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lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
related words >
bankrupt
,
beat
,
beggared
,
broken
,
busted
,
dead
,
destitute
,
down-and-out
,
failed
,
flat
,
flat broke
,
hard up
,
impoverished
,
in receivership
,
indigent
,
insolvent
,
needy
,
on the rocks
,
on the skids
,
oofless
,
penniless
,
penurious
,
poor
,
poverty-stricken
,
ruined
,
short
,
stone-broke
,
stony
,
strapped
,
up against it
tight lipped
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related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
untalkative
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related words >
brief
,
brusque
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
concise
,
curt
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
quiet
,
short
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight-lipped
,
tongue-tied
,
unloquacious
,
word-bound
,
wordless
unperfected
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related words >
adulterated
,
blemished
,
damaged
,
defective
,
deficient
,
erroneous
,
fallible
,
faulty
,
found wanting
,
immature
,
impaired
,
imperfect
,
imprecise
,
impure
,
inaccurate
,
inadequate
,
incomplete
,
inexact
,
lacking
,
makeshift
,
mediocre
,
mixed
,
not perfect
,
off
,
partial
,
patchy
,
short
,
sketchy
,
undeveloped
,
uneven
,
unfinished
,
unsound
,
unthorough
,
wanting
shorten
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become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
related words >
abate
,
abbreviate
,
abrade
,
abridge
,
abstract
,
bate
,
be telegraphic
,
bob
,
bobtail
,
boil down
,
brief
,
capsule
,
capsulize
,
circumscribe
,
clip
,
coarct
,
compact
,
compress
,
concentrate
,
condense
,
consolidate
,
constrict
,
constringe
,
contract
,
cramp
,
crop
,
curtail
,
cut
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut off short
,
cut short
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decrease
,
deduct
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
depress
,
derogate
,
detract
,
digest
,
diminish
,
disparage
,
dock
,
downgrade
,
drain
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw together
,
eat away
,
elide
,
epitomize
,
erode
,
excerpt
,
extract
,
file away
,
foreshorten
,
hem
,
impair
,
knit
,
leach
,
lessen
,
lower
,
minify
,
minimize
,
mow
,
narrow
,
nip
,
nutshell
,
outline
,
pare
,
poll
,
pollard
,
prune
,
pucker
,
pucker up
,
purify
,
purse
,
reap
,
recap
,
recapitulate
,
reduce
,
refine
,
remove
,
retrench
,
roll back
,
rub away
,
scale down
,
shave
,
shear
,
shrink
,
simplify
,
sketch
,
sketch out
,
slash
,
snub
,
solidify
,
step down
,
strangle
,
strangulate
,
stunt
,
subduct
,
subtract
,
sum up
,
summarize
,
synopsize
,
take away
,
take from
,
take in
,
telescope
,
thin
,
thin out
,
trim
,
truncate
,
tune down
,
waste no words
,
wear away
,
weed
,
withdraw
,
wrinkle
diptych
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a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
related words >
Domesday Book
,
abstract
,
abstraction
,
account book
,
address book
,
adversaria
,
album
,
altarpiece
,
annual
,
appointment calendar
,
appointment schedule
,
blankbook
,
block print
,
blotter
,
calendar
,
cashbook
,
catalog
,
classified catalog
,
collage
,
color print
,
commonplace book
,
copy
,
court calendar
,
cyclorama
,
daub
,
daybook
,
desk calendar
,
diary
,
docket
,
engagement book
,
engraving
,
fresco
,
icon
,
illumination
,
illustration
,
image
,
journal
,
ledger
,
likeness
,
log
,
logbook
,
loose-leaf notebook
,
memo book
,
memorandum book
,
memory book
,
miniature
,
montage
,
mosaic
,
mural
,
notebook
,
pad
,
panorama
,
petty cashbook
,
photograph
,
picture
,
pocket notebook
,
pocketbook
,
police blotter
,
print
,
representation
,
reproduction
,
scrapbook
,
scratch pad
,
spiral notebook
,
stained glass window
,
stencil
,
still life
,
table
,
tableau
,
tablet
,
tapestry
,
triptych
,
wall painting
,
workbook
,
writing tablet
,
yearbook
butchered
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related words >
botched
,
bungled
,
castrated
,
cut short
,
docked
,
fumbled
,
garbled
,
hashed
,
ill-advised
,
ill-considered
,
ill-contrived
,
ill-devised
,
ill-done
,
ill-executed
,
ill-managed
,
impolitic
,
lopped
,
mangled
,
misconducted
,
misdirected
,
misguided
,
mismanaged
,
muffed
,
murdered
,
mutilated
,
negligent
,
spoiled
,
truncated
operate
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happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
related words >
act
,
angle
,
be caught short
,
be effective
,
be in action
,
be responsible for
,
be short
,
behave
,
belong
,
brew
,
bucket
,
bucketshop
,
cabal
,
carry on
,
carry out
,
carry through
,
chart a course
,
collude
,
complot
,
concoct
,
cond
,
conduct
,
conn
,
connive
,
conspire
,
control
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
coxswain
,
cut
,
deal with
,
deposit margin
,
direct
,
do with
,
drive
,
employ
,
engineer
,
exercise
,
exert
,
finagle
,
finesse
,
frame
,
frame up
,
function
,
go
,
go long
,
guide
,
handle
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
have effect
,
have free play
,
have play
,
have the conn
,
helm
,
hold on
,
intrigue
,
keep
,
lay a plot
,
machinate
,
make
,
make a killing
,
make a scoop
,
make go
,
make use of
,
manage
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
margin up
,
militate
,
miss the market
,
move
,
navigate
,
open up
,
ordain
,
overstay the market
,
percolate
,
perform
,
perform on
,
perk
,
pilot
,
play
,
play the market
,
plot
,
plunge
,
ply
,
practice
,
proceed
,
pyramid
,
react
,
rig
,
run
,
scalp
,
scheme
,
scoop the market
,
see to
,
serve
,
shape a course
,
speculate
,
stag
,
stag the market
,
steer
,
take
,
take a flier
,
take care of
,
take effect
,
tick
,
trade on margin
,
use
,
utilize
,
venture
,
wangle
,
wield
,
work
commemoration
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a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
related words >
anniversaries
,
anniversary
,
annual holiday
,
bicentenary
,
bicentennial
,
biennial
,
birthday
,
bissextile day
,
celebrating
,
celebration
,
centenary
,
centennial
,
ceremony
,
decennial
,
diamond jubilee
,
dressing ship
,
fanfare
,
fanfaronade
,
favor
,
festivity
,
flourish of trumpets
,
golden wedding anniversary
,
holiday
,
holy days
,
immovable feast
,
jubilee
,
keepsake
,
leap year
,
marking the occasion
,
memento
,
memento mori
,
memorabilia
,
memorial
,
memorialization
,
memorials
,
memories
,
memory
,
name day
,
natal day
,
observance
,
octennial
,
ovation
,
quadrennial
,
quasquicentennial
,
quincentenary
,
quincentennial
,
quinquennial
,
rejoicing
,
relic
,
religious rites
,
remembrance
,
remembrancer
,
revel
,
rite
,
ritual observance
,
salute
,
salvo
,
septennial
,
sesquicentennial
,
sextennial
,
silver wedding anniversary
,
solemn observance
,
solemnization
,
souvenir
,
tercentenary
,
tercentennial
,
testimonial
,
testimonial banquet
,
testimonial dinner
,
toast
,
token
,
token of remembrance
,
tribute
,
tricennial
,
triennial
,
triumph
,
trophy
,
wedding anniversary
without warning
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related words >
abruptly
,
bang
,
by surprise
,
dash
,
hastily
,
impetuously
,
implausibly
,
improbably
,
impulsively
,
like a flash
,
like a thunderbolt
,
of a sudden
,
on short notice
,
plop
,
plump
,
plunk
,
pop
,
precipitantly
,
precipitately
,
precipitously
,
sharp
,
slap
,
smack
,
startlingly
,
sudden
,
suddenly
,
surprisingly
,
unanticipatedly
,
unawares
,
unexpectedly
,
unforeseeably
,
unpredictably
,
without notice
empty handed
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related words >
bare-handed
,
beggarly
,
famished
,
half-starved
,
ill off
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
impoverished
,
on short commons
,
pauperized
,
poor
,
shorthanded
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
underfed
,
undermanned
,
undernourished
,
unfed
,
unprovided
,
unreplenished
,
unsupplied
unsupplied
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related words >
bare-handed
,
beggarly
,
empty-handed
,
famished
,
half-starved
,
ill off
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
impoverished
,
on short commons
,
pauperized
,
poor
,
shorthanded
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
underfed
,
undermanned
,
undernourished
,
unfed
,
unprovided
,
unreplenished
under
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further down; "see under for further discussion"
down below; "get under quickly!"
below the horizon; "the sun went under"
below some quantity or limit; "fifty dollars or under"
in or into a state of subordination or subjugation; "we must keep our disappointment under"
down to defeat, death, or ruin; "their competitors went under"
into unconsciousness; "this will put the patient under"
through a range downward; "children six and under will be admitted free"
related words >
answerable to
,
at a disadvantage
,
at the nadir
,
below
,
below deck
,
below par
,
below the mark
,
belowstairs
,
beneath
,
collateral
,
dependent
,
down
,
down below
,
downstairs
,
drunk
,
earlier
,
high
,
impaired
,
in the gutter
,
inferior
,
infra
,
least
,
least of all
,
less
,
lesser
,
low
,
lower
,
lowest
,
neath
,
nether
,
out of sight
,
secondary
,
short of
,
sub
,
subjacent
,
subject
,
subordinate to
,
tipsy
,
tributary
,
under par
,
under the influence
,
underfoot
,
underneath
,
underwater
narrator
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someone who tells a story
related words >
anecdotalist
,
anecdotist
,
annalist
,
author
,
chronicler
,
describer
,
fableist
,
fabler
,
fabulist
,
fictionist
,
mythmaker
,
mythopoet
,
novelettist
,
novelist
,
raconteur
,
reciter
,
recounter
,
relator
,
reporter
,
romancer
,
romancist
,
sagaman
,
short-story writer
,
spinner of yarns
,
storier
,
storyteller
,
taleteller
,
teller of tales
,
word painter
,
yarn spinner
cashbook
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related words >
Domesday Book
,
account book
,
accounts payable ledger
,
accounts receivable ledger
,
address book
,
adversaria
,
album
,
annual
,
appointment calendar
,
appointment schedule
,
balance sheet
,
bank ledger
,
bankbook
,
blankbook
,
blotter
,
books
,
calendar
,
card ledger
,
catalog
,
classified catalog
,
commonplace book
,
cost card
,
cost ledger
,
cost sheet
,
court calendar
,
daybook
,
desk calendar
,
diary
,
diptych
,
docket
,
engagement book
,
factory ledger
,
inventory
,
journal
,
ledger
,
log
,
logbook
,
loose-leaf notebook
,
memo book
,
memorandum book
,
memory book
,
notebook
,
pad
,
passbook
,
petty cashbook
,
pocket notebook
,
pocketbook
,
police blotter
,
purchase ledger
,
record book
,
register
,
registry
,
sales journal
,
sales ledger
,
scrapbook
,
scratch pad
,
spiral notebook
,
stock ledger
,
stores ledger
,
suspense ledger
,
table
,
tablet
,
triptych
,
workbook
,
writing tablet
,
yearbook
one horse
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related words >
cramped
,
dinky
,
exiguous
,
half-pint
,
jerkwater
,
knee-high
,
limited
,
little
,
measly
,
niggling
,
petite
,
pettifogging
,
petty
,
picayune
,
picayunish
,
piddling
,
piffling
,
pindling
,
pint-sized
,
poky
,
punk
,
puny
,
short
,
slight
,
small
,
small-beer
,
small-time
,
smallish
,
tinhorn
,
two-bit
,
two-by-four
pounce upon
collapse
related words >
ambush
,
appear unexpectedly
,
assail
,
assault
,
astonish
,
attack
,
be unexpected
,
blitz
,
bob up
,
bounce
,
bound
,
buck
,
buckjump
,
bushwhack
,
capriole
,
catch at
,
catch off-guard
,
catch unawares
,
clear
,
come at
,
come down on
,
come from behind
,
come unawares
,
come upon
,
come upon unexpectedly
,
crack down on
,
creep up on
,
curvet
,
descend on
,
descend upon
,
dive
,
do the unexpected
,
drop
,
drop in on
,
fall
,
fall on
,
fall upon
,
fasten upon
,
flash upon one
,
gang up on
,
go at
,
go for
,
harry
,
have at
,
hippety-hop
,
hit
,
hit like lightning
,
hop
,
hurdle
,
jump
,
jump at
,
jump over
,
land on
,
lay at
,
lay hands on
,
lay into
,
leap
,
leap over
,
leapfrog
,
light into
,
mug
,
negotiate
,
nose-dive
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overskip
,
parachute
,
pitch
,
pitch into
,
plop
,
plummet
,
plump
,
plunge
,
plunk
,
pop up
,
pounce
,
pounce on
,
pound
,
pull up short
,
sail into
,
scramble for
,
seize on
,
set on
,
set upon
,
ski jump
,
skin-dive
,
skip
,
sky-dive
,
snap at
,
snatch at
,
sound
,
spring
,
spring a surprise
,
spring upon
,
start
,
start aside
,
start up
,
steeplechase
,
stoop
,
strike
,
surprise
,
swoop
,
swoop down
,
swoop down on
,
swoop down upon
,
take a header
,
take by surprise
,
take short
,
take the offensive
,
take unawares
,
turn up
,
updive
,
upleap
,
upspring
,
vault
,
wade into
out of luck
collapse
related words >
badly off
,
depressed
,
dire
,
donsie
,
doomful
,
evil-starred
,
fatal
,
fortuneless
,
funest
,
hapless
,
ill off
,
ill-starred
,
in adverse circumstances
,
inauspicious
,
luckless
,
ominous
,
planet-struck
,
sad
,
short of luck
,
star-crossed
,
unblessed
,
underprivileged
,
unfortunate
,
unhappy
,
unlucky
,
unprosperous
,
unprovidential
unprovidential
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related words >
badly off
,
depressed
,
dire
,
donsie
,
doomful
,
evil-starred
,
fatal
,
fortuneless
,
funest
,
hapless
,
ill off
,
ill-starred
,
in adverse circumstances
,
inauspicious
,
luckless
,
ominous
,
out of luck
,
planet-struck
,
sad
,
short of luck
,
star-crossed
,
unblessed
,
underprivileged
,
unfortunate
,
unhappy
,
unlucky
,
unprosperous
star crossed
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related words >
badly off
,
depressed
,
dire
,
donsie
,
doomful
,
evil-starred
,
fatal
,
fortuneless
,
funest
,
hapless
,
ill off
,
ill-starred
,
in adverse circumstances
,
inauspicious
,
luckless
,
ominous
,
out of luck
,
planet-struck
,
sad
,
short of luck
,
unblessed
,
underprivileged
,
unfortunate
,
unhappy
,
unlucky
,
unprosperous
,
unprovidential
yearbook
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a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students
related words >
Domesday Book
,
account
,
account book
,
account rendered
,
accounting
,
acta
,
address book
,
adversaria
,
album
,
annual
,
appointment calendar
,
appointment schedule
,
bimonthly
,
biweekly
,
blankbook
,
blotter
,
brief
,
bulletin
,
calendar
,
cashbook
,
catalog
,
census report
,
classified catalog
,
commonplace book
,
court calendar
,
daily
,
daybook
,
desk calendar
,
diary
,
diptych
,
docket
,
election returns
,
engagement book
,
ephemeris
,
fortnightly
,
gazette
,
journal
,
ledger
,
log
,
logbook
,
loose-leaf notebook
,
magazine
,
memo book
,
memorandum book
,
memory book
,
minutes
,
monthly
,
newsmagazine
,
notebook
,
organ
,
pad
,
periodical
,
petty cashbook
,
pictorial
,
pocket notebook
,
pocketbook
,
police blotter
,
proceedings
,
quarterly
,
report
,
returns
,
review
,
scrapbook
,
scratch pad
,
serial
,
slick magazine
,
spiral notebook
,
statement
,
table
,
tablet
,
tally
,
the record
,
trade magazine
,
transactions
,
triptych
,
weekly
,
workbook
,
writing tablet
concept
collapse
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
related words >
Vorstellung
,
apprehension
,
assumption
,
attitude
,
climate of opinion
,
common belief
,
community sentiment
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conclusion
,
consensus gentium
,
consideration
,
eidetic image
,
envisaging
,
envisioning
,
estimate
,
estimation
,
ethos
,
eye
,
fancy
,
feeling
,
general belief
,
idea
,
image
,
imagery
,
imagery study
,
imaging
,
imagism
,
imagistic poetry
,
imago
,
impression
,
intellection
,
intellectual object
,
judgment
,
lifelike image
,
lights
,
memory-trace
,
mental image
,
mental impression
,
mental picture
,
mental representation
,
mind
,
mystique
,
notion
,
objectification
,
observation
,
opinion
,
perception
,
personal judgment
,
picture
,
picturing
,
poetic imagery
,
point of view
,
popular belief
,
position
,
posture
,
presumption
,
prevailing belief
,
public belief
,
public opinion
,
reaction
,
recept
,
reflection
,
representation
,
sentiment
,
sight
,
stance
,
supposition
,
theory
,
thinking
,
thought
,
view
,
vision
,
visual image
,
visualization
,
way of thinking
,
word-painting
step up
collapse
related words >
accelerando
,
accelerate
,
acceleration
,
accost
,
advance
,
aggravate
,
aggravation
,
amplify
,
approach
,
appropinquate
,
approximate
,
bear down on
,
bear down upon
,
bear up
,
beef up
,
beefing-up
,
blow up
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
charge
,
close
,
close in
,
close with
,
come
,
come closer
,
come forward
,
come near
,
come on
,
come up
,
complicate
,
concentrate
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
condense
,
confront
,
consolidate
,
consolidation
,
crack on
,
deepen
,
deepening
,
double
,
draw near
,
draw nigh
,
drive
,
electrify
,
encounter
,
energize
,
enhance
,
enhancement
,
exacerbate
,
exacerbation
,
exaggerate
,
exaggeration
,
explosion
,
gain ground
,
gain upon
,
galvanize
,
generate
,
getaway
,
hasten
,
heat up
,
heating-up
,
heighten
,
heightening
,
hop up
,
hot up
,
hurry
,
hurry up
,
impetus
,
information explosion
,
intensification
,
intensify
,
jazz up
,
key up
,
loop in
,
magnification
,
magnify
,
make complex
,
narrow the gap
,
near
,
open the throttle
,
pick up speed
,
pickup
,
plug in
,
population explosion
,
proximate
,
put on
,
put on steam
,
quicken
,
quickening
,
race
,
ramify
,
redouble
,
redoubling
,
reinforce
,
reinforcement
,
rev
,
shake up
,
sharpen
,
shock
,
short
,
short-circuit
,
sidle up to
,
soup up
,
speed up
,
speedup
,
step down
,
step on it
,
stiffen
,
strengthen
,
strengthening
,
switch off
,
switch on
,
thrust
,
tightening
,
triple
,
turn off
,
turn on
,
whet
undermanned
collapse
related words >
bare-handed
,
beggarly
,
empty-handed
,
famished
,
half-starved
,
ill off
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
impoverished
,
on short commons
,
pauperized
,
poor
,
shorthanded
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
underfed
,
underhanded
,
undernourished
,
understaffed
,
unfed
,
unprovided
,
unreplenished
,
unsupplied
unbeautiful
collapse
related words >
beautiless
,
blemished
,
blotted
,
cacophonic
,
cacophonous
,
defaced
,
disfigured
,
dysphemistic
,
dysphemized
,
hideous
,
homely
,
ill-favored
,
ill-looking
,
inelegant
,
marred
,
plain
,
short on looks
,
spoiled
,
uglified
,
ugly
,
ugly as hell
,
ugly as sin
,
unaesthetic
,
unalluring
,
unattractive
,
unbeauteous
,
uncomely
,
unhandsome
,
unlovely
,
unpleasing
,
unpretty
,
unsightly
impoverished
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
ablated
,
abstemious
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
badly off
,
bankrupt
,
bare-handed
,
barren
,
beggared
,
beggarly
,
bereaved
,
bereft
,
burnt up
,
consumed
,
denuded
,
depleted
,
deprived
,
desolate
,
destitute
,
disadvantaged
,
dissipated
,
drained
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
eaten up
,
effete
,
empty
,
empty-handed
,
eroded
,
exhausted
,
exiguous
,
famished
,
finished
,
flat broke
,
fleeced
,
frugal
,
ghettoized
,
gone
,
half-starved
,
ill off
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
impecunious
,
in distress
,
in need
,
in rags
,
in want
,
indigent
,
insolvent
,
jejune
,
lean
,
limited
,
meager
,
mean
,
mendicant
,
miserly
,
narrow
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
niggardly
,
on relief
,
on short commons
,
out at elbows
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
pauperized
,
penurious
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poverty-stricken
,
puny
,
ruined
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
short
,
shorthanded
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
spare
,
sparing
,
spent
,
starvation
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
stone-broke
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
stripped
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
thin
,
underfed
,
undermanned
,
undernourished
,
underprivileged
,
unfed
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
unprovided
,
unreplenished
,
unsupplied
,
up against it
,
used up
,
wasted
,
watered
,
watery
,
wiped out
,
worn away
,
worn-out
unelevated
collapse
related words >
couchant
,
crouched
,
debased
,
depressed
,
flat
,
knee-high
,
knocked flat
,
laid low
,
low
,
low-built
,
low-hung
,
low-level
,
low-leveled
,
low-lying
,
low-set
,
low-statured
,
neap
,
prone
,
recumbent
,
runty
,
short
,
squat
,
squatty
,
stooped
,
stumpy
,
supine
stooped
collapse
related words >
couchant
,
crouched
,
debased
,
depressed
,
flat
,
knee-high
,
knocked flat
,
laid low
,
low
,
low-built
,
low-hung
,
low-level
,
low-leveled
,
low-lying
,
low-set
,
low-statured
,
neap
,
prone
,
recumbent
,
runty
,
short
,
squat
,
squatty
,
stumpy
,
supine
,
unelevated
brief
collapse
a condensed written summary or abstract
a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case
concise and succinct; "covered the matter in a brief statement"
of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"
give essential information to someone; "The reporters were briefed about the President's plan to invade"
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abbreviation
,
abbreviature
,
abrege
,
abridge
,
abridged
,
abridgment
,
abrupt
,
abstract
,
account
,
account rendered
,
accounting
,
acquaint
,
acta
,
advertise
,
advertise of
,
advise
,
advocate
,
airmanship
,
annual
,
aposiopestic
,
apprise
,
bespeak
,
block in
,
block out
,
blunt
,
book
,
breviary
,
briefing
,
briefly
,
bring word
,
brisk
,
brusque
,
bulletin
,
capsule
,
capsulize
,
census report
,
chalk out
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
coach
,
cometary
,
communicate
,
compact
,
compend
,
compendious
,
compendium
,
compressed
,
concise
,
concisely
,
condensation
,
condense
,
condensed
,
condensed version
,
confer
,
conspectus
,
consult with
,
contracted
,
counsel
,
crisp
,
crusty
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
curtal
,
curtate
,
cut
,
debrief
,
decurtate
,
delineate
,
digest
,
direct
,
disclose
,
docked
,
draft
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
election returns
,
elliptic
,
employ
,
engage
,
enlighten
,
ephemeral
,
epigrammatic
,
epitome
,
evanescent
,
explain
,
extract
,
familiarize
,
fill in
,
flashing
,
fleet
,
fleeting
,
flickering
,
flight plan
,
flying lessons
,
fugitive
,
give a briefing
,
give directions
,
give notice
,
give the facts
,
give word
,
gnomic
,
gruff
,
guide
,
head
,
hire
,
in brief
,
in sum
,
in summary
,
indisposed to talk
,
inform
,
instantaneous
,
instruct
,
kibitz
,
laconic
,
leave word
,
let know
,
line
,
little
,
low
,
meddle
,
mention to
,
meteoric
,
minutes
,
momentary
,
mum
,
mute
,
notify
,
nutshell
,
outline
,
overview
,
pandect
,
passing
,
pilot training
,
pilotship
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
precis
,
preengage
,
prescribe
,
proceedings
,
propose
,
pruned
,
quick
,
quiet
,
recommend
,
recruit
,
report
,
reserve
,
reserved
,
resume
,
retain
,
returns
,
review
,
rough
,
rough in
,
rough out
,
rubric
,
run down
,
run through
,
rundown
,
send word
,
sententious
,
serve notice
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-lived
,
short-term
,
short-termed
,
shorten
,
shortened
,
shortened version
,
sign on
,
sign up
,
sign up for
,
silent
,
skeleton
,
sketch
,
sketch out
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speak
,
speechless
,
speedy
,
statement
,
submit
,
succinct
,
succinctly
,
suggest
,
summarize
,
summary
,
survey
,
swift
,
syllabus
,
synopsis
,
synopsize
,
synopsized
,
synoptic
,
taciturn
,
take into employment
,
take on
,
tally
,
tell
,
temporary
,
terse
,
the record
,
thumbnail sketch
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
topical outline
,
trace
,
transactions
,
transient
,
transitory
,
truncated
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
verse
,
washout
,
word-bound
,
wordless
,
yearbook
reserved
collapse
cool and formal in manner
marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West
set aside for the use of a particular person or party
related words >
Olympian
,
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aloof
,
antisocial
,
aposiopestic
,
backward
,
bashful
,
blank
,
brief
,
brusque
,
ceremonious
,
chilled
,
chilly
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-lipped
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
cold
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
conserved
,
constrained
,
contracted
,
controlled
,
conventional
,
cool
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
demure
,
detached
,
diffident
,
dignified
,
discreet
,
distant
,
docked
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
expressionless
,
forbidding
,
formal
,
frigid
,
frosty
,
gnomic
,
guarded
,
held
,
held back
,
held in reserve
,
ice-cold
,
icy
,
impassive
,
impersonal
,
inaccessible
,
incommunicable
,
introverted
,
kept
,
laconic
,
modest
,
modified
,
noncommittal
,
offish
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
poker-faced
,
preserved
,
prim
,
pruned
,
put by
,
quiet
,
remote
,
removed
,
repressed
,
restrained
,
retained
,
reticent
,
retiring
,
rigid
,
saved
,
sedate
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
silent
,
spare
,
standoff
,
standoffish
,
strait-laced
,
subdued
,
succinct
,
summary
,
suppressed
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
tights
,
to the point
,
truncated
,
unaffable
,
unapproachable
,
uncommunicative
,
uncongenial
,
undemonstrative
,
unemotional
,
unexpansive
,
ungenial
,
unresponsive
,
unsocial
,
withdrawn
,
withheld
unhatched
collapse
not yet hatched
related words >
ad-lib
,
caught napping
,
caught off balance
,
caught short
,
extemporaneous
,
extemporized
,
haphazard
,
hasty
,
impromptu
,
improvised
,
makeshift
,
precipitate
,
rough-and-ready
,
snap
,
surprised
,
taken aback
,
taken by surprise
,
taken unawares
,
tripped up
,
unarranged
,
unbegun
,
unconcocted
,
uncontrived
,
undeliberated
,
undevised
,
unmade
,
unmanufactured
,
unorganized
,
unplanned
,
unpremeditated
,
unprepared
,
unprimed
,
unready
,
unstudied
uncontrived
collapse
related words >
ad-lib
,
caught napping
,
caught off balance
,
caught short
,
extemporaneous
,
extemporized
,
haphazard
,
hasty
,
impromptu
,
improvised
,
makeshift
,
precipitate
,
rough-and-ready
,
snap
,
surprised
,
taken aback
,
taken by surprise
,
taken unawares
,
tripped up
,
unarranged
,
unbegun
,
unconcocted
,
undeliberated
,
undevised
,
unhatched
,
unmade
,
unmanufactured
,
unorganized
,
unplanned
,
unpremeditated
,
unprepared
,
unprimed
,
unready
,
unstudied
blackout
collapse
a momentary loss of consciousness
the failure of electric power for a general region
darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
related words >
KO
,
agnosia
,
amnesia
,
anoxia
,
asteroids
,
aurora particles
,
bamboo curtain
,
barrier of secrecy
,
blocking
,
brownout
,
catalepsy
,
catatonia
,
catatony
,
censorship
,
coma
,
cosmic particles
,
cosmic ray bombardment
,
curtain
,
dematerialization
,
departure
,
dimout
,
disappearance
,
disappearing
,
dispersion
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
dissolving
,
eclipse
,
elimination
,
erasure
,
evanescence
,
evaporation
,
extinction
,
fadeaway
,
fadeout
,
fading
,
faint
,
fugue
,
going
,
grayout
,
hush-up
,
intergalactic matter
,
iron curtain
,
ironbound security
,
kayo
,
knockout
,
lipothymia
,
lipothymy
,
loss of memory
,
melting
,
meteor dust impacts
,
meteors
,
nirvana
,
nirvana principle
,
nothingness
,
oath of secrecy
,
oblivion
,
obliviousness
,
occultation
,
official secrecy
,
pall
,
passing
,
pressure suit
,
radiation
,
repression
,
seal of secrecy
,
security
,
semiconsciousness
,
senselessness
,
sleep
,
smothering
,
space bullets
,
stifling
,
stupor
,
suppression
,
swoon
,
syncope
,
the bends
,
unconsciousness
,
vanishing
,
vanishing point
,
veil
,
veil of secrecy
,
weightlessness
,
wipe
,
word deafness
,
wraps
contracted
collapse
reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes"
related words >
Spartan
,
abated
,
abbreviated
,
ablated
,
abridged
,
affianced
,
agreed
,
aposiopestic
,
arranged
,
assured
,
attenuated
,
bated
,
belittled
,
betrothed
,
blank
,
blind
,
blind-alley
,
bound
,
brief
,
brusque
,
cecal
,
choked
,
choked off
,
clamped
,
clipped
,
close
,
closed
,
committed
,
compact
,
compacted
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
compromised
,
concentrated
,
concise
,
condensed
,
consolidated
,
constricted
,
consumed
,
covenanted
,
cramped
,
crisp
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
dead
,
dead-end
,
decreased
,
deflated
,
diminished
,
dissipated
,
docked
,
dropped
,
elliptic
,
engaged
,
epigrammatic
,
eroded
,
fallen
,
gnomic
,
guaranteed
,
intended
,
knitted
,
laconic
,
less
,
lesser
,
lower
,
lowered
,
miniaturized
,
nipped
,
obligated
,
pinched
,
pinched-in
,
pithy
,
pledged
,
plighted
,
pointed
,
promised
,
pruned
,
puckered
,
pursed
,
reduced
,
reserved
,
retrenched
,
scaled-down
,
sealed
,
sententious
,
settled
,
shorn
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
shorter
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
shut
,
signed
,
smaller
,
solidified
,
squeezed
,
squeezed shut
,
stipulated
,
strangled
,
strangulated
,
succinct
,
summary
,
sworn
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
truncated
,
undertaken
,
underwritten
,
unopen
,
unopened
,
unvented
,
unventilated
,
warranted
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered-down
,
weakened
,
worn
,
wrinkled
unfed
collapse
not given support; "a grudge that remained unfed"
not fed
related words >
Lenten
,
bare-handed
,
beggarly
,
empty-handed
,
famished
,
fasting
,
half-starved
,
ill off
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
impoverished
,
on short commons
,
pauperized
,
poor
,
quadragesimal
,
shorthanded
,
starved
,
starveling
,
starving
,
underfed
,
undermanned
,
undernourished
,
uneating
,
unprovided
,
unreplenished
,
unsupplied
immaturity
collapse
not having reached maturity
related words >
adulteration
,
amateurishness
,
amateurism
,
arrestment
,
babyishness
,
brand-newness
,
callowness
,
childishness
,
coarseness
,
crudeness
,
crudity
,
defectibility
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
dewiness
,
erroneousness
,
fallibility
,
faultiness
,
freshness
,
gloss of novelty
,
greenness
,
ignorance
,
immatureness
,
impairment
,
imperfection
,
imprudence
,
impurity
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
inadvisability
,
inattention
,
incompleteness
,
incompletion
,
inconsideration
,
indiscreetness
,
indiscretion
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
inexpedience
,
inexperience
,
infancy
,
infantilism
,
injudiciousness
,
intactness
,
irrationality
,
juiciness
,
juniority
,
lack
,
lateness
,
maidenhood
,
mediocrity
,
minority
,
mint condition
,
newbornness
,
newfangledness
,
newfangleness
,
newness
,
nonage
,
nondevelopment
,
novelness
,
novelty
,
nowness
,
originality
,
oversimplicity
,
oversimplification
,
patchiness
,
pompousness
,
presentness
,
pristineness
,
puerilism
,
puerility
,
rawness
,
reasonlessness
,
recency
,
recentness
,
recklessness
,
reductionism
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sappiness
,
scrappiness
,
senselessness
,
short measure
,
short weight
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
simplism
,
sketchiness
,
strangeness
,
stuffiness
,
the rough
,
thoughtlessness
,
unaccustomedness
,
unacquaintance
,
unacquaintedness
,
uncommonness
,
uncultivation
,
underdevelopment
,
undevelopment
,
unevenness
,
unexperiencedness
,
unfamiliarity
,
unfinish
,
unfinishedness
,
unfledgedness
,
unintelligence
,
unperfectedness
,
unpracticedness
,
unprofessionalism
,
unprofessionalness
,
unreason
,
unreasonableness
,
unrefinement
,
unripeness
,
unsensibleness
,
unsoundness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
unusualness
,
unwisdom
,
unwiseness
,
virginity
,
want
,
witlessness
brusque
collapse
marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abrupt
,
aggressive
,
aposiopestic
,
artless
,
bearish
,
beastly
,
bluff
,
blunt
,
brash
,
brief
,
broad
,
candid
,
cavalier
,
churlish
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
crusty
,
curt
,
cut
,
direct
,
discourteous
,
docked
,
downright
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
explicit
,
forthright
,
frank
,
frankhearted
,
free
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
free-tongued
,
genuine
,
gnomic
,
gruff
,
harsh
,
heart-to-heart
,
ill-mannered
,
impolite
,
indisposed to talk
,
ingenuous
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
open
,
openhearted
,
outspoken
,
overbearing
,
pithy
,
plain
,
plain-spoken
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
rough
,
round
,
rude
,
sententious
,
severe
,
sharp
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
sincere
,
snippety
,
snippy
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
straight
,
straight-out
,
straightforward
,
succinct
,
summary
,
surly
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
transparent
,
truculent
,
truncated
,
unchecked
,
uncivil
,
unconstrained
,
unequivocal
,
ungracious
,
unguarded
,
unloquacious
,
unmannerly
,
unreserved
,
unrestrained
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
parrot
collapse
usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words"
related words >
Babbitt
,
Middle American
,
Philistine
,
anal character
,
ape
,
bourgeois
,
burgher
,
come again
,
commit to memory
,
compulsive character
,
con
,
conformer
,
conformist
,
conventionalist
,
copier
,
copy
,
copycat
,
copyist
,
counterfeiter
,
cuckoo
,
dissembler
,
dissimulator
,
ditto
,
do a repeat
,
do again
,
do over
,
double
,
duplicate
,
echo
,
echoer
,
echoist
,
faker
,
forger
,
formalist
,
get by heart
,
get letter-perfect
,
have by heart
,
hit off
,
hit off on
,
hypocrite
,
imitate
,
imitator
,
impersonate
,
impersonator
,
impostor
,
know by heart
,
learn by heart
,
learn verbatim
,
memorize
,
methodologist
,
middle-class type
,
mime
,
mimer
,
mimic
,
mimicker
,
mock
,
mocker
,
mockingbird
,
model child
,
monkey
,
organization man
,
pedant
,
perfectionist
,
phony
,
plagiarist
,
plagiarize
,
plastic person
,
poll-parrot
,
polly
,
polly-parrot
,
poseur
,
precisian
,
precisianist
,
quote
,
recite
,
redo
,
redouble
,
reduplicate
,
reecho
,
regurgitate
,
reincarnate
,
reiterate
,
renew
,
repeat
,
repeat by heart
,
reproduce
,
revive
,
say again
,
sheep
,
simulator
,
square
,
study
,
swot up
,
take off
,
take off on
,
teenybopper
,
trimmer
,
yes-man
fleet
collapse
a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner"
related words >
Naval Construction Battalion
,
RN
,
Royal Navy
,
Seabees
,
USN
,
United States Navy
,
age group
,
agile
,
alert
,
animated
,
argosy
,
armada
,
ball the jack
,
band
,
barrel
,
battalion
,
beguile
,
bevy
,
body
,
boom
,
bottoms
,
bowl along
,
breakneck
,
breeze
,
breeze along
,
brief
,
brigade
,
brisk
,
brush
,
bunch
,
cabal
,
cast
,
clip
,
clique
,
coast guard
,
cohort
,
cometary
,
company
,
complement
,
contingent
,
convoy
,
corps
,
coterie
,
covey
,
crew
,
crowd
,
cut along
,
dally
,
dashing
,
detachment
,
detail
,
disappear
,
division
,
double-quick
,
eagle-winged
,
escadrille
,
evanesce
,
evaporate
,
expeditious
,
express
,
faction
,
fade
,
fast
,
featly
,
flashing
,
flickering
,
flit
,
flotilla
,
fly
,
fly low
,
flying
,
foot
,
fritter
,
galloping
,
gang
,
go fast
,
graceful
,
group
,
grouping
,
groupment
,
hair-trigger
,
hasty
,
headlong
,
highball
,
hustling
,
idle
,
in-group
,
junta
,
light
,
light of heel
,
light-footed
,
line
,
lively
,
make good
,
make knots
,
marine
,
melt
,
melt like snow
,
merchant fleet
,
merchant marine
,
merchant navy
,
mercurial
,
meteoric
,
mob
,
mosquito fleet
,
movement
,
naval forces
,
naval militia
,
naval reserve
,
navy
,
neat-fingered
,
neat-handed
,
nimble
,
nimble-footed
,
nip
,
nit
,
out-group
,
outfit
,
outstrip the wind
,
pack
,
party
,
pass
,
pass away
,
peart
,
peer group
,
phalanx
,
platoon
,
posse
,
potter
,
pour it on
,
precipitate
,
prompt
,
quick
,
quick as lightning
,
quick as thought
,
rapid
,
reckless
,
regiment
,
rip
,
running
,
sail
,
salon
,
scorch
,
set
,
shipping
,
ships
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-term
,
short-termed
,
sink
,
sizzle
,
skim
,
snappy
,
spanking
,
speed
,
speedy
,
spirited
,
sprightly
,
spry
,
squad
,
squadron
,
squander
,
stable
,
storm along
,
string
,
sure-footed
,
sweep
,
swift
,
task force
,
task group
,
tatter
,
team
,
tear
,
tear along
,
thunder along
,
tonnage
,
tribe
,
troop
,
troupe
,
vanish
,
vivacious
,
waste
,
whaling fleet
,
whisk
,
whiz
,
wile
,
wing
,
winged
,
zing
,
zip
,
zoom
cut across
collapse
be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
related words >
bar
,
catercorner
,
chiasmal
,
chiasmic
,
chiastic
,
crisscross
,
cross
,
crossbar
,
crosscut
,
crossed
,
crossing
,
cruciate
,
cut
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
cut crosswise
,
cut through
,
decussate
,
decussated
,
diagonalize
,
intercross
,
intersect
,
intersected
,
intersecting
,
lie across
,
make a beeline
,
secant
,
short-cut
,
slant across
,
slash
,
slash across
,
transverse
,
traverse
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