Related Words:
- dud
collapse - failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine" related words >
- abortion,
- abortive attempt,
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- blank cartridge,
- bogy,
- bomb,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bust,
- candidate,
- castrato,
- cipher,
- cry of wolf,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- dummy,
- eunuch,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- favorite son,
- flop,
- gelding,
- hollow man,
- hopeful,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- jackstraw,
- lame duck,
- lay figure,
- lemon,
- loser,
- man of straw,
- merry chase,
- miscarriage,
- miscarrying,
- misfire,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- office seeker,
- political hopeful,
- presidential timber,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- running mate,
- stalking-horse,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- vain attempt,
- washout,
- weakling,
- wet squib,
- wild-goose chase,
- zero
- nimbleness
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- intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind; "nimbleness of wit and imagination" related words >
- acuity,
- acuteness,
- adroitness,
- agility,
- alacrity,
- alertness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- attention,
- attentiveness,
- braininess,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- briskness,
- clear thinking,
- cleverness,
- dexterity,
- dispatch,
- esprit,
- expedition,
- expeditiousness,
- featliness,
- flair,
- genius,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- lightness,
- mental alertness,
- mercurial mind,
- native cleverness,
- nimble mind,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nous,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- punctuality,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- ready wit,
- savvy,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- sleeplessness,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- speediness,
- sprightly wit,
- spryness,
- swiftness,
- talent,
- wakefulness
- resound
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- ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" related words >
- awake the dead,
- be reflected,
- be sent back,
- blast,
- blast the ear,
- bless,
- boom,
- bounce back,
- celebrate,
- come again,
- come up again,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- cry up,
- deafen,
- din,
- echo,
- echo back,
- emit a sound,
- eulogize,
- extol,
- fill the air,
- glorify,
- go back,
- hymn,
- keep coming,
- laud,
- magnify,
- make a noise,
- make a sound,
- noise,
- peal,
- pulsate,
- rattle the windows,
- reappear,
- rebound,
- recur,
- reecho,
- rend the air,
- rend the ears,
- reoccur,
- repeat,
- resonate,
- resume,
- return,
- reverberate,
- revert,
- ring,
- ring out,
- rise,
- rock the sky,
- roll,
- rumble,
- send back,
- sound,
- speak,
- split the eardrums,
- split the ears,
- startle the echoes,
- stun,
- surge,
- swell,
- thunder
- clarion
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- a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
- loud and clear; "a clarion call"
- proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
- blow the clarion related words >
- English horn,
- alpenhorn,
- alphorn,
- althorn,
- alto horn,
- bagpipe,
- ballad horn,
- baritone,
- bass horn,
- bassoon,
- bay,
- beep,
- bell,
- blare,
- blast,
- blat,
- block flute,
- blow,
- blow a horn,
- blow the horn,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- brass choir,
- brass wind,
- brass-wind instrument,
- brasses,
- bray,
- bugle,
- bugle call,
- bugle horn,
- call to arms,
- call-up,
- carillon,
- catchword,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion call,
- clear,
- cloudless,
- concert flute,
- conscription,
- cornet,
- cornet-a-pistons,
- corno di caccia,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- doodle,
- double-bell euphonium,
- double-tongue,
- dulciana,
- euphonium,
- exhortation,
- fife,
- fine,
- flute,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- go for broke,
- gung ho,
- harmonic flute,
- helicon,
- honk,
- horn,
- hunting horn,
- hybrid stop,
- key trumpet,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- levy,
- lip,
- lituus,
- lur,
- mellophone,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- mobilization,
- muster,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oboe,
- octave,
- ophicleide,
- orchestral horn,
- organ stop,
- peal,
- piccolo,
- pipe,
- pleasant,
- plein jeu,
- pocket trumpet,
- posaune,
- post horn,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rainless,
- rally,
- rallying cry,
- rank,
- ranket,
- rebel yell,
- recruitment,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sackbut,
- saxhorn,
- saxtuba,
- serpent,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- shriek,
- slide trombone,
- sliphorn,
- slogan,
- sound,
- sound a tattoo,
- sound taps,
- sousaphone,
- spitz flute,
- squeal,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- sunny,
- sunshiny,
- tenor tuba,
- tierce,
- tongue,
- toot,
- tootle,
- tremolo,
- triple-tongue,
- tromba,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- trumpet call,
- tuba,
- tweedle,
- twelfth,
- unclouded,
- unda maris,
- undarkened,
- valve trombone,
- valve trumpet,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- watchword,
- whistle,
- wind,
- wind the horn
- expeditious
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- characterized by speed and efficiency related words >
- agile,
- alacritous,
- alert,
- apt,
- breakneck,
- brisk,
- cursory,
- dashing,
- decisive,
- diligent,
- dispatchful,
- double-quick,
- eagle-winged,
- effective,
- effectual,
- efficacious,
- efficient,
- express,
- fast,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- fleet,
- flying,
- furious,
- galloping,
- hair-trigger,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hurried,
- hustling,
- immediate,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- last-minute,
- light of heel,
- light-footed,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- nimble,
- nimble-footed,
- on the spot,
- passing,
- precipitate,
- prompt,
- punctual,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- rapid,
- ready,
- reckless,
- running,
- sharp,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smart,
- snap,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- speedy,
- spry,
- summary,
- superficial,
- swift,
- urgent,
- winged
- advertent,
- agile,
- agog,
- alert,
- alive,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- at it,
- at work,
- attentive,
- awake,
- aware,
- bright,
- busy,
- careful,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- employed,
- engaged,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- full of business,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- heedful,
- in harness,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- keen,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nimble,
- observant,
- observing,
- occupied,
- on duty,
- on the,
- on the alert,
- on the ball,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- prompt,
- qui vive,
- quick,
- ready,
- regardful,
- sharp,
- sleepless,
- smart,
- tied up,
- unblinking,
- unnodding,
- unsleeping,
- unwinking,
- wakeful,
- watchful,
- wide-awake,
- working
- daunt
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- cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" related words >
- admonish,
- alarm,
- appall,
- awe,
- baffle,
- beat down,
- break,
- browbeat,
- bulldoze,
- bully,
- castrate,
- caution,
- clamp down on,
- coerce,
- compel,
- cow,
- cry out against,
- despotize,
- deter,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- dispirit,
- dissuade,
- domineer,
- domineer over,
- enslave,
- expostulate,
- faze,
- foil,
- frighten,
- frighten off,
- frustrate,
- grind,
- grind down,
- henpeck,
- horrify,
- intimidate,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kid out of,
- lord it over,
- oppress,
- overawe,
- overbear,
- overmaster,
- override,
- press heavy on,
- put off,
- remonstrate,
- repress,
- ride over,
- ride roughshod over,
- scare,
- shake,
- stop,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- talk out of,
- terrify,
- terrorize,
- threaten,
- thwart,
- trample down,
- trample upon,
- tread down,
- tread upon,
- tyrannize,
- tyrannize over,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unpersuade,
- upset,
- walk all over,
- walk over,
- warn,
- weigh heavy on
- tocsin
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- a bell used to sound an alarm
- the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) related words >
- Klaxon,
- Mayday,
- SOS,
- air-raid alarm,
- alarm,
- alarm bell,
- alarm clock,
- alarm signal,
- alarum,
- alert,
- all clear,
- beacon,
- blinking light,
- burglar alarm,
- buzzer,
- crostarie,
- fiery cross,
- fire alarm,
- fire bell,
- fire flag,
- five-minute gun,
- flashing light,
- fog bell,
- fog signal,
- foghorn,
- gale warning,
- hooter,
- horn,
- hue and cry,
- hurricane warning,
- lighthouse,
- note of alarm,
- occulting light,
- police whistle,
- sign,
- signal,
- signal of distress,
- siren,
- small-craft warning,
- still alarm,
- storm cone,
- storm flag,
- storm warning,
- two-minute gun,
- upside-down flag,
- whistle
- spadework
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- dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking related words >
- arrangement,
- basic training,
- briefing,
- clearing the decks,
- dirty work,
- donkeywork,
- drudgery,
- employment,
- equipment,
- fag,
- familiarization,
- fatigue,
- fixing,
- foundation,
- grind,
- groundwork,
- handiwork,
- handwork,
- industry,
- labor,
- lick,
- lick of work,
- makeready,
- making ready,
- manual labor,
- manufacture,
- mobilization,
- moil,
- planning,
- prearrangement,
- preliminaries,
- preliminary,
- preliminary act,
- preliminary step,
- prep,
- preparation,
- preparatory study,
- preparing,
- prepping,
- prerequisite,
- pretreatment,
- processing,
- propaedeutic,
- provision,
- rat race,
- readying,
- scut work,
- slavery,
- stroke,
- stroke of work,
- sweat,
- task,
- tiresome work,
- toil,
- training,
- travail,
- treadmill,
- treatment,
- trial,
- tryout,
- warm-up,
- work
- dissonance
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- disagreeable sounds related words >
- antagonism,
- argumentation,
- atonalism,
- atonality,
- cacophony,
- clashing,
- clinker,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- controversy,
- departure,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- disharmony,
- disparity,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissimilarity,
- dissonancy,
- dissonant chord,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- faction,
- far cry,
- flatness,
- heterogeneity,
- inaccordance,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- irreconcilability,
- jarring,
- mixture,
- negation,
- nonconformity,
- odds,
- off note,
- opposition,
- oppugnancy,
- otherness,
- repugnance,
- separateness,
- sharpness,
- sour note,
- sourness,
- stridor,
- strife,
- tunelessness,
- unconformity,
- unharmoniousness,
- unlikeness,
- unmusicality,
- unorthodoxy,
- untunefulness,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- wolf
- deify
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- exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"
- consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success" related words >
- accord respect to,
- admire,
- adore,
- adulate,
- aggrandize,
- apotheose,
- apotheosize,
- appreciate,
- beatify,
- belaud,
- bepraise,
- bless,
- blow up,
- boast of,
- brag about,
- canonize,
- celebrate,
- crown,
- cry up,
- defer to,
- elevate,
- emblazon,
- ennoble,
- enshrine,
- entertain respect for,
- enthrone,
- esteem,
- eulogize,
- exalt,
- extol,
- favor,
- fetish,
- fetishize,
- flatter,
- glamorize,
- glorify,
- hero-worship,
- hold in esteem,
- hold in reverence,
- honor,
- idol,
- idolatrize,
- idolify,
- idolize,
- immortalize,
- laud,
- lionize,
- look up to,
- magnify,
- make legendary,
- make much of,
- overpraise,
- panegyrize,
- pay tribute,
- porter aux nues,
- praise,
- prize,
- puff,
- puff up,
- raise,
- regard,
- respect,
- revere,
- reverence,
- saint,
- salute,
- sanctify,
- set up,
- think highly of,
- think much of,
- think well of,
- throne,
- trumpet,
- uplift,
- value,
- venerate,
- worship
- idolize
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- love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" related words >
- accord respect to,
- admire,
- adore,
- adulate,
- apotheosize,
- appreciate,
- belaud,
- bepraise,
- bless,
- blow up,
- boast of,
- brag about,
- celebrate,
- cherish,
- cry up,
- dearly love,
- defer to,
- deify,
- do homage to,
- do service,
- dote,
- emblazon,
- entertain respect for,
- esteem,
- eulogize,
- exalt,
- extol,
- favor,
- fetish,
- fetishize,
- flatter,
- glorify,
- hero-worship,
- hold dear,
- hold in esteem,
- hold in reverence,
- honor,
- idol,
- idolatrize,
- idolify,
- laud,
- lionize,
- look up to,
- love to distraction,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- overcommend,
- overesteem,
- overestimate,
- overlaud,
- overpraise,
- overprize,
- panegyrize,
- pay homage to,
- pay tribute,
- porter aux nues,
- praise,
- prize,
- puff,
- puff up,
- regard,
- respect,
- revere,
- reverence,
- salute,
- think highly of,
- think much of,
- think well of,
- treasure,
- trumpet,
- value,
- venerate,
- worship
- retread
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- a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads
- give new treads to (a tire) related words >
- balloon tire,
- belted bias tire,
- belted radial tire,
- bias tire,
- cobble,
- commission,
- condition,
- darn,
- do up,
- doctor,
- face-lift,
- felly,
- fix,
- fix up,
- furbishment,
- mend,
- nonskid tire,
- overhaul,
- patch,
- patch up,
- pneumatic tire,
- put in commission,
- put in order,
- put in repair,
- put in shape,
- radial tire,
- ready,
- recap,
- recondition,
- reconditioning,
- refreshment,
- refurbishment,
- renewal,
- renovation,
- repair,
- retreaded tire,
- retreading,
- rim,
- safety tire,
- service,
- set to rights,
- sew up,
- slum clearance,
- snow tire,
- studded tire,
- tinker,
- tinker up,
- tire,
- tubeless tire,
- urban renewal,
- white sidewall tire,
- winter tire
- adorned,
- befrilled,
- bloated,
- burdened,
- bursting,
- charged,
- choked,
- colored,
- congested,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- cumbered,
- decorated,
- distended,
- drenched,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- encumbered,
- fancy,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- filled to overflowing,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fraught,
- freighted,
- glutted,
- gorged,
- hampered,
- hyperemic,
- in spate,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- laden,
- loaded,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- oppressed,
- ornate,
- overblown,
- overburdened,
- overcharged,
- overfed,
- overflowing,
- overfraught,
- overfreighted,
- overfull,
- overladen,
- overstocked,
- overstuffed,
- oversupplied,
- overtaxed,
- overweighted,
- packed,
- plethoric,
- purple,
- ready to burst,
- running over,
- saddled,
- satiated,
- saturated,
- soaked,
- stuffed,
- stuffed up,
- supercharged,
- supersaturated,
- surcharged,
- surfeited,
- swollen,
- taxed,
- weighted,
- weighted down
- active,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- alert,
- animated,
- antic,
- brisk,
- burning,
- capersome,
- catty,
- coltish,
- curried,
- dynamic,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- exuberant,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- frisky,
- frolicsome,
- full of beans,
- full of pep,
- gamesome,
- gay,
- go-go,
- hearty,
- high-seasoned,
- hot,
- hot as pepper,
- impetuous,
- incisive,
- intense,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- mettlesome,
- nimble,
- nippy,
- peppery,
- peppy,
- playful,
- racy,
- ready,
- robust,
- rollicking,
- rollicksome,
- rompish,
- seasoned,
- skittish,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- spiced,
- spicy,
- spirited,
- sportive,
- sprightly,
- spry,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tangy,
- trenchant,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- with a kick,
- zestful,
- zesty
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