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give-and-take
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related words >
abatement of differences
,
accommodation
,
adjustment
,
agency
,
alternation
,
arrangement
,
badinage
,
balance
,
ballast
,
banter
,
bargain
,
barter
,
bartering
,
battledore and shuttlecock
,
boomerang
,
brokerage
,
buying and selling
,
chaff
,
changeable
,
colloquial discourse
,
colloquy
,
comeback
,
communication
,
communion
,
commutable
,
commutation
,
commutative
,
composition
,
compromise
,
concession
,
consideration
,
conversation
,
converse
,
conversing
,
convertible
,
cooperation
,
cop-out
,
counter
,
counterbalance
,
counterblast
,
counterblow
,
counterchange
,
counterpoise
,
counterstroke
,
counterweight
,
cross fire
,
deal
,
dealing
,
defensibility
,
desertion of principle
,
discourse
,
doing business
,
drumhead justice
,
dueness
,
equal
,
equalizing
,
equipoise
,
equitableness
,
equity
,
equivalent
,
evasion of responsibility
,
even
,
evenhandedness
,
exchange
,
exchanged
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
giving way
,
good-natured banter
,
harmless teasing
,
horse trading
,
interchange
,
interchangeable
,
interchanged
,
intercourse
,
interlocution
,
intermutation
,
interplay
,
jape
,
jest
,
jive
,
jobbing
,
joke
,
josh
,
justice
,
justifiability
,
justifiableness
,
justification
,
justness
,
kidding
,
kidding around
,
lawfulness
,
legality
,
lex talionis
,
makeweight
,
measure for measure
,
meetness
,
merchandising
,
mutual
,
mutual admiration
,
mutual concession
,
mutual support
,
mutual transfer
,
mutuality
,
nemesis
,
offset
,
permutable
,
permutation
,
persiflage
,
pleasantry
,
poetic justice
,
properness
,
propriety
,
quid pro quo
,
raillery
,
rallying
,
rapping
,
reciprocal
,
reciprocality
,
reciprocating
,
reciprocation
,
reciprocative
,
reciprocity
,
recoil
,
reply
,
retailing
,
retaliation
,
retaliatory
,
retort
,
retributive justice
,
return
,
returnable
,
ridicule
,
right
,
rightfulness
,
rightness
,
rude justice
,
scales of justice
,
setoff
,
settlement
,
something for something
,
something of value
,
sport
,
standard
,
summary justice
,
surrender
,
swapped
,
swapping
,
switched
,
tit for tat
,
trade
,
traded
,
trading
,
trafficking
,
transposal
,
transposed
,
transposition
,
twit
,
understanding
,
verbal intercourse
,
warrantability
,
warrantedness
,
what is right
,
wheeling and dealing
,
wholesaling
,
yielding
put up with
collapse
related words >
abide
,
abide with
,
accede
,
accept
,
acquiesce
,
assent
,
be agreeable
,
bear
,
bear with
,
bide
,
blink at
,
brave
,
brook
,
change
,
change for
,
commute
,
comply
,
compound for
,
condone
,
connive at
,
consent
,
countenance
,
dub in
,
endure
,
exchange
,
face the music
,
give place to
,
go along with
,
hang in
,
hang in there
,
hang tough
,
have
,
hear of
,
indulge
,
knock under
,
knuckle down
,
knuckle under
,
live with it
,
lump
,
lump it
,
make do with
,
make way for
,
not resist
,
obey
,
offer in exchange
,
overlook
,
persevere
,
redeem
,
relent
,
resign
,
ring in
,
shift with
,
stand
,
stand for
,
stick
,
stomach
,
submit
,
substitute
,
succumb
,
suffer
,
support
,
sustain
,
swallow it
,
swallow the pill
,
switch
,
take
,
take in exchange
,
take it
,
take up with
,
tolerate
,
wink at
rebuild
collapse
build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb"
related words >
accommodate
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
better
,
break up
,
change
,
convert
,
copy
,
deform
,
denature
,
diversify
,
do over
,
do up
,
doctor
,
duplicate
,
fit
,
fix
,
improve
,
make over
,
meliorate
,
mitigate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
overhaul
,
overthrow
,
patch
,
qualify
,
re-create
,
re-form
,
realign
,
reassemble
,
recondition
,
reconstitute
,
reconstruct
,
redesign
,
redo
,
reestablish
,
refabricate
,
refashion
,
refit
,
reform
,
refound
,
regenerate
,
reinstitute
,
reissue
,
remake
,
remodel
,
renew
,
renovate
,
reorganize
,
repair
,
repeat
,
reprint
,
reproduce
,
reshape
,
restore
,
restructure
,
resurrect
,
revamp
,
revise
,
revive
,
ring the changes
,
shift the scene
,
shuffle the cards
,
subvert
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
vary
,
work a change
,
worsen
phonetics
collapse
the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
related words >
ablaut
,
acoustic phonetics
,
articulatory phonetics
,
audiometer
,
auriscope
,
auriscopy
,
betacism
,
bowwow theory
,
cacography
,
comparative linguistics
,
derivation
,
descriptive linguistics
,
dialectology
,
dingdong theory
,
etymology
,
glossematics
,
glossology
,
glottochronology
,
glottology
,
gradation
,
grammar
,
graphemics
,
historical linguistics
,
language study
,
lexicology
,
lexicostatistics
,
linguistic geography
,
linguistic science
,
linguistics
,
mathematical linguistics
,
morphology
,
morphophonemics
,
mutation
,
orthoepy
,
orthography
,
otography
,
otolaryngology
,
otology
,
otoneurology
,
otopathy
,
otoplasty
,
otoscope
,
otoscopy
,
paleography
,
philology
,
phonetic spelling
,
phonography
,
phonology
,
psycholinguistics
,
rhotacism
,
semantics
,
sociolinguistics
,
sound shift
,
spelldown
,
spelling
,
spelling bee
,
spelling match
,
spelling reform
,
structuralism
,
syntactics
,
transformational linguistics
,
umlaut
knavery
collapse
related words >
abomination
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
atrocity
,
bad
,
baseness
,
blind
,
chicanery
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
coup
,
craft
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
degradation
,
design
,
device
,
disgrace
,
dodge
,
error
,
evil
,
expedient
,
fakement
,
feint
,
fetch
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
grift
,
infamy
,
iniquity
,
intrigue
,
jugglery
,
knavishness
,
little game
,
maneuver
,
moral turpitude
,
move
,
obliquity
,
peccancy
,
plot
,
ploy
,
racket
,
rascality
,
rascalry
,
red herring
,
reprobacy
,
roguery
,
roguishness
,
ruse
,
scampishness
,
scandal
,
scheme
,
scoundrelism
,
shame
,
shift
,
sin
,
sleight
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
subterfuge
,
tactic
,
trick
,
trickery
,
turpitude
,
vileness
,
villainousness
,
villainy
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wrong
reshape
collapse
shape anew or differently; "The new foreign minister reshaped the foreign policy of his country"
shape again or shape differently
related words >
accommodate
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
amend
,
better
,
break up
,
change
,
convert
,
copy
,
deform
,
denature
,
diversify
,
do over
,
duplicate
,
fit
,
improve
,
make over
,
meliorate
,
mitigate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
new-model
,
overthrow
,
qualify
,
re-create
,
re-form
,
realign
,
rebuild
,
reclaim
,
reconstitute
,
reconstruct
,
redeem
,
redesign
,
redo
,
reestablish
,
refashion
,
refit
,
reform
,
refound
,
regenerate
,
reinstitute
,
reissue
,
remake
,
remodel
,
renew
,
renovate
,
reorganize
,
repeat
,
reprint
,
reproduce
,
restore
,
restore self-respect
,
restructure
,
resurrect
,
revamp
,
revise
,
revive
,
ring the changes
,
set straight
,
shift the scene
,
shuffle the cards
,
subvert
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
vary
,
work a change
,
worsen
checker
collapse
one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
one who checks the correctness of something
an attendant who checks coats or baggage
variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
related words >
alter
,
ameliorate
,
band
,
bar
,
be changed
,
be converted into
,
be renewed
,
bespangle
,
bespeckle
,
bespot
,
blotch
,
bottom out
,
break
,
change
,
check
,
chop
,
chop and change
,
come about
,
come around
,
come round
,
dapple
,
degenerate
,
deteriorate
,
deviate
,
diverge
,
diversify
,
dot
,
flake
,
fleck
,
flop
,
freckle
,
harlequin
,
haul around
,
improve
,
iris
,
jibe
,
maculate
,
marble
,
marbleize
,
meliorate
,
mitigate
,
modulate
,
motley
,
mottle
,
mutate
,
pepper
,
polychrome
,
polychromize
,
rainbow
,
revive
,
shift
,
spangle
,
speck
,
speckle
,
splotch
,
spot
,
sprinkle
,
stigmatize
,
stipple
,
streak
,
striate
,
stripe
,
stud
,
swerve
,
tack
,
take a turn
,
tattoo
,
tessellate
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
turn into
,
turn the corner
,
undergo a change
,
variegate
,
vary
,
veer
,
vein
,
warp
,
worsen
protract
collapse
related words >
adjourn
,
chatter
,
continue
,
dawdle
,
defer
,
delay
,
drag out
,
draw
,
draw out
,
dwell on
,
elongate
,
extend
,
fill out
,
hang fire
,
hang up
,
hold
,
hold off
,
hold over
,
hold up
,
keep
,
keep alive
,
keep going
,
keep up
,
lay aside
,
lay by
,
lay over
,
lengthen
,
lengthen out
,
let out
,
linger on
,
maintain
,
never finish
,
pad
,
perorate
,
perpetuate
,
pigeonhole
,
postpone
,
preserve
,
procrastinate
,
produce
,
prolong
,
prolongate
,
prorogate
,
prorogue
,
pull
,
push aside
,
put aside
,
put off
,
put on ice
,
recess
,
reserve
,
retain
,
run out
,
set aside
,
set by
,
shelve
,
shift off
,
sleep on
,
speak at length
,
spin out
,
stand over
,
stave off
,
stay
,
strain
,
stretch
,
stretch out
,
string out
,
suspend
,
sustain
,
table
,
take a recess
,
tauten
,
temporize
,
tense
,
tighten
,
waive
retrogress
collapse
related words >
advance
,
ascend
,
back
,
back up
,
backslide
,
budge
,
change
,
change place
,
circle
,
climb
,
cock
,
come after
,
come last
,
degenerate
,
descend
,
deteriorate
,
disimprove
,
ebb
,
fall astern
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
flow
,
follow
,
get behind
,
get over
,
get worse
,
go
,
go around
,
go back
,
go backwards
,
go behind
,
go round
,
go sideways
,
grow worse
,
gyrate
,
jerk back
,
lag behind
,
lapse
,
lapse back
,
let down
,
lose ground
,
mount
,
move
,
move over
,
plunge
,
progress
,
pull back
,
recede
,
recidivate
,
regress
,
relapse
,
retrocede
,
retroflex
,
retrograde
,
retrovert
,
return
,
reverse
,
revert
,
rise
,
rotate
,
run
,
shift
,
sicken
,
sink
,
slacken
,
slip back
,
soar
,
spin
,
stir
,
stream
,
subside
,
throw back
,
trail
,
trail behind
,
travel
,
wane
,
whirl
,
worsen
uproot
collapse
pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
related words >
abate
,
abolish
,
annihilate
,
avulse
,
banish
,
blot out
,
buck off
,
cut out
,
demolish
,
depose
,
deracinate
,
destroy
,
devastate
,
dig out
,
dig up
,
disentangle
,
dislodge
,
dismount
,
displace
,
draw
,
draw out
,
dredge
,
dredge up
,
eliminate
,
eradicate
,
evolve
,
evulse
,
excavate
,
excise
,
exile
,
exsect
,
exterminate
,
extirpate
,
extract
,
extricate
,
get out
,
gouge out
,
grub up
,
kill
,
liquidate
,
mine
,
move
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
pick out
,
pluck out
,
pluck up
,
pull
,
pull out
,
pull up
,
purge
,
quarry
,
rake out
,
ravage
,
remove
,
replace
,
rip out
,
root out
,
root up
,
ruin
,
shift
,
subvert
,
supersede
,
supplant
,
sweep away
,
take out
,
tear out
,
throw off
,
transfer
,
transplant
,
unearth
,
unhorse
,
unplace
,
unravel
,
unsaddle
,
unseat
,
weed out
,
wipe out
,
withdraw
,
wrest out
lay over
collapse
interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"
related words >
adjourn
,
apply to
,
blanket
,
block
,
canopy
,
cloak
,
clothe
,
cloud
,
continue
,
cope
,
cover
,
cover up
,
cowl
,
curtain
,
defer
,
delay
,
drag out
,
eclipse
,
extend
,
film
,
hang fire
,
hang up
,
hold off
,
hold over
,
hold up
,
hood
,
lay aside
,
lay by
,
lay on
,
mantle
,
mask
,
muffle
,
obduce
,
obscure
,
occult
,
overlay
,
overspread
,
pigeonhole
,
postpone
,
prolong
,
prorogate
,
prorogue
,
protract
,
push aside
,
put aside
,
put off
,
put on
,
put on ice
,
recess
,
reserve
,
screen
,
scum
,
set aside
,
set by
,
shelve
,
shield
,
shift off
,
sleep on
,
sojourn
,
spread over
,
stand over
,
stave off
,
stay
,
stay over
,
stop
,
stop over
,
stretch out
,
superimpose
,
superpose
,
suspend
,
table
,
take a recess
,
veil
,
waive
recoil
collapse
a movement back from an impact
the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired
related words >
about the bush
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
avoid
,
avoidance
,
backfire
,
backlash
,
backlashing
,
backwash
,
balk
,
bashfulness
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
blanch
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
boomerang
,
bounce
,
bounce back
,
bound
,
bound back
,
cannon
,
cannon off
,
carom
,
clashing
,
clout
,
collision
,
comeback
,
compunction
,
conflict
,
confutation
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrecoup
,
counter
,
counteraction
,
counterblast
,
counterblow
,
counterposition
,
counterstroke
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
cringe
,
crotchetiness
,
demur
,
demurral
,
diffidence
,
disapprove of
,
dissent
,
dodge
,
draw back
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evasion
,
exchange
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fallback
,
falter
,
faltering
,
fence
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
fly back
,
force
,
friction
,
funk
,
give-and-take
,
grimace
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
have repercussions
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitate
,
hesitation
,
hold off
,
impact
,
impress
,
impression
,
imprint
,
interchange
,
interference
,
jib
,
kick
,
kick back
,
kickback
,
lash back
,
look askance at
,
make bones about
,
mark
,
modesty
,
nonconformity
,
objection
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
parry
,
pause
,
perverseness
,
print
,
protest
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pullback
,
pullout
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quail
,
quake
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
reaction
,
rebound
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrate
,
recalcitration
,
reciprocation
,
reel back
,
reflex
,
renitency
,
repercuss
,
repercussion
,
reply
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
resile
,
resilience
,
resistance
,
response
,
retaliation
,
retort
,
retreat
,
return
,
revolt
,
revolt at
,
ricochet
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
shake
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
show distaste for
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shrink from
,
shrinking
,
shudder
,
shudder at
,
shy
,
shy at
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
shyness
,
sidestep
,
sidestepping
,
snap back
,
spring
,
spring back
,
squinch
,
start
,
start aside
,
start back
,
step aside
,
stick
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stickling
,
strain
,
swerve
,
swimming upstream
,
tremble
,
turn aside
,
ward off
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
revamp
collapse
to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it"
related words >
accommodate
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
amend
,
better
,
blue-pencil
,
break up
,
change
,
convert
,
correct
,
deform
,
denature
,
diversify
,
do up
,
edit
,
emend
,
emendate
,
face-lift
,
fit
,
fix
,
fix up
,
furbish
,
improve
,
meliorate
,
mitigate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
overhaul
,
overthrow
,
patch
,
qualify
,
re-create
,
realign
,
rebuild
,
recense
,
recondition
,
reconstruct
,
rectify
,
redact
,
redesign
,
redo
,
redraft
,
refit
,
reform
,
refresh
,
refurbish
,
rehabilitate
,
remake
,
renew
,
renovate
,
repair
,
reshape
,
restore
,
restructure
,
revise
,
revive
,
rework
,
rewrite
,
ring the changes
,
shift the scene
,
shuffle the cards
,
subvert
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
vamp
,
vary
,
work a change
,
work over
,
worsen
shrink
collapse
decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
related words >
Sanforize
,
abate
,
ablate
,
about the bush
,
ache
,
agonize
,
ail
,
analyst
,
anguish
,
attenuate
,
avoid
,
avoid the limelight
,
balk at
,
bate
,
be eaten away
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
behavior therapist
,
blanch
,
blench
,
blink
,
blush unseen
,
boggle
,
clinical psychologist
,
compress
,
concentrate
,
condense
,
constrict
,
consume
,
consume away
,
contract
,
corrode
,
cower
,
cringe
,
crouch
,
crumble
,
decline
,
decrease
,
deliquesce
,
demur
,
deplete
,
depreciate
,
desiccate
,
die away
,
diminish
,
dissipate
,
dive
,
dodge
,
drain
,
draw back
,
draw in
,
dribble away
,
drift away
,
droop
,
drop
,
drop off
,
dry up
,
duck
,
dwindle
,
ebb
,
emacerate
,
emaciate
,
equivocate
,
erode
,
evade
,
fade
,
fade away
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall back
,
fall off
,
fall short
,
falter
,
feel pain
,
feel the pangs
,
fence
,
fight shy of
,
flag
,
flinch
,
funk
,
go
,
go away
,
grimace
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have a misery
,
have qualms
,
headshrinker
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
huddle
,
hurt
,
hypnotherapist
,
jib
,
languish
,
lessen
,
let up
,
macerate
,
make bones about
,
melt away
,
move away
,
move off
,
narcotherapist
,
parch
,
parry
,
pause
,
pine
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
pound
,
preshrink
,
psychiatrist
,
psychoanalyst
,
psychoanalyzer
,
psychotherapeutist
,
psychotherapist
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pull in
,
pull out
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quail
,
recede
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retire
,
retract
,
retreat
,
retrocede
,
run low
,
sag
,
scruple
,
sear
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shoot
,
shrink back
,
shrink from
,
shrinker
,
shrivel
,
shrivel up
,
shy
,
shy at
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
sink
,
slink
,
smart
,
squander
,
squinch
,
stand off
,
start
,
start aside
,
start back
,
step aside
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
strain
,
subside
,
suffer
,
swerve
,
tail off
,
thin
,
thrill
,
throb
,
tingle
,
turn aside
,
twinge
,
twitch
,
wane
,
ward off
,
waste
,
waste away
,
waver
,
weaken
,
wear
,
wear away
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
weazen
,
widen the distance
,
wilt
,
wince
,
withdraw
,
withdraw from
,
wither
,
wizen
,
writhe
dogleg
collapse
a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway
angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog
related words >
L
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
angle
,
apex
,
bend
,
bias
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
branching off
,
cant
,
chevron
,
circuitousness
,
coin
,
corner
,
crank
,
crankiness
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crotchet
,
curve
,
declination
,
deflection
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
discursion
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
elbow
,
ell
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
flexuosity
,
fork
,
furcation
,
hairpin
,
hook
,
indirection
,
inflection
,
knee
,
nook
,
obliquity
,
pererration
,
point
,
quoin
,
rambling
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
slant
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
switchback
,
tack
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
variation
,
veer
,
vertex
,
wandering
,
warp
,
yaw
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
hurricane
collapse
a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)
related words >
black squall
,
blaze
,
blizzard
,
blow
,
burst
,
convulsion
,
cyclone
,
dirty weather
,
equinoctial
,
eruption
,
explosion
,
fit
,
flare-up
,
foul weather
,
gale
,
gust
,
half a gale
,
heavy blow
,
ill wind
,
irruption
,
line squall
,
line storm
,
outbreak
,
outburst
,
paroxysm
,
rainstorm
,
rough weather
,
seizure
,
snowstorm
,
spasm
,
squall
,
squall line
,
storm
,
storm wind
,
stormy weather
,
stormy winds
,
strong wind
,
tempest
,
tempestuous rage
,
tempestuous wind
,
thick squall
,
thundersquall
,
thunderstorm
,
tornado
,
tropical cyclone
,
twister
,
typhoon
,
ugly wind
,
upheaval
,
violent blow
,
whirlwind
,
white squall
,
whole gale
,
williwaw
,
wind-shift line
,
windstorm
shelve
collapse
place on a shelf; "shelve books"
related words >
adjourn
,
ascend
,
bank
,
cant
,
careen
,
climb
,
continue
,
decline
,
defer
,
delay
,
descend
,
dip
,
dish
,
drag out
,
drop
,
extend
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
give up
,
go downhill
,
go uphill
,
grade
,
hang fire
,
hang up
,
hold off
,
hold over
,
hold up
,
incline
,
keel
,
lay aside
,
lay away
,
lay by
,
lay over
,
lean
,
list
,
pigeonhole
,
pitch
,
postpone
,
prolong
,
prorogate
,
prorogue
,
protract
,
push aside
,
put aside
,
put away
,
put in mothballs
,
put off
,
put on ice
,
rake
,
recess
,
reserve
,
retreat
,
rise
,
set aside
,
set by
,
shift off
,
sideline
,
sidle
,
slant
,
sleep on
,
slope
,
stand over
,
stave off
,
stay
,
store
,
stow
,
stretch out
,
suspend
,
swag
,
sway
,
table
,
table the motion
,
take a recess
,
tilt
,
tip
,
uprise
,
waive
phonology
collapse
the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
related words >
ablaut
,
acoustic phonetics
,
articulatory phonetics
,
betacism
,
bowwow theory
,
comparative linguistics
,
derivation
,
descriptive grammar
,
descriptive linguistics
,
dialectology
,
dingdong theory
,
etymology
,
generative grammar
,
glossematics
,
glossology
,
glottochronology
,
glottology
,
gradation
,
grammar
,
grammatical analysis
,
grammatical theory
,
grammaticality
,
graphemics
,
historical linguistics
,
language study
,
lexicology
,
lexicostatistics
,
linguistic geography
,
linguistic science
,
linguistics
,
mathematical linguistics
,
morphology
,
morphophonemics
,
mutation
,
orthoepy
,
paleography
,
parsing
,
philology
,
phonetics
,
phrase-structure grammar
,
psycholinguistics
,
rhotacism
,
rules of language
,
school grammar
,
semantics
,
sociolinguistics
,
sound shift
,
stratificational grammar
,
structural grammar
,
structuralism
,
syntactics
,
tagmemic analysis
,
traditional grammar
,
transformational grammar
,
transformational linguistics
,
umlaut
defer
collapse
related words >
accede
,
accede to
,
accommodate
,
acquiesce
,
adapt
,
adjourn
,
adjust
,
agree
,
agree to
,
assent
,
block
,
bow
,
bow to
,
capitulate
,
cave
,
comply with
,
conform
,
continue
,
cringe
,
defer to
,
delay
,
detain
,
drag out
,
extend
,
fawn
,
hang fire
,
hang up
,
hinder
,
hold off
,
hold over
,
hold up
,
impede
,
intermit
,
knuckle
,
knuckle under
,
lay aside
,
lay by
,
lay over
,
lengthen
,
obstruct
,
pigeonhole
,
postpone
,
prolong
,
prorogate
,
prorogue
,
protract
,
push aside
,
put aside
,
put off
,
put on ice
,
put over
,
recess
,
remit
,
reserve
,
retard
,
set aside
,
set by
,
shelve
,
shift off
,
sleep on
,
slow
,
stall
,
stand over
,
stave off
,
stay
,
stretch out
,
submit
,
submit to
,
succumb
,
suspend
,
table
,
take a recess
,
truckle
,
waive
,
yield to
typhoon
collapse
a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
related words >
baguio
,
black squall
,
blizzard
,
blow
,
cyclone
,
dirty weather
,
dust devil
,
equinoctial
,
foul weather
,
gale
,
half a gale
,
heavy blow
,
hurricane
,
ill wind
,
line squall
,
line storm
,
rainspout
,
rainstorm
,
rotary storm
,
rough weather
,
sand column
,
sandspout
,
snowstorm
,
squall
,
squall line
,
storm
,
storm wind
,
stormy weather
,
stormy winds
,
strong wind
,
tempest
,
tempestuous rage
,
tempestuous wind
,
thick squall
,
thundersquall
,
thunderstorm
,
tornado
,
tropical
,
tropical cyclone
,
twister
,
ugly wind
,
violent blow
,
waterspout
,
whirlblast
,
whirlwind
,
white squall
,
whole gale
,
williwaw
,
wind eddy
,
wind-shift line
,
windstorm
ruse
collapse
a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
related words >
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
bag of tricks
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bosey
,
catch
,
chicanery
,
chouse
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
coup
,
craft
,
curve
,
curve-ball
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
deception
,
design
,
device
,
dirty deal
,
dirty trick
,
dodge
,
expedient
,
fakement
,
fast deal
,
feint
,
fetch
,
ficelle
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
googly
,
grift
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
imposture
,
intrigue
,
jig
,
joker
,
juggle
,
jugglery
,
knavery
,
little game
,
maneuver
,
move
,
pass
,
plot
,
ploy
,
pretext
,
racket
,
red herring
,
scheme
,
scurvy trick
,
shift
,
sleight
,
sleight of hand
,
sleight-of-hand trick
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
subterfuge
,
tactic
,
trick
,
trickery
,
wile
,
wily device
vary
collapse
make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu"
be subject to change in accordance with a variable; "Prices vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather"
related words >
accommodate
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
agree to disagree
,
alter
,
alternate
,
ameliorate
,
analyze
,
anatomize
,
atomize
,
back and fill
,
be at cross-purposes
,
be changed
,
be converted into
,
be distinct
,
be distinguished
,
be renewed
,
bear off
,
bend
,
better
,
bottom out
,
branch off
,
break
,
break off
,
break up
,
camouflage
,
change
,
change the bearing
,
checker
,
chop
,
chop and change
,
chop logic
,
clash
,
clash with
,
collide
,
come about
,
come around
,
come round
,
conflict
,
conflict with
,
contradict
,
contrast with
,
convert
,
counter
,
curve
,
deform
,
degenerate
,
denature
,
depart
,
depart from
,
desynonymize
,
deteriorate
,
detour
,
deviate
,
deviate from
,
differ
,
difference
,
differentiate
,
digress
,
disaccord
,
disaccord with
,
disagree
,
disagree with
,
discord
,
discriminate
,
disequalize
,
disguise
,
disjoin
,
dissent
,
dissimilate
,
distinguish
,
disunify
,
dither
,
divagate
,
divaricate
,
divaricate from
,
diverge
,
diverge from
,
diversify
,
divide
,
ebb and flow
,
equivocate
,
extend
,
fit
,
flop
,
flounder
,
fluctuate
,
go
,
go through phases
,
haul around
,
heel
,
improve
,
individualize
,
individuate
,
intermit
,
jangle
,
jar
,
jar with
,
jibe
,
jostle
,
lack regularity
,
make a distinction
,
mark
,
mark off
,
mark out
,
meliorate
,
mismatch
,
mismate
,
mitigate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
negate
,
not accord with
,
not square with
,
object
,
oscillate
,
overthrow
,
part
,
particularize
,
pendulate
,
personalize
,
qualify
,
re-create
,
realign
,
rebuild
,
reconstruct
,
redesign
,
refashion
,
refine a distinction
,
refit
,
reform
,
relieve
,
remake
,
remodel
,
renew
,
reorganize
,
reshape
,
restructure
,
revamp
,
revive
,
ring changes
,
ring the changes
,
run
,
seesaw
,
segregate
,
separate
,
set apart
,
set off
,
sever
,
severalize
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shift the scene
,
shilly-shally
,
shuffle
,
shuffle the cards
,
specialize
,
split hairs
,
stagger
,
stand apart
,
stand over against
,
subvert
,
sway
,
swerve
,
swing
,
switch
,
tack
,
take a turn
,
teeter
,
teeter-totter
,
tergiversate
,
totter
,
transform
,
trend
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
turn into
,
turn the corner
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
undergo a change
,
vacillate
,
variate
,
variegate
,
veer
,
warp
,
waver
,
wax and wane
,
wobble
,
work a change
,
worsen
resource
collapse
a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed; "the local library is a valuable resource"
the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource"
available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed
related words >
ability
,
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
address
,
adeptness
,
adroitness
,
airmanship
,
answer
,
aptitude
,
artfulness
,
artifice
,
artisanship
,
artistry
,
assets
,
available means
,
backlog
,
balance
,
bonanza
,
bravura
,
brilliance
,
cache
,
capability
,
capacity
,
capital
,
capital goods
,
capitalization
,
cash
,
cleverness
,
command
,
competence
,
contraption
,
contrivance
,
control
,
coordination
,
cornucopia
,
countermove
,
coup
,
course of action
,
craft
,
craftsmanship
,
creation
,
cunning
,
deftness
,
demarche
,
dernier ressort
,
device
,
dexterity
,
dexterousness
,
dextrousness
,
diplomacy
,
dodge
,
efficiency
,
effort
,
expediency
,
expedient
,
expertise
,
facility
,
fashion
,
finesse
,
font
,
forte
,
fortune
,
fount
,
fountain
,
fund
,
funds
,
gimmick
,
gold mine
,
grace
,
grip
,
grist
,
gumption
,
guts
,
handiness
,
holdings
,
hope
,
horsemanship
,
imagination
,
imaginativeness
,
improvisation
,
ingeniousness
,
ingenuity
,
initiative
,
invention
,
inventiveness
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
know-how
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
liquid assets
,
lode
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
manner
,
marksmanship
,
mastership
,
mastery
,
mean
,
means
,
measure
,
method
,
mine
,
mode
,
money
,
move
,
nest egg
,
opportunity
,
pis aller
,
possessions
,
possibility
,
practical ability
,
proficiency
,
property
,
prowess
,
quality
,
quarry
,
quick-wittedness
,
quickness
,
readiness
,
recourse
,
refuge
,
relief
,
reserve
,
reserve fund
,
reserve supply
,
reserves
,
reservoir
,
resort
,
resourcefulness
,
resources
,
riches
,
savings
,
savoir-faire
,
savvy
,
seamanship
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
sinking fund
,
skill
,
skillfulness
,
solution
,
something in reserve
,
source
,
source of supply
,
spring
,
staple
,
step
,
stockpile
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
strength
,
string
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
style
,
substance
,
substitute
,
subterfuge
,
supply
,
surrogate
,
system
,
tact
,
tactfulness
,
tactic
,
talent
,
technical brilliance
,
technical mastery
,
technical skill
,
technique
,
temporary expedient
,
timing
,
trick
,
trump
,
unexpended balance
,
vein
,
virtuosity
,
way
,
wealth
,
well
,
wellspring
,
wit
,
wizardry
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
,
workmanship
,
worth
swerving
collapse
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberrant
,
aberration
,
aberrative
,
bend
,
bias
,
branching off
,
circuitous
,
circuitousness
,
corner
,
crook
,
curve
,
declination
,
departing
,
departure
,
desultory
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviant
,
deviating
,
deviation
,
deviative
,
deviatory
,
devious
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
digressive
,
discursion
,
discursive
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
errant
,
errantry
,
erratic
,
excursion
,
excursive
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
hairpin
,
indirect
,
indirection
,
labyrinthine
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
obliquity
,
out-of-the-way
,
pererration
,
planetary
,
rambling
,
roving
,
serpentine
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
slant
,
snaky
,
stray
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swinging
,
tack
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
twisting
,
undirected
,
vagrant
,
variation
,
veer
,
veering
,
wandering
,
warp
,
winding
,
yaw
,
zigzag
expedient
collapse
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
related words >
action
,
ad hoc measure
,
advantageous
,
advisable
,
agency
,
answer
,
applicable
,
appropriate
,
apropos
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artifice
,
auspicious
,
banausic
,
becoming
,
befitting
,
behind-the-scenes influence
,
beneficial
,
benevolent
,
blind
,
bon
,
bonny
,
braw
,
bueno
,
capital
,
chicanery
,
cogent
,
commendable
,
commodious
,
congruous
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
convenient
,
correct
,
countermove
,
coup
,
course of action
,
craft
,
cute trick
,
deceit
,
decent
,
demarche
,
dernier ressort
,
design
,
desirable
,
device
,
devices
,
dodge
,
effective
,
effort
,
elegant
,
employable
,
estimable
,
excellent
,
expediency
,
expedients
,
fair
,
fakement
,
famous
,
favorable
,
feasible
,
feint
,
felicitous
,
fetch
,
fine
,
fit
,
fitten
,
fitting
,
fortunate
,
fructuous
,
functional
,
gambit
,
game
,
gimmick
,
going between
,
good
,
good for
,
goodly
,
grand
,
grift
,
happy
,
healthy
,
helpful
,
hope
,
improvisation
,
influence
,
instrument
,
instrumentality
,
intermediation
,
intrigue
,
judicious
,
jugglery
,
jury-rig
,
jury-rigged expedient
,
kind
,
knavery
,
last expedient
,
last resort
,
last shift
,
laudable
,
likely
,
little game
,
lucky
,
machination
,
machinery
,
makeshift
,
maneuver
,
maneuvering
,
maneuvers
,
manipulation
,
means
,
measure
,
mechanism
,
mediation
,
medium
,
meet
,
move
,
nice
,
noble
,
of general utility
,
of help
,
of service
,
of use
,
opportune
,
pertinent
,
pis aller
,
pleasant
,
plot
,
ploy
,
politic
,
political influence
,
possible
,
practicable
,
practical
,
pragmatic
,
pragmatical
,
profitable
,
proper
,
propitious
,
providential
,
prudent
,
racket
,
recommendable
,
recommended
,
recourse
,
red herring
,
refuge
,
regal
,
resort
,
resource
,
right
,
ripe
,
royal
,
ruse
,
scheme
,
seasonable
,
seemly
,
service
,
serviceable
,
shake-up
,
shift
,
skillful
,
sleight
,
solution
,
sortable
,
sound
,
splendid
,
step
,
stopgap
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
stroke
,
stroke of policy
,
substitute
,
subterfuge
,
suitable
,
tactic
,
tactical
,
tactical maneuvers
,
tactics
,
temporary expedient
,
timely
,
to be desired
,
trick
,
trickery
,
trump
,
useful
,
utilitarian
,
valid
,
very good
,
virtuous
,
well-timed
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wire-pulling
,
wise
,
working hypothesis
,
working proposition
,
worthwhile
discursion
collapse
related words >
Wanderjahr
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
afoot and lighthearted
,
aside
,
bend
,
bias
,
branching off
,
bumming
,
bypath
,
byway
,
circuitousness
,
corner
,
crook
,
curve
,
declination
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
episode
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
flitting
,
gadding
,
hairpin
,
hoboism
,
indirection
,
itineracy
,
itinerancy
,
nomadism
,
obliquity
,
parenthesis
,
peregrination
,
pererration
,
ramble
,
rambling
,
roam
,
roaming
,
rove
,
roving
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
side path
,
side road
,
sidetrack
,
skew
,
slant
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
tack
,
traipsing
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
vagabondage
,
vagabondia
,
vagabondism
,
vagrancy
,
variation
,
veer
,
wandering
,
wayfaring
,
yaw
,
zigzag
ripen
collapse
grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"
cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"
related words >
advance
,
age
,
alter into
,
attain majority
,
be converted into
,
bear fruit
,
beautify
,
become
,
better
,
bloom
,
blossom
,
blow
,
bring to maturity
,
change into
,
come of age
,
come round to
,
come to fruition
,
come to maturity
,
complete
,
crown
,
culminate
,
cultivate
,
develop
,
do to perfection
,
elaborate
,
embellish
,
enhance
,
evolute
,
evolve
,
evolve into
,
fall into
,
fester
,
finish
,
fledge
,
flourish
,
flower
,
grow
,
grow up
,
heighten
,
improve
,
intensify
,
lapse into
,
leave the nest
,
matter
,
maturate
,
mature
,
mellow
,
melt into
,
open into
,
pass into
,
perfect
,
polish
,
progress
,
rankle
,
reach its season
,
reach manhood
,
reach maturity
,
reach twenty-one
,
reach voting age
,
refine
,
ripe
,
ripen into
,
run
,
run into
,
season
,
settle down
,
settle into
,
shift into
,
suppurate
,
temper
,
toga virilis
,
turn into
,
turn to
,
wax
,
weep
reconstruct
collapse
cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"
related words >
accommodate
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
better
,
break up
,
change
,
convert
,
copy
,
deform
,
denature
,
diversify
,
do over
,
do up
,
doctor
,
duplicate
,
fit
,
fix
,
improve
,
make over
,
meliorate
,
mitigate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
overhaul
,
overthrow
,
patch
,
qualify
,
re-create
,
re-form
,
readjust
,
realign
,
rearrange
,
reassemble
,
rebuild
,
reclaim
,
recondition
,
reconstitute
,
recover
,
redesign
,
redo
,
reestablish
,
refabricate
,
refashion
,
refit
,
reform
,
refound
,
regenerate
,
rehabilitate
,
reinstitute
,
reissue
,
rejuvenate
,
remake
,
remodel
,
renew
,
renovate
,
reorder
,
reorganize
,
repair
,
repeat
,
reprint
,
reproduce
,
reshape
,
reshuffle
,
restitute
,
restore
,
restructure
,
resurrect
,
retool
,
revamp
,
revise
,
revive
,
ring the changes
,
shift the scene
,
shuffle the cards
,
subvert
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
vary
,
work a change
,
worsen
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