poison-pen letter - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

coarsen collapse: make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals"; make or become coarse or coarser; "coarsen the surface"; "Their minds coarsened"

corral collapse: collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"; arrange wagons so that they form a corral; enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"

murderer collapse: a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

toxic collapse: of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances"

limbo collapse: (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals); an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

enclave collapse: an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

assassin collapse: a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"; a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders

matador collapse: the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull

stationery collapse: paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes

alphabetize collapse: arrange in alphabetical order; "Alphabetize the list"; provide with an alphabet; "Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages"

bevel collapse: a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size; two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees; cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface"

voucher collapse: a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure; someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement

memorize collapse: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"

quarantine collapse: isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease; enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease; place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"

logogram collapse: a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"

lynch collapse: kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

literally collapse: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"; in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally"

rail collapse: any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud; a horizontal bar (usually of wood); short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"; complain bitterly; fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"; lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"; convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"; separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"; provide with rails; "The yard was railed"; enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"

dispatch collapse: the act of sending off something; killing a person or animal; the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"; an official report (usually sent in haste); kill without delay; "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators"; send away towards a designated goal; dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently; "He dispatched the task he was assigned"; complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties"

malignancy collapse: (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death

strangler collapse: an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree

dog tag collapse: metal plate on a dog collar bearing its registration number; military identification tag worn on a chain around the neck

calling card collapse: a distinguishing characteristic or behavior; "bombs are a terrorist's calling cards"; a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited; a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls

deflower collapse: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"

cuneiform collapse: an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia; of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)

Wordage.info