
,
modest
,
mousy
,
nervous
,
qualmish
,
rabbity
,
reluctant
,
retiring
,
scary
,
scrupling
,
scrupulous
,
self-deprecating
,
self-depreciating
,
self-depreciative
,
self-distrustful
,
self-doubting
,
self-effacing
,
shaky
,
shilly-shallying
,
shivery
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
squeamish
,
startlish
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
tentative
,
timid
,
timorous
,
trembling
,
tremulous
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
unassertive
,
unassured
,
unselfconfident
,
unselfreliant
clarification
collapse
an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding; "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"
related words >
allegorization
,
bolting
,
colature
,
cracking
,
decipherment
,
decoding
,
demonstration
,
demythologization
,
destructive distillation
,
distillation
,
easing
,
editing
,
edulcoration
,
elucidation
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
emendation
,
enlightenment
,
essentialization
,
euhemerism
,
exegesis
,
exemplification
,
expediting
,
expedition
,
explanation
,
explication
,
exposition
,
expounding
,
extraction
,
facilitation
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
hastening
,
illumination
,
illustration
,
leaching
,
light
,
lixiviation
,
percolation
,
purification
,
quickening
,
rationale
,
reason
,
refinement
,
riddling
,
screening
,
separation
,
sieving
,
sifting
,
simplification
,
simplifying
,
smoothing
,
solution
,
speeding
,
spiritualization
,
straining
,
streamlining
,
sublimation
,
unlocking
,
winnowing
grueling
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
annoying
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
besetting
,
bothersome
,
burdensome
,
castigatory
,
chastening
,
chastising
,
corrective
,
crushing
,
devitalizing
,
disciplinary
,
draining
,
effortful
,
enervating
,
enfeebling
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
forced
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
inflictive
,
irksome
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
penal
,
penological
,
plaguey
,
punishing
,
punitive
,
punitory
,
retributive
,
sapping
,
strained
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
tough
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
uphill
,
vexatious
,
weakening
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
ooze
collapse
related words >
bleed
,
clay
,
discharge
,
drain
,
drip
,
effuse
,
effusion
,
emit
,
excrete
,
excretion
,
exfiltrate
,
exfiltration
,
extravasate
,
extravasation
,
exudate
,
exudation
,
exude
,
filter
,
filtering
,
filtrate
,
filtration
,
give off
,
glop
,
goo
,
goop
,
gumbo
,
gunk
,
leach
,
leaching
,
leak
,
lixiviate
,
lixiviation
,
mire
,
muck
,
mud
,
oozing
,
percolate
,
percolating
,
percolation
,
reek
,
scum
,
secrete
,
sediment
,
seep
,
seepage
,
sew
,
silt
,
slab
,
slime
,
slip
,
slob
,
slop
,
slosh
,
sludge
,
slush
,
splosh
,
squash
,
strain
,
straining
,
sweat
,
swill
,
transpire
,
transudation
,
transude
,
trickle
,
weep
,
weeping
misinterpretation
collapse
putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning"
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
corruption
,
defectiveness
,
delusion
,
deviancy
,
distortion
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
error in judgment
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false coloring
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
illusion
,
injudiciousness
,
misapplication
,
misappreciation
,
miscalculation
,
miscomputation
,
misconjecture
,
misconstruction
,
misdirection
,
misdoing
,
misestimation
,
misevaluation
,
misfeasance
,
misjudgment
,
misreading
,
misrepresentation
,
misuse
,
misvaluation
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
poor judgment
,
self-contradiction
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
skewed judgment
,
slanting
,
straining
,
torturing
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
wrong
,
wrong construction
,
wrong impression
,
wrongness
toilsome
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
abstruse
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
brutal
,
burdensome
,
complex
,
critical
,
crushing
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
difficile
,
difficult
,
draining
,
effortful
,
enervating
,
exacting
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
forced
,
formidable
,
grueling
,
hairy
,
hard
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
intricate
,
jawbreaking
,
killing
,
knotted
,
knotty
,
labored
,
laborious
,
mean
,
no picnic
,
not easy
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
punishing
,
rigorous
,
rough
,
rugged
,
set with thorns
,
severe
,
spiny
,
steep
,
strained
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
tough
,
tricky
,
troublesome
,
trying
,
uphill
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
wicked
slanting
collapse
related words >
abstractionism
,
aslant
,
aslope
,
atilt
,
bevel
,
beveled
,
bias
,
biased
,
canting
,
careening
,
coloring
,
corruption
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
exaggeration
,
expressionism
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
garbling
,
hyperbole
,
inaccuracy
,
inclinational
,
inclinatory
,
inclined
,
inclining
,
injustice
,
leaning
,
listing
,
litotes
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdirection
,
misdrawing
,
misinterpretation
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
misuse
,
nonrealism
,
out of plumb
,
out of square
,
overdrawing
,
overstatement
,
perversion
,
pitched
,
raking
,
recumbent
,
shelving
,
shelvy
,
sideling
,
sidelong
,
slant
,
slanted
,
slantways
,
slantwise
,
sloped
,
sloping
,
straining
,
tilted
,
tilting
,
tipped
,
tipping
,
tipsy
,
torturing
,
twisting
,
understatement
distension
collapse
related words >
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
boil
,
breaking point
,
bump
,
bunion
,
carbuncle
,
corn
,
cyst
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
extension
,
extreme tension
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
furuncle
,
gassiness
,
inflation
,
intumescence
,
lump
,
meteorism
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
pimple
,
pock
,
puff
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
pustule
,
rising
,
sebaceous cyst
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tension
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
tumor
,
turgescence
,
turgescency
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
wen
,
windiness
seepage
collapse
the process of seeping
related words >
absorbency
,
absorbent
,
absorption
,
access
,
admission
,
adsorbent
,
adsorption
,
assimilation
,
blotter
,
blotting
,
blotting paper
,
chemisorption
,
chemosorption
,
condensation
,
digestion
,
distillation
,
dribble
,
drip
,
dripping
,
drop
,
effusion
,
endosmosis
,
engrossment
,
entrance
,
entree
,
entry
,
excretion
,
exfiltration
,
exosmosis
,
extravasation
,
exudation
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
import
,
importation
,
importing
,
income
,
incoming
,
infiltration
,
ingoing
,
ingress
,
ingression
,
input
,
insertion
,
insinuation
,
intake
,
interpenetration
,
introduction
,
introgression
,
intrusion
,
leaching
,
leakage
,
lixiviation
,
ooze
,
oozing
,
osmosis
,
penetration
,
percolating
,
percolation
,
reception
,
seep
,
seeping
,
sorption
,
sponge
,
sponging
,
spurtle
,
straining
,
sweating
,
transudation
,
trickle
,
tricklet
,
weep
,
weeping
sifting
collapse
related words >
amassing evidence
,
appraisal
,
assessment
,
assortment
,
bolting
,
categorization
,
clarification
,
classification
,
close inquiry
,
colature
,
culling
,
department of investigation
,
destructive distillation
,
detection
,
detective work
,
distillation
,
edulcoration
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
essentialization
,
evaluation
,
exhaustive study
,
extraction
,
factoring
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
gauging
,
gradation
,
grouping
,
hearing
,
identification
,
indagation
,
investigation
,
investigative bureau
,
leaching
,
legislative investigation
,
legwork
,
lixiviation
,
percolation
,
perscrutation
,
placement
,
probe
,
purification
,
ranking
,
refinement
,
research
,
riddling
,
screening
,
selection
,
separation
,
sieving
,
sifting out
,
sleuthing
,
sorting
,
sorting out
,
spiritualization
,
straining
,
sublimation
,
subordination
,
taxonomy
,
triage
,
weighing
,
winnowing
,
witch-hunt
striving
collapse
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
related words >
aim
,
ambition
,
animus
,
aspiration
,
battling
,
combat
,
competition
,
conflict
,
contending
,
contestant
,
contesting
,
counsel
,
desideration
,
desideratum
,
design
,
desire
,
determination
,
disputant
,
drudging
,
effect
,
effort
,
emulation
,
endeavor
,
essay
,
exertion
,
fight
,
fighting
,
fixed purpose
,
function
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hardworking
,
hassle
,
idea
,
intendment
,
intent
,
intention
,
labor
,
laboring
,
meaning
,
mind
,
motive
,
nisus
,
pegging
,
plan
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
point
,
project
,
proposal
,
prospectus
,
purpose
,
quarrelsome
,
resolution
,
resolve
,
rivalry
,
sake
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
strain
,
straining
,
strife
,
struggle
,
struggling
,
study
,
sweating
,
toil
,
toiling
,
travail
,
trial
,
try
,
tug-of-war
,
undertaking
,
view
,
warfare
,
warlike
,
warring
,
will
,
work
,
working
misstatement
collapse
a statement that contains a mistake
related words >
abstractionism
,
bloomer
,
blooper
,
blunder
,
clerical error
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
corrigendum
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
equivocation
,
erratum
,
error
,
exaggeration
,
expressionism
,
fabrication
,
failure
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
fault
,
faute
,
faux pas
,
gaffe
,
garbling
,
howler
,
human error
,
hyperbole
,
inaccuracy
,
injustice
,
lapsus linguae
,
lie
,
litotes
,
misapprehension
,
miscalculation
,
miscarriage
,
miscitation
,
miscoloring
,
misconception
,
misconstruction
,
miscount
,
misdeal
,
misdrawing
,
misidentification
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
mispainting
,
misplay
,
misprint
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
miss
,
mistake
,
misteaching
,
misunderstanding
,
misuse
,
nonrealism
,
overdrawing
,
overstatement
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
prevarication
,
slanting
,
solecism
,
straining
,
twisting
,
typo
,
typographical error
,
understatement
,
untruth
sweating
collapse
related words >
ardent
,
baking
,
bathed in sweat
,
beaded with sweat
,
blistering
,
boiling
,
broiling
,
burning
,
burning hot
,
canicular
,
clammy
,
condensation
,
diaphoretic
,
distillation
,
drenched with sweat
,
dribble
,
drip
,
dripping
,
drop
,
drudging
,
ebullient
,
feverish
,
flushed
,
grilling
,
grinding
,
grubbing
,
hardworking
,
heated
,
hot
,
hot as fire
,
hot as hell
,
in a sweat
,
laboring
,
leaching
,
like a furnace
,
like an oven
,
lixiviation
,
overheated
,
overwarm
,
parching
,
pegging
,
percolation
,
perspiring
,
perspiry
,
piping hot
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
red-hot
,
roasting
,
scalding
,
scorching
,
searing
,
seepage
,
seeping
,
seething
,
simmering
,
sizzling hot
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
smoking hot
,
spurtle
,
sticky
,
straining
,
striving
,
struggling
,
sudatory
,
sudoric
,
sudorific
,
sweaty
,
sweltering
,
sweltry
,
toasting
,
toiling
,
torrid
,
trickle
,
tricklet
,
wet with sweat
,
white-hot
,
wilted
,
working
tiresome
collapse
related words >
aggravating
,
annoying
,
bland
,
boresome
,
boring
,
bothering
,
bothersome
,
burdensome
,
common
,
commonplace
,
difficult
,
disagreeable
,
disturbing
,
draining
,
drudging
,
dull
,
exasperating
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
flat
,
galling
,
grueling
,
harassing
,
hard
,
humdrum
,
hypnotic
,
importunate
,
importune
,
insipid
,
irking
,
irksome
,
irritating
,
jading
,
killing
,
matter-of-fact
,
monotonous
,
mundane
,
onerous
,
oppressive
,
ordinary
,
pedestrian
,
pesky
,
pestering
,
pestiferous
,
pestilent
,
pestilential
,
plaguesome
,
plaguey
,
plaguing
,
plain
,
poetryless
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
provoking
,
punishing
,
soporific
,
straining
,
stressful
,
stupefyingly boring
,
stuporific
,
teasing
,
tedious
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
tormenting
,
troublesome
,
troubling
,
trying
,
unembellished
,
unidealistic
,
unimaginative
,
unimpassioned
,
uninteresting
,
unpleasant
,
unpoetic
,
unromantic
,
vapid
,
vexatious
,
vexing
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
wearisome
,
wearying
,
worrisome
,
worrying
,
yawny
wearisome
collapse
related words >
Herculean
,
aggravating
,
annoying
,
arduous
,
backbreaking
,
black
,
bleak
,
boresome
,
boring
,
bothering
,
bothersome
,
burdensome
,
crushing
,
dark
,
dismal
,
disturbing
,
draining
,
drear
,
drearisome
,
dreary
,
effortful
,
exasperating
,
exhausting
,
fatiguesome
,
fatiguing
,
forced
,
funebrial
,
funereal
,
galling
,
gloomy
,
grave
,
gray
,
grim
,
grueling
,
harassing
,
hard-earned
,
hard-fought
,
heavy
,
hefty
,
importunate
,
importune
,
irking
,
irksome
,
irritating
,
killing
,
labored
,
laborious
,
onerous
,
operose
,
oppressive
,
painful
,
pesky
,
pestering
,
pestiferous
,
pestilent
,
pestilential
,
plaguesome
,
plaguey
,
plaguing
,
provoking
,
punishing
,
saturnine
,
solemn
,
somber
,
sombrous
,
strained
,
straining
,
strenuous
,
stressful
,
stupefyingly boring
,
stuporific
,
teasing
,
tiresome
,
tiring
,
toilsome
,
tormenting
,
tough
,
triste
,
troublesome
,
troubling
,
trying
,
uphill
,
vexatious
,
vexing
,
weariful
,
wearing
,
weary
,
wearying
,
worrisome
,
worrying
,
yawny
sublimation
collapse
(psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable
(chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid
related words >
aeration
,
aerification
,
alienation
,
atomization
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance mechanism
,
blame-shifting
,
block
,
blocking
,
bolting
,
clarification
,
colature
,
compensation
,
conversion
,
decompensation
,
defense mechanism
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
destructive distillation
,
displacement
,
dissociation
,
distillation
,
edulcoration
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
emotional insulation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
essentialization
,
etherealization
,
etherification
,
evaporation
,
exhalation
,
extraction
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
filtering
,
filtration
,
flight
,
fluidization
,
fractionation
,
fumigation
,
gasification
,
isolation
,
leaching
,
lixiviation
,
mental block
,
negativism
,
overcompensation
,
percolation
,
projection
,
psychotaxis
,
purification
,
rationalization
,
refinement
,
repression
,
resistance
,
riddling
,
screening
,
separation
,
sieving
,
sifting
,
smoking
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
spiritualization
,
steaming
,
straining
,
substitution
,
suppression
,
symbolization
,
vaporization
,
volatilization
,
winnowing
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
prevarication
collapse
related words >
bickering
,
blague
,
boggling
,
bouncer
,
canard
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
distortion
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fencing
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
hairsplitting
,
half-truth
,
hedging
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
logic-chopping
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
pettifoggery
,
pious fiction
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
straining
,
subterfuge
,
suppressio veri
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
weasel words
,
white lie
,
yarn
timid
collapse
people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
showing fear and lack of confidence
related words >
afraid
,
apprehensive
,
bashful
,
cautious
,
chicken
,
chickenhearted
,
confused
,
conscious
,
coward
,
cowardly
,
cowed
,
coy
,
craven
,
daunted
,
demure
,
demurring
,
diffident
,
dismayed
,
fainthearted
,
faltering
,
fearful
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
frightened
,
funking
,
funky
,
goosy
,
gutless
,
henhearted
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
humble
,
in fear
,
inarticulate
,
intimidated
,
jibbing
,
jumpy
,
lily-livered
,
milk-livered
,
milksoppish
,
milksoppy
,
modest
,
mousy
,
nervous
,
overtimid
,
overtimorous
,
panic-prone
,
panicky
,
pigeonhearted
,
pusillanimous
,
rabbity
,
retiring
,
scared
,
scary
,
scrupling
,
self-conscious
,
shaky
,
shamefaced
,
shamefast
,
shilly-shallying
,
shivery
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
soft
,
stammering
,
startlish
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
tentative
,
timorous
,
trembling
,
tremulous
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
unassertive
,
unassured
,
unmanly
,
unmanned
,
weak
,
weak-kneed
,
weakhearted
,
white-livered
,
yellow
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