Related Words:
- pinched
collapse - as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her" related words >
- attenuated,
- badly off,
- cadaverous,
- careworn,
- clamped,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- corpselike,
- cramped,
- desperate,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- drawn,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- haggard,
- hard pressed,
- hard up,
- hollow-eyed,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- jejune,
- knitted,
- land-poor,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- narrow,
- nipped,
- on the edge,
- out of pocket,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pinched-in,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- puckered,
- puny,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- shriveled,
- skeletal,
- solidified,
- sorely pressed,
- squeezed,
- starved,
- starveling,
- straitened,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- strapped,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- up against it,
- wasp-waisted,
- wasted,
- weazeny,
- withered,
- wizened,
- worn,
- wraithlike,
- wrinkled
- cage
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- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" related words >
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- blockade,
- bottle up,
- bound,
- box in,
- box up,
- chamber,
- check,
- cloister,
- close in,
- compass,
- confine,
- constrain,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cork up,
- corral,
- crate,
- crib,
- detain,
- drive,
- drove,
- encage,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- enclosure,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- fence in,
- goad,
- hedge in,
- hell,
- hem in,
- herd,
- hold,
- hold in custody,
- hold in restraint,
- house in,
- hutch,
- immure,
- impound,
- imprison,
- in,
- incarcerate,
- include,
- inhibit,
- jail,
- keep in,
- keep in custody,
- keep in detention,
- kennel,
- lash,
- leaguer,
- limbo,
- mew,
- mew up,
- pen,
- pen in,
- pen up,
- penfold,
- pinfold,
- place of confinement,
- pocket,
- pound,
- prick,
- punch cattle,
- purgatory,
- quarantine,
- rail in,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- ride herd on,
- round up,
- seal up,
- shackle,
- shepherd,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- spur,
- stable,
- surround,
- wall in,
- whip,
- wrangle,
- wrap,
- yard,
- yard up
- box in
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- enclose or confine as if in a box related words >
- abate,
- adjust to,
- alter,
- assuage,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- blockade,
- bottle up,
- bound,
- box,
- box up,
- cabin,
- cage,
- casket,
- chamber,
- circumscribe,
- cloister,
- close in,
- closet,
- coffin,
- compass,
- condition,
- confine,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- corral,
- cramp,
- crib,
- diminish,
- encase,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- entomb,
- fence in,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- hedge in,
- hem,
- hem in,
- house in,
- immure,
- impound,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- include,
- jail,
- keep from spreading,
- keep within bounds,
- kennel,
- leaguer,
- leaven,
- limit,
- localize,
- mew,
- mew up,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- narrow,
- palliate,
- pen,
- pen in,
- pocket,
- qualify,
- quarantine,
- rail in,
- reduce,
- regulate by,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- season,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- soften,
- stable,
- stint,
- straiten,
- surround,
- temper,
- tighten,
- wall in,
- wrap,
- yard,
- yard up
- alternator,
- anode,
- armature,
- autoconverter,
- autostarter,
- autotransformer,
- battery charger,
- brush,
- cap,
- capacitor,
- cathode,
- charger,
- choking coil,
- coil,
- commutator,
- compensator,
- condenser,
- controller,
- converter,
- coupling,
- cutout,
- distributor,
- dynamo,
- dynamotor,
- electrode,
- electrophorus,
- electroscope,
- fuse,
- galvanic pile,
- galvanoscope,
- generator,
- grid,
- ground,
- ignition,
- inductor,
- insulator,
- interrupter,
- jumper,
- lightning rod,
- magnet,
- magneto,
- magnetoscope,
- motor-generator,
- oscillator,
- oscilloscope,
- outlet,
- pile,
- plug,
- pocket,
- points,
- push button,
- reactor,
- receptacle,
- rectifier,
- relay,
- resistance box,
- resistor,
- rheostat,
- self-starter,
- selsyn,
- shunt,
- socket,
- spark coil,
- spark plug,
- starter,
- step-down transformer,
- switch,
- synchronous converter,
- tap,
- terminal,
- time switch,
- timer,
- toggle switch,
- transformer,
- trickle charger,
- voltage changer,
- voltage regulator,
- voltage transformer
- distressed
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- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- agonized,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- badly off,
- beset,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- confused,
- convulsed,
- crucified,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- disturbed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- harassed,
- hard up,
- harrowed,
- hung up,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- ill at ease,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in distress,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in pain,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- lacerated,
- land-poor,
- martyred,
- martyrized,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- on the rack,
- out of countenance,
- out of pocket,
- pained,
- perturbed,
- pinched,
- plagued,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzled,
- racked,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- sore beset,
- squeezed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- suffering,
- tormented,
- tortured,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- uncomfortable,
- under the harrow,
- uneasy,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- upset,
- vexed,
- worried,
- wounded,
- wrung
- toy
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- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier); "a toy stove"
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" related words >
- Charlie McCarthy,
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- agate,
- agent,
- ancilla,
- appliance,
- babe,
- baby,
- baby-sized,
- bagatelle,
- ball,
- bantam,
- banty,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bill and coo,
- bit,
- blocks,
- boob,
- boutade,
- brainstorm,
- brass farthing,
- bric-a-brac,
- butt,
- button,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- caress,
- cent,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- chump,
- cinch,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- compact,
- conceit,
- contrivance,
- copulate,
- coquet,
- cosset,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- creature,
- credulous person,
- cricket bat,
- crotchet,
- cuddle,
- cue,
- cull,
- curio,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dandle,
- derision,
- device,
- die,
- diminutive,
- disport,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- dummy,
- duodecimo,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- fad,
- fair game,
- fall guy,
- fancy,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget with,
- fig,
- figure of fun,
- finger with,
- fish,
- fleabite,
- flimflam,
- flirt,
- folderol,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool notion,
- fool with,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- frivol,
- frolic,
- game,
- gaud,
- gazingstock,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- go-between,
- goat,
- gobe-mouches,
- golf club,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- handy,
- harebrained idea,
- hill of beans,
- hobbyhorse,
- horse around,
- humor,
- idle,
- implement,
- innocent,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- jerk off,
- jest,
- jestingstock,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- kid around,
- kink,
- knack,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- laughingstock,
- lead on,
- leadpipe cinch,
- lever,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- maggot,
- make love,
- make out,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- megrim,
- mess around,
- midwife,
- mig,
- miniature,
- miniaturized,
- minikin,
- minimal,
- minion,
- minuscule,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- neck,
- notion,
- novelty,
- organ,
- paper doll,
- passing fancy,
- patsy,
- pawn,
- peppercorn,
- pet,
- picayune,
- pick-up sticks,
- piddle,
- pigeon,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pinwheel,
- play,
- play around,
- play with,
- plaything,
- pocket,
- pocket-sized,
- pony,
- potter,
- pretty,
- prize sap,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- putter,
- quirk,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- rap,
- red cent,
- rocking horse,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- sap,
- saphead,
- schlemiel,
- servant,
- shit,
- sitting duck,
- slave,
- small-scale,
- smatter,
- smooch,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- spoon,
- sport,
- steelie,
- stock,
- stooge,
- straw,
- string along,
- subminiature,
- sucker,
- sweet-talk,
- target,
- taw,
- tease,
- teetotum,
- tinker,
- tool,
- top,
- toy soldier,
- toy with,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- trusting soul,
- tuppence,
- twelvemo,
- twiddle,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- vagary,
- vehicle,
- vest-pocket,
- victim,
- wanton,
- whatnot,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- whisper sweet nothings
- heater
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- device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room related words >
- Bunsen burner,
- Dutch oven,
- automatic,
- bedpan,
- bloom heater,
- blowgun,
- blowpipe,
- brazier,
- brick oven,
- burner,
- calefactory,
- caliduct,
- car heater,
- cooker,
- cookery,
- defroster,
- dielectric heater,
- dielectric preheater,
- electric blanket,
- electric heater,
- electronic heater,
- element,
- firearm,
- fireless heater,
- flamethrower,
- foot warmer,
- forge,
- furnace,
- gas jet,
- gas log,
- gat,
- geyser,
- gun,
- handgun,
- heat lamp,
- heating duct,
- high-frequency heater,
- hot-water bag,
- hot-water bottle,
- hot-water heater,
- induction heater,
- infrared heater,
- infrared lamp,
- ingot heater,
- iron heater,
- jet,
- kerosene heater,
- kiln,
- musket,
- orchard heater,
- oven,
- peashooter,
- piece,
- pilot light,
- pistol,
- preheater,
- radiator,
- radio-frequency heater,
- register,
- repeater,
- revolver,
- rifle,
- rod,
- sawed-off shotgun,
- shooting iron,
- shotgun,
- six-gun,
- six-shooter,
- steam pipe,
- stove,
- sun lamp,
- tewel,
- tuyere,
- warmer
- diptych
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- a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book) related words >
- Domesday Book,
- abstract,
- abstraction,
- account book,
- address book,
- adversaria,
- album,
- altarpiece,
- annual,
- appointment calendar,
- appointment schedule,
- blankbook,
- block print,
- blotter,
- calendar,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- classified catalog,
- collage,
- color print,
- commonplace book,
- copy,
- court calendar,
- cyclorama,
- daub,
- daybook,
- desk calendar,
- diary,
- docket,
- engagement book,
- engraving,
- fresco,
- icon,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- image,
- journal,
- ledger,
- likeness,
- log,
- logbook,
- loose-leaf notebook,
- memo book,
- memorandum book,
- memory book,
- miniature,
- montage,
- mosaic,
- mural,
- notebook,
- pad,
- panorama,
- petty cashbook,
- photograph,
- picture,
- pocket notebook,
- pocketbook,
- police blotter,
- print,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- scrapbook,
- scratch pad,
- spiral notebook,
- stained glass window,
- stencil,
- still life,
- table,
- tableau,
- tablet,
- tapestry,
- triptych,
- wall painting,
- workbook,
- writing tablet,
- yearbook
- journalism
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- the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media
- newspapers and magazines collectively related words >
- AP,
- Associated Press,
- Fleet Street,
- Reuters,
- UPI,
- United Press International,
- advice,
- artistry,
- authorcraft,
- authorship,
- automatic writing,
- book publishing,
- broadcast journalism,
- cacoethes scribendi,
- communications,
- communications industry,
- composition,
- creative writing,
- drama-writing,
- editorial-writing,
- essay-writing,
- expository writing,
- facility in writing,
- feature-writing,
- fourth estate,
- graphomania,
- graphorrhea,
- graphospasm,
- inditement,
- information,
- intelligence,
- libretto-writing,
- literary artistry,
- literary composition,
- literary power,
- literary production,
- literary talent,
- magazine publishing,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- novel-writing,
- pen,
- pencraft,
- playwriting,
- press association,
- print medium,
- public press,
- public print,
- publishing,
- publishing industry,
- radio,
- ready pen,
- reportage,
- rewriting,
- short-story writing,
- skill with words,
- technical writing,
- telegraph agency,
- television,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- verse-writing,
- wire service,
- word,
- writing
- acquire
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- win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance"
- locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar related words >
- accept,
- accumulate,
- achieve,
- add,
- admit,
- amass,
- annex,
- assume,
- bag,
- be responsible for,
- be seized of,
- bring down,
- bring in,
- bring on,
- bring upon,
- buy,
- capture,
- catch,
- catch up,
- claim,
- clap hands on,
- clasp,
- claw,
- clench,
- clinch,
- clutch,
- collect,
- come by,
- come in for,
- come into,
- contract,
- corral,
- cumulate,
- derive,
- derive from,
- drag down,
- drain off,
- draw,
- draw down,
- draw from,
- draw off,
- earn,
- embrace,
- enter into possession,
- fall in with,
- fall into,
- gain,
- garner,
- get,
- get hold of,
- glom on to,
- grab,
- grab hold of,
- grapple,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gripe,
- harvest,
- have,
- have coming in,
- hug,
- incur,
- invite,
- knock down,
- land,
- lay hands on,
- lay hold of,
- loot,
- make,
- nail,
- net,
- nip,
- nip up,
- obtain,
- palm,
- partake,
- pick up,
- pillage,
- pocket,
- possess,
- procure,
- pull down,
- purchase,
- reach,
- reap,
- receive,
- run,
- sack,
- score,
- secure,
- seize,
- snap up,
- snatch,
- steal,
- take,
- take by assault,
- take by storm,
- take hold of,
- take in,
- take on,
- take over,
- take possession,
- welcome,
- whip up,
- win
- ray
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- cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish
- a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
- emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky" related words >
- Reptilia,
- X ray,
- actinic ray,
- actinism,
- amplitude,
- antinode,
- atom,
- atomic beam,
- atomic ray,
- beam,
- beam of light,
- crest,
- de Broglie wave,
- diffraction,
- diffuse,
- diffusion,
- disperse,
- dispersion,
- drop,
- electromagnetic radiation,
- electromagnetic wave,
- emanate,
- emanation,
- frequency,
- frequency band,
- frequency spectrum,
- gamma ray,
- gleam,
- guided wave,
- in phase,
- infrared ray,
- interference,
- invisible radiation,
- jot,
- leam,
- light,
- longitudinal wave,
- lota,
- mechanical wave,
- minim,
- molecule,
- moonbeam,
- node,
- out of phase,
- patch,
- pencil,
- period,
- periodic wave,
- photon,
- radiance,
- radiate,
- radiation,
- radio wave,
- radiorays,
- radius,
- ray of light,
- reinforcement,
- resonance,
- resonance frequency,
- ribbon,
- ribbon of light,
- scatter,
- scattering,
- scrap,
- seismic wave,
- shaft,
- shock wave,
- shoot,
- shred,
- smidgen,
- solar rays,
- sound wave,
- spoke,
- spread,
- streak,
- stream,
- stream of light,
- streamer,
- sunbeam,
- surface wave,
- tidal wave,
- transverse wave,
- trough,
- ultraviolet ray,
- violet ray,
- wave,
- wave equation,
- wave motion,
- wave number,
- wavelength
- Domesday Book,
- account book,
- accounts payable ledger,
- accounts receivable ledger,
- address book,
- adversaria,
- album,
- annual,
- appointment calendar,
- appointment schedule,
- balance sheet,
- bank ledger,
- bankbook,
- blankbook,
- blotter,
- books,
- calendar,
- card ledger,
- catalog,
- classified catalog,
- commonplace book,
- cost card,
- cost ledger,
- cost sheet,
- court calendar,
- daybook,
- desk calendar,
- diary,
- diptych,
- docket,
- engagement book,
- factory ledger,
- inventory,
- journal,
- ledger,
- log,
- logbook,
- loose-leaf notebook,
- memo book,
- memorandum book,
- memory book,
- notebook,
- pad,
- passbook,
- petty cashbook,
- pocket notebook,
- pocketbook,
- police blotter,
- purchase ledger,
- record book,
- register,
- registry,
- sales journal,
- sales ledger,
- scrapbook,
- scratch pad,
- spiral notebook,
- stock ledger,
- stores ledger,
- suspense ledger,
- table,
- tablet,
- triptych,
- workbook,
- writing tablet,
- yearbook
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