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barbican
collapse
a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle)
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
antenna tower
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
belfry
,
bell tower
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
campanile
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
colossus
,
column
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
cupola
,
curtain
,
demibastion
,
derrick
,
dike
,
dome
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fire tower
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
glacis
,
lantern
,
lighthouse
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
martello
,
martello tower
,
mast
,
merlon
,
minaret
,
monument
,
mound
,
obelisk
,
observation tower
,
outwork
,
pagoda
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
pilaster
,
pillar
,
pinnacle
,
pole
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
pylon
,
pyramid
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
shaft
,
skyscraper
,
spire
,
standpipe
,
steeple
,
stockade
,
stupa
,
television mast
,
tenaille
,
tope
,
tour
,
tower
,
turret
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
water tower
,
windmill tower
,
work
retrograde
collapse
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
going from better to worse
go back over; "retrograde arguments"
move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
related words >
aft
,
after
,
aftermost
,
atavistic
,
back
,
backslide
,
backward
,
cock
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
decline
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
descend
,
deteriorate
,
deteriorating
,
disimprove
,
disintegrate
,
disintegrating
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
fall astern
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
get behind
,
get worse
,
go backwards
,
go behind
,
going to pieces
,
grow worse
,
hind
,
hinder
,
hindermost
,
hindhand
,
hindmost
,
invert
,
jerk back
,
languishing
,
lapse
,
lapse back
,
let down
,
lose ground
,
marcescent
,
pining
,
posterior
,
postern
,
pull back
,
reactionary
,
rear
,
rearmost
,
rearward
,
recede
,
recessive
,
recidivate
,
recidivist
,
recidivous
,
regress
,
regressive
,
relapse
,
retract
,
retral
,
retreat
,
retroactive
,
retrocede
,
retrocessive
,
retroflex
,
retrogress
,
retrogressive
,
retrorse
,
retroverse
,
retrovert
,
return
,
returnable
,
reverse
,
reversible
,
reversional
,
reversionary
,
revert
,
revertible
,
revulsionary
,
rot
,
shriveling
,
sicken
,
sink
,
sinking
,
slacken
,
sliding
,
slip back
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tail
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsen
,
worsening
earthwork
collapse
an earthen rampart
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
arch dam
,
backstop
,
balistraria
,
bamboo curtain
,
bank
,
banquette
,
bar
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barrage
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
bear-trap dam
,
beaver dam
,
boom
,
breakwater
,
breastwork
,
brick wall
,
buffer
,
bulkhead
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
cofferdam
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
dam
,
defense
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
ditch
,
drawbridge
,
embankment
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gate
,
glacis
,
gravity dam
,
groin
,
hydraulic-fill dam
,
iron curtain
,
jam
,
jetty
,
leaping weir
,
levee
,
logjam
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
milldam
,
moat
,
mole
,
mound
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
roadblock
,
rock-fill dam
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
seawall
,
shutter dam
,
stockade
,
stone wall
,
tenaille
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
weir
,
wicket dam
,
work
breastwork
collapse
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
arch dam
,
backstop
,
balistraria
,
bamboo curtain
,
bank
,
banquette
,
bar
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barrage
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
bear-trap dam
,
beaver dam
,
boom
,
breakwater
,
brick wall
,
buffer
,
bulkhead
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
cofferdam
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
dam
,
defense
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
ditch
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
embankment
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gate
,
glacis
,
gravity dam
,
groin
,
hydraulic-fill dam
,
iron curtain
,
jam
,
jetty
,
leaping weir
,
levee
,
logjam
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
milldam
,
moat
,
mole
,
mound
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
roadblock
,
rock-fill dam
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
seawall
,
shutter dam
,
stockade
,
stone wall
,
tenaille
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
weir
,
wicket dam
,
work
parapet
collapse
fortification consisting of a low wall
a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
arch dam
,
backstop
,
balistraria
,
bamboo curtain
,
bank
,
banquette
,
bar
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barrage
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
bear-trap dam
,
beaver dam
,
boom
,
breakwater
,
breastwork
,
brick wall
,
buffer
,
bulkhead
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
cofferdam
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
dam
,
defense
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
ditch
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
embankment
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gate
,
glacis
,
gravity dam
,
groin
,
hydraulic-fill dam
,
iron curtain
,
jam
,
jetty
,
leaping weir
,
levee
,
logjam
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
milldam
,
moat
,
mole
,
mound
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
parados
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
roadblock
,
rock-fill dam
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
seawall
,
shutter dam
,
stockade
,
stone wall
,
tackling
,
tenaille
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
weir
,
wicket dam
,
work
sconce
collapse
a candlestick with a flat side to be hung on the wall
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
amercement
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
bean
,
belfry
,
bracket
,
brain
,
breastwork
,
brow
,
bulwark
,
candelabrum
,
candlestand
,
candlestick
,
casemate
,
chandelier
,
cheval-de-frise
,
chump
,
circumvallation
,
conk
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
crown
,
curtain
,
damages
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
distraint
,
distress
,
dome
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
encephalon
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
escheat
,
escheatment
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fine
,
forfeit
,
forfeiture
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gas fixture
,
girandole
,
glacis
,
gray matter
,
head
,
headpiece
,
lamp holder
,
lampstand
,
light fixture
,
light socket
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
mound
,
mulct
,
noddle
,
noggin
,
noodle
,
organ of thought
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
pate
,
poll
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
ridge
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
seat of thought
,
sensation
,
sensorium
,
sensory
,
stockade
,
tenaille
,
torch holder
,
torch staff
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall bracket
,
work
turnpike
collapse
an expressway on which tolls are collected
(from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
related words >
Autobahn
,
French door
,
US highway
,
alley
,
alleyway
,
archway
,
arterial
,
arterial highway
,
arterial street
,
artery
,
autoroute
,
autostrada
,
avenue
,
back door
,
barway
,
belt highway
,
blind alley
,
boulevard
,
bulkhead
,
bypass
,
byway
,
camino real
,
carriage entrance
,
carriageway
,
causeway
,
causey
,
cellar door
,
cellarway
,
chaussee
,
circumferential
,
close
,
corduroy road
,
county road
,
court
,
crescent
,
cul-de-sac
,
dead-end street
,
dike
,
dirt road
,
door
,
doorjamb
,
doorpost
,
doorway
,
drive
,
driveway
,
expressway
,
freeway
,
front door
,
gate
,
gatepost
,
gateway
,
gravel road
,
hatch
,
hatchway
,
highroad
,
highway
,
highways and byways
,
interstate highway
,
lane
,
lintel
,
local road
,
main drag
,
main road
,
mews
,
motorway
,
parkway
,
pave
,
paved road
,
pike
,
place
,
plank road
,
porch
,
portal
,
porte cochere
,
postern
,
primary highway
,
private road
,
propylaeum
,
pylon
,
right-of-way
,
ring road
,
road
,
roadbed
,
roadway
,
route nationale
,
row
,
royal road
,
scuttle
,
secondary road
,
side door
,
speedway
,
state highway
,
stile
,
storm door
,
street
,
superhighway
,
terrace
,
thoroughfare
,
threshold
,
through street
,
thruway
,
toll road
,
tollgate
,
township road
,
trap
,
trap door
,
turnstile
,
wynd
stern
collapse
the rear part of a ship
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)
severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
related words >
Spartan
,
Spartanic
,
adamant
,
adamantine
,
afterpart
,
afterpiece
,
arse
,
ascetic
,
ass
,
astringent
,
austere
,
authoritarian
,
back
,
back door
,
back seat
,
back side
,
backside
,
beam
,
behind
,
bottom
,
breech
,
bum
,
butt
,
can
,
cast-iron
,
cheeks
,
churlish
,
counter
,
crabbed
,
crabby
,
critical
,
crusty
,
demanding
,
derriere
,
determined
,
dour
,
exacting
,
exigent
,
fanny
,
fantail
,
firm
,
flinty
,
forbidding
,
frowning
,
gloomy
,
grave
,
grim
,
gruff
,
hard
,
hard-core
,
harsh
,
heel
,
hind end
,
hind part
,
hindhead
,
immovable
,
immutable
,
implacable
,
impliable
,
inclement
,
inelastic
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
intransigent
,
iron
,
irreconcilable
,
keister
,
lugubrious
,
meticulous
,
mortified
,
obdurate
,
occiput
,
poop
,
posterior
,
postern
,
prat
,
rear
,
rear end
,
rearward
,
relentless
,
resolute
,
reverse
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
rock-ribbed
,
rough
,
rudderpost
,
rugged
,
rump
,
rusty-dusty
,
saturnine
,
serious
,
severe
,
sour
,
steadfast
,
steely
,
stiff
,
stony
,
strict
,
stringent
,
taciturn
,
tail
,
tail end
,
tailpiece
,
tough
,
tuchis
,
tush
,
tushy
,
unaffected
,
unalterable
,
unbending
,
unchangeable
,
uncompromising
,
unforgiving
,
ungentle
,
ungiving
,
unmoved
,
unrelenting
,
unremitting
,
unsparing
,
unsympathetic
,
unyielding
tailpiece
collapse
appendage added to extend the length of something
related words >
accession
,
accessory
,
accompaniment
,
addenda
,
addendum
,
additament
,
addition
,
additive
,
additory
,
additum
,
adjunct
,
adjuvant
,
afterpart
,
afterpiece
,
anacrusis
,
annex
,
annexation
,
appanage
,
appendage
,
appendant
,
appurtenance
,
appurtenant
,
attachment
,
augment
,
augmentation
,
back
,
back door
,
back seat
,
back side
,
bass passage
,
behind
,
bourdon
,
breech
,
bridge
,
brush
,
burden
,
cadence
,
cauda
,
caudal appendage
,
caudation
,
chorus
,
coda
,
complement
,
concomitant
,
continuation
,
corollary
,
cue
,
development
,
division
,
dock
,
exposition
,
extension
,
extrapolation
,
fantail
,
figure
,
fixture
,
folderol
,
harmonic close
,
heel
,
hind end
,
hind part
,
hindhead
,
increase
,
increment
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
introductory phrase
,
measure
,
movement
,
musical phrase
,
musical sentence
,
occiput
,
offshoot
,
ornament
,
part
,
passage
,
pendant
,
period
,
phrase
,
pigtail
,
posterior
,
postern
,
queue
,
rattail
,
rear
,
rear end
,
rearward
,
refrain
,
reinforcement
,
resolution
,
response
,
reverse
,
ritornello
,
section
,
side effect
,
side issue
,
stanza
,
statement
,
stern
,
strain
,
stub
,
supplement
,
tab
,
tag
,
tail
,
tail end
,
trail
,
trailer
,
train
,
tutti
,
tutti passage
,
undergirding
,
variation
,
verse
,
wake
back door
collapse
a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door"
an entrance at the rear of a building
an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
related words >
French door
,
afterpart
,
afterpiece
,
archway
,
back
,
back road
,
back seat
,
back side
,
back stairs
,
back street
,
back way
,
backstairs
,
barway
,
behind
,
bolt-hole
,
breech
,
bulkhead
,
by-lane
,
bypass
,
bypath
,
byroad
,
bystreet
,
byway
,
carriage entrance
,
cellar door
,
cellarway
,
clandestine
,
covert
,
covert way
,
detour
,
door
,
doorjamb
,
doorpost
,
doorway
,
escalier derobe
,
escape hatch
,
escape route
,
feline
,
front door
,
furtive
,
gate
,
gatepost
,
gateway
,
hatch
,
hatchway
,
heel
,
hidlings
,
hind end
,
hind part
,
hindhead
,
hole-and-corner
,
hugger-mugger
,
lintel
,
occiput
,
porch
,
portal
,
porte cochere
,
posterior
,
postern
,
privy
,
propylaeum
,
pylon
,
quiet
,
rear
,
rear end
,
rearward
,
reverse
,
roundabout way
,
scuttle
,
secret exit
,
secret passage
,
secret staircase
,
shifty
,
side door
,
side road
,
side street
,
skulking
,
slinking
,
slinky
,
sly
,
sneaking
,
sneaky
,
stealthy
,
stern
,
stile
,
storm door
,
surreptitious
,
tail
,
tail end
,
tailpiece
,
threshold
,
tollgate
,
trap
,
trap door
,
turnpike
,
turnstile
,
under-the-counter
,
under-the-table
,
undercover
,
underground
,
underground railroad
,
underground route
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
unobtrusive
threshold
collapse
the smallest detectable sensation
the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"
related words >
French door
,
archway
,
back door
,
barway
,
beginning
,
border line
,
bound
,
boundary
,
boundary condition
,
boundary line
,
bourn
,
break boundary
,
breakoff point
,
brink
,
bulkhead
,
carriage entrance
,
ceiling
,
cellar door
,
cellarway
,
circumscription
,
commencement
,
compass
,
confine
,
cutoff
,
cutoff point
,
dawn
,
deadline
,
delimitation
,
determinant
,
division line
,
door
,
doorjamb
,
doorpost
,
doorsill
,
doorstep
,
doorstone
,
doorway
,
edge
,
end
,
entrance
,
entrance hall
,
entranceway
,
entry
,
entryway
,
extremity
,
finish
,
floor
,
foyer
,
front door
,
frontier
,
galilee
,
gate
,
gatepost
,
gateway
,
groundsel
,
hatch
,
hatchway
,
hedge
,
high-water mark
,
interface
,
limen
,
limit
,
limitation
,
limiting factor
,
line
,
line of demarcation
,
lintel
,
lobby
,
low-water mark
,
lower limit
,
march
,
mark
,
mete
,
mudsill
,
narthex
,
outset
,
point
,
porch
,
portal
,
porte cochere
,
portico
,
postern
,
propylaeum
,
pylon
,
scuttle
,
side door
,
sill
,
start
,
starting line
,
starting point
,
stile
,
stoa
,
storm door
,
target date
,
term
,
terminal date
,
terminus
,
time allotment
,
tollgate
,
trap
,
trap door
,
turnpike
,
turnstile
,
upper limit
,
verge
,
vestibule
,
window sill
rampart
collapse
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"
related words >
abatis
,
abutment
,
advanced work
,
arc-boutant
,
arch dam
,
backstop
,
balistraria
,
bamboo curtain
,
bank
,
banquette
,
bar
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barrage
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
beam
,
bear-trap dam
,
beaver dam
,
boom
,
breakwater
,
breastwork
,
brick wall
,
buffer
,
bulkhead
,
bulwark
,
buttress
,
buttress pier
,
buttressing
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
cofferdam
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
dam
,
defence
,
defense
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
ditch
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
embankment
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
flying buttress
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gate
,
glacis
,
gravity dam
,
groin
,
guard
,
hanging buttress
,
hydraulic-fill dam
,
iron curtain
,
jam
,
jetty
,
jutty
,
leaping weir
,
levee
,
logjam
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
milldam
,
moat
,
mole
,
mound
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
pier
,
pier buttress
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
retaining wall
,
roadblock
,
rock-fill dam
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
seawall
,
security
,
shoulder
,
shutter dam
,
stockade
,
stone wall
,
stronghold
,
tenaille
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
weir
,
wicket dam
,
work
stockade
collapse
fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense
surround with a stockade in order to fortify
related words >
POW camp
,
abatis
,
advanced work
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastille
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
black hole
,
borstal
,
borstal institution
,
breastwork
,
bridewell
,
brig
,
bulwark
,
calaboose
,
can
,
casemate
,
cell
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
concentration camp
,
condemned cell
,
contravallation
,
cooler
,
coop
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
death cell
,
death house
,
death row
,
demibastion
,
detention camp
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
federal prison
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
forced-labor camp
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gaol
,
glacis
,
guardhouse
,
guardroom
,
hoosegow
,
house of correction
,
house of detention
,
industrial school
,
internment camp
,
jail
,
jailhouse
,
jug
,
keep
,
labor camp
,
lockup
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
maximum-security prison
,
merlon
,
minimum-security prison
,
mound
,
oubliette
,
outwork
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
pen
,
penal colony
,
penal institution
,
penal settlement
,
penitentiary
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
prison
,
prison camp
,
prisonhouse
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
reform school
,
reformatory
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
sponging house
,
state prison
,
tenaille
,
the hole
,
tollbooth
,
training school
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
work
barricade
collapse
a barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy); "they stormed the barricade"
block off with barricades
prevent access to by barricading; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"
render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
arm
,
armor
,
armor-plate
,
balistraria
,
bang
,
bank
,
banquette
,
bar
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
batten
,
batten down
,
battle
,
battlement
,
blank wall
,
block
,
block up
,
blockade
,
bolt
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
button
,
button up
,
casemate
,
castellate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
chock
,
choke
,
choke off
,
circumvallation
,
clap
,
close
,
close off
,
close tight
,
close up
,
constrict
,
contain
,
contract
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
cover
,
crenellate
,
crowd
,
curtain
,
debar
,
demibastion
,
dig in
,
dike
,
dog
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
embattle
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
entrench
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
fasten
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
fold
,
fold up
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
fortify
,
garrison
,
glacis
,
jam
,
key
,
latch
,
lock
,
lock out
,
lock up
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
man
,
man the garrison
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
mine
,
mound
,
obstruct
,
occlude
,
outwork
,
pack
,
padlock
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
plumb
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
roadblock
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
seal
,
seal off
,
seal up
,
secure
,
shut
,
shut off
,
shut out
,
shut the door
,
shut tight
,
shut up
,
slam
,
snap
,
squeeze
,
squeeze shut
,
stifle
,
stockade
,
stop
,
stop up
,
strangle
,
strangulate
,
suffocate
,
tenaille
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
work
,
zip up
,
zipper
enclosure
collapse
the act of enclosing something inside something else
artifact consisting of a space that has been enclosed for some purpose
something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
a naturally enclosed space
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
arena
,
bailey
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barnyard
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
barton
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
boundary
,
box
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
cage
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
cincture
,
circling
,
circumambience
,
circumambiency
,
circumcincture
,
circumflexion
,
circumjacence
,
circumposition
,
circumvallation
,
close
,
compound
,
confine
,
container
,
containment
,
contravallation
,
coop
,
corral
,
cote
,
counterscarp
,
court
,
courtyard
,
crib
,
croft
,
curtain
,
curtilage
,
delimited field
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
dog pound
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
embracement
,
encincture
,
encirclement
,
enclave
,
encompassment
,
enfoldment
,
entanglement
,
envelopment
,
environment
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
farmyard
,
fence
,
field
,
fieldwork
,
fold
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
girding
,
girdling
,
glacis
,
ground
,
hedge
,
hell
,
hutch
,
inclusion
,
involvement
,
kraal
,
limbo
,
list
,
loophole
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
manger
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
mound
,
outwork
,
paddock
,
pale
,
paling
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
park
,
pasture
,
pen
,
penfold
,
pigpen
,
pigsty
,
pinfold
,
place of confinement
,
polygon
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
pound
,
purgatory
,
quad
,
quadrangle
,
rail
,
railing
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
rink
,
run
,
runway
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
square
,
stall
,
stockade
,
stockyard
,
sty
,
surrounding
,
tenaille
,
theater
,
toft
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
wall
,
work
,
yard
loophole
collapse
a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons
an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
related words >
Texas tower
,
abatis
,
advanced work
,
air hole
,
alternative
,
armhole
,
avenue
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
beacon
,
belvedere
,
bleachers
,
blowhole
,
breastwork
,
bridge
,
bullet-hole
,
bulwark
,
bunghole
,
casemate
,
channel
,
cheval-de-frise
,
choice
,
chute
,
circumvallation
,
conning tower
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
cringle
,
curtain
,
deadeye
,
debouch
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
dodge
,
door
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
egress
,
emunctory
,
enclosure
,
entanglement
,
escape
,
escape clause
,
escape hatch
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
estuary
,
evasion
,
exhaust
,
exit
,
eye
,
eyelet
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
floodgate
,
flume
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
gallery
,
gasket
,
gazebo
,
glacis
,
grandstand
,
grommet
,
guide
,
keyhole
,
knothole
,
lighthouse
,
lookout
,
loop
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
manhole
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
mound
,
mousehole
,
observation post
,
observatory
,
opening
,
out
,
outcome
,
outfall
,
outgate
,
outgo
,
outlet
,
outlook
,
outwork
,
overlook
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
peanut gallery
,
peephole
,
pharos
,
pigeonhole
,
pinhole
,
placket
,
placket hole
,
pore
,
port
,
portcullis
,
porthole
,
postern gate
,
pretext
,
punch-hole
,
quibble
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
ringside
,
ringside seat
,
sally port
,
saving clause
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
sighthole
,
sluice
,
spiracle
,
spout
,
stockade
,
subterfuge
,
tap
,
tenaille
,
top gallery
,
tower
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
vent
,
ventage
,
venthole
,
vomitory
,
watchtower
,
way of escape
,
way out
,
weir
,
work
bulkhead
collapse
a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
related words >
French door
,
anchorage
,
anchorage ground
,
arch dam
,
archway
,
back door
,
backstop
,
bamboo curtain
,
bank
,
bar
,
barrage
,
barrier
,
barway
,
basin
,
bear-trap dam
,
beaver dam
,
berth
,
boom
,
brattice
,
breakwater
,
breastwork
,
brick wall
,
buffer
,
buffer state
,
bulwark
,
bumper
,
carriage entrance
,
cellar door
,
cellarway
,
cloison
,
cofferdam
,
collision mat
,
cushion
,
dam
,
defense
,
diaphragm
,
dike
,
dissepiment
,
ditch
,
dividing line
,
dividing wall
,
division
,
dock
,
dockage
,
dockyard
,
door
,
doorjamb
,
doorpost
,
doorway
,
dry dock
,
earthwork
,
embankment
,
fence
,
fender
,
front door
,
gate
,
gatepost
,
gateway
,
gravity dam
,
groin
,
harbor
,
harborage
,
hatch
,
hatchway
,
haven
,
hydraulic-fill dam
,
interseptum
,
iron curtain
,
jam
,
jetty
,
jutty
,
landing
,
landing place
,
landing stage
,
leaping weir
,
levee
,
lintel
,
logjam
,
marina
,
mat
,
midriff
,
midsection
,
milldam
,
moat
,
mole
,
moorings
,
mound
,
pad
,
panel
,
parapet
,
paries
,
partition
,
party wall
,
pier
,
porch
,
port
,
portal
,
portcullis
,
porte cochere
,
postern
,
property line
,
propylaeum
,
protected anchorage
,
pylon
,
quay
,
rampart
,
road
,
roadblock
,
roads
,
roadstead
,
rock-fill dam
,
scuttle
,
seaport
,
seawall
,
separation
,
septulum
,
septum
,
shipyard
,
shock pad
,
shutter dam
,
side door
,
slip
,
stile
,
stone wall
,
storm door
,
threshold
,
tollgate
,
trap
,
trap door
,
turnpike
,
turnstile
,
wall
,
weir
,
wharf
,
wicket dam
,
work
entanglement
collapse
related words >
abatis
,
absorption
,
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
advanced work
,
affair
,
amour
,
association
,
balistraria
,
bamboozlement
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
calculated deception
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
circumvention
,
cobweb
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
conning
,
contact
,
contravallation
,
convolution
,
counterscarp
,
crabbedness
,
cuckoldry
,
curtain
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
dupery
,
earthwork
,
embarrassment
,
embroilment
,
enclosure
,
engagement
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entrapment
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
eternal triangle
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
flirtation
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forbidden love
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
glacis
,
hallucination
,
hanky-panky
,
hoodwinking
,
illicit love
,
illusion
,
implication
,
inclusion
,
infidelity
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
intrigue
,
involution
,
involvement
,
kidding
,
liaison
,
loophole
,
love affair
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
meshes
,
mirage
,
mound
,
outwitting
,
outwork
,
overreaching
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
perplexity
,
phantasm
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
putting on
,
ramification
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
relation
,
romance
,
romantic tie
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
self-deception
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
stockade
,
subterfuge
,
subtlety
,
swindling
,
tanglement
,
technicality
,
tenaille
,
toils
,
triangle
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
unfaithfulness
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
victimization
,
vision
,
web
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
work
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