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Related Words:
insolvency
collapse
the lack of financial resources
related words >
bankruptcy
,
bouncing check
,
broken fortune
,
bust
,
collapse
,
crash
,
difficulties
,
distress
,
embarrassment
,
failure
,
genteel poverty
,
hard pinch
,
hardship
,
impecuniosity
,
impecuniousness
,
insufficient funds
,
kited check
,
light purse
,
narrow means
,
overdraft
,
overdrawn account
,
poorness
,
poverty
,
receivership
,
slender means
,
straitened circumstances
,
straits
,
tight squeeze
,
unprosperousness
,
voluntary poverty
,
vows of poverty
ghostwrite
collapse
related words >
act for
,
author
,
change places with
,
coauthor
,
collaborate
,
compose
,
crowd out
,
cut out
,
dash off
,
displace
,
double for
,
editorialize
,
fill in for
,
formulate
,
free-lance
,
ghost
,
indite
,
knock off
,
knock out
,
novelize
,
pamphleteer
,
pinch-hit
,
prepare
,
produce
,
relieve
,
replace
,
represent
,
scenarize
,
spell
,
spell off
,
spook
,
stand in for
,
subrogate
,
substitute for
,
succeed
,
supersede
,
supplant
,
swap places with
,
throw on paper
,
understudy for
,
write
deputize
collapse
related words >
accredit
,
act for
,
answer for
,
appear for
,
arm
,
assign
,
authorize
,
back up
,
charge
,
charter
,
clothe
,
clothe with power
,
commission
,
commit
,
consign
,
delegate
,
depute
,
designate an agent
,
detach
,
detail
,
devolute
,
devolve
,
devolve upon
,
empower
,
enable
,
endow
,
endue
,
entrust
,
front for
,
give in charge
,
invest
,
license
,
mission
,
pinch-hit for
,
post
,
represent
,
send out
,
speak for
,
stand in for
,
substitute for
,
transfer
,
understudy
,
warrant
ersatz
collapse
an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"
related words >
affected
,
agent
,
alike
,
alternate
,
alternative
,
analogy
,
aped
,
apocryphal
,
artificial
,
assumed
,
backup
,
bastard
,
bogus
,
brummagem
,
change
,
changeling
,
colorable
,
colored
,
comparison
,
consimilar
,
copied
,
copy
,
counterfeit
,
counterfeited
,
deputy
,
distorted
,
double
,
dressed up
,
dummy
,
embellished
,
embroidered
,
equal
,
equivalent
,
exchange
,
factitious
,
fake
,
faked
,
false
,
falsified
,
favoring
,
feigned
,
fictitious
,
fictive
,
fill-in
,
following
,
forged
,
garbled
,
ghost
,
ghostwriter
,
hokey
,
homogeneous
,
identical
,
illegitimate
,
imitated
,
imitation
,
junky
,
like
,
locum tenens
,
make-believe
,
makeshift
,
man-made
,
metaphor
,
metonymy
,
mimicked
,
mock
,
nearly reproduced
,
next best thing
,
not unlike
,
personnel
,
perverted
,
phony
,
pinch
,
pinch hitter
,
pinchbeck
,
plagiarized
,
pretended
,
provisional
,
proxy
,
pseudo
,
put-on
,
quasi
,
queer
,
relief
,
replacement
,
representative
,
resembling
,
reserve
,
reserves
,
ringer
,
second string
,
secondary
,
self-styled
,
sham
,
shoddy
,
sign
,
similar
,
simulacrum
,
simulated
,
smacking of
,
so-called
,
soi-disant
,
something like
,
spare
,
spares
,
spurious
,
stand-in
,
stopgap
,
sub
,
substituent
,
substitute
,
substitution
,
succedaneum
,
suggestive of
,
superseder
,
supplanter
,
supposititious
,
surrogate
,
symbol
,
synecdoche
,
synthetic
,
temporary
,
tentative
,
third string
,
tin
,
tinsel
,
titivated
,
token
,
twisted
,
unauthentic
,
understudy
,
ungenuine
,
uniform with
,
unnatural
,
unreal
,
utility
,
utility player
,
vicar
,
vicarious
,
vice-president
,
vice-regent
,
warped
crowbar
collapse
a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
related words >
aspirator
,
bar
,
beam
,
boom
,
cant hook
,
claw bar
,
corkscrew
,
crank
,
crow
,
extractor
,
forceps
,
get a foothold
,
get leverage
,
handspike
,
iron crow
,
jimmy
,
lever
,
limb
,
marlinespike
,
outrigger
,
peavey
,
pedal
,
pincers
,
pinch bar
,
pipette
,
pliers
,
press
,
prize
,
pry
,
pump
,
ripping bar
,
separator
,
siphon
,
spar
,
treadle
,
tweezers
,
vacuum pump
,
wedge
,
wrecking bar
,
wringer
jeopardy
collapse
related words >
accident
,
breakers ahead
,
cardhouse
,
cause for alarm
,
chance
,
compromise
,
crisis
,
danger
,
dangerous ground
,
emergency
,
endangerment
,
exposure
,
gaping chasm
,
gathering clouds
,
hap
,
hazard
,
house of cards
,
imperil
,
imperilment
,
jeopard
,
jeopardize
,
liability
,
menace
,
openness
,
pass
,
peril
,
pinch
,
plight
,
predicament
,
quicksand
,
risk
,
rocks ahead
,
sensitiveness
,
storm clouds
,
strait
,
susceptibility
,
thin ice
,
threat
,
uncertainty
,
vulnerability
impecunious
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
destitute
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
in Queer Street
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
poverty-stricken
,
reduced
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
squeezed
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
ocarina
collapse
egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
related words >
English horn
,
Pandean pipe
,
aulos
,
basset horn
,
basset oboe
,
bassoon
,
bombard
,
clarinet
,
contrabassoon
,
contrafagotto
,
cromorne
,
double bassoon
,
double reed
,
fife
,
fipple flute
,
flageolet
,
flute
,
hautboy
,
heckelphone
,
hornpipe
,
licorice stick
,
musette
,
oaten reed
,
oboe
,
oboe da caccia
,
panpipe
,
penny-whistle
,
piccolo
,
pipe
,
pommer
,
recorder
,
reed
,
reed instrument
,
sax
,
saxophone
,
shawm
,
single reed
,
single-reed instrument
,
sonorophone
,
sweet potato
,
syrinx
,
tabor pipe
,
tenoroon
,
tin-whistle
,
whistle
,
woods
,
woodwind
,
woodwind choir
,
woodwind instrument
saxophone
collapse
related words >
English horn
,
Pandean pipe
,
aulos
,
basset horn
,
basset oboe
,
bassoon
,
bombard
,
clarinet
,
contrabassoon
,
contrafagotto
,
cromorne
,
double bassoon
,
double reed
,
fife
,
fipple flute
,
flageolet
,
flute
,
hautboy
,
heckelphone
,
hornpipe
,
licorice stick
,
musette
,
oaten reed
,
oboe
,
oboe da caccia
,
ocarina
,
panpipe
,
penny-whistle
,
piccolo
,
pipe
,
pommer
,
recorder
,
reed
,
reed instrument
,
sax
,
shawm
,
single reed
,
single-reed instrument
,
sonorophone
,
sweet potato
,
syrinx
,
tabor pipe
,
tenoroon
,
tin-whistle
,
whistle
,
woods
,
woodwind
,
woodwind choir
,
woodwind instrument
panpipe
collapse
a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
related words >
English horn
,
Pandean pipe
,
aulos
,
basset horn
,
basset oboe
,
bassoon
,
bombard
,
clarinet
,
contrabassoon
,
contrafagotto
,
cromorne
,
double bassoon
,
double reed
,
fife
,
fipple flute
,
flageolet
,
flute
,
hautboy
,
heckelphone
,
hornpipe
,
licorice stick
,
musette
,
oaten reed
,
oboe
,
oboe da caccia
,
ocarina
,
penny-whistle
,
piccolo
,
pipe
,
pommer
,
recorder
,
reed
,
reed instrument
,
sax
,
saxophone
,
shawm
,
single reed
,
single-reed instrument
,
sonorophone
,
sweet potato
,
syrinx
,
tabor pipe
,
tenoroon
,
tin-whistle
,
whistle
,
woods
,
woodwind
,
woodwind choir
,
woodwind instrument
sweet potato
collapse
the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States
pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
related words >
English horn
,
Pandean pipe
,
aulos
,
basset horn
,
basset oboe
,
bassoon
,
bombard
,
clarinet
,
contrabassoon
,
contrafagotto
,
cromorne
,
double bassoon
,
double reed
,
fife
,
fipple flute
,
flageolet
,
flute
,
hautboy
,
heckelphone
,
hornpipe
,
licorice stick
,
musette
,
oaten reed
,
oboe
,
oboe da caccia
,
ocarina
,
panpipe
,
penny-whistle
,
piccolo
,
pipe
,
pommer
,
recorder
,
reed
,
reed instrument
,
sax
,
saxophone
,
shawm
,
single reed
,
single-reed instrument
,
sonorophone
,
syrinx
,
tabor pipe
,
tenoroon
,
tin-whistle
,
whistle
,
woods
,
woodwind
,
woodwind choir
,
woodwind instrument
treadle
collapse
operate (machinery) by a treadle
tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"
related words >
advance
,
bar
,
beam
,
boom
,
bowl
,
bunt
,
butt
,
cant hook
,
claw bar
,
crank
,
crow
,
crowbar
,
drive
,
forward
,
handspike
,
impel
,
iron crow
,
jimmy
,
lever
,
limb
,
marlinespike
,
move
,
outrigger
,
peavey
,
pedal
,
pinch bar
,
pole
,
prize
,
propel
,
pry
,
push
,
ripping bar
,
roll
,
row
,
shove
,
shunt
,
spar
,
sweep
,
sweep along
,
thrust
,
troll
,
trundle
,
wrecking bar
churl
collapse
related words >
Babbitt
,
Philistine
,
Silas Marner
,
arriviste
,
bondmaid
,
bondman
,
bondslave
,
bondsman
,
bondswoman
,
boor
,
bounder
,
bourgeois
,
cad
,
captive
,
chattel
,
chattel slave
,
clodhopper
,
clown
,
concubine
,
curmudgeon
,
debt slave
,
epicier
,
galley slave
,
groundling
,
guttersnipe
,
helot
,
homager
,
hooligan
,
ill-bred fellow
,
liege
,
liege man
,
liege subject
,
looby
,
lout
,
low fellow
,
miser
,
mucker
,
muckworm
,
niggard
,
nouveau riche
,
odalisque
,
parvenu
,
peasant
,
penny pincher
,
peon
,
pinchfist
,
pinchgut
,
ribald
,
rough
,
roughneck
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
save-all
,
scrooge
,
serf
,
servant
,
skinflint
,
slave
,
subject
,
theow
,
thrall
,
tightwad
,
upstart
,
vassal
,
villein
,
vulgarian
,
vulgarist
,
yokel
beggary
collapse
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
related words >
absence
,
bare cupboard
,
bare subsistence
,
beggarliness
,
begging
,
bumming
,
cadging
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
deprivation
,
destitution
,
drought
,
empty purse
,
famine
,
grinding poverty
,
gripe
,
hand-to-mouth existence
,
homelessness
,
impecuniousness
,
imperfection
,
impoverishment
,
incompleteness
,
indigence
,
lack
,
mendicancy
,
mendicity
,
moneylessness
,
mooching
,
necessitousness
,
necessity
,
need
,
neediness
,
omission
,
panhandling
,
pauperism
,
pauperization
,
penury
,
pinch
,
privation
,
scrounging
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
starvation
,
want
,
wantage
coffer
collapse
a chest especially for storing valuables
an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
related words >
Fort Knox
,
bank
,
bundle away
,
bursary
,
cache
,
cash register
,
cashbox
,
chest
,
coin box
,
deposit
,
depository
,
exchequer
,
file
,
fisc
,
gold depository
,
hutch
,
lay away
,
lay down
,
lay in
,
lay in store
,
locker
,
lodge
,
money chest
,
pack away
,
penny bank
,
piggy bank
,
pork barrel
,
public crib
,
public till
,
public treasury
,
public trough
,
put away
,
reposit
,
repository
,
reservoir
,
safe
,
safe-deposit box
,
salt away
,
salt down
,
stash
,
store
,
store away
,
storehouse
,
stow
,
stow away
,
stow down
,
strong room
,
strongbox
,
subtreasury
,
till
,
treasure-house
,
treasury
,
vault
,
warehouse
rip off
collapse
related words >
burglary
,
caper
,
cheat
,
clinquant
,
commit robbery
,
counterfeit
,
deception
,
dummy
,
fake
,
fakement
,
filch
,
flam
,
forgery
,
frame-up
,
fraud
,
grab
,
heist
,
hijack
,
hoax
,
hold up
,
humbug
,
imitation
,
impostor
,
job
,
junk
,
knock over
,
lift
,
mock
,
mug
,
paste
,
phony
,
pinch
,
pinchbeck
,
put-on
,
put-up job
,
rob
,
robbery
,
sham
,
shoddy
,
simulacrum
,
spoof
,
steal
,
stick up
,
swindle
,
theft
,
tinsel
,
whited sepulcher
smidgen
collapse
related words >
ace
,
atom
,
bit
,
dab
,
dole
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dwarf
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
lota
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
ounce
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
ray
,
scruple
,
smitch
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
whit
playhouse
collapse
plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of
related words >
Elizabethan theater
,
Globe Theatre
,
Greek theater
,
amphitheater
,
arena theater
,
auditorium
,
cabaret
,
circle theater
,
club
,
concert hall
,
cubby
,
cubbyhole
,
doghouse
,
hall
,
hole
,
house
,
little theater
,
music hall
,
night spot
,
nightclub
,
opera
,
opera house
,
outdoor theater
,
pigeonhole
,
pinch
,
showboat
,
theater
,
theater-in-the-round
,
theatron
,
tight spot
,
tight squeeze
shocker
collapse
a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
a shockingly bad person
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
apologue
,
astonishment
,
bedtime story
,
blockbuster
,
blow
,
bomb
,
bombshell
,
catch
,
chiller
,
detective story
,
earthshaker
,
eye-opener
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fairy tale
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
horse opera
,
joker
,
kicker
,
legend
,
love story
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
nursery tale
,
parable
,
penny dreadful
,
peripeteia
,
revelation
,
romance
,
science fiction
,
shilling
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
staggerer
,
startler
,
surprisal
,
surprise
,
surprise ending
,
surprise package
,
surprise party
,
suspense story
,
switch
,
thriller
,
thunderbolt
,
thunderclap
,
whodunit
,
work of fiction
driblet
collapse
related words >
ace
,
atom
,
bit
,
dab
,
dole
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
droplet
,
dwarf
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
globule
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
ounce
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
scrimption
,
scruple
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
whit
ounce
collapse
a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound
related words >
ace
,
atom
,
bit
,
crumb
,
dab
,
dole
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
drop
,
dwarf
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
scruple
,
shred
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
whit
embezzle
collapse
appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
related words >
abstract
,
abuse
,
and
,
annex
,
appropriate
,
bag
,
befoul
,
boost
,
borrow
,
convert
,
cop
,
crib
,
debase
,
defalcate
,
defile
,
defraud
,
desecrate
,
divert
,
extort
,
filch
,
foul
,
hook
,
lift
,
loot
,
make off with
,
maladminister
,
misapply
,
misappropriate
,
misemploy
,
mishandle
,
mismanage
,
misuse
,
nip
,
palm
,
peculate
,
pervert
,
pilfer
,
pinch
,
poach
,
pollute
,
profane
,
prostitute
,
purloin
,
run away with
,
rustle
,
scrounge
,
shoplift
,
snare
,
snatch
,
snitch
,
steal
,
swindle
,
swipe
,
take
,
thieve
,
violate
,
walk off with
rustle
collapse
the light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"
take illegally; "rustle cattle"
related words >
abstract
,
and
,
annex
,
appropriate
,
bag
,
boost
,
borrow
,
celerity
,
cop
,
crib
,
crinkle
,
defraud
,
dispatch
,
embezzle
,
expedition
,
expeditiousness
,
extort
,
filch
,
froufrou
,
hook
,
hurry
,
hustle
,
lift
,
make off with
,
nip
,
palm
,
pilfer
,
pinch
,
poach
,
purloin
,
run away with
,
rustling
,
scrounge
,
shoplift
,
sibilance
,
sibilate
,
sibilation
,
snare
,
snatch
,
snitch
,
speed
,
speediness
,
steal
,
susurrate
,
susurration
,
susurrus
,
swiftness
,
swindle
,
swipe
,
swish
,
swishing
,
take
,
thieve
,
walk off with
,
whish
,
whisper
,
whispering
piddle
collapse
waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
related words >
beguile the time
,
burn daylight
,
consume time
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
diddle
,
dillydally
,
doodle
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget with
,
finger with
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
footle
,
fribble
,
fritter away time
,
frivol
,
horse around
,
idle
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
kill time
,
lag
,
linger
,
loiter
,
lollygag
,
lose time
,
make water
,
mess around
,
micturition
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
number one
,
pass the time
,
pee
,
pee-pee
,
pish
,
piss
,
play
,
play around
,
play with
,
poke
,
potter
,
pump bilge
,
putter
,
smatter
,
spend a penny
,
stale
,
tinker
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
twiddle
,
urea
,
urinate
,
urination
,
urine
,
waste time
,
water
,
wee-wee
,
wet
squeezing
collapse
related words >
abuse of terms
,
catachresis
,
clamping
,
clamping down
,
compression
,
concentration
,
contorting
,
crush
,
decoction
,
distillation
,
distortion
,
eisegesis
,
error
,
expression
,
garbling
,
gloss
,
infusion
,
malentendu
,
malobservation
,
misapplication
,
misapprehension
,
miscitation
,
misconception
,
misconstruction
,
misexplanation
,
misexplication
,
misexposition
,
misintelligence
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misquotation
,
misreading
,
misrendering
,
mistranslation
,
misunderstanding
,
misuse of words
,
nip
,
perversion
,
pinch
,
press
,
pressing
,
pressure
,
rendering
,
rendition
,
soaking
,
squeeze
,
steeping
,
tightening
,
torturing
,
tweak
,
twisting
,
wrenching
illiberal
collapse
narrow-minded about cherished opinions
related words >
authoritarian
,
avaricious
,
biased
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
borne
,
chauvinist
,
cheap
,
close
,
closed
,
closefisted
,
constricted
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
doctrinaire
,
dogmatist
,
fanatic
,
fanatical
,
grudging
,
hardfisted
,
hidebound
,
insular
,
intolerant
,
jaundiced
,
jingo
,
little
,
little-minded
,
male chauvinist
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mingy
,
miserly
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
near
,
nearsighted
,
niggardly
,
one-sided
,
opinionated
,
paltry
,
parochial
,
partial
,
partisan
,
penny-pinching
,
petty
,
pig
,
pinchfisted
,
pinching
,
prejudiced
,
provincial
,
purblind
,
racist
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
save-all
,
sexist
,
shortsighted
,
small
,
small-minded
,
stingy
,
straitlaced
,
stringent
,
stuffy
,
superpatriot
,
tight
,
tightfisted
,
ultranationalist
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
unchivalrous
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
C note
collapse
related words >
C
,
G
,
G-note
,
buck
,
cartwheel
,
cent
,
century
,
copper
,
dime
,
dollar
,
dollar bill
,
fifty cents
,
fin
,
fish
,
five cents
,
five hundred dollars
,
five-dollar bill
,
five-hundred-dollar bill
,
five-spot
,
fiver
,
four bits
,
frogskin
,
grand
,
half G
,
half a C
,
half dollar
,
half grand
,
hundred-dollar bill
,
iron man
,
mill
,
nickel
,
penny
,
quarter
,
red cent
,
sawbuck
,
silver dollar
,
skin
,
smacker
,
ten cents
,
ten-spot
,
tenner
,
thousand dollars
,
thousand-dollar bill
,
twenty-dollar bill
,
twenty-five cents
,
two bits
,
two-dollar bill
,
two-spot
,
yard
dime
collapse
a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
related words >
C
,
C-note
,
G
,
G-note
,
buck
,
cartwheel
,
cent
,
century
,
copper
,
dollar
,
dollar bill
,
fifty cents
,
fin
,
fish
,
five cents
,
five hundred dollars
,
five-dollar bill
,
five-hundred-dollar bill
,
five-spot
,
fiver
,
four bits
,
frogskin
,
grand
,
half G
,
half a C
,
half dollar
,
half grand
,
hundred-dollar bill
,
iron man
,
mill
,
nickel
,
penny
,
quarter
,
red cent
,
sawbuck
,
silver dollar
,
skin
,
smacker
,
ten cents
,
ten-spot
,
tenner
,
thousand dollars
,
thousand-dollar bill
,
twenty-dollar bill
,
twenty-five cents
,
two bits
,
two-dollar bill
,
two-spot
,
yard
scrounge
collapse
collect or look around for (food)
related words >
abstract
,
and
,
annex
,
appropriate
,
bag
,
beg
,
boost
,
borrow
,
bum
,
cadge
,
cadger
,
come up with
,
cop
,
crib
,
defraud
,
embezzle
,
extort
,
ferret out
,
filch
,
freeload
,
freeloader
,
hit
,
hit up
,
hook
,
importune
,
lift
,
make off with
,
mooch
,
nip
,
nose out
,
palm
,
panhandle
,
parasite
,
pass the hat
,
pilfer
,
pinch
,
poach
,
purloin
,
run away with
,
rustle
,
scrape together
,
scrape up
,
scrounger
,
seek out
,
shoplift
,
smell out
,
snare
,
snatch
,
snitch
,
sponger
,
steal
,
swindle
,
swipe
,
take
,
thieve
,
touch
,
walk off with
tightening
collapse
the act of making something tighter; "the tightening of economic controls"
related words >
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
aggravation
,
beefing-up
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
clamping
,
clamping down
,
compression
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
consolidation
,
crescendoing
,
crescent
,
crush
,
deepening
,
enhancement
,
exacerbation
,
exaggeration
,
expanding
,
explosion
,
growing
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
increasing
,
incremental
,
information explosion
,
intensification
,
intensifying
,
lengthening
,
magnification
,
multiplying
,
nip
,
on the increase
,
pickup
,
pinch
,
population explosion
,
press
,
pressure
,
proliferating
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
snowballing
,
speedup
,
spreading
,
squeeze
,
squeezing
,
step-up
,
strengthening
,
swelling
,
tweak
,
waxing
whit
collapse
related words >
ace
,
atom
,
bit
,
dab
,
damn
,
dole
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dwarf
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
hoot
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
lota
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
ounce
,
particle
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
scruple
,
shred
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
whoop
niggardly
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
abstemious
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
bountiful
,
cheeseparing
,
chinchy
,
chintzy
,
close
,
closefisted
,
closefistedly
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
exiguous
,
frugal
,
grudging
,
illiberal
,
illiberally
,
impoverished
,
infrequent
,
jejune
,
lean
,
limited
,
little
,
meager
,
mean
,
meanly
,
mingy
,
miserly
,
narrow
,
niggard
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
penny-pinching
,
penurious
,
petty
,
piddling
,
pinchpenny
,
poor
,
puny
,
rare
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scarce
,
scattered
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimping
,
scrimpy
,
seldom met with
,
seldom seen
,
shabbily
,
shabby
,
skimp
,
skimping
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
sordid
,
sordidly
,
spare
,
sparing
,
sparse
,
spotty
,
sprinkled
,
starvation
,
stingily
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
straitened
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
thin
,
tight
,
tightfisted
,
tightfistedly
,
unchivalrous
,
ungenerous
,
ungenerously
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
watered
,
watery
public trough
collapse
related words >
Fort Knox
,
bank
,
blackmail
,
boodle
,
booty
,
bursary
,
campaign contribution
,
campaign fund
,
cash register
,
cashbox
,
chest
,
coffer
,
coin box
,
depository
,
exchequer
,
fisc
,
gold depository
,
graft
,
haul
,
hot goods
,
locker
,
loot
,
money chest
,
nepotism
,
penny bank
,
perks
,
perquisite
,
pickings
,
piggy bank
,
plunder
,
pork barrel
,
prize
,
public crib
,
public till
,
public tit
,
public treasury
,
repository
,
safe
,
safe-deposit box
,
slush fund
,
spoil
,
spoils
,
spoils of office
,
spoils system
,
squeeze
,
stealings
,
stolen goods
,
storehouse
,
strong room
,
strongbox
,
subtreasury
,
swag
,
take
,
till
,
treasure-house
,
treasury
,
vault
tidy sum
collapse
related words >
a mass of
,
a world of
,
army
,
batch
,
bevy
,
bunch
,
cloud
,
clutter
,
considerable
,
covey
,
deal
,
flight
,
flock
,
flocks
,
gobs
,
good deal
,
good sum
,
great deal
,
hail
,
heap
,
heaps
,
heaps of gold
,
hive
,
host
,
jam
,
large amount
,
large sum
,
lashings
,
legion
,
loads
,
lot
,
lots
,
many
,
masses of
,
mess
,
millions
,
mint
,
mint of money
,
mob
,
muchness
,
multitude
,
nest
,
numbers
,
oodles
,
pack
,
peck
,
pile
,
piles
,
plurality
,
pot
,
potful
,
power of money
,
pretty penny
,
quantities
,
quite a few
,
quite a little
,
raft
,
rafts
,
rout
,
ruck
,
scads
,
scores
,
shoal
,
sight
,
slew
,
slews
,
spate
,
stack
,
stacks
,
swarm
,
thousands
,
throng
,
wad
,
wads
,
whole slew
,
worlds of
pathetic
collapse
inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
related words >
affecting
,
affective
,
afflictive
,
beggarly
,
beneath contempt
,
bitter
,
bleak
,
cheap
,
cheerless
,
cheesy
,
comfortless
,
common
,
contemptible
,
crummy
,
deplorable
,
depressing
,
depressive
,
despicable
,
discomforting
,
dismal
,
dismaying
,
distressful
,
distressing
,
doleful
,
dolorific
,
dolorogenic
,
dolorous
,
dreary
,
emotional
,
emotive
,
feeble
,
gaudy
,
gimcracky
,
grievous
,
heartrending
,
inadequate
,
joyless
,
lamentable
,
mean
,
measly
,
meretricious
,
miserable
,
mournful
,
moving
,
painful
,
paltry
,
petty
,
piddling
,
piteous
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
plaintive
,
poignant
,
poor
,
puny
,
regrettable
,
rubbishy
,
rueful
,
sad
,
saddening
,
scrubby
,
scruffy
,
scummy
,
scurvy
,
scuzzy
,
shabby
,
sharp
,
shoddy
,
sore
,
sorrowful
,
sorry
,
stirring
,
touching
,
tragic
,
trashy
,
trumpery
,
two-for-a-cent
,
two-for-a-penny
,
twopenny
,
twopenny-halfpenny
,
uncomfortable
,
valueless
,
vile
,
woebegone
,
woeful
,
worthless
,
wretched
crummy
collapse
related words >
abject
,
abominable
,
arrant
,
atrocious
,
barfy
,
base
,
beggarly
,
beneath contempt
,
bum
,
cheap
,
cheesy
,
common
,
contemptible
,
crappy
,
creepy
,
debased
,
degraded
,
depraved
,
despicable
,
dirty
,
disgusting
,
execrable
,
flagrant
,
foul
,
fulsome
,
gaudy
,
gimcracky
,
godawful
,
goshawful
,
grave
,
grim
,
gross
,
hairy
,
heinous
,
icky
,
little
,
low
,
low-down
,
lumpen
,
mangy
,
mean
,
measly
,
meretricious
,
miserable
,
monstrous
,
nefarious
,
obnoxious
,
odious
,
paltry
,
pathetic
,
petty
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
poky
,
poor
,
punk
,
putrid
,
rank
,
reptilian
,
rubbishy
,
sad
,
scabby
,
scrubby
,
scruffy
,
scummy
,
scurvy
,
scuzzy
,
shabby
,
shitty
,
shoddy
,
small
,
sorry
,
squalid
,
stinking
,
stinky
,
trashy
,
trumpery
,
two-for-a-cent
,
two-for-a-penny
,
twopenny
,
twopenny-halfpenny
,
unmentionable
,
valueless
,
vile
,
vomity
,
worthless
,
wretched
,
yecchy
cubbyhole
collapse
a small compartment
related words >
alcove
,
asylum
,
bay
,
bolt-hole
,
cache
,
carrel
,
concealment
,
corner
,
cove
,
cover
,
covert
,
coverture
,
cranny
,
cubby
,
cubicle
,
dark corner
,
den
,
doghouse
,
dugout
,
foxhole
,
funk hole
,
hideaway
,
hideout
,
hidey hole
,
hiding
,
hiding place
,
hole
,
lair
,
mousehole
,
niche
,
nook
,
oriel
,
pigeonhole
,
pinch
,
playhouse
,
recess
,
refuge
,
retreat
,
roomlet
,
sanctuary
,
secret place
,
snuggery
,
stash
,
tight spot
,
tight squeeze
,
undercovert
granule
collapse
a tiny grain
related words >
ace
,
atom
,
bit
,
breccia
,
dab
,
debris
,
detritus
,
dole
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dwarf
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
gobbet
,
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,
granulet
,
gravel
,
grit
,
groat
,
hair
,
handful
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
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,
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,
minutiae
,
mite
,
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,
molecule
,
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,
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,
ounce
,
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,
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,
pinch
,
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,
point
,
sand
,
scruple
,
shingle
,
smidgen
,
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,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tittle
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
whit
pilfer
collapse
make off with belongings of others
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abstract
,
abuse
,
and
,
annex
,
appropriate
,
bag
,
befoul
,
boost
,
borrow
,
convert
,
cop
,
crib
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
embezzle
,
extort
,
filch
,
foul
,
grab
,
hook
,
lift
,
make off with
,
maladminister
,
misapply
,
misappropriate
,
misemploy
,
mishandle
,
mismanage
,
misuse
,
nick
,
nip
,
palm
,
peculate
,
pervert
,
pinch
,
plunder
,
poach
,
pollute
,
profane
,
prostitute
,
purloin
,
rip off
,
rob
,
run away with
,
rustle
,
scrounge
,
shoplift
,
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,
snare
,
snatch
,
snitch
,
steal
,
swindle
,
swipe
,
take
,
thieve
,
violate
,
walk off with
hard up
collapse
not having enough money to pay for necessities
related words >
badly off
,
desperate
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
feeling the pinch
,
hard pressed
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in desperate straits
,
in extremis
,
in extremities
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
land-poor
,
narrow
,
on the edge
,
out of pocket
,
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,
poor
,
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,
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,
short
,
short of cash
,
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,
short of money
,
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,
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,
straitened
,
strapped
,
unmoneyed
,
unprosperous
,
up against it
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