Related Words:
- abridge
collapse - lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abstract,
- bereave,
- bleed,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bob,
- boil down,
- bowdlerize,
- brief,
- cancel,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- censor,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- crop,
- cross out,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- delete,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- deprive,
- deprive of,
- digest,
- diminish,
- disentitle,
- divest,
- dock,
- downgrade,
- drain,
- ease one of,
- edit,
- edit out,
- elide,
- epitomize,
- erase,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- foreshorten,
- kill,
- lessen,
- lighten one of,
- limit,
- lower,
- milk,
- mine,
- minify,
- minimize,
- mow,
- narrow,
- nip,
- nutshell,
- omit,
- outline,
- pare,
- poll,
- pollard,
- prune,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- rescind,
- restrict,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- rub out,
- scale down,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- simplify,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- slash,
- snub,
- step down,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take away from,
- take from,
- take in,
- tap,
- telescope,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- void
- very
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- used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"
- precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" related words >
- a bit,
- a little,
- absolutely,
- actually,
- acutely,
- almighty,
- almost,
- altogether,
- awful,
- awfully,
- bare,
- barest,
- big,
- bleeding,
- bloody,
- bona fide,
- certainly,
- completely,
- correct,
- crazy,
- damned,
- danged,
- darned,
- de facto,
- decidedly,
- deeply,
- definitely,
- dreadful,
- dreadfully,
- eminently,
- entirely,
- especial,
- exact,
- exactly,
- exceedingly,
- exceptionally,
- express,
- extraordinarily,
- extremely,
- fairly,
- genuine,
- genuinely,
- greatly,
- highly,
- hugely,
- hundred-percent,
- ideal,
- identical,
- in a measure,
- in a way,
- in some measure,
- in truth,
- indubitable,
- jolly,
- just,
- kind of,
- larruping,
- least,
- main,
- mere,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- model,
- monstrous,
- mortally,
- most,
- much,
- nearly,
- notably,
- only too,
- parlous,
- particular,
- passing,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- pesky,
- plumb,
- powerful,
- powerfully,
- practically,
- precise,
- precisely,
- pretty,
- profoundly,
- pure,
- quite,
- rather,
- rattling,
- real,
- really,
- remarkably,
- right,
- same,
- scarcely,
- selfsame,
- seriously,
- sheer,
- significantly,
- simple,
- slightly,
- snapping,
- so,
- somewhat,
- sort of,
- spanking,
- special,
- strikingly,
- super,
- sure-enough,
- surely,
- surpassingly,
- tellingly,
- terribly,
- terrifically,
- thoroughly,
- to a degree,
- to some extent,
- too,
- totally,
- true,
- truly,
- uncommonly,
- undoubted,
- unequivocally,
- unquestionable,
- unquestionably,
- unusually,
- utter,
- vastly,
- veritable,
- veritably,
- very much,
- vitally,
- whacking,
- whopping
- inexact
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- not exact related words >
- adulterated,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphous,
- approximate,
- approximative,
- blemished,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- disordered,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- fallible,
- false,
- faulty,
- foggy,
- found wanting,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- incomplete,
- incorrect,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- lacking,
- lax,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- muddled,
- negligent,
- nonspecific,
- not perfect,
- obscure,
- off,
- orderless,
- out of line,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- out of true,
- partial,
- patchy,
- random,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- short,
- sketchy,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- unclear,
- unconscientious,
- uncritical,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unexacting,
- unfactual,
- unfinical,
- unfinished,
- unfussy,
- unmeticulous,
- unpainstaking,
- unparticular,
- unperfected,
- unplain,
- unprecise,
- unpunctilious,
- unpunctual,
- unrigorous,
- unscrupulous,
- unsound,
- unspecified,
- unthorough,
- vague,
- veiled,
- wanting,
- wrong
- absolute,
- admitting no exception,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- arrant,
- born,
- broad-based,
- categorical,
- classical,
- clean,
- clear,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- conclusive,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- crass,
- decided,
- decisive,
- deep-dyed,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- entire,
- exhaustive,
- explicit,
- express,
- final,
- fixed,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- glaring,
- global,
- gross,
- implicit,
- inappealable,
- indisputable,
- intensive,
- intolerable,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- outright,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- positive,
- precious,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- pure,
- radical,
- rank,
- regular,
- round,
- shattering,
- sheer,
- shocking,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- sweeping,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unbearable,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- universal,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unrelieved,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unspoiled,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- veritable,
- whole,
- wholesale,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- abate,
- abolish,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- avulse,
- ban,
- bar,
- blot,
- bob,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- clip,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- deport,
- deracinate,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- disentangle,
- dispose of,
- dock,
- draw,
- draw out,
- dredge,
- dredge up,
- eject,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- evolve,
- evulse,
- excavate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- exsect,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- extract,
- extricate,
- get out,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- gouge out,
- grub up,
- isolate,
- knock off,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- mine,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- outlaw,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- pluck out,
- pluck up,
- prune,
- pull,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- purge,
- quarry,
- rake out,
- remove,
- rip out,
- root out,
- root up,
- rule out,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- strip,
- strip off,
- sweep away,
- take off,
- take out,
- tear out,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- truncate,
- unearth,
- unravel,
- uproot,
- weed out,
- wipe out,
- withdraw,
- wrest out
- ravel
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- French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)
- tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
- disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?" related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- answer,
- ball up,
- bottom,
- can of worms,
- clarify,
- clear up,
- complex,
- complicate,
- confound,
- confuse,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- disembroil,
- disentangle,
- disintricate,
- disinvolve,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- embrangle,
- entangle,
- explain,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- foul up,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- implicate,
- interpret,
- involve,
- jungle,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- louse up,
- make out,
- maze,
- meander,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mix up,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- open the lock,
- perplex,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ramify,
- ravel out,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- screw up,
- snafu,
- snake pit,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- solve,
- sort out,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- unbraid,
- unclutter,
- uncoil,
- undo,
- unknot,
- unlock,
- unmix,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- unsnarl,
- untangle,
- unthread,
- untwine,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- unwind,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- wilderness,
- work,
- work out
- find out
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- trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks" related words >
- answer,
- ascertain,
- assure,
- be informed,
- become acquainted with,
- bottom,
- broaden the mind,
- catch on,
- certify,
- cinch,
- clear up,
- clinch,
- crack,
- cram the mind,
- debug,
- decide,
- decipher,
- decode,
- determine,
- discover,
- disentangle,
- dismiss all doubt,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- ensure,
- establish,
- explain,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find,
- find out about,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- fix,
- gain knowledge,
- get,
- get at,
- get hold of,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hear,
- hit,
- hit it,
- hunt down,
- insure,
- interpret,
- invent,
- learn,
- learn about,
- load the mind,
- locate,
- make certain,
- make no doubt,
- make no mistake,
- make out,
- make sure,
- make sure of,
- nail down,
- open the lock,
- pick up information,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- reassure,
- rediscover,
- remove all doubt,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- run down,
- run to earth,
- see,
- see that,
- see to it,
- set at rest,
- settle,
- solve,
- sort out,
- strike,
- trace,
- trace down,
- track down,
- tumble,
- undo,
- unearth,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- work,
- work out
- apoplexy,
- be cold,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bounce,
- breakup,
- bump,
- cataclysm,
- chatter,
- chill,
- climax,
- convulsion,
- diastrophism,
- didder,
- disaster,
- dither,
- earthquake,
- falter,
- fidget,
- fit,
- flip out,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- freak out on,
- freeze,
- freeze to death,
- get high on,
- glow,
- go pitapat,
- grimace,
- grow cold,
- have a chill,
- have an ague,
- have goose pimples,
- have the fidgets,
- have the shakes,
- heave,
- horripilate,
- hustle,
- jactitate,
- jar,
- jerk,
- jig,
- jigget,
- jiggle,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- jounce,
- jump,
- lose heat,
- overthrow,
- palpitate,
- pant,
- paroxysm,
- perish with cold,
- quaker,
- quaver,
- quiver,
- rictus,
- shake,
- shake all over,
- shiver,
- shock,
- shudder,
- spasm,
- squirm,
- stagger,
- stroke,
- swell,
- swell with emotion,
- temblor,
- thrill,
- thrill to,
- throb,
- tic,
- tidal wave,
- tingle,
- tingle with excitement,
- toss,
- toss and turn,
- tremble,
- trembler,
- tremblor,
- tremor,
- tsunami,
- tumble,
- turn on to,
- twist and turn,
- twitch,
- twitter,
- upheaval,
- vibrate,
- waver,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- wriggle,
- writhe
- positively
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- extremely; "it was positively monumental"
- so as to be positive; in a positive manner; "she intended her remarks to be interpreted positively" related words >
- OK,
- Roger,
- absolutely,
- actually,
- affirmatively,
- all right,
- alright,
- alrighty,
- amen,
- and no mistake,
- as you say,
- assertively,
- assuredly,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- aye,
- beyond question,
- by all means,
- categorically,
- certainly,
- clearly,
- da,
- de facto,
- dead,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- declaratively,
- definitely,
- demonstrably,
- directly,
- distinctly,
- doubtless,
- doubtlessly,
- emphatically,
- even,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- faithfully,
- fine,
- for a certainty,
- for a fact,
- for certain,
- for real,
- for sure,
- forsooth,
- genuinely,
- good,
- good enough,
- hear,
- in actuality,
- in all conscience,
- in all respects,
- in effect,
- in every respect,
- in fact,
- in reality,
- in truth,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- indisputably,
- indubitably,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- ja,
- just,
- just so,
- literally,
- literatim,
- mais oui,
- manifestly,
- most assuredly,
- most certainly,
- naturally,
- naturellement,
- nothing else but,
- noticeably,
- observably,
- obviously,
- of course,
- okay,
- oui,
- patently,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- precisely,
- predicatively,
- quite,
- rather,
- really,
- right,
- righto,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- sensibly,
- seriously,
- square,
- squarely,
- straight,
- strictly,
- sure,
- sure thing,
- surely,
- to a certainty,
- to be sure,
- to the letter,
- truly,
- unambiguously,
- undeniably,
- under oath,
- undeviatingly,
- undoubtedly,
- unequivocally,
- unerringly,
- unmistakably,
- unquestionably,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- verily,
- veritably,
- very well,
- visibly,
- well and good,
- why yes,
- with emphasis,
- without doubt,
- word by word,
- word for word,
- yea,
- yeah,
- yep,
- yes,
- yes indeed,
- yes indeedy,
- yes sir,
- yes sirree
- verbatim
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- using exactly the same words; "he repeated her remarks verbatim" related words >
- absolutely,
- accurate,
- accurately,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- close,
- dead,
- definitely,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- directly,
- even,
- exact,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- faithful,
- faithfully,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- inartificial,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- just,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- literally,
- literatim,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- positively,
- precise,
- precisely,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- right,
- rightful,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- square,
- squarely,
- sterling,
- straight,
- strict,
- strictly,
- sure-enough,
- to the letter,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeviatingly,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unerringly,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbally,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word by word,
- word for word,
- word-for-word
- absolutely,
- and no mistake,
- apparently,
- apprehensibly,
- articulately,
- assuredly,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- by all means,
- categorically,
- certainly,
- clearly,
- coherently,
- comprehensibly,
- concretely,
- conspicuously,
- dead,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- directly,
- discernibly,
- distinctly,
- doubtless,
- doubtlessly,
- especially,
- even,
- evidently,
- exactly,
- explicitly,
- expressly,
- faithfully,
- finally,
- for a certainty,
- for a fact,
- for certain,
- for sure,
- forsooth,
- glaringly,
- in all respects,
- in detail,
- in every respect,
- in particular,
- in plain English,
- in plain terms,
- in plain words,
- in truth,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- indubitably,
- intelligibly,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- item by item,
- just,
- limpidly,
- literally,
- literatim,
- lucidly,
- manifestly,
- markedly,
- minutely,
- most assuredly,
- most certainly,
- nothing else but,
- noticeably,
- observably,
- obviously,
- of course,
- particularly,
- patently,
- pellucidly,
- perceivably,
- perceptibly,
- perspicuously,
- plainly,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- positively,
- precisely,
- prominently,
- pronouncedly,
- recognizably,
- right,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- seeably,
- separately,
- simply,
- singly,
- specially,
- specifically,
- square,
- squarely,
- staringly,
- starkly,
- straight,
- strictly,
- surely,
- to a certainty,
- to be specific,
- to be sure,
- to the letter,
- truly,
- unambiguously,
- unconcealedly,
- understandably,
- undeviatingly,
- undisguisedly,
- undoubtedly,
- unequivocally,
- unerringly,
- unmistakably,
- unquestionably,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- visibly,
- with clarity,
- word by word,
- word for word
- fountain
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- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- an artificially produced flow of water
- a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises related words >
- anabasis,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- bob up,
- bonanza,
- break water,
- clamber,
- climb,
- climbing,
- cornucopia,
- elevation,
- escalade,
- float up,
- flush,
- fly up,
- font,
- fount,
- fountainhead,
- genesis,
- geyser,
- gold mine,
- gush,
- gyring up,
- headspring,
- headstream,
- headwater,
- inception,
- increase,
- jet,
- jump,
- jump up,
- leap,
- leap up,
- levitation,
- lode,
- mainspring,
- mine,
- mount,
- mounting,
- origin,
- pop up,
- provenance,
- provenience,
- quarry,
- resource,
- rise,
- rising,
- riverhead,
- rocket,
- rocketing up,
- root,
- rush,
- saltation,
- shoot up,
- shooting up,
- skyrocket,
- soaring,
- source,
- source of supply,
- spew,
- spit,
- spout,
- spouter,
- spray,
- spring,
- spring up,
- springhead,
- spritz,
- spurt,
- spurtle,
- squirt,
- staple,
- start up,
- surface,
- surge,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrowth,
- uphill,
- upleap,
- uplift,
- upping,
- uprisal,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upstart,
- upsurge,
- upsurgence,
- upsweep,
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- tailor
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- a person whose occupation is making and altering garments related words >
- accommodate,
- accord,
- accustom,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- alter,
- assimilate,
- attune,
- block out,
- busheler,
- bushelman,
- carve,
- cast,
- change,
- chisel,
- clothier,
- conform,
- convert,
- coordinate,
- costumier,
- couturier,
- create,
- cut,
- cut to,
- dovetail,
- dressmaker,
- efform,
- equalize,
- fashion,
- figure,
- fit,
- fitter,
- fix,
- forge,
- form,
- formalize,
- found,
- frame,
- furrier,
- garmentmaker,
- gear to,
- harmonize,
- hew,
- homologate,
- homologize,
- key to,
- knead,
- knock out,
- lay out,
- lick into shape,
- make plumb,
- make uniform,
- measure,
- mint,
- model,
- modify,
- modiste,
- mold,
- mould,
- needle,
- needleman,
- needler,
- needlewoman,
- needleworker,
- outfitter,
- proportion,
- put in tune,
- quadrate,
- reconcile,
- rectify,
- regulate,
- right,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- sartor,
- sculpt,
- sculpture,
- seamster,
- seamstress,
- sempster,
- set,
- set right,
- sew,
- sew up,
- sewer,
- shape,
- shape up,
- similarize,
- square,
- stamp,
- stitch,
- stretch,
- style,
- suit,
- sync,
- synchronize,
- tailleur,
- tailoress,
- thermoform,
- trim to,
- true,
- true up,
- tune,
- work
- shoot up
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- rise dramatically; "Prices shot up overnight" related words >
- accrue,
- accumulate,
- advance,
- appreciate,
- balloon,
- bloat,
- blossom,
- bob up,
- boom,
- break water,
- breed,
- brew,
- bristle up,
- broaden,
- bud,
- burgeon,
- burst forth,
- cock up,
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- develop,
- extrude,
- float up,
- flourish,
- fly up,
- fountain,
- gain,
- gain strength,
- gather,
- gemmate,
- germinate,
- get ahead,
- go up,
- grow,
- grow rank,
- grow up,
- gush,
- hypertrophy,
- increase,
- intensify,
- jet,
- jump up,
- jut out,
- leaf,
- leaf out,
- leap up,
- leave,
- luxuriate,
- mainline,
- mature,
- mount,
- multiply,
- mushroom,
- outgrow,
- overdevelop,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- overtop,
- poke out,
- pop up,
- procreate,
- project,
- proliferate,
- protrude,
- protuberate,
- pullulate,
- put forth,
- put forth leaves,
- put out buds,
- reproduce,
- riot,
- rise,
- rise up,
- rocket,
- root,
- run up,
- shoot,
- shoot out,
- skyrocket,
- snowball,
- soar,
- spread,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- spurt,
- stand out,
- start up,
- stick out,
- stick up,
- strengthen,
- strike root,
- surface,
- swell,
- take root,
- thrive,
- tower,
- upgrow,
- upleap,
- uprise,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- upstart,
- vault up,
- vegetate,
- wax,
- widen
- check in
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- announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports related words >
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- approach,
- arrive,
- arrive at,
- arrive in,
- attain,
- attain to,
- be received,
- blow in,
- bob up,
- book,
- buy it,
- calendar,
- carve,
- cash in,
- catalog,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- check out,
- chronicle,
- clock in,
- come,
- come in,
- come to,
- come to hand,
- croak,
- cut,
- docket,
- drop off,
- engrave,
- enroll,
- enscroll,
- enter,
- fetch,
- fetch up at,
- file,
- fill out,
- find,
- gain,
- get in,
- get there,
- get to,
- go west,
- grave,
- have it,
- hit,
- hit town,
- impanel,
- incise,
- index,
- inscribe,
- insert,
- jot down,
- kick in,
- kick off,
- kick the bucket,
- knock off,
- list,
- log,
- make,
- make a memorandum,
- make a note,
- make an entry,
- make it,
- make out,
- mark down,
- matriculate,
- minute,
- note,
- note down,
- pass out,
- peg out,
- pipe off,
- place upon record,
- poll,
- pop off,
- pop up,
- post,
- post up,
- pull in,
- punch in,
- put down,
- put in writing,
- put on paper,
- put on tape,
- reach,
- record,
- reduce to writing,
- register,
- ring in,
- roll in,
- set down,
- shove off,
- show up,
- sign in,
- step off,
- tabulate,
- take down,
- tape,
- tape-record,
- time in,
- turn up,
- videotape,
- write,
- write down,
- write in,
- write out,
- write up
- grimace
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- a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"
- contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do" related words >
- ache,
- agonize,
- ail,
- anguish,
- blanch,
- blench,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bounce,
- bump,
- contort,
- declaim,
- deform,
- didder,
- disapprove of,
- distort,
- dither,
- face,
- falter,
- feel pain,
- feel the pangs,
- frown,
- gloom,
- glower,
- ham,
- ham it up,
- have a misery,
- hurt,
- jar,
- jerk,
- jig,
- jigget,
- jiggle,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- knit the brow,
- long face,
- look askance at,
- look black,
- look sullen,
- lower,
- make a face,
- make a lip,
- make a moue,
- make a mouth,
- misshape,
- mop,
- mop and mow,
- moue,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mow,
- mug,
- out-herod Herod,
- overact,
- overdramatize,
- pound,
- pout,
- pull a face,
- quake,
- quaver,
- quiver,
- rant,
- recoil,
- revolt at,
- rictus,
- roar,
- scowl,
- shake,
- shiver,
- shock,
- shoot,
- show distaste for,
- shrink,
- shrink from,
- shudder,
- shudder at,
- smart,
- snarl,
- spout,
- suffer,
- thrill,
- throb,
- throw away,
- tic,
- tingle,
- tremble,
- tremor,
- twinge,
- twitch,
- twitter,
- underact,
- wince,
- wobble,
- writhe,
- wry face,
- wry mouth
- shear
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- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"
- cut with shears; "shear hedges"
- cut or cut through with shears related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ban,
- bar,
- barb,
- barber,
- bare,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- bob,
- boil down,
- capsulize,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- crop,
- cull,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- cut out,
- cut short,
- denudate,
- denude,
- deplume,
- despoil,
- displume,
- divest,
- dock,
- drain,
- dry,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- epitomize,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- exhaust,
- expose,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- flay,
- fleece,
- foreshorten,
- impoverish,
- isolate,
- knock off,
- lay bare,
- lay open,
- lop,
- manicure,
- milk,
- mow,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick clean,
- pick out,
- pluck,
- poll,
- pollard,
- prune,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- remove,
- retrench,
- root out,
- rule out,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shorten,
- skin,
- skive,
- snip,
- snub,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip bare,
- strip off,
- stunt,
- suck dry,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- take off,
- take out,
- telescope,
- trim,
- truncate,
- uncloak,
- uncover,
- unsheathe,
- unveil,
- wipe out
- sever
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- set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" related words >
- abandon,
- amputate,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- atomize,
- ax,
- bisect,
- bob,
- break off,
- break up,
- butcher,
- carve,
- cease,
- change,
- chop,
- chop logic,
- cleave,
- contradistinguish,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- desynonymize,
- detach,
- dichotomize,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- discern,
- disconnect,
- discontinue,
- discriminate,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- dissect,
- dissever,
- dissolve,
- distinguish,
- disunite,
- diversify,
- divide,
- divorce,
- dock,
- draw the line,
- end,
- excise,
- extricate,
- fissure,
- gash,
- hack,
- halve,
- hew,
- incise,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- jigsaw,
- lance,
- make a distinction,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- modify,
- pare,
- part,
- particularize,
- personalize,
- pick out,
- prune,
- refine a distinction,
- rend,
- rive,
- saw,
- scissor,
- screen,
- screen out,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set off,
- severalize,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- snip,
- sort,
- sort out,
- specialize,
- split,
- split hairs,
- stop,
- subdivide,
- subtilize,
- sunder,
- suspend,
- tear,
- terminate,
- vary,
- whittle,
- winnow
- waver
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- the act of moving back and forth
- someone who communicates by waving
- sway to and fro related words >
- alternate,
- back and fill,
- beat,
- beating,
- bicker,
- blench,
- bob,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- careen,
- change,
- coggle,
- dance,
- dangle,
- demur,
- dither,
- ebb and flow,
- equivocate,
- falter,
- fight shy of,
- flap,
- flick,
- flicker,
- flinch,
- flip,
- flit,
- flitter,
- flop,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- go pitapat,
- go through phases,
- gutter,
- halt,
- hang back,
- hang off,
- have qualms,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hold off,
- librate,
- lurch,
- make bones about,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- palter,
- pause,
- pendulate,
- pitapat,
- pitch,
- pitter-patter,
- play,
- pull back,
- pulse,
- quail,
- quiver,
- recoil,
- reel,
- resonate,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- scruple,
- seesaw,
- shake,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- shy at,
- slat,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- stagger,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- strain,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- swinging,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tergiversate,
- throb,
- toss,
- totter,
- trim,
- turn,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- vibrate,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wave,
- wax and wane,
- whiffle,
- wince,
- wobble
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- ad-lib,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ban,
- bar,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bob,
- bowdlerize,
- cancel,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- censor,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- clip,
- cook up,
- crop,
- cross out,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- dash off,
- delete,
- deport,
- dispose of,
- do offhand,
- dock,
- edit,
- edit out,
- eject,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- extemporize,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- fake,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- improvisate,
- improvise,
- isolate,
- jury-rig,
- kill,
- knock off,
- lash up,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- make up,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- omit,
- outlaw,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- play by ear,
- prune,
- purge,
- remove,
- rescind,
- root out,
- root up,
- rub out,
- rule out,
- scrap the plan,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shear,
- stamp out,
- strike,
- strike out,
- strip,
- strip off,
- take off,
- take out,
- throw off,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- truncate,
- vamp,
- void,
- weed out,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- wing it,
- wipe out
- alternate,
- back and fill,
- bob,
- bobble,
- careen,
- change,
- changeable,
- chop and change,
- coggle,
- dally,
- dallying,
- dangle,
- demurring,
- dickey,
- dillydallying,
- dither,
- double-minded,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- ebb and flow,
- eccentric,
- equivocate,
- erratic,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- flounder,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuating,
- flutter,
- go through phases,
- halt,
- halting,
- hang in doubt,
- hem and haw,
- hesitant,
- hesitate,
- hesitating,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- insecure,
- irresolute,
- librate,
- lurch,
- mercurial,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- oscillating,
- pendulate,
- pendulous,
- pitch,
- reel,
- resonate,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- rootless,
- seesaw,
- shake,
- shaky,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- stagger,
- stop to consider,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tentative,
- tergiversate,
- think twice,
- timid,
- toss,
- totter,
- turn,
- uncertain,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- vary,
- vibrate,
- volatile,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wave,
- waver,
- wavering,
- wax and wane,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- whiffle,
- wigwag,
- wobble,
- wobbly
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