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resistance fighter
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related words >
Chinese boxer
,
amateur athlete
,
archer
,
athlete
,
ballplayer
,
bantamweight
,
baseballer
,
baseman
,
batter
,
battery
,
battler
,
black belt
,
blocking back
,
bowman
,
boxer
,
brown belt
,
bruiser
,
catcher
,
center
,
champ
,
coach
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
cricketer
,
defensive lineman
,
end
,
featherweight
,
fighter
,
fisticuffer
,
flyweight
,
footballer
,
games-player
,
gamester
,
guard
,
heavyweight
,
infielder
,
jock
,
jumper
,
karate expert
,
light heavyweight
,
lightweight
,
lineman
,
middleweight
,
offensive lineman
,
outfield
,
outfielder
,
palooka
,
player
,
poloist
,
prizefighter
,
professional athlete
,
pug
,
quarterback
,
racer
,
savate expert
,
scrapper
,
skater
,
slugger
,
sparrer
,
sport
,
sportsman
,
tackle
,
tailback
,
toxophilite
,
welterweight
,
wingback
,
wrestler
resignation
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a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"
the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
acceptance of despair
related words >
Quakerism
,
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
acceptance
,
acclimation
,
acclimatization
,
acedia
,
acquiescence
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
aloofness
,
amenability
,
apathy
,
assent
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
benumbedness
,
blah
,
blahs
,
capitulation
,
cessation
,
cession
,
cold storage
,
comatoseness
,
comfort
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
composure
,
conformity
,
consent
,
content
,
contentedness
,
contentment
,
deference
,
desistance
,
detachment
,
discontinuance
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
dropping out
,
dullness
,
dumping
,
ease
,
entire satisfaction
,
euphoria
,
forbearance
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
fulfillment
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
handing over
,
happiness
,
heartlessness
,
hebetude
,
homage
,
hopelessness
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
inappetence
,
indifference
,
insouciance
,
kneeling
,
lack of appetite
,
languidness
,
lethargicalness
,
lethargy
,
letting go
,
listlessness
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
lowliness
,
meekness
,
modesty
,
nonchalance
,
nonexercise
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
notice
,
numbness
,
obedience
,
obeisance
,
passive resistance
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
patientness
,
peace of mind
,
phlegm
,
phlegmaticalness
,
phlegmaticness
,
plucklessness
,
quietism
,
recantation
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
resignedness
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
satisfaction
,
sloth
,
sluggishness
,
sopor
,
soporifousness
,
spiritlessness
,
spunklessness
,
stupefaction
,
stupor
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
supineness
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpor
,
uncomplainingness
,
unconcern
,
waiver
,
well-being
,
withdrawing
,
withdrawnness
,
yielding
nonresistance
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group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence
related words >
Eisenhower Doctrine
,
Monroe Doctrine
,
Nixon Doctrine
,
Quakerism
,
Truman Doctrine
,
a wise passiveness
,
acceptance
,
acquiescence
,
amenability
,
appeasement
,
assent
,
balance of power
,
brinkmanship
,
coexistence
,
colonialism
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
compromise
,
consent
,
containment
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
deference
,
detente
,
deterrence
,
diplomacy
,
diplomatic
,
diplomatics
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dollar diplomacy
,
dollar imperialism
,
dormancy
,
expansionism
,
foreign affairs
,
foreign policy
,
good-neighbor policy
,
homage
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
imperialism
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
internationalism
,
isolationism
,
kneeling
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
manifest destiny
,
meditation
,
meekness
,
militarism
,
nationalism
,
neocolonialism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonparticipation
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
obedience
,
obeisance
,
open door
,
open-door policy
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
peace offensive
,
peaceful coexistence
,
policy
,
preparedness
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
resignation
,
resignedness
,
shirt-sleeve diplomacy
,
shuttle diplomacy
,
spheres of influence
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
supineness
,
the big stick
,
tough policy
,
uncomplainingness
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
,
world politics
,
yielding
quarreler
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a disputant who quarrels
related words >
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
bitter-ender
,
blade
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
defendant
,
diehard
,
disputant
,
dissentient
,
dissident
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
intransigent
,
irreconcilable
,
jouster
,
knight
,
last-ditcher
,
litigant
,
militant
,
naysayer
,
negativist
,
noncooperator
,
objector
,
obstructionist
,
obstructive
,
opposer
,
oppositionist
,
plaintiff
,
plug-ugly
,
protester
,
resister
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swashbuckler
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
wrangler
scrapper
collapse
related words >
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
bitter-ender
,
blade
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
defendant
,
diehard
,
disputant
,
dissentient
,
dissident
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
intransigent
,
irreconcilable
,
jouster
,
knight
,
last-ditcher
,
litigant
,
militant
,
naysayer
,
negativist
,
noncooperator
,
objector
,
obstructionist
,
obstructive
,
opposer
,
oppositionist
,
plaintiff
,
plug-ugly
,
protester
,
quarreler
,
resister
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scuffler
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swashbuckler
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
wrangler
give ground
collapse
related words >
back down
,
back out
,
beat a retreat
,
break off combat
,
cave in
,
cease resistance
,
disengage
,
draw back
,
draw off
,
fall back
,
give in
,
give place
,
give up
,
give way
,
go back
,
move back
,
pull back
,
pull out
,
quit the field
,
retire
,
retreat
,
run back
,
stand back
,
withdraw
,
yield
swashbuckler
collapse
related words >
Herod
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
blade
,
blatherskite
,
bluff
,
bluffer
,
blusterer
,
braggart
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
bucko
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
disputant
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
fanfaron
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hector
,
hectorer
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
jouster
,
knight
,
miles gloriosus
,
militant
,
peacock
,
plug-ugly
,
quarreler
,
ranter
,
raver
,
rioter
,
rival
,
roisterer
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
strutter
,
swaggerer
,
swanker
,
swash
,
swasher
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
vaporer
,
wrangler
overcompensation
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excessive compensation
(psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
related words >
alienation
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance mechanism
,
blame-shifting
,
compensation
,
decompensation
,
defense mechanism
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
displacement
,
dissociation
,
emotional insulation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
flight
,
isolation
,
negativism
,
projection
,
psychotaxis
,
rationalization
,
resistance
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
sublimation
,
substitution
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
hampering
collapse
related words >
arrest
,
arrestation
,
arrestment
,
blockage
,
blocking
,
burdensome
,
check
,
clogging
,
closing up
,
closure
,
constriction
,
cramp
,
cumbersome
,
cumbrous
,
delay
,
detainment
,
detention
,
encumbering
,
fixation
,
foot-dragging
,
hindering
,
hindrance
,
holdback
,
holdup
,
impediment
,
impedimental
,
impeding
,
impeditive
,
inhibition
,
interference
,
interruption
,
let
,
negativism
,
nuisance value
,
obstruction
,
obstructionism
,
occlusion
,
onerous
,
opposition
,
oppressive
,
repression
,
resistance
,
restraint
,
restriction
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
setback
,
squeeze
,
stranglehold
,
stricture
,
suppression
give in
collapse
related words >
back down
,
bow to
,
break off combat
,
cave in
,
cease resistance
,
circulate
,
come across with
,
deliver
,
deliver over
,
distribute
,
fork over
,
forward
,
give ground
,
give out
,
give over
,
give up
,
give way
,
hand
,
hand in
,
hand it to
,
hand out
,
hand over
,
lose face
,
pass
,
pass out
,
pass over
,
quit the field
,
reach
,
render
,
resign
,
surrender
,
transfer
,
turn over
,
yield
,
yield the palm
join battle
collapse
engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined"
related words >
antagonize
,
battle
,
beat against
,
beat up against
,
breast the wave
,
buck
,
buffet
,
buffet the waves
,
close with
,
combat
,
compete with
,
contend against
,
contest
,
do battle
,
engage
,
engage in battle
,
fight
,
fight against
,
give battle
,
grapple with
,
join battle with
,
join issue
,
labor against
,
militate against
,
offer resistance
,
reluct
,
reluctate
,
rival
,
stem the tide
,
strive against
,
struggle against
,
take on
,
try conclusions
,
vie with
contestant
collapse
a person who participates in competitions
related words >
adversary
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
blade
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
carouser
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
corrival
,
cutup
,
disputant
,
duelist
,
emulator
,
enforcer
,
entrant
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
frisker
,
frolicker
,
funmaker
,
gamboler
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
jouster
,
knight
,
merrymaker
,
militant
,
opponent
,
participant
,
playboy
,
player
,
pleasure-seeker
,
pleasurer
,
pleasurist
,
plug-ugly
,
quarreler
,
reveler
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rollicker
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
skylarker
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swashbuckler
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
the field
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
vier
,
wrangler
recalcitrance
collapse
related words >
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
averseness
,
aversion
,
backlash
,
backwardness
,
bad blood
,
challenge
,
clashing
,
collision
,
combative reaction
,
competition
,
complaint
,
conflict
,
confutation
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrariness
,
contumaciousness
,
contumacy
,
counteraction
,
counterposition
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
cross-purposes
,
crotchetiness
,
cursoriness
,
defiance
,
defiance of authority
,
demur
,
despite
,
deviation
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disagreement
,
disconformity
,
disinclination
,
disobedience
,
dispute
,
disrelish
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
distaste
,
enmity
,
foot-dragging
,
fractiousness
,
friction
,
grudging consent
,
grudgingness
,
hostility
,
inaccordance
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
incorrigibility
,
indisposedness
,
indisposition
,
indocility
,
indomitability
,
inimicalness
,
insuppressibility
,
interference
,
intractability
,
intractableness
,
irrepressibility
,
kick
,
lack of enthusiasm
,
lack of zeal
,
mutinousness
,
negativeness
,
negativism
,
nolition
,
noncompliance
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformism
,
nonconformity
,
noncooperation
,
nonobservance
,
objection
,
obstinacy
,
obstreperousness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
originality
,
orneriness
,
passive resistance
,
perfunctoriness
,
perverseness
,
protest
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrancy
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refractoriness
,
refusal
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repellence
,
repellency
,
repercussion
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
repulsion
,
resistance
,
restiveness
,
revolt
,
rivalry
,
shrewishness
,
slowness
,
stand
,
stubbornness
,
sulk
,
sulkiness
,
sulks
,
sullenness
,
swimming upstream
,
unconformity
,
uncontrollability
,
uncooperativeness
,
unenthusiasm
,
ungovernability
,
unmalleability
,
unmanageability
,
unmoldableness
,
unruliness
,
unsubmissiveness
,
untamableness
,
unwillingness
,
vying
,
wildness
,
withstanding
paralysis
collapse
loss of the ability to move a body part
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abscess
,
ague
,
anemia
,
ankylosis
,
anoxia
,
apnea
,
apoplexy
,
asphyxiation
,
asthma
,
ataxia
,
atrophy
,
backache
,
bleeding
,
blennorhea
,
cachexia
,
cachexy
,
catalepsy
,
cataplexy
,
chill
,
chills
,
colic
,
constipation
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
convulsion
,
coughing
,
cyanosis
,
diarrhea
,
diplegia
,
dizziness
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
dropsy
,
dysentery
,
dyspepsia
,
dyspnea
,
edema
,
emaciation
,
fainting
,
fatigue
,
fever
,
fibrillation
,
flux
,
growth
,
hemiplegia
,
hemorrhage
,
high blood pressure
,
hydrops
,
hypertension
,
hypotension
,
icterus
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indigestion
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
infantile paralysis
,
inflammation
,
insomnia
,
itching
,
jaundice
,
labored breathing
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
low blood pressure
,
lumbago
,
marasmus
,
meditation
,
nasal discharge
,
nausea
,
necrosis
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
pain
,
palsy
,
paraplegia
,
paresis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
policy
,
polio
,
poliomyelitis
,
procrastination
,
pruritus
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
rash
,
rheum
,
sclerosis
,
seizure
,
sensory paralysis
,
shock
,
skin eruption
,
sneezing
,
sore
,
spasm
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
stroke
,
tabes
,
tachycardia
,
tumor
,
upset stomach
,
vegetation
,
vertigo
,
vita contemplativa
,
vomiting
,
waiting game
,
wasting
,
watching and waiting
air force
collapse
the airborne branch of a country's armed forces
related words >
ANAC
,
ARF
,
ATC
,
ATS
,
Air Command
,
Air Transport Command
,
Air Transport Service
,
Airborne Reconnaissance Force
,
Army-Navy Air Corps
,
Bomber Command
,
CASU
,
Coastal Command
,
FEAF
,
Fleet Air Arm
,
MATS
,
NAD
,
NATS
,
Naval Air Division
,
Navy Air
,
RAAF
,
RAF
,
RCAF
,
Royal Air Force
,
SAC
,
Strategic Air Command
,
US Air Force
,
USAAF
,
USAF
,
USNAS
,
ace
,
air arm
,
air armada
,
air corps
,
air service
,
bandit
,
bogey
,
bomber pilot
,
combat pilot
,
combat plane
,
enemy aircraft
,
escadrille
,
fighter pilot
,
flight
,
flyboy
,
military pilot
,
naval pilot
,
observer
,
squadron
,
strategic air force
,
suicide pilot
,
tactical air force
,
wing
detector
collapse
any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
related words >
calorimeter
,
chemical detector
,
clinical thermometer
,
cryometer
,
electric thermometer
,
electronic counter
,
electronic detector
,
error corrector
,
error detector
,
galvanothermometer
,
gas thermometer
,
liquid-level sensor
,
meat thermometer
,
metal detector
,
photoelectric sorter
,
pyrometer
,
pyrometric cone
,
resistance pyrometer
,
sensor
,
telethermometer
,
temperature sensor
,
thermocouple
,
thermoelectrometer
,
thermometrograph
,
thermostat
,
ultrasonic detector
gamecock
collapse
a cock bred and trained for fighting
related words >
Achilles
,
David
,
Hector
,
Roland
,
Samson
,
a man
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
blade
,
brave
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
bulldog
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
chutzpanik
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
decorated hero
,
demigod
,
demigoddess
,
disputant
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
gallant
,
gladiator
,
good soldier
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hero
,
heroine
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
jouster
,
knight
,
lion
,
man of courage
,
militant
,
paladin
,
plug-ugly
,
quarreler
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
squabbler
,
stalwart
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swashbuckler
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
the brave
,
thug
,
tiger
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
valiant
,
valiant knight
,
wrangler
acquiescence
collapse
acceptance without protest
related words >
OK
,
Quakerism
,
acceptance
,
acceptation
,
acception
,
accession
,
accommodation
,
accord
,
accordance
,
adaptation
,
adaption
,
adjustment
,
affirmation
,
affirmative
,
affirmative voice
,
agreeability
,
agreeableness
,
agreement
,
agreement in principle
,
alacrity
,
allegiance
,
amenability
,
approbation
,
approval
,
ardor
,
assent
,
assentation
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
aye
,
belief
,
blessing
,
certainty
,
cheerful consent
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
concurrence
,
confidence
,
conformance
,
conformation other-direction
,
conformity
,
congruity
,
connivance
,
consent
,
consistency
,
conventionality
,
cooperativeness
,
correspondence
,
credence
,
credit
,
credulity
,
deference
,
dependence
,
docility
,
duteousness
,
dutifulness
,
eagerness
,
endorsement
,
enthusiasm
,
faith
,
favorable disposition
,
favorableness
,
fealty
,
flexibility
,
forwardness
,
gameness
,
general agreement
,
goodwill
,
harmony
,
hearty assent
,
homage
,
hope
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
keeping
,
kneeling
,
line
,
loyalty
,
malleability
,
meekness
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
obedience
,
obediency
,
obeisance
,
observance
,
okay
,
orthodoxy
,
passive resistance
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
permission
,
pliability
,
pliancy
,
promptitude
,
promptness
,
quietism
,
ratification
,
readiness
,
reception
,
receptive mood
,
receptiveness
,
receptivity
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
reliance
,
reliance on
,
resignation
,
resignedness
,
responsiveness
,
right mood
,
sanction
,
service
,
servility
,
servitium
,
stock
,
store
,
strictness
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
suit and service
,
suit service
,
supineness
,
support
,
sureness
,
surety
,
suspension of disbelief
,
tractability
,
traditionalism
,
trust
,
uncomplainingness
,
ungrudgingness
,
uniformity
,
unloathness
,
unreluctance
,
warm assent
,
welcome
,
willing ear
,
willing heart
,
willingness
,
yielding
,
zeal
,
zealousness
disinclination
collapse
that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike; "his disinclination for modesty is well known"
related words >
antipathy
,
averseness
,
aversion
,
backwardness
,
bad books
,
cursoriness
,
disaffection
,
disaffinity
,
disagreement
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
disfavor
,
dislike
,
disliking
,
disobedience
,
displeasure
,
disrelish
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissent
,
distaste
,
foot-dragging
,
fractiousness
,
grudging consent
,
grudgingness
,
indisposedness
,
indisposition
,
indocility
,
intractableness
,
lack of enthusiasm
,
lack of zeal
,
mutinousness
,
nolition
,
obstinacy
,
opposition
,
perfunctoriness
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
refractoriness
,
refusal
,
reluctance
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repugnance
,
resistance
,
slowness
,
stubbornness
,
sulk
,
sulkiness
,
sulks
,
sullenness
,
unenthusiasm
,
unwillingness
unmanageability
collapse
related words >
awkwardness
,
boorishness
,
bulkiness
,
bumblingness
,
clownishness
,
clumsiness
,
contumaciousness
,
contumacy
,
cumbersomeness
,
defiance
,
fractiousness
,
gawkiness
,
gawkishness
,
gracelessness
,
ham-handedness
,
handful of thumbs
,
heavy-handedness
,
hulkiness
,
impracticality
,
inconvenience
,
incorrigibility
,
indocility
,
indomitability
,
inelegance
,
insuppressibility
,
intractability
,
irrepressibility
,
left-handedness
,
loutishness
,
lubberliness
,
lumpishness
,
maladroitness
,
oafishness
,
obstreperousness
,
ponderousness
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
refractoriness
,
resistance
,
restiveness
,
shrewishness
,
uncontrollability
,
uncouthness
,
ungainliness
,
ungovernability
,
ungracefulness
,
unhandiness
,
unmalleability
,
unmoldableness
,
unruliness
,
unsubmissiveness
,
untamableness
,
unwieldiness
,
wildness
sword
collapse
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
related words >
Excalibur
,
ax
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
bilbo
,
blade
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
broadsword
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
claymore
,
cold steel
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
cutlass
,
cutlery
,
cutter
,
dagger
,
disputant
,
duelist
,
edge tools
,
enforcer
,
epee
,
falchion
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foil
,
foilsman
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
glaive
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
jouster
,
knife
,
knight
,
militant
,
naked steel
,
pigsticker
,
plug-ugly
,
point
,
puncturer
,
quarreler
,
rapier
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
saber
,
sabreur
,
scimitar
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
sharpener
,
squabbler
,
steel
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swashbuckler
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
toad sticker
,
tough
,
trusty sword
,
tuck
,
tussler
,
whittle
,
wrangler
compliance
collapse
happy friendly agreement
related words >
OK
,
Quakerism
,
acceptance
,
accession
,
accommodatingness
,
accommodation
,
accord
,
accordance
,
acquiescence
,
acquittal
,
acquittance
,
adaptation
,
adaption
,
adherence
,
adjustment
,
affability
,
affirmation
,
affirmative
,
affirmative voice
,
agreeability
,
agreeableness
,
agreement
,
agreement in principle
,
alacrity
,
allegiance
,
amenability
,
amiability
,
approbation
,
approval
,
ardor
,
assent
,
assentation
,
aye
,
benevolence
,
benignity
,
blessing
,
care
,
carrying out
,
cheerful consent
,
complaisance
,
concurrence
,
conformance
,
conformation other-direction
,
conformity
,
congruity
,
connivance
,
consent
,
consistency
,
conventionality
,
cooperativeness
,
correspondence
,
decency
,
deference
,
discharge
,
docility
,
duteousness
,
dutifulness
,
eagerness
,
endorsement
,
enthusiasm
,
execution
,
faith
,
favorable disposition
,
favorableness
,
fealty
,
flexibility
,
forwardness
,
fulfillment
,
gameness
,
general agreement
,
generousness
,
goodwill
,
graciosity
,
graciousness
,
harmony
,
hearty assent
,
heed
,
heeding
,
homage
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
keeping
,
kindliness
,
kindness
,
kneeling
,
line
,
loyalty
,
malleability
,
meekness
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
obedience
,
obediency
,
obeisance
,
obligingness
,
observance
,
observation
,
okay
,
orthodoxy
,
passive resistance
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
performance
,
permission
,
pliability
,
pliancy
,
practice
,
promptitude
,
promptness
,
quietism
,
ratification
,
readiness
,
receptive mood
,
receptiveness
,
receptivity
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
resignation
,
resignedness
,
respect
,
responsiveness
,
right mood
,
sanction
,
satisfaction
,
service
,
servility
,
servitium
,
strictness
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
suit and service
,
suit service
,
supineness
,
support
,
tractability
,
traditionalism
,
uncomplainingness
,
ungrudgingness
,
uniformity
,
unloathness
,
unreluctance
,
warm assent
,
welcome
,
willing ear
,
willing heart
,
willingness
,
yielding
,
zeal
,
zealousness
revolt
collapse
make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
related words >
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
appall
,
arise
,
backlash
,
bloodless revolution
,
bouleversement
,
boycott
,
boycottage
,
break
,
breakdown
,
breakup
,
cataclysm
,
catastrophe
,
challenge
,
civil disorder
,
clashing
,
clean slate
,
clean sweep
,
collision
,
combative reaction
,
complain
,
complain loudly
,
complaint
,
computer revolution
,
conflict
,
confront
,
confutation
,
contend with
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
convulsion
,
counteraction
,
counterposition
,
counterrevolution
,
counterworking
,
coup d'etat
,
crankiness
,
crotchetiness
,
debacle
,
defiance
,
defy
,
demur
,
disapprove of
,
disgust
,
dispute
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
emeute
,
face down
,
face out
,
face up to
,
fractiousness
,
friction
,
front
,
general uprising
,
give offense
,
go on strike
,
go out
,
grimace
,
gross out
,
hold out
,
horrify
,
insurge
,
insurgence
,
insurgency
,
insurrect
,
insurrection
,
interference
,
jacquerie
,
job action
,
kick
,
kick against
,
levee en masse
,
lock out
,
lockout
,
look askance at
,
make a stand
,
meet head-on
,
mount the barricades
,
mutineer
,
mutiny
,
nauseate
,
negativism
,
nonconformity
,
noncooperation
,
object
,
objection
,
obstinacy
,
offend
,
offer resistance
,
oppose
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
outbreak
,
outlaw strike
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
palace revolution
,
passive resistance
,
peasant revolt
,
perverseness
,
picket
,
protest
,
put off
,
putsch
,
radical change
,
reaction
,
rebel
,
rebellion
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
recalcitrate
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
refractoriness
,
reluct
,
reluctance
,
reluctate
,
remonstrance
,
remonstrate
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
renounce
,
repel
,
repellence
,
repellency
,
repercussion
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
repulsion
,
resist
,
resistance
,
revolt at
,
revolute
,
revolution
,
revolutionary war
,
revolutionize
,
revulsion
,
riot
,
rise
,
rise against
,
rise up
,
rising
,
rulebook slowdown
,
run riot
,
shock
,
show distaste for
,
show fight
,
shrink from
,
shudder at
,
shut it down
,
sick-in
,
sicken
,
sit down
,
sit-down
,
sit-down strike
,
slow down
,
slowdown
,
spasm
,
stand
,
stand at bay
,
stand up against
,
stand up to
,
strike
,
striking alteration
,
strive against
,
subversion
,
subvert
,
sweeping change
,
swimming upstream
,
sympathy strike
,
tabula rasa
,
take-over
,
technological revolution
,
tie-up
,
total change
,
transilience
,
turn
,
turn the stomach
,
turnout
,
uncooperativeness
,
uprising
,
upset
,
violent change
,
walk out
,
walkout
,
wildcat strike
,
withstand
,
withstanding
,
work stoppage
fighter
collapse
a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
related words >
Chinese boxer
,
bantamweight
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
black belt
,
blade
,
boxer
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
brown belt
,
bruiser
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
disputant
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
featherweight
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighting cock
,
fighting man
,
fisticuffer
,
flyweight
,
foilsman
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
heavyweight
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
jouster
,
karate expert
,
knight
,
light heavyweight
,
lightweight
,
man-at-arms
,
middleweight
,
militant
,
palooka
,
plug-ugly
,
prizefighter
,
pug
,
pugilist
,
quarreler
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
savate expert
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
serviceman
,
sparrer
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swaddy
,
swashbuckler
,
sweat
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
warrior
,
welterweight
,
wrangler
rebellion
collapse
organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue"
related words >
anarchism
,
anarcho-syndicalism
,
anarchy
,
antinomianism
,
chaos
,
civil disorder
,
confusion
,
contumacy
,
criminal syndicalism
,
defiance
,
disobedience
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorganization
,
disruption
,
emeute
,
general uprising
,
insubordination
,
insurgence
,
insurgency
,
insurrection
,
jacquerie
,
levee en masse
,
lynch law
,
misrule
,
mob law
,
mob rule
,
mobocracy
,
mutiny
,
nihilism
,
ochlocracy
,
outbreak
,
peasant revolt
,
primal chaos
,
putsch
,
rebelliousness
,
resistance
,
revolt
,
revolution
,
riot
,
rising
,
syndicalism
,
tohubohu
,
turmoil
,
unruliness
,
uprising
brawler
collapse
a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)
related words >
agitator
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
bitter-ender
,
blade
,
bravo
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
defendant
,
diehard
,
disputant
,
dissentient
,
dissident
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
extremist
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
frondeur
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
hatchet man
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
insubordinate
,
insurgent
,
insurrectionary
,
insurrectionist
,
insurrecto
,
intransigent
,
irreconcilable
,
jouster
,
knight
,
last-ditcher
,
litigant
,
malcontent
,
maverick
,
militant
,
mutineer
,
naysayer
,
negativist
,
nonconformist
,
noncooperator
,
objector
,
obstructionist
,
obstructive
,
opposer
,
oppositionist
,
plaintiff
,
plug-ugly
,
protester
,
quarreler
,
rebel
,
resister
,
revolter
,
revolutionary
,
revolutionist
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
subversive
,
swashbuckler
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
traitor
,
tussler
,
wrangler
compete
collapse
compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
related words >
antagonize
,
approach
,
attempt
,
battle
,
beat against
,
beat up against
,
breast the wave
,
buck
,
buffet
,
buffet the waves
,
challenge
,
clash
,
close with
,
collide
,
combat
,
compete with
,
conflict
,
contend
,
contend against
,
contest
,
cope
,
dispute
,
emulate
,
equal
,
essay
,
fence
,
fight
,
fight against
,
grapple with
,
jockey
,
join battle with
,
joust
,
labor against
,
match
,
meet
,
militate against
,
offer resistance
,
outvie
,
reluct
,
reluctate
,
rival
,
stem the tide
,
strive
,
strive against
,
struggle
,
struggle against
,
take on
,
test one another
,
touch
,
try
,
vie
,
vie with
disputant
collapse
a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
related words >
Philadelphia lawyer
,
apologist
,
arguer
,
argufier
,
battler
,
belligerent
,
belted knight
,
bickerer
,
bitter-ender
,
blade
,
bravo
,
brawler
,
bully
,
bullyboy
,
casuist
,
combatant
,
competitor
,
contender
,
contestant
,
controversialist
,
debater
,
defendant
,
diehard
,
disceptator
,
dissentient
,
dissident
,
duelist
,
enforcer
,
fencer
,
feuder
,
fighter
,
fighting cock
,
foilsman
,
gamecock
,
gladiator
,
goon
,
gorilla
,
guardhouse lawyer
,
hatchet man
,
hood
,
hoodlum
,
hooligan
,
intransigent
,
irreconcilable
,
jouster
,
knight
,
last-ditcher
,
litigant
,
logomacher
,
logomachist
,
militant
,
mooter
,
naysayer
,
negativist
,
noncooperator
,
objector
,
obstructionist
,
obstructive
,
opposer
,
oppositionist
,
pilpulist
,
plaintiff
,
plug-ugly
,
polemic
,
polemicist
,
polemist
,
protester
,
quarreler
,
resister
,
rioter
,
rival
,
rough
,
rowdy
,
ruffian
,
sabreur
,
scrapper
,
scuffler
,
squabbler
,
strong arm
,
strong-arm man
,
strong-armer
,
struggler
,
swashbuckler
,
sword
,
swordplayer
,
swordsman
,
thug
,
tilter
,
tough
,
tussler
,
wrangler
neutrality
collapse
nonparticipation in a dispute or war
pH value of 7
related words >
Laodiceanism
,
Olympian detachment
,
a wise passiveness
,
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
calm
,
calmness
,
chill
,
chilliness
,
circumvention
,
coldness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
coolness
,
defense mechanism
,
detachment
,
disinterest
,
disinterestedness
,
dispassion
,
dispassionateness
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dodge
,
dormancy
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equitability
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
evenhandedness
,
evenness
,
fairness
,
fervorlessness
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frostiness
,
gentleness
,
getting around
,
golden mean
,
halfheartedness
,
happy medium
,
iciness
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indifference
,
indifferentism
,
indifferentness
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
insipidity
,
jink
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
justness
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
loftiness
,
lukewarmness
,
meden agan
,
meditation
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neuterness
,
neutralism
,
neutralness
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothing in excess
,
objectivity
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
perfunctoriness
,
policy
,
prevention
,
procrastination
,
prudence
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
refraining
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
selflessness
,
serenity
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tepidness
,
the runaround
,
tranquillity
,
unbias
,
unbiasedness
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unopinionatedness
,
unprejudicedness
,
unselfishness
,
vapidity
,
vegetation
,
via media
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
,
zeallessness
,
zigzag
immunization
collapse
the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)
related words >
acquired immunity
,
active immunity
,
antibody
,
antigen
,
artificial immunity
,
congenital immunity
,
familial immunity
,
immunity
,
immunity theory
,
immunization therapy
,
immunochemistry
,
immunology
,
immunotherapy
,
inherent immunity
,
inherited immunity
,
natural immunity
,
nonspecific immunity
,
nonsusceptibility to disease
,
opsonic immunity
,
passive immunity
,
patch test
,
phagocytic immunity
,
racial immunity
,
resistance
,
scratch test
,
serotherapeutics
,
serotherapy
,
serum therapy
,
side-chain theory
,
specific immunity
,
toxin-antitoxin immunity
,
toxin-antitoxin immunization
,
tuberculin test
,
vaccine therapy
,
vaccinotherapy
sulks
collapse
related words >
antipathy
,
averseness
,
aversion
,
backwardness
,
blahs
,
blue devils
,
blues
,
cursoriness
,
disagreement
,
disinclination
,
dismals
,
disobedience
,
disrelish
,
dissent
,
distaste
,
dods
,
doldrums
,
dolefuls
,
dorts
,
dumps
,
foot-dragging
,
fractiousness
,
frumps
,
grudging consent
,
grudgingness
,
grumps
,
indisposedness
,
indisposition
,
indocility
,
intractableness
,
lack of enthusiasm
,
lack of zeal
,
megrims
,
mopes
,
mulligrubs
,
mumps
,
mutinousness
,
nolition
,
obstinacy
,
opposition
,
perfunctoriness
,
pouts
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
refractoriness
,
refusal
,
reluctance
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repugnance
,
resistance
,
slowness
,
stubbornness
,
sulk
,
sulkiness
,
sullenness
,
sullens
,
unenthusiasm
,
unwillingness
objection
collapse
(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
the speech act of objecting
related words >
answer
,
antipathy
,
argument
,
ban
,
bashfulness
,
beef
,
bitch
,
blackball
,
blackballing
,
block
,
blockade
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
bottleneck
,
boycott
,
catch
,
challenge
,
combative reaction
,
complaint
,
compunction
,
cordon
,
counteraction
,
counterstatement
,
curtain
,
defense
,
defiance
,
demonstration
,
demur
,
demurral
,
demurrer
,
denial
,
determent
,
deterrent
,
difficulty
,
diffidence
,
dim view
,
disagreement
,
disappointment
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
discontent
,
discontentedness
,
discontentment
,
disenchantment
,
disesteem
,
disfavor
,
disgruntlement
,
disillusion
,
disillusionment
,
dislike
,
displeasure
,
dispute
,
disrespect
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
distaste
,
doubt
,
drawback
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expostulation
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fractiousness
,
grievance
,
grievance committee
,
hang-up
,
hazard
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
hitch
,
howl
,
hurdle
,
indignation
,
indignation meeting
,
interference
,
joker
,
kick
,
low estimation
,
low opinion
,
march
,
modesty
,
negativism
,
noncooperation
,
nonviolent protest
,
obstacle
,
obstinacy
,
obstruction
,
obstructive
,
one small difficulty
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
ostracism
,
passive resistance
,
pause
,
picketing
,
plea
,
pleading
,
protest
,
protest demonstration
,
protestation
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
question
,
rally
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
rebuttal
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
refractoriness
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
remonstration
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repellence
,
repellency
,
reply
,
repulse
,
repulsion
,
resistance
,
response
,
revolt
,
riposte
,
rub
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
sit-in
,
snag
,
special demurrer
,
special pleading
,
squawk
,
stand
,
statement of defense
,
stickling
,
strike
,
stumbling block
,
stumbling stone
,
teach-in
,
thumbs-down
,
uncooperativeness
,
unhappiness
,
withstanding
censorship
collapse
related words >
abbreviation
,
abridgment
,
bamboo curtain
,
barrier of secrecy
,
blackout
,
block
,
blockage
,
blocking
,
blue-penciling
,
bowdlerization
,
cancellation
,
censoring
,
crackdown
,
crushing
,
curtain
,
deletion
,
editing
,
erasure
,
expurgation
,
extinguishment
,
hush-up
,
inhibition
,
iron curtain
,
ironbound security
,
oath of secrecy
,
official secrecy
,
omission
,
pall
,
psychological block
,
putting down
,
quashing
,
quelling
,
quenching
,
repression
,
resistance
,
restraint
,
seal of secrecy
,
security
,
smashing
,
smothering
,
squashing
,
squelching
,
stifling
,
strangling
,
striking
,
subdual
,
suffocating
,
suppression
,
throttling
,
veil
,
veil of secrecy
,
wraps
backlash
collapse
an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"
related words >
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
backfire
,
backlashing
,
backwash
,
boomerang
,
bounce
,
bounce back
,
bound
,
carom
,
clashing
,
clout
,
collision
,
conflict
,
confutation
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrecoup
,
counteraction
,
counterposition
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
crotchetiness
,
dissent
,
force
,
friction
,
impact
,
impress
,
impression
,
imprint
,
interference
,
kick
,
kick back
,
kickback
,
mark
,
nonconformity
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
perverseness
,
print
,
reaction
,
rebound
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitration
,
recoil
,
reflex
,
renitency
,
repercussion
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
resilience
,
resistance
,
response
,
revolt
,
ricochet
,
spring
,
swimming upstream
stand up to
collapse
related words >
affront
,
beard
,
bell the cat
,
bite the bullet
,
brave
,
brazen
,
brazen out
,
challenge
,
complain
,
complain loudly
,
confront
,
contend with
,
dispute
,
dissent
,
face
,
face down
,
face out
,
face the music
,
face up
,
face up to
,
front
,
kick against
,
make a stand
,
make good
,
meet
,
meet an obligation
,
meet boldly
,
meet head-on
,
object
,
offer resistance
,
oppose
,
protest
,
recalcitrate
,
reluct
,
remonstrate
,
revolt
,
run the gauntlet
,
set at defiance
,
show fight
,
speak out
,
speak up
,
stand
,
stand at bay
,
stand up against
,
strive against
,
withstand
conservatism
collapse
a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
backwardness
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservativeness
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
evenness
,
fogyism
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
old school tie
,
old-fashionedness
,
pacifism
,
political conservatism
,
prudence
,
repose
,
resistance to change
,
restraint
,
rightism
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
standpattism
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
ultraconservatism
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unprogressiveness
,
via media
asbestos
collapse
a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer
related words >
act drop
,
amianthus
,
asbestos board
,
asbestos curtain
,
backdrop
,
batten
,
border
,
cloth
,
coulisse
,
counterweight
,
curtain
,
curtain board
,
cyclorama
,
decor
,
drop
,
drop curtain
,
earth flax
,
fire break
,
fire curtain
,
fire line
,
fire resistance
,
fire retardant
,
fire wall
,
fireproofing
,
flat
,
flipper
,
hanging
,
mountain flax
,
rag
,
scene
,
scenery
,
screen
,
side scene
,
stage screw
,
tab
,
tableau
,
teaser
,
tormentor
,
transformation
,
transformation scene
,
wing
,
wingcut
,
woodcut
militate against
collapse
related words >
antagonize
,
battle
,
be antipathetic
,
be inimical
,
beat against
,
beat up against
,
breast the wave
,
buck
,
buffet
,
buffet the waves
,
clash
,
close with
,
collide
,
combat
,
compete with
,
conflict
,
conflict with
,
confute
,
contend against
,
contest
,
contradict
,
contrapose
,
contravene
,
counter
,
counteract
,
counterattack
,
counterpose
,
countervail
,
counterwork
,
cross
,
fight
,
fight against
,
go against
,
go counter to
,
grapple with
,
interfere with
,
join battle with
,
labor against
,
lock horns
,
meet head-on
,
offer resistance
,
oppose
,
oppugn
,
reluct
,
reluctate
,
resist
,
rival
,
run against
,
run counter to
,
stem the tide
,
strive against
,
struggle against
,
swim upstream
,
take on
,
vie with
,
work against
lawbreaking
collapse
related words >
breach of law
,
civil disobedience
,
contravention
,
crime
,
criminal tendency
,
criminality
,
criminosis
,
disobedience
,
evil courses
,
evildoing
,
feloniousness
,
frowardness
,
indiscipline
,
indocility
,
infraction
,
infringement
,
insubordination
,
intractability
,
lawlessness
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misconduct
,
misdemeanor
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misprision
,
misprision of treason
,
naughtiness
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformity
,
noncooperation
,
nonobedience
,
passive resistance
,
positive misprision
,
recusancy
,
sin
,
thou scarlet sin
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trespassing
,
uncooperativeness
,
unduteousness
,
undutifulness
,
unsubmissiveness
,
vice
,
viciousness
,
violation
,
violation of law
,
waywardness
,
willful disobedience
,
wrong conduct
,
wrongdoing
demur
collapse
(law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
enter a demurrer
related words >
aversion
,
back down
,
balance
,
balk
,
bashfulness
,
beef
,
bitch
,
blench
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
boycott
,
call in question
,
challenge
,
combat
,
combative reaction
,
complain
,
complaint
,
compunction
,
conscience
,
counteraction
,
cry out against
,
debate
,
defiance
,
deliberate
,
demonstrate
,
demonstrate against
,
demonstration
,
demurral
,
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rally
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withdraw
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withstanding
,
yell bloody murder
,
yield
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