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- extenuating
collapse - partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances" related words >
- altering,
- apologetic,
- assuasive,
- bounding,
- diminishing,
- excusatory,
- excusing,
- extenuative,
- extenuatory,
- justificatory,
- justifying,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- palliative,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- refuting,
- rehabilitative,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- softening,
- tempering,
- vindicative,
- vindicatory
- assuasive
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- freeing from fear and anxiety related words >
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- bounding,
- calmant,
- calmative,
- cathartic,
- cleansing,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emollient,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- lenitive,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- sedative,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduing
- abating,
- allaying,
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- bounding,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- diminishing,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emollient,
- excusatory,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- justifying,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- reducing,
- relaxing,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- vindicating
- limiting
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- strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause" related words >
- altering,
- assuasive,
- bordering,
- borderline,
- boundary,
- bounding,
- caudal,
- claustral,
- coastal,
- conclusive,
- confining,
- cramping,
- defining,
- definitive,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- determining,
- enclosing,
- endmost,
- eventual,
- exclusive,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- extreme,
- farthest,
- final,
- fringing,
- frontier,
- last,
- lenitive,
- limbic,
- liminal,
- limit,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- littoral,
- marginal,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- narrowing,
- palliative,
- parietal,
- polar,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- rimming,
- skirting,
- softening,
- surrounding,
- tail,
- terminal,
- terminating,
- terminative,
- threshold,
- ultimate
- restrictive
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- (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
- serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" related words >
- altering,
- assuasive,
- bounding,
- choking,
- confining,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- counterproductive,
- cramping,
- crosswise,
- defining,
- definitive,
- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- in the way,
- inadmissible,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- insular,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- lenitive,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- narrow,
- narrowing,
- obstructing,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- palliative,
- parochial,
- preclusive,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- repressive,
- restricting,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- snobbish,
- softening,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- suppressive,
- troublesome,
- xenophobic
- palliative
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- remedy that alleviates pain without curing related words >
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- alleviator,
- allowance,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- apologetic,
- assuager,
- assuasive,
- balm,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- bounding,
- calmant,
- calmative,
- cathartic,
- cleansing,
- color,
- cushion,
- deadening,
- decontamination,
- demulcent,
- dolorifuge,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emollient,
- excusatory,
- excusing,
- extenuating,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extenuation,
- extenuative,
- extenuatory,
- gilding,
- gloss,
- justificatory,
- justifying,
- lenitive,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- mitigator,
- mitigatory,
- moderator,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulator,
- modulatory,
- mollifier,
- numbing,
- pacificator,
- pacifier,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- peacemaker,
- purgative,
- qualification,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- refuting,
- rehabilitative,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- restraining hand,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- salve,
- sedative,
- shock absorber,
- softening,
- soother,
- soothing,
- soothing syrup,
- stabilizer,
- subduing,
- temperer,
- tranquilizer,
- varnish,
- vindicative,
- vindicatory,
- whitewash,
- whitewashing,
- wiser head
- lenitive
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- remedy that eases pain and discomfort related words >
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- alleviator,
- altering,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuager,
- assuasive,
- balm,
- balmy,
- balsam,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- bounding,
- brilliantine,
- calmant,
- calmative,
- cathartic,
- chrism,
- cleansing,
- cold cream,
- collyrium,
- cream,
- cushion,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- dolorifuge,
- dulling,
- easing,
- embrocation,
- emollient,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- eye-lotion,
- eyewash,
- face cream,
- hand lotion,
- inunction,
- inunctum,
- lanolin,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- lotion,
- lubricant,
- lubricating,
- lubricational,
- lubricative,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mitigator,
- mitigatory,
- moderator,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulator,
- modulatory,
- mollifier,
- nard,
- numbing,
- ointment,
- pacificator,
- pacifier,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- peacemaker,
- pomade,
- pomatum,
- purgative,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- restraining hand,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- salve,
- sedative,
- shock absorber,
- softening,
- soother,
- soothing,
- soothing syrup,
- spikenard,
- stabilizer,
- subduing,
- temperer,
- tranquilizer,
- unction,
- unguent,
- unguentum,
- wiser head
- softening
collapse
- the process of becoming softer; "refrigeration delayed the softening of the fruit"; "he observed the softening of iron by heat" related words >
- abatement,
- abating,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- allowance,
- altering,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- bounding,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- color,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- deadening,
- debilitation,
- decontamination,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- emollient,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuating,
- extenuating circumstances,
- extenuation,
- extenuative,
- extenuatory,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- gilding,
- gloss,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- languishment,
- laxation,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mellowing,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulation,
- modulatory,
- mollification,
- mollifying,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- padding,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- qualification,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- salving,
- slackening,
- softening-up,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- tranquilization,
- varnish,
- weakening,
- whitewash,
- whitewashing
- saving
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- characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow related words >
- Scotch,
- aside from,
- bar,
- barring,
- beside,
- besides,
- but,
- cache,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- compensating,
- compensatory,
- conservancy,
- conservation,
- conservational,
- conservationism,
- conservationist,
- conservative,
- conservatory,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- economic,
- economical,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- environmental conservation,
- ex,
- except,
- except for,
- excepting,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- excusing the liberty,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- extrication,
- forehanded,
- forest conservation,
- forest management,
- freeing,
- frugal,
- frugality,
- hoard,
- in deference to,
- keeping,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out,
- let alone,
- liberation,
- lifesaving,
- low growth rate,
- maintenance,
- money-saving,
- nest egg,
- omitting,
- outside of,
- parsimonious,
- penny-wise,
- precluding,
- preserval,
- preservation,
- preservative,
- preservatory,
- preserving,
- protection,
- protective,
- providence,
- provident,
- prudence,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- qualifying,
- ransom,
- recovery,
- redeeming,
- redemption,
- redemptional,
- redemptive,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- release,
- rescue,
- reserve,
- resources,
- retrenchment,
- retrieval,
- safekeeping,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- save,
- save and except,
- saving your reverence,
- savings,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- skimping,
- slowdown,
- soil conservation,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparingness,
- stream conservation,
- support,
- than,
- thrift,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unless,
- unwasteful,
- upkeep,
- wary,
- water conservation,
- wetlands conservation,
- wildlife conservation,
- with all respect,
- with due respect,
- without
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