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polishing
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Related Words:
grovelling
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related words >
abject
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
base
,
brown-nosing
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
fawning
,
kowtowing
,
low
,
mean
,
obsequious
,
scraping
,
servile
,
slavish
,
sordid
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
sycophantish
,
toadying
,
truckling
apple polishing
collapse
related words >
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cringing
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
parasitism
,
prostration
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
sanding
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
attrition
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
detrition
,
dressing
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
filing
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
limation
,
polishing
,
rasping
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
smoothing
,
wear
,
wearing away
toadying
collapse
related words >
abject
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
truckling
collapse
the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)
related words >
abject
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
tufthunting
back scratching
collapse
related words >
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
barter
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cringing
,
even trade
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
influence peddling
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
lobbying
,
lobbyism
,
logrolling
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
parasitism
,
political influence
,
pork barrel
,
prostration
,
public opinion
,
social pressure
,
special-interest pressure
,
sponging
,
swap
,
swapping
,
switch
,
sycophancy
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
trade
,
trading
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
wire-pulling
groveling
collapse
related words >
abject
,
accumbent
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
couchant
,
couche
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
decumbent
,
draped
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flat
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
lying
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
supine
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
parasitism
collapse
the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
related words >
accompaniment
,
accordance
,
agreement
,
alliance
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
association
,
backscratching
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cahoots
,
co-working
,
coaction
,
coincidence
,
collaboration
,
collectivity
,
collusion
,
combination
,
combined effort
,
commensality
,
concert
,
concerted action
,
concomitance
,
concordance
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confluence
,
conjunction
,
consilience
,
conspiracy
,
cooperation
,
correspondence
,
cringing
,
ecology
,
ecosystem
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
junction
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
prostration
,
saprophytism
,
simultaneity
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
symbiosis
,
symbiotics
,
synchronism
,
synergy
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
union
,
united action
sycophancy
collapse
fawning obsequiousness
related words >
adulation
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backbiting
,
backscratching
,
backstabbing
,
belittlement
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
bunkum
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
calumny
,
compliment
,
cringing
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
disparagement
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattery
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
grease
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
incense
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
oil
,
palaver
,
parasitism
,
praise
,
pretty lies
,
prostration
,
scandal
,
slander
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
sponging
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
wheedling
ingratiating
collapse
calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
related words >
abject
,
adulatory
,
apple-polishing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
buttery
,
cajoling
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
disarming
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
glib
,
groveling
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
insinuating
,
insinuative
,
mealymouthed
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
prostrate
,
saccharine
,
servile
,
silken
,
silky
,
slimy
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
smug
,
sniveling
,
soapy
,
soft-spoken
,
sponging
,
suave
,
suave-spoken
,
sugary
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
filing
collapse
preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do"
the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
the entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return"
a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
analysis
,
arrangement
,
attrition
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
cataloging
,
categorization
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
classification
,
cloture
,
codification
,
committee consideration
,
debate
,
deliberation
,
detrition
,
division
,
dressing
,
enrollment
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
filibuster
,
filibustering
,
first reading
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grading
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
grouping
,
indexing
,
introduction
,
itemization
,
limation
,
listing
,
logrolling
,
pigeonholing
,
placement
,
polishing
,
ranging
,
ranking
,
rasping
,
rating
,
registration
,
registry
,
roll call
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
second reading
,
shining
,
smoothing
,
sorting
,
steamroller methods
,
stratification
,
subdivision
,
tabling
,
tabulation
,
talkathon
,
taxonomy
,
third reading
,
typology
,
vote
,
wear
,
wearing away
abrasive
collapse
a substance that abrades or wears down
causing abrasion
related words >
ablation
,
ablative
,
abradant
,
abrasion
,
aluminum oxide
,
attrition
,
attritive
,
auto polish
,
buffing
,
burnish
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
colcothar
,
corundum
,
crocus
,
detrition
,
dressing
,
emery
,
emery board
,
emery paper
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
erosive
,
file
,
filing
,
fretting
,
galling
,
garnet
,
gnawing
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
lawn-roller
,
limation
,
nail file
,
polish
,
polishes
,
polishing
,
pumice
,
pumice stone
,
rasp
,
rasping
,
roller
,
rottenstone
,
rouge
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
sandpaper
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
shoe polish
,
silicon carbide
,
silver polish
,
sleeker
,
slicker
,
smooth
,
smoother
,
smoothing
,
wax
,
wear
,
wearing away
erasure
collapse
a surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure"
a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript"
related words >
abbreviation
,
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
abridgment
,
attrition
,
blackout
,
blocking
,
blot
,
blotting
,
blotting out
,
blue-penciling
,
bowdlerization
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
cancel
,
cancellation
,
censoring
,
censorship
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
deletion
,
dematerialization
,
departure
,
detrition
,
disappearance
,
disappearing
,
dispersion
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
dissolving
,
dressing
,
eclipse
,
editing
,
effacement
,
elimination
,
erosion
,
evanescence
,
evaporation
,
expunction
,
expurgation
,
extinction
,
fadeaway
,
fadeout
,
fading
,
filing
,
fretting
,
galling
,
going
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
limation
,
melting
,
obliteration
,
occultation
,
omission
,
passing
,
polishing
,
rasping
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
smoothing
,
striking
,
vanishing
,
vanishing point
,
washing out
,
wear
,
wearing away
,
wipe
,
wiping out
obeisance
collapse
related words >
acceptance
,
acquiescence
,
allegiance
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
assent
,
backscratching
,
bend
,
bending the knee
,
bob
,
bootlicking
,
bow
,
bowing and scraping
,
brown-nosing
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
consent
,
cringing
,
crouch
,
curtsy
,
deference
,
dipping the colors
,
duck
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
fealty
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
genuflection
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
homage
,
honor
,
inclination
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kneeling
,
kowtow
,
loyalty
,
making a leg
,
mealymouthedness
,
nod
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
obedience
,
obsequiousness
,
parasitism
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
presenting arms
,
prostration
,
resignation
,
resignedness
,
respect
,
respectfulness
,
reverence
,
salaam
,
salutation
,
salute
,
scrape
,
servility
,
sponging
,
squat
,
standing at attention
,
stoop
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
supination
,
supineness
,
sycophancy
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
yielding
ablation
collapse
surgical removal of a body part or tissue
the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
related words >
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absorption
,
abstraction
,
assimilation
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
breakup
,
buffing
,
burning up
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
consumption
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
decay
,
decomposition
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
deduction
,
degradation
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
detrition
,
digestion
,
dilapidation
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
dressing
,
eating up
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
evaporation
,
exhaustion
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
filing
,
finishing
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
impoverishment
,
incoherence
,
ingestion
,
leakage
,
limation
,
loss
,
polishing
,
purification
,
rasping
,
ravages of time
,
refinement
,
removal
,
resolution
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
shrinkage
,
smoothing
,
spending
,
squandering
,
subduction
,
sublation
,
subtraction
,
taking away
,
use
,
using
,
using up
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting away
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wearing
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
,
weathering
erosion
collapse
(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
a gradual decline of something; "after the accounting scandal there was an erosion of confidence in the auditors"
condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
related words >
ablation
,
abrading
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absorption
,
abstraction
,
assimilation
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
breakup
,
buffing
,
burning up
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
consumption
,
corroding
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
decay
,
decomposition
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
deduction
,
degradation
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
detrition
,
digestion
,
dilapidation
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
dressing
,
eating up
,
erasure
,
evaporation
,
exhaustion
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
filing
,
finishing
,
fraying
,
fretting
,
galling
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
impoverishment
,
incoherence
,
ingestion
,
leakage
,
limation
,
loss
,
polishing
,
purification
,
rasping
,
ravages of time
,
refinement
,
removal
,
resolution
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
shrinkage
,
smoothing
,
spending
,
squandering
,
subduction
,
sublation
,
subtraction
,
taking away
,
use
,
using
,
using up
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting away
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wearing
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
,
weathering
abrasion
collapse
erosion by friction
an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
related words >
ablation
,
abrasive
,
abstraction
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
beating
,
blemish
,
break
,
brecciation
,
buffing
,
burn
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
check
,
chip
,
comminution
,
concussion
,
crack
,
crackle
,
craze
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
cut
,
deduction
,
detrition
,
disintegration
,
dressing
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
filing
,
flash burn
,
fracture
,
fragmentation
,
fray
,
frazzle
,
fretting
,
gall
,
galling
,
gash
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
hurt
,
incision
,
injury
,
laceration
,
lesion
,
levigation
,
limation
,
mashing
,
mortal wound
,
mutilation
,
polishing
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
puncture
,
purification
,
rasping
,
refinement
,
removal
,
rent
,
rip
,
rubbing away
,
run
,
rupture
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scald
,
scorch
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
second-degree burn
,
shining
,
shredding
,
slash
,
smashing
,
smoothing
,
sore
,
stab
,
stab wound
,
subduction
,
sublation
,
subtraction
,
taking away
,
tear
,
third-degree burn
,
trauma
,
trituration
,
wear
,
wearing away
,
wound
,
wounds immedicable
,
wrench
fretting
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
ablative
,
abradant
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
annoying
,
antsy
,
antsy-pantsy
,
anxiety
,
anxious
,
attrition
,
attritive
,
bothersome
,
breathless
,
breathless impatience
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
detrition
,
disquieting
,
disquietude
,
distressful
,
distressing
,
disturbing
,
dressing
,
eager
,
eagerness
,
edgy
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
erosive
,
excited
,
excitement
,
filing
,
fretful
,
fretfulness
,
galling
,
gnawing
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
harassing
,
harassment
,
haste
,
hasty
,
hopped-up
,
impatience
,
impatient
,
impatientness
,
impetuous
,
impetuousness
,
in a lather
,
in a stew
,
in a sweat
,
irritant
,
irritating
,
irritative
,
lather
,
limation
,
on edge
,
plaguing
,
polishing
,
rasping
,
restive
,
restiveness
,
restless
,
restlessness
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scratchy
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shining
,
smoothing
,
squirming
,
squirmy
,
stew
,
stinging
,
sweat
,
tense readiness
,
torment
,
tormenting
,
troublesome
,
uneasiness
,
uneasy
,
unpatient
,
unpatientness
,
unquiet
,
unquietness
,
upsetting
,
wear
,
wearing away
,
worriedness
,
worries and cares
,
worriment
,
worrisome
,
worry
,
worrying
servile
collapse
submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"
related words >
abject
,
abused
,
accepting
,
acquiescent
,
agreeable
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
assenting
,
attendant
,
attending
,
base
,
bootlicking
,
browbeaten
,
brown-nosing
,
client
,
common
,
complaisant
,
compliable
,
compliant
,
complying
,
consenting
,
craven
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
demeaning
,
dependent
,
despicable
,
disadvantaged
,
downtrod
,
downtrodden
,
fawning
,
feudal
,
feudatory
,
flattering
,
ground down
,
groveling
,
helping
,
henpecked
,
humble
,
ignoble
,
in leading strings
,
in the shade
,
inferior
,
infra dig
,
ingratiating
,
junior
,
less
,
lesser
,
liege
,
low
,
lower
,
lowly
,
mean
,
mean-spirited
,
menial
,
ministering
,
minor
,
misused
,
modest
,
nondissenting
,
nonresistant
,
nonresisting
,
nonresistive
,
obedient
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
on bended knee
,
oppressed
,
ordered around
,
ordinary
,
overborne
,
passive
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
regimented
,
resigned
,
scurvy
,
second rank
,
second string
,
secondary
,
serving
,
servitorial
,
slavish
,
slimy
,
smarmy
,
sordid
,
sub
,
subaltern
,
subject
,
submissive
,
subordinate
,
subservient
,
supine
,
sycophantic
,
sycophantish
,
third rank
,
third string
,
toadish
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
trampled
,
tributary
,
truckling
,
tyrannized
,
ugly
,
unassertive
,
uncomplaining
,
unctuous
,
underprivileged
,
unmanned
,
unresistant
,
unresisting
,
vassal
,
vile
,
vulgar
,
waiting
,
wheedling
rasping
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
ablative
,
abradant
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
air pollution
,
attrition
,
attritive
,
attritus
,
bones
,
bran
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chaff
,
chafing
,
cosmic dust
,
crumb
,
crumble
,
culm
,
deadwood
,
detrition
,
dishwater
,
draff
,
dregs
,
dressing
,
dry
,
dust
,
dust ball
,
efflorescence
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
erosive
,
fallout
,
farina
,
filing
,
filings
,
flour
,
fretting
,
galling
,
garbage
,
gash
,
gnawing
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
grits
,
groats
,
hoarse
,
hogwash
,
husks
,
irritant
,
irritating
,
irritative
,
jangling
,
jangly
,
jarring
,
kittens
,
leavings
,
lees
,
limation
,
lint
,
meal
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
orts
,
parings
,
polishing
,
potsherds
,
powder
,
pussies
,
rags
,
raspings
,
raspy
,
raucous
,
refuse
,
rough
,
rubbing away
,
rugged
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
sawdust
,
scouring
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scraps
,
scrapy
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scratchy
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
scum
,
shards
,
shavings
,
shining
,
slack
,
slag
,
slop
,
slops
,
smoothing
,
smut
,
soot
,
stinging
,
stridulous
,
stubble
,
sweepings
,
swill
,
tares
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
wear
,
wearing away
,
weeds
sponging
collapse
related words >
abject
,
ablution
,
absorbency
,
absorbent
,
absorption
,
adsorbent
,
adsorption
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
assimilation
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
blotter
,
blotting
,
blotting paper
,
bone-lazy
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cadging
,
chemisorption
,
chemosorption
,
cleaning out
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
digestion
,
dilatory
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
douche
,
douching
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
endosmosis
,
enema
,
engrossment
,
ergophobic
,
exosmosis
,
faineant
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
flush
,
flushing
,
flushing out
,
footlicking
,
good-for-nothing
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
indolent
,
infiltration
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
irrigation
,
laggard
,
lathering
,
lavabo
,
lavage
,
lavation
,
laving
,
lax
,
lazy
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
mopping
,
mopping up
,
nonaggressive
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
osmosis
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
percolation
,
procrastinative
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
remiss
,
rinse
,
rinsing
,
scouring
,
scrounging
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scrubbing up
,
seepage
,
shampoo
,
shiftless
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
sniveling
,
soaping
,
sorption
,
sponge
,
swabbing
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
unenterprising
,
wash
,
washing
,
washing up
,
washout
,
washup
,
wiping up
,
work-shy
fawning
collapse
related words >
abject
,
adulation
,
adulatory
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
blarneying
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
bunkum
,
buttery
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
cajoling
,
compliant
,
compliment
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
envious
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fair-spoken
,
fawnery
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
flattery
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
grease
,
groveling
,
gushing
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
humble
,
ignoble
,
incense
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
mealy-mouthed
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
mean
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
oil
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
palaver
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
praise
,
pretty lies
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
servile
,
slavish
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
sniveling
,
soap
,
soapy
,
soft soap
,
soft-soaping
,
spineless
,
sponging
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
sycophant
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
,
yielding
servility
collapse
related words >
abjection
,
abjectness
,
absolutism
,
acquiescence
,
agreeability
,
agreeableness
,
allegiance
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
back seat
,
baseness
,
bend
,
bending the knee
,
biddability
,
bob
,
bond service
,
bondage
,
bow
,
bowing and scraping
,
brown-nosing
,
captivity
,
compliableness
,
compliance
,
conformity
,
control
,
cringing
,
curtsy
,
debt slavery
,
deprivation of freedom
,
dipping the colors
,
disenfranchisement
,
disfranchisement
,
docility
,
domination
,
ductility
,
duteousness
,
dutifulness
,
enslavement
,
enthrallment
,
facility
,
faith
,
fawning
,
fealty
,
feudalism
,
feudality
,
flattery
,
flexibility
,
genuflection
,
helotism
,
helotry
,
homage
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
inclination
,
indentureship
,
inferiority
,
juniority
,
kneeling
,
kowtow
,
lowliness
,
loyalty
,
making a leg
,
malleability
,
meanness
,
minority
,
moldability
,
nod
,
obedience
,
obediency
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
observance
,
peonage
,
plasticity
,
pliability
,
pliancy
,
presenting arms
,
prostration
,
restraint
,
reverence
,
salaam
,
salutation
,
salute
,
scrape
,
second fiddle
,
second string
,
secondariness
,
serfdom
,
serfhood
,
service
,
servitium
,
servitude
,
slavery
,
slavishness
,
sliminess
,
standing at attention
,
subjection
,
subjugation
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
subordinacy
,
subordination
,
subservience
,
suit and service
,
suit service
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantism
,
third string
,
thrall
,
thralldom
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
tractability
,
truckling
,
tyranny
,
unctuousness
,
vassalage
,
vileness
,
villenage
,
wheedling
,
willingness
,
yieldingness
,
yoke
scouring
collapse
moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"
related words >
ablation
,
ablution
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
afterglow
,
afterimage
,
attrition
,
balance
,
bones
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
butt
,
butt end
,
candle ends
,
chafe
,
chaff
,
chafing
,
cleaning out
,
culm
,
deadwood
,
debris
,
detrition
,
detritus
,
dishwater
,
douche
,
douching
,
draff
,
dregs
,
dressing
,
dust
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
end
,
enema
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
fag end
,
filing
,
filings
,
flush
,
flushing
,
flushing out
,
fossil
,
fretting
,
galling
,
garbage
,
gash
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
hogwash
,
holdover
,
husks
,
irrigation
,
lathering
,
lavabo
,
lavage
,
lavation
,
laving
,
leavings
,
lees
,
leftovers
,
limation
,
mopping
,
mopping up
,
odds and ends
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
orts
,
parings
,
polishing
,
potsherds
,
rags
,
rasping
,
raspings
,
refuse
,
relics
,
remainder
,
remains
,
remnant
,
residue
,
residuum
,
rest
,
rinse
,
rinsing
,
roach
,
rubbing away
,
rubbish
,
ruins
,
rump
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
sawdust
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scraps
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scrubbing up
,
scuff
,
scum
,
shadow
,
shampoo
,
shards
,
shavings
,
shining
,
slack
,
slag
,
slop
,
slops
,
smoothing
,
soaping
,
sponge
,
sponging
,
straw
,
stubble
,
stump
,
survival
,
swabbing
,
sweepings
,
swill
,
tares
,
trace
,
vestige
,
wash
,
washing
,
washing up
,
washout
,
washup
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
wear
,
wearing away
,
weeds
,
wiping up
grazing
collapse
the act of brushing against while passing
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
animal husbandry
,
animal rearing
,
appetite
,
attrition
,
bee culture
,
beekeeping
,
breeding
,
brushing
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
campo
,
cannibalism
,
carnivorism
,
carnivority
,
carnivorousness
,
cattle-ranching
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
chewing
,
chicken-farming
,
consumption
,
contacting
,
contingent
,
cropping
,
dairy-farming
,
deglutition
,
detrition
,
devouring
,
devourment
,
dieting
,
dining
,
dressage
,
dressing
,
eating
,
epulation
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
feasting
,
feeding
,
filing
,
fretting
,
galling
,
glancing
,
gluttony
,
gnotobiotics
,
gobbling
,
grass
,
grass veld
,
grassland
,
grinding
,
haugh
,
haughland
,
herbivorism
,
herbivority
,
herbivorousness
,
herding
,
horse training
,
horsemanship
,
hunger
,
impingent
,
impinging
,
in contact
,
ingestion
,
lea
,
licking
,
limation
,
llano
,
manducation
,
mastication
,
mead
,
meadow
,
meadow land
,
meeting
,
messing
,
mink-ranching
,
munching
,
nibbling
,
nudging
,
nutrition
,
omnivorism
,
omnivorousness
,
omophagy
,
osculatory
,
pampa
,
pampas
,
pantophagy
,
park
,
pasturage
,
pasture
,
pasture land
,
pasturing
,
pecking
,
pig-keeping
,
polishing
,
prairie
,
range
,
rasping
,
regalement
,
relishing
,
rubbing
,
rubbing away
,
rumination
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
savanna
,
savoring
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
sheepherding
,
shining
,
smoothing
,
steppe
,
steppeland
,
stock raising
,
stockbreeding
,
swale
,
tangent
,
tangential
,
tasting
,
thremmatology
,
touching
,
vega
,
vegetarianism
,
veld
,
wear
,
wearing away
,
wolfing
,
zootechnics
,
zootechny
attrition
collapse
the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
related words >
abatement
,
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absorption
,
apologies
,
assimilation
,
atomization
,
attenuation
,
ayenbite of inwit
,
beating
,
bitterness
,
blunting
,
brecciation
,
buffing
,
burning up
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
comminution
,
consumption
,
contriteness
,
contrition
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
damping
,
deadening
,
debilitation
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
detraction
,
detrition
,
devitalization
,
digestion
,
dilution
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disintegration
,
disparagement
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
dressing
,
dulling
,
eating up
,
effemination
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
evisceration
,
exhaustion
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
extenuation
,
extraction
,
fatigue
,
filing
,
finishing
,
fragmentation
,
fretting
,
galling
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grief
,
grinding
,
impairment
,
impoverishment
,
inanition
,
ingestion
,
languishment
,
lessening
,
levigation
,
limation
,
loss
,
mashing
,
mitigation
,
penance
,
penitently
,
polishing
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
rasping
,
reduction
,
regret
,
regretfulness
,
regrets
,
regretting
,
relaxation
,
remission
,
remorse
,
remorse of conscience
,
remorsefulness
,
repentance
,
repining
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
rubbing away
,
rue
,
ruth
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shame
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
shamefulness
,
shining
,
shortening
,
shredding
,
shrinkage
,
slackening
,
smashing
,
smoothing
,
softening
,
sorriness
,
sorrow
,
spending
,
squandering
,
thinning
,
trituration
,
truncation
,
using up
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting away
,
weakening
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
,
wistfulness
grinding
collapse
a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
matter resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain"
the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
related words >
ablation
,
ablative
,
abradant
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absolute
,
absolutist
,
absolutistic
,
application
,
arbitrary
,
aristocratic
,
arrogant
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
attritive
,
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
autocratic
,
beating
,
boning
,
bossy
,
brainwork
,
brecciation
,
buffing
,
burdensome
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
comminution
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
cram
,
cramming
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
despotic
,
detrition
,
dictatorial
,
disintegration
,
domineering
,
dressing
,
drill
,
drudging
,
engrossment
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
erosive
,
exercise
,
exhausting
,
extensive study
,
feudal
,
filing
,
fragmentation
,
fretting
,
galling
,
gnawing
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grind
,
grubbing
,
hardworking
,
harsh
,
headwork
,
heavy
,
high-handed
,
imperative
,
imperial
,
imperious
,
inspection
,
irritant
,
irritating
,
irritative
,
jangling
,
jangly
,
jarring
,
laboring
,
levigation
,
limation
,
lordly
,
lucubration
,
magisterial
,
magistral
,
mashing
,
masterful
,
mental labor
,
monocratic
,
onerous
,
oppressive
,
overbearing
,
overburdensome
,
overruling
,
pegging
,
peremptory
,
perusal
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
polishing
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
practice
,
rasping
,
raspy
,
reading
,
repressive
,
restudy
,
restudying
,
review
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scrapy
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scratchy
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
severe
,
shining
,
shredding
,
slaving
,
slogging
,
smashing
,
smoothing
,
stinging
,
straining
,
strict
,
striving
,
struggling
,
study
,
studying
,
subject
,
suppressive
,
sweating
,
swotting
,
toiling
,
trituration
,
tyrannical
,
tyrannous
,
wear
,
wearing
,
wearing away
,
wearying
,
weighty
,
wide reading
,
working
dressing
collapse
the act of applying a bandage
the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
a cloth covering for a wound or sore
savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
related words >
Ace bandage
,
Band-Aid
,
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
adhesive tape
,
ammonia
,
apparel
,
application
,
array
,
ass-reaming
,
attire
,
attrition
,
band
,
bandage
,
bandaging
,
bawling-out
,
bedizenment
,
binder
,
brace
,
buffing
,
burnishing
,
cast
,
castor-bean meal
,
cataplasm
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
chewing
,
clothes
,
clothing
,
commercial fertilizer
,
compost
,
compress
,
contour plowing
,
costume
,
cotton
,
court plaster
,
cravat
,
cultivating
,
cultivation
,
culture
,
cussing-out
,
detrition
,
drapery
,
dress
,
dressing-down
,
duds
,
dung
,
elastic bandage
,
enrichener
,
epithem
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
fallowing
,
farce
,
fashion
,
fatigues
,
feathers
,
fertilizer
,
fig
,
filing
,
forcemeat
,
four-tailed bandage
,
fretting
,
furrowing
,
galling
,
garb
,
garments
,
gauze
,
gear
,
going-over
,
grazing
,
grinding
,
guano
,
guise
,
habiliment
,
habit
,
harrowing
,
hoeing
,
investiture
,
investment
,
jacking-up
,
limation
,
linen
,
lint
,
listing
,
manure
,
muck
,
night soil
,
nitrate
,
nitrogen
,
organic fertilizer
,
phosphate
,
plaster
,
plaster cast
,
pledget
,
plowing
,
polishing
,
poultice
,
pruning
,
rags
,
raiment
,
raking-down
,
rasping
,
reaming
,
reaming-out
,
roasting
,
robes
,
roller
,
roller bandage
,
rubber bandage
,
rubbing away
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
setdown
,
shining
,
sling
,
smoothing
,
speaking-to
,
splint
,
sponge
,
sportswear
,
stuffing
,
stupe
,
style
,
superphosphate
,
talking-to
,
tampon
,
tape
,
tent
,
thinning
,
threads
,
tilling
,
togs
,
toilette
,
tourniquet
,
triangular bandage
,
trim
,
vestment
,
vesture
,
wear
,
wearing apparel
,
wearing away
,
weeding
,
what-for
,
working
scuff
collapse
the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet)
poke at with the foot or toe
mar by scuffing; "scuffed shoes"
get or become scuffed; "These patent leather shoes scuffed"
walk without lifting the feet
related words >
ablate
,
ablation
,
abrade
,
abrase
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
amble
,
attrition
,
barge
,
bark
,
blemish
,
bloody
,
bowl along
,
break
,
buffing
,
bundle
,
burn
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
check
,
chip
,
claw
,
clump
,
concussion
,
crack
,
crackle
,
craze
,
cut
,
detrition
,
drag
,
dressing
,
erase
,
erasure
,
erode
,
erosion
,
file
,
filing
,
flash burn
,
flounce
,
foot
,
footslog
,
fracture
,
fray
,
frazzle
,
fret
,
fretting
,
gall
,
galling
,
gash
,
gnaw
,
gnaw away
,
grate
,
graze
,
grazing
,
grind
,
grinding
,
halt
,
hippety-hop
,
hitch
,
hobble
,
hop
,
hurt
,
incise
,
incision
,
injure
,
injury
,
jog
,
jolt
,
jump
,
lacerate
,
laceration
,
lesion
,
limation
,
limp
,
lumber
,
lunge
,
lurch
,
maim
,
make mincemeat of
,
maul
,
mince
,
mortal wound
,
mutilate
,
mutilation
,
pace
,
paddle
,
peg
,
piaffe
,
piaffer
,
pierce
,
plod
,
polishing
,
prance
,
puncture
,
rack
,
rasp
,
rasping
,
raze
,
rend
,
rent
,
rip
,
roll
,
rub away
,
rub off
,
rub out
,
rubbing away
,
run
,
rupture
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
sashay
,
saunter
,
savage
,
scald
,
scorch
,
scotch
,
scour
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuffle
,
scuttle
,
second-degree burn
,
shamble
,
shining
,
shovel
,
shuffle
,
sidle
,
single-foot
,
skin
,
skip
,
slash
,
slink
,
slit
,
slither
,
slog
,
slouch
,
smoothing
,
sore
,
sprain
,
stab
,
stab wound
,
stagger
,
stalk
,
stamp
,
stick
,
stomp
,
straddle
,
straggle
,
strain
,
stride
,
stroll
,
strut
,
stump
,
swagger
,
swing
,
tear
,
third-degree burn
,
tittup
,
toddle
,
totter
,
traipse
,
trauma
,
traumatize
,
trip
,
trudge
,
waddle
,
wamble
,
wear
,
wear away
,
wearing away
,
wiggle
,
wobble
,
wound
,
wounds immedicable
,
wrench
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