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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
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
adjust
collapse
adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
make correspondent or conformable; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"
decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
related words >
abate
,
accept
,
acclimate
,
acclimatize
,
accommodate
,
accommodate with
,
accord
,
accustom
,
adapt
,
adapt to
,
addict
,
adjust
,
adjust to
,
agree with
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
arbitrate
,
arrange
,
arrange matters
,
assimilate
,
assimilate to
,
assuage
,
attune
,
balance
,
be guided by
,
bend
,
better
,
box in
,
break
,
break in
,
break up
,
bring to terms
,
bring together
,
bulk
,
button up
,
cancel
,
capacitate
,
case harden
,
change
,
chart
,
chime in with
,
circumscribe
,
close
,
close up
,
close with
,
codify
,
compensate
,
comply
,
comply with
,
compose
,
compound
,
compromise
,
conclude
,
condition
,
condone
,
confirm
,
conform
,
convert
,
coordinate
,
cop out
,
correct
,
correspond
,
countenance
,
counterbalance
,
counterpoise
,
countervail
,
cut to
,
deform
,
denature
,
diminish
,
discipline
,
diversify
,
domesticate
,
domesticize
,
duck responsibility
,
enable
,
enlarge
,
equalize
,
equate
,
equip
,
establish
,
evade responsibility
,
even
,
even up
,
fall in with
,
familiarize
,
fasten up
,
fit
,
fix
,
fix up
,
follow
,
furnish
,
gauge
,
gear to
,
gentle
,
get used to
,
give and take
,
give way
,
go by
,
go fifty-fifty
,
grade
,
graduate
,
grin and abide
,
group
,
habituate
,
harden
,
harmonize
,
heal the breach
,
hedge
,
hedge about
,
homologate
,
homologize
,
housebreak
,
improve
,
integrate
,
inure
,
key to
,
leaven
,
let go by
,
let pass
,
level
,
limit
,
make a deal
,
make an adjustment
,
make concessions
,
make conform
,
make peace
,
make plumb
,
make right
,
make uniform
,
make up
,
match
,
measure
,
mediate
,
meet
,
meet halfway
,
meliorate
,
methodize
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
modify
,
modulate
,
mold
,
mutate
,
narrow
,
naturalize
,
normalize
,
obey
,
observe
,
order
,
organize
,
orient
,
orient the map
,
orientate
,
overlook
,
overthrow
,
palliate
,
patch things up
,
patch up
,
plan
,
play politics
,
poise
,
proportion
,
put in order
,
put in trim
,
put in tune
,
put right
,
put to rights
,
quadrate
,
qualify
,
range
,
rank
,
rationalize
,
re-create
,
reach a compromise
,
realign
,
rearrange
,
rebuild
,
reconcile
,
reconstruct
,
rectify
,
redesign
,
redress
,
reduce
,
refit
,
reform
,
regularize
,
regulate
,
regulate by
,
remake
,
renew
,
reshape
,
resolve
,
restore harmony
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
restructure
,
reunite
,
revamp
,
revive
,
rig
,
right
,
ring the changes
,
rise above
,
routinize
,
rub off corners
,
season
,
set
,
set conditions
,
set limits
,
set right
,
set to rights
,
settle
,
settle differences
,
settle with
,
shape
,
shift the scene
,
shrug
,
shrug it off
,
shuffle the cards
,
similarize
,
size
,
smooth it over
,
soften
,
sort
,
split the difference
,
square
,
stabilize
,
standardize
,
steady
,
straighten
,
straighten out
,
strike a balance
,
strike a bargain
,
submit to
,
subvert
,
suit
,
surrender
,
sync
,
synchronize
,
systematize
,
tailor
,
take the mean
,
take to
,
tally with
,
tame
,
temper
,
train
,
trim
,
trim to
,
true
,
true up
,
tune
,
tune up
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn the tide
,
turn upside down
,
vary
,
weave peace between
,
wont
,
work a change
,
work out
,
worsen
,
yield
,
yield to
,
zip up
atmosphere
collapse
the mass of air surrounding the Earth; "there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere"; "it was exposed to the air"
the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
the weather or climate at some place; "the atmosphere was thick with fog"
a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"
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action
,
aerial
,
aerodynamics
,
aerosphere
,
air
,
ambience
,
ambient
,
anagnorisis
,
angle
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
argument
,
arrangement
,
atmospheric
,
aura
,
background
,
balance
,
biosphere
,
brushwork
,
catastrophe
,
character
,
characteristic
,
characterization
,
climate
,
color
,
complication
,
composition
,
continuity
,
contrivance
,
denouement
,
design
,
development
,
device
,
draftsmanship
,
ecosphere
,
episode
,
fable
,
falling action
,
feel
,
feeling
,
flavor
,
fluid
,
gas
,
gaseous envelope
,
gimmick
,
grouping
,
halogen gas
,
impression
,
incident
,
individuality
,
inert gas
,
lift
,
line
,
local color
,
medium
,
milieu
,
mise-en-scene
,
mood
,
motif
,
movement
,
mythos
,
noosphere
,
note
,
overtone
,
painterliness
,
peculiarity
,
peripeteia
,
perspective
,
plan
,
plot
,
pneumatic
,
pneumatics
,
property
,
quality
,
recognition
,
rising action
,
scheme
,
secondary plot
,
semblance
,
sense
,
shading
,
shadow
,
slant
,
spirit
,
story
,
structure
,
subject
,
subplot
,
suggestion
,
surroundings
,
switch
,
technique
,
thematic development
,
theme
,
tone
,
topic
,
treatment
,
twist
,
undertone
,
values
,
welkin
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
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