Related Words:
- rationalize
collapse - remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"
- think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits" related words >
- account,
- account for,
- adjust,
- allegorize,
- analyze,
- apply reason,
- argue insincerely,
- arrange,
- calculate,
- cast,
- chart,
- clarify,
- clear,
- clear up,
- codify,
- concert,
- contrive,
- coordinate,
- crack,
- cry sour grapes,
- cut out,
- decipher,
- deduce,
- demonstrate,
- demythologize,
- design,
- destigmatize,
- devise,
- distort,
- do justice to,
- elucidate,
- enlighten,
- euhemerize,
- exculpate,
- excuse,
- exemplify,
- explain,
- explain away,
- explicate,
- exposit,
- expound,
- figure,
- fix,
- forecast,
- frame,
- generalize,
- give reason for,
- give the meaning,
- harmonize,
- hypothesize,
- illuminate,
- illustrate,
- infer,
- intellectualize,
- intend,
- justify,
- lay plans,
- logicalize,
- logicize,
- make a projection,
- make arrangements,
- make clear,
- make plain,
- methodize,
- misapply,
- normalize,
- organize,
- paralogize,
- pervert,
- philosophize,
- plan,
- plan ahead,
- popularize,
- prearrange,
- program,
- project,
- provide a rationale,
- purge,
- reason,
- reason ill,
- reason out,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstate,
- restore,
- routinize,
- schedule,
- schematize,
- set up,
- settle,
- shape,
- shed light upon,
- show,
- show how,
- show the way,
- simplify,
- solve,
- spell out,
- standardize,
- syllogize,
- synchronize,
- synthesize,
- systematize,
- theorize,
- think through,
- throw light upon,
- tune,
- tune up,
- unfold,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- use reason,
- vindicate,
- warrant,
- work out,
- work up
- embroider
collapse
- add details to
- decorate with needlework related words >
- adorn,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- applique,
- array,
- baste,
- beautify,
- bedeck,
- bedizen,
- belie,
- bind,
- blazon,
- build up,
- buttonhole,
- camouflage,
- color,
- convolute,
- crochet,
- cross-stitch,
- dandify,
- deck,
- deck out,
- decorate,
- disguise,
- distend,
- distort,
- dizen,
- doll up,
- dramatize,
- dress,
- dress up,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- emblazon,
- enhance,
- enlarge upon,
- enrich,
- exaggerate,
- expand,
- falsify,
- fell,
- festoon,
- fig out,
- fix up,
- flourish,
- fudge,
- furbish,
- garble,
- garnish,
- gather,
- gild,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- grace,
- gussy up,
- hyperbolize,
- involve,
- knit,
- load with ornament,
- machine-stitch,
- magnify,
- mask,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- ornament,
- overcast,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasize,
- overestimate,
- overhand,
- overlay,
- overload,
- overpaint,
- overstate,
- pad,
- paint,
- pervert,
- prank,
- prank up,
- preen,
- prettify,
- primp,
- primp up,
- prink,
- prink up,
- purl,
- quilt,
- redecorate,
- redo,
- refurbish,
- renter,
- run,
- saddle-stitch,
- seam,
- set off,
- set out,
- single-stitch,
- slant,
- smarten,
- smarten up,
- spruce up,
- strain,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- tack,
- tat,
- titivate,
- trick out,
- trick up,
- trim,
- twist,
- understate,
- varnish,
- warp,
- whip,
- whipstitch,
- whitewash
- pollute
collapse
- make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" related words >
- abuse,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alloy,
- bastardize,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- booze up,
- boozify,
- canker,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- crock,
- crucify,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defalcate,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denaturalize,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devalue,
- dilute,
- dirty,
- disadvantage,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- divert,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doctor,
- doctor up,
- doom,
- embezzle,
- envenom,
- fortify,
- foul,
- fuddle,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- impair,
- infect,
- injure,
- jinx,
- lace,
- maladminister,
- maltreat,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- misapply,
- misappropriate,
- misemploy,
- mishandle,
- mismanage,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- nasty,
- outrage,
- overtake,
- peculate,
- persecute,
- pervert,
- pickle,
- pilfer,
- plaster,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- prejudice,
- profane,
- prostitute,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- savage,
- scathe,
- soil,
- souse,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stain,
- stew,
- stone,
- sully,
- swack,
- taint,
- tamper with,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- tipsify,
- torment,
- torture,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- water,
- water down,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
- confuse
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- mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her" related words >
- abash,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- agitate,
- baffle,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befog,
- befuddle,
- bemuse,
- bewilder,
- blur,
- blur distinctions,
- bollix up,
- botch,
- bother,
- buffalo,
- bug,
- cap,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- cloud,
- color,
- complicate,
- confound,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deform,
- derange,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dishevel,
- dismay,
- disorder,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disquiet,
- distort,
- distract,
- disturb,
- dizzy,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- faze,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fog up,
- foul up,
- fuddle,
- fumble,
- fuss,
- fuzz,
- garble,
- implicate,
- involve,
- jumble,
- jumble together,
- knock galley-west,
- knot,
- louse up,
- make uncertain,
- maze,
- mess up,
- miscolor,
- misdeem,
- misguide,
- misidentify,
- mislead,
- mist,
- mix,
- mix up,
- mizzle,
- moider,
- mortify,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- muddy,
- mull,
- mystify,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- overlook distinctions,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pervert,
- pi,
- play hob with,
- pose,
- pother,
- put out,
- puzzle,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- ruffle,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- shame,
- shuffle,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- stumble,
- tangle,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- tumble,
- twist,
- unform,
- unsettle,
- unshape,
- upset,
- warp,
- wrench,
- wrest
- canker
collapse
- an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
- a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
- infect with a canker
- become infected with a canker related words >
- abscess,
- adulterate,
- alloy,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- blain,
- blast,
- bleb,
- blight,
- blister,
- boil,
- break up,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- cancer,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- cheapen,
- chilblain,
- coarsen,
- cold sore,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- corrode,
- corrupt,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- debase,
- debauch,
- decay,
- decompose,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- demoralize,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- devalue,
- disintegrate,
- distort,
- dry rot,
- eat,
- eat away,
- eat into,
- erode,
- eschar,
- fall into decay,
- fall to pieces,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- fungus,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gangrene,
- gathering,
- gnaw,
- go bad,
- go to pieces,
- gumboil,
- hemorrhoids,
- infect,
- kibe,
- lesion,
- mildew,
- misuse,
- mold,
- molder,
- mortify,
- moth,
- moth and rust,
- must,
- necrose,
- nibble away,
- oxidize,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- pervert,
- pest,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pock,
- poison,
- pollute,
- polyp,
- prostitute,
- pustule,
- putrefy,
- putresce,
- rankle,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- rising,
- rot,
- rust,
- scab,
- smut,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- sphacelate,
- spoil,
- stain,
- stigma,
- sty,
- suppurate,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- taint,
- tubercle,
- twist,
- ulcer,
- ulcerate,
- ulceration,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- wale,
- warp,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- worm,
- wound
- subvert
collapse
- destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis" related words >
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- alienate,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- argue down,
- arise,
- better,
- brainwash,
- break up,
- capsize,
- careen,
- change,
- confound,
- confute,
- contradict,
- controvert,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- counterindoctrinate,
- crush,
- culbuter,
- debase,
- defeat,
- deform,
- demolish,
- denature,
- deny,
- deprave,
- destroy,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- diversify,
- finish,
- fit,
- floor,
- honeycomb,
- improve,
- indoctrinate,
- insurge,
- insurrect,
- keel over,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mount the barricades,
- mutate,
- mutineer,
- mutiny,
- nonplus,
- overset,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- parry,
- pervert,
- put to silence,
- qualify,
- re-create,
- realign,
- rebel,
- rebuild,
- rebut,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- reduce to silence,
- refit,
- reform,
- refute,
- reindoctrinate,
- reluct,
- reluctate,
- remake,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restructure,
- revamp,
- revive,
- revolt,
- revolute,
- revolution,
- revolutionize,
- ring the changes,
- riot,
- rise,
- rise up,
- ruin,
- run riot,
- sabotage,
- sap,
- sap the foundations,
- settle,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- shut up,
- silence,
- smash all opposition,
- squash,
- squelch,
- strike,
- throw down,
- throw over,
- tip over,
- topple,
- topple over,
- topsy-turvify,
- topsy-turvy,
- turn a somersault,
- turn over,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn topsy-turvy,
- turn turtle,
- turn upside down,
- undermine,
- upend,
- upset,
- upturn,
- vary,
- weaken,
- win away,
- work a change,
- worsen,
- wreck
- abuse,
- adulterate,
- alloy,
- bacchanal,
- bacchanalia,
- bacchanalian,
- bastardize,
- bat,
- be promiscuous,
- bender,
- betray,
- binge,
- bout,
- brutalize,
- bust,
- canker,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- celebrate,
- celebration,
- chase women,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- commit adultery,
- compotation,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- cut loose,
- debase,
- debauchery,
- debauchment,
- deceive,
- decoy,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- demoralize,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- devalue,
- dissipate,
- dissipation,
- distort,
- drinking bout,
- drunk,
- drunken carousal,
- escapade,
- fling,
- force,
- fornicate,
- free living,
- grovel,
- guzzle,
- hell around,
- high living,
- infect,
- inveigle,
- jag,
- jollify,
- jolly,
- killing pace,
- lark,
- lead astray,
- let go,
- let loose,
- let off steam,
- licentiousness,
- live hard,
- lure,
- make merry,
- make whoopee,
- mislead,
- misuse,
- orgy,
- party,
- pervert,
- philander,
- ploy,
- plunge into dissipation,
- poison,
- pollute,
- potation,
- prostitute,
- pub-crawl,
- raise hell,
- rake,
- randan,
- randy,
- rape,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- revel,
- riotous living,
- roister,
- ruin,
- run riot,
- saturnalia,
- seduce,
- see life,
- skylark,
- sleep around,
- soil,
- spree,
- step out,
- sully,
- swing,
- symposium,
- taint,
- tear,
- tempt,
- toot,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- undo,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- wallow,
- wanton,
- warp,
- wassail,
- whoop it up,
- whore,
- wingding,
- womanize
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Lothario,
- abandoned,
- backslider,
- bad egg,
- bad lot,
- black sheep,
- carnal,
- contaminated,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- debased,
- debauched,
- debauchee,
- decadent,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- dissipated,
- dissipative,
- dissolute,
- easy come,
- easy go,
- erotic,
- evil,
- excessive,
- extravagant,
- fallen angel,
- fast,
- free,
- gallant,
- gay,
- gay deceiver,
- gay dog,
- good-for-nothing,
- immoderate,
- immoral,
- improvident,
- incontinent,
- indecent,
- iniquitous,
- intemperate,
- lady-killer,
- lascivious,
- lavish,
- lecher,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libertine,
- licentious,
- loose,
- lost sheep,
- lost soul,
- lover-boy,
- miscreant,
- morally polluted,
- no-good,
- overgenerous,
- overlavish,
- overliberal,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- pervert,
- perverted,
- philanderer,
- pimp,
- polluted,
- pound-foolish,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- promiscuous,
- rake,
- rakehell,
- rakehellish,
- rakehelly,
- rakish,
- recidivist,
- reckless,
- recreant,
- reprobate,
- rip,
- rotten,
- roue,
- rounder,
- scapegrace,
- sensual,
- sensualist,
- shameless,
- sinful,
- sinner,
- skirt chaser,
- sodomite,
- sorry lot,
- spender,
- spendthrift,
- squanderer,
- squandering,
- steeped in iniquity,
- swinger,
- sybarite,
- sybaritic,
- tainted,
- trollop,
- unbridled,
- unprincipled,
- unrestrained,
- vice-corrupted,
- vitiated,
- voluptuary,
- voluptuous,
- walking phallus,
- wanton,
- warped,
- wasteful,
- waster,
- wastethrift,
- wastrel,
- whore,
- whoremonger,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wolf,
- woman chaser,
- womanizer
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