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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
responsibility
collapse
a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility"
related words >
accountability
,
accountableness
,
accounting for
,
action
,
agency
,
agentship
,
amenability
,
answerability
,
answerableness
,
application
,
arrogation
,
ascription
,
assignation
,
assignment
,
attachment
,
attribution
,
auspices
,
authority
,
authorization
,
blame
,
bossing
,
brevet
,
burden
,
care
,
charge
,
chargeability
,
commission
,
commissioning
,
commitment
,
conduct
,
connection with
,
consignment
,
credit
,
culpability
,
cure
,
dedication to duty
,
delegated authority
,
delegation
,
dependability
,
deputation
,
derivation from
,
devolution
,
devolvement
,
devotion to duty
,
direction
,
driving
,
duteousness
,
dutifulness
,
duty
,
embassy
,
empowerment
,
entrusting
,
entrustment
,
errand
,
etiology
,
execution
,
executorship
,
exequatur
,
exercise
,
eye
,
factorship
,
faithworthiness
,
fault
,
full power
,
functioning
,
guilt
,
handling
,
honor
,
imputation
,
incorruptibility
,
incumbency
,
intendance
,
inviolability
,
job
,
jurisdiction
,
legation
,
liability
,
license
,
lieutenancy
,
management
,
mandate
,
manipulation
,
mission
,
obligation
,
occupation
,
office
,
onus
,
operancy
,
operation
,
oversight
,
palaetiology
,
performance
,
performing
,
placement
,
plenipotentiary power
,
power of attorney
,
power to act
,
practice
,
procuration
,
proxy
,
purview
,
reference to
,
regency
,
regentship
,
reliability
,
responsibleness
,
role
,
running
,
saddling
,
sense of duty
,
sense of obligation
,
stability
,
steering
,
superintendence
,
supervision
,
sureness
,
surveillance
,
task
,
trust
,
trustability
,
trusteeship
,
trustiness
,
trustworthiness
,
unfalseness
,
unperfidiousness
,
untreacherousness
,
vicarious authority
,
warrant
,
work
,
working
,
workings
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
compose
collapse
put together out of existing material; "compile a list"
write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
related words >
accommodate
,
accommodate with
,
accord
,
adapt
,
adapt to
,
adjust
,
adjust to
,
admix
,
agree with
,
align
,
allay
,
allocate
,
allot
,
alloy
,
amalgamate
,
appease
,
apportion
,
arrange
,
arrange matters
,
array
,
assemble
,
assimilate to
,
author
,
balm
,
be guided by
,
becalm
,
bemingle
,
bend
,
blend
,
bottle up
,
brew
,
bring to terms
,
bring together
,
build
,
build up
,
calm
,
calm down
,
cast
,
check
,
chime in with
,
close
,
close with
,
coalesce
,
coauthor
,
collaborate
,
collect
,
collocate
,
combine
,
comfort
,
commingle
,
commix
,
comply
,
comply with
,
compose oneself
,
compound
,
comprise
,
compromise
,
conclude
,
concoct
,
conform
,
conglomerate
,
consist in
,
consist of
,
console
,
constitute
,
construct
,
contain
,
contrive
,
control
,
cool
,
cop out
,
correct
,
correspond
,
cradle
,
create
,
dash off
,
deal
,
deal out
,
decoct
,
devise
,
discipline
,
dispose
,
distribute
,
down
,
dream up
,
duck responsibility
,
dulcify
,
ease
,
ease up
,
editorialize
,
elaborate
,
embody
,
emulsify
,
enter into
,
erect
,
evade responsibility
,
even out
,
evolve
,
extrude
,
fabricate
,
fall in with
,
fashion
,
fit
,
fix
,
fix up
,
follow
,
form
,
formulate
,
frame
,
free-lance
,
fudge together
,
fuse
,
gear to
,
gentle
,
get up
,
ghost
,
ghostwrite
,
give and take
,
give way
,
go by
,
go fifty-fifty
,
go into
,
harmonize
,
hash
,
heal the breach
,
hold in
,
homogenize
,
hush
,
imagine
,
immingle
,
immix
,
impose
,
incorporate
,
indite
,
instrument
,
instrumentate
,
integrate
,
interblend
,
interlace
,
interlard
,
intermingle
,
intermix
,
intertwine
,
interweave
,
invent
,
join
,
jumble
,
justify
,
knead
,
knock off
,
knock out
,
lessen
,
let up
,
line
,
line up
,
lull
,
make
,
make a deal
,
make an adaptation
,
make an adjustment
,
make concessions
,
make conform
,
make one easy
,
make up
,
manufacture
,
marshal
,
mature
,
mediate
,
meet
,
meet halfway
,
melodize
,
merge
,
merge in
,
mingle
,
mingle-mangle
,
mitigate
,
mix
,
mix up
,
moderate
,
modulate
,
mold
,
mollify
,
musicalize
,
novelize
,
observe
,
orchestrate
,
organize
,
originate
,
overrun
,
pacify
,
pamphleteer
,
parcel out
,
patch things up
,
patch together
,
pi
,
pi a form
,
piece together
,
place
,
play politics
,
pocket
,
pour balm into
,
prefabricate
,
prepare
,
produce
,
put in tune
,
put to music
,
put together
,
put up
,
quell
,
quiet
,
quiet down
,
raise
,
rally
,
range
,
reach a compromise
,
rear
,
reconcile
,
rectify
,
regiment
,
rein
,
relax
,
repress
,
resolve
,
rest
,
restore harmony
,
restrain
,
reunite
,
rock
,
rock to sleep
,
rub off corners
,
run up
,
scenarize
,
score
,
scramble
,
set
,
set in print
,
set out
,
set to music
,
set up
,
settle
,
settle differences
,
settle with
,
shape
,
shuffle
,
simmer down
,
slacken
,
smooth
,
smooth down
,
smooth it over
,
smooth over
,
smoothen
,
smother
,
soften
,
solace
,
soothe
,
space
,
split the difference
,
stabilize
,
steady
,
still
,
stir up
,
straighten
,
straighten out
,
strike a balance
,
strike a bargain
,
structure
,
subdue
,
suit
,
suppress
,
surrender
,
syncretize
,
synthesize
,
take the mean
,
tally with
,
temper
,
think up
,
throw on paper
,
throw together
,
toss together
,
tranquilize
,
transcribe
,
transpose
,
tune down
,
unite in
,
weave peace between
,
whomp up
,
work
,
work out
,
write
,
yield
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
oversight
collapse
a mistake resulting from inattention
an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
related words >
accountability
,
administration
,
aegis
,
auspices
,
balk
,
bevue
,
blank
,
blunder
,
bossing
,
care
,
carelessness
,
charge
,
chasm
,
check
,
civil government
,
conduct
,
control
,
culpa
,
culpable negligence
,
cure
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
default
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
direction
,
discipline
,
disconformity
,
dispensation
,
disposition
,
disregard
,
empery
,
empire
,
error
,
eye
,
failure
,
false move
,
false step
,
fault
,
form of government
,
governance
,
government
,
guard
,
guardianship
,
guidance
,
handling
,
hands
,
heedlessness
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inobservance
,
intendance
,
jurisdiction
,
keeping
,
laches
,
laissez-faire
,
lapse
,
lapsus calami
,
lapsus linguae
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
loose thread
,
looseness
,
maintenance
,
management
,
ministry
,
miscue
,
misstep
,
mistake
,
neglect
,
neglectfulness
,
negligence
,
nonadherence
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformity
,
nonfeasance
,
nonfulfillment
,
noninterference
,
nonobservance
,
nonperformance
,
nonrestriction
,
omission
,
overlook
,
overlooking
,
pastorage
,
pastorate
,
pastorship
,
patronage
,
permissiveness
,
political organization
,
polity
,
poor stewardship
,
preterition
,
procrastination
,
protection
,
protectorship
,
regime
,
regimen
,
regnancy
,
regulation
,
reign
,
remissness
,
responsibility
,
rule
,
running
,
safe hands
,
skip
,
slackness
,
slight
,
slip
,
slipup
,
sovereignty
,
stewardship
,
stumble
,
superintendence
,
superintendency
,
supervision
,
surveillance
,
sway
,
system of government
,
trip
,
tutelage
,
unobservance
,
unrigorousness
,
ward
,
wardenship
,
wardship
,
watch and ward
,
wing
,
wrong step
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
embassy
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a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work
an ambassador and his entourage collectively
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Dymaxion house
,
White House
,
adobe house
,
advice
,
agency
,
agentship
,
assignment
,
authority
,
authorization
,
booking office
,
box office
,
branch
,
branch office
,
brevet
,
building
,
cabinet
,
care
,
casa
,
chambers
,
chancellery
,
chancery
,
charge
,
cliff dwelling
,
closet
,
commission
,
commissioning
,
commitment
,
communication
,
communique
,
consignment
,
consular service
,
consulate
,
corporate headquarters
,
corps diplomatique
,
country house
,
country seat
,
cure
,
dacha
,
deanery
,
delegated authority
,
delegation
,
den
,
deputation
,
devolution
,
devolvement
,
diplomatic mission
,
diplomatic service
,
diplomatic staff
,
dispatch
,
dwelling house
,
edifice
,
empowerment
,
entrusting
,
entrustment
,
erection
,
errand
,
executive office
,
executorship
,
exequatur
,
express
,
fabric
,
factorship
,
farm
,
farmhouse
,
foreign office
,
foreign service
,
full power
,
hall
,
headquarters
,
home office
,
house
,
houseboat
,
jurisdiction
,
lake dwelling
,
legation
,
letter
,
license
,
lieutenancy
,
living machine
,
lodge
,
main office
,
mandate
,
manor house
,
manse
,
message
,
mission
,
office
,
parsonage
,
penthouse
,
plenipotentiary power
,
pneumatogram
,
power of attorney
,
power to act
,
prefabricated house
,
presidential palace
,
procuration
,
proxy
,
purview
,
ranch house
,
rectory
,
regency
,
regentship
,
release
,
responsibility
,
roof
,
shop
,
skyscraper
,
sod house
,
split-level
,
structure
,
study
,
task
,
telegram
,
ticket office
,
town house
,
trust
,
trusteeship
,
vicarage
,
vicarious authority
,
warrant
,
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