Related Words:
- draining
collapse - having a debilitating effect; "an exhausting job in the hot sun" related words >
- aspiration,
- bleeding,
- bloodletting,
- breakdown,
- broaching,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- cleaning out,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- coming apart,
- crack-up,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- crying,
- cupping,
- decadent,
- declining,
- defecation,
- degenerate,
- demanding,
- depletion,
- deteriorating,
- devitalizing,
- discharging cargo,
- disintegrating,
- drafting,
- drainage,
- drawing,
- drooping,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- egress,
- elimination,
- emptying,
- enervating,
- enfeebling,
- evacuation,
- exacting,
- excretion,
- exhaustedness,
- exhausting,
- exhaustion,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- going to pieces,
- grasping,
- grueling,
- importunate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- killing,
- languishing,
- loud,
- marcescent,
- milking,
- nervous exhaustion,
- nervous prostration,
- off-loading,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- phlebotomy,
- pining,
- pipetting,
- pressing,
- prostration,
- pumping,
- punishing,
- regressive,
- removal,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sapping,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- siphoning,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- straining,
- stressful,
- subsiding,
- sucking,
- suction,
- tabetic,
- tapping,
- taxing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- trying,
- unloading,
- urgent,
- venesection,
- venting,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waning,
- wasting,
- weakening,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- recidivist
collapse
- someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
- someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) related words >
- Adamic,
- Sabbath-breaker,
- apostate,
- atavistic,
- atheist,
- atheistic,
- backslider,
- backsliding,
- bad egg,
- bad lot,
- black sheep,
- blasphemer,
- blasphemous,
- bolter,
- carnal,
- collaborationist,
- collaborator,
- convert,
- defector,
- degenerate,
- deserter,
- erring,
- fallen,
- fallen angel,
- fallen from grace,
- fifth columnist,
- fleshly,
- frail,
- impious,
- impure,
- infirm,
- irreligious,
- irreverent,
- lapsed,
- lecher,
- lost lamb,
- lost sheep,
- lost soul,
- miscreant,
- mugwump,
- of easy virtue,
- peccable,
- pervert,
- pimp,
- postlapsarian,
- prodigal,
- prodigal son,
- profanatory,
- profane,
- profligate,
- proselyte,
- quisling,
- reactionary,
- recessive,
- recidivistic,
- recidivous,
- recreant,
- regressive,
- renegade,
- renegado,
- renegate,
- repeater,
- reprobate,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- retrorse,
- retroverse,
- returnable,
- returnee,
- reversible,
- reversional,
- reversionary,
- reversioner,
- reversionist,
- revertible,
- revulsionary,
- runagate,
- sacrilegious,
- sacrilegist,
- scapegrace,
- schismatic,
- seceder,
- secessionist,
- separatist,
- sorry lot,
- strikebreaker,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversator,
- traitor,
- trollop,
- turnabout,
- turncoat,
- turntail,
- two-time loser,
- unangelic,
- unbeliever,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- undutiful,
- ungodly,
- ungood,
- unrighteous,
- unsaintly,
- unvirtuous,
- virtueless,
- wanton,
- wayward,
- weak,
- whore
- deteriorate
collapse
- become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" related words >
- agent provocateur,
- aggravate,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- amplify,
- annoy,
- augment,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- bottom out,
- break,
- build up,
- change,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- come about,
- come around,
- come down,
- come round,
- crumble,
- damage,
- debilitate,
- decay,
- decline,
- decompose,
- deepen,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- depreciate,
- descend,
- deviate,
- dilapidate,
- disimprove,
- disintegrate,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- embitter,
- endamage,
- enhance,
- enlarge,
- erode,
- exacerbate,
- exasperate,
- fade,
- fall back,
- flag,
- flop,
- get worse,
- go downhill,
- go to pot,
- grow worse,
- harm,
- haul around,
- have a comedown,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hit rock bottom,
- hot up,
- hurt,
- impair,
- improve,
- increase,
- injure,
- intensify,
- irritate,
- jibe,
- languish,
- lessen,
- let down,
- magnify,
- make acute,
- make worse,
- mar,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- provoke,
- put back,
- reach the depths,
- regress,
- relapse,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- revive,
- rot,
- sharpen,
- shift,
- sicken,
- sink,
- slacken,
- slide,
- slip,
- slip back,
- sour,
- spoil,
- swerve,
- tack,
- take a turn,
- touch bottom,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- undergo a change,
- undermine,
- vary,
- veer,
- warp,
- weaken,
- worsen
- worsening
collapse
- changing something with the result that it becomes worse
- changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm" related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- aggravation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- apostasy,
- augmentation,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- coming apart,
- constructive change,
- contentiousness,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- declining,
- deepening,
- defection,
- degenerate,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deliberate aggravation,
- deteriorating,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disintegrating,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fitting,
- flagging,
- flip-flop,
- fragmenting,
- going to pieces,
- gradual change,
- heightening,
- improvement,
- increase,
- intensification,
- irritation,
- languishing,
- magnification,
- marcescent,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- overthrow,
- pining,
- provocation,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regressive,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- sharpening,
- shift,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- souring,
- subsiding,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- tabetic,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering
- regress
collapse
- the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to a statistical means related words >
- about-face,
- advance,
- ascend,
- back,
- back up,
- backing,
- backset,
- backslide,
- backsliding,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- budge,
- change,
- change place,
- circle,
- climb,
- cock,
- come after,
- come last,
- degenerate,
- descend,
- deteriorate,
- disenchantment,
- disimprove,
- ebb,
- fall,
- fall again into,
- fall astern,
- fall back,
- fall behind,
- fall from grace,
- flip-flop,
- flow,
- follow,
- get behind,
- get over,
- get worse,
- go,
- go around,
- go back,
- go backwards,
- go behind,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- grow worse,
- gyrate,
- have a relapse,
- jerk back,
- lag behind,
- lapse,
- lapse back,
- let down,
- lose ground,
- mount,
- move,
- move over,
- plunge,
- progress,
- pull back,
- reaction,
- recede,
- recession,
- recidivate,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- reclamation,
- reconversion,
- recur to,
- reentry,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regression,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- relapse,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- retroaction,
- retrocede,
- retrocession,
- retroflex,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- retrogression,
- retroversion,
- retrovert,
- retrusion,
- return,
- return to,
- returning,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversion,
- revert,
- revert to,
- reverting,
- revulsion,
- rise,
- rollback,
- rotate,
- run,
- setback,
- shift,
- sicken,
- sink,
- sink back,
- slacken,
- slide back,
- slip back,
- slipping back,
- soar,
- spin,
- sternway,
- stir,
- stream,
- subside,
- throw back,
- throwback,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- travel,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- wane,
- whirl,
- worsen,
- yield again to
- worsen
collapse
- grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
- make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" related words >
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- agent provocateur,
- aggravate,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- amplify,
- annoy,
- augment,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- better,
- blast,
- blight,
- bottom out,
- break,
- break up,
- build up,
- change,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- come about,
- come around,
- come round,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- damage,
- debase,
- decline,
- deepen,
- deform,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denature,
- descend,
- deteriorate,
- deviate,
- dilapidate,
- disimprove,
- disintegrate,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- embitter,
- endamage,
- enhance,
- enlarge,
- exacerbate,
- exasperate,
- fall back,
- fit,
- flop,
- foul,
- get worse,
- grow worse,
- harm,
- haul around,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hot up,
- humble,
- hurt,
- impair,
- improve,
- increase,
- injure,
- intensify,
- irritate,
- jibe,
- let down,
- lower,
- magnify,
- make acute,
- make worse,
- meliorate,
- mitigate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- overthrow,
- provoke,
- put back,
- qualify,
- re-create,
- realign,
- rebuild,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- refit,
- reform,
- regress,
- relapse,
- remake,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restructure,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- revamp,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- rot,
- sharpen,
- shift,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- sicken,
- sink,
- slacken,
- slip back,
- sour,
- subvert,
- swerve,
- tack,
- taint,
- take a turn,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn upside down,
- undergo a change,
- vary,
- veer,
- warp,
- weaken,
- work a change
- Sanforizing,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- air-drying,
- anhydration,
- arrogant,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- baneful,
- biting,
- bitter,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- caustic,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- coming apart,
- consuming,
- consumption,
- consumptive,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- cutting,
- deadly,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- dehumidification,
- dehydration,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desiccation,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- deteriorating,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- disdainful,
- disintegrating,
- doomful,
- drainage,
- draining,
- drooping,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- evaporation,
- exclusive,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- fratricidal,
- going to pieces,
- haughty,
- incisive,
- insolation,
- internecine,
- keen,
- languishing,
- marcescence,
- marcescent,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mummification,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- parching,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pining,
- preshrinkage,
- ravaging,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- scornful,
- searing,
- self-destructive,
- sharp,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- subsiding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- supercilious,
- tabetic,
- tart,
- thinning,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trenchant,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- waning,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- worsening
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnegation,
- aging,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- contempt,
- contractive,
- contradiction,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declined,
- declivate,
- declivitous,
- declivous,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- descendant,
- descending,
- despisal,
- despising,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- dipping,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- disintegrating,
- dismissal,
- disobedience,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- dissent,
- doting,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- holding back,
- ignoring,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonconsideration,
- nonobservance,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- on the wane,
- passing by,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- rebuff,
- recantation,
- receding,
- reductive,
- refusal,
- regressive,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- retention,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sagging,
- scouting,
- senescent,
- setting,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- spurning,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- throwing out,
- thumbs-down,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- turndown,
- turning out,
- unwillingness,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- withholding,
- worsening
- flagging
collapse
- a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
- flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" related words >
- ambling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- coming apart,
- cracking,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- crumbling,
- debilitated,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- deliberate,
- deteriorating,
- disintegrating,
- draining,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dwindling,
- easy,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- fading,
- fagged,
- failing,
- faint,
- fainting,
- falling,
- faltering,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- foot-dragging,
- footsore,
- fragmenting,
- frazzled,
- gentle,
- going to pieces,
- good and tired,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indolent,
- jaded,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- marcescent,
- moderate,
- pining,
- poking,
- poky,
- ready to drop,
- regressive,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sauntering,
- seedy,
- shriveling,
- shuffling,
- sinking,
- slack,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- slumping,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tentative,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toddling,
- toilworn,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- waddling,
- waning,
- wasting,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- worsening
- descend
collapse
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" related words >
- advance,
- alight,
- ascend,
- assault,
- attack,
- back,
- back up,
- bank,
- be shamed,
- budge,
- cant,
- careen,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- change,
- change hands,
- change ownership,
- change place,
- circle,
- climb,
- climb down,
- collapse,
- come down,
- come in,
- condescend,
- crash,
- crash-land,
- decline,
- degenerate,
- deign,
- derogate,
- descend on,
- devolve,
- dip,
- dip down,
- disimprove,
- disintegrate,
- ditch,
- down,
- downwind,
- drop,
- drop down,
- drop off,
- ebb,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall down,
- fall into disrepute,
- fall off,
- flow,
- get down,
- get over,
- go,
- go around,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- gravitate,
- gyrate,
- head,
- incline,
- incur discredit,
- incur disesteem,
- incur disgrace,
- invade,
- keel,
- land,
- lead,
- lean,
- level off,
- light,
- list,
- lose altitude,
- lose caste,
- lose countenance,
- lose credit,
- lose face,
- lower,
- lower oneself,
- mount,
- move,
- move over,
- overshoot,
- pancake,
- parachute,
- pass on,
- pitch,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- point,
- pounce,
- pounce on,
- pounce upon,
- pour down,
- precipitate,
- progress,
- rain,
- rake,
- regress,
- retreat,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- rise,
- rot,
- rotate,
- run,
- settle,
- settle down,
- shelve,
- shift,
- sidle,
- sink,
- slant,
- slope,
- soar,
- spin,
- stir,
- stoop,
- stream,
- subside,
- succeed,
- swag,
- sway,
- swoop,
- swoop down on,
- swoop down upon,
- talk down,
- tend,
- tend to go,
- tilt,
- tip,
- touch down,
- travel,
- trend downward,
- uprise,
- upwind,
- vouchsafe,
- wane,
- whirl,
- worsen
- pull back
collapse
- pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"
- move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!" related words >
- about the bush,
- abrupt,
- alienate,
- avoid,
- back down,
- back out,
- backslide,
- balance,
- beat a retreat,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- blench,
- blink,
- boggle,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- cock,
- cringe,
- cut adrift,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- debate,
- delete,
- deliberate,
- demur,
- depart,
- disarticulate,
- disconnect,
- disengage,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- dissociate,
- disunite,
- divide,
- divorce,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- draw in,
- draw off,
- duck,
- eject,
- equivocate,
- estrange,
- evade,
- expel,
- fade,
- fall astern,
- fall back,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- fear,
- fence,
- fight shy of,
- flinch,
- get behind,
- give ground,
- give place,
- go back,
- go backwards,
- go behind,
- hang back,
- hang off,
- have qualms,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hold off,
- hover,
- hum and haw,
- isolate,
- jerk back,
- jib,
- lapse,
- leave,
- lose ground,
- make bones about,
- move back,
- parry,
- part,
- pause,
- ponder,
- pull away,
- pull in,
- pull out,
- pussyfoot,
- put off,
- quail,
- recede,
- recidivate,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- regress,
- relapse,
- retire,
- retract,
- retreat,
- retrocede,
- retroflex,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- return,
- revert,
- run back,
- scruple,
- segregate,
- separate,
- sequester,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- sheer off,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shut off,
- shy,
- shy at,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sidestep,
- slip back,
- split,
- stand aloof,
- stand apart,
- stand aside,
- stand back,
- start aside,
- start back,
- step aside,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stop to consider,
- straddle the fence,
- strain,
- strain at,
- subtract,
- swerve,
- think twice about,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- turn aside,
- uncouple,
- unyoke,
- ward off,
- waver,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- wince,
- withdraw,
- yield
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