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honeycombed
collapse
related words >
alveolar
,
alveolate
,
apertured
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
crible
,
dented
,
depressed
,
dimpled
,
engraved
,
faveolate
,
fenestrated
,
holey
,
indented
,
like Swiss cheese
,
notched
,
peppered
,
perforate
,
perforated
,
permeated
,
pierced
,
pitted
,
pocked
,
pockmarked
,
riddled
,
saturated
,
shot through
,
slotted
,
swarming
,
teeming
,
windowed
froggy
collapse
related words >
amphibian
,
anguine
,
batrachian
,
colubriform
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
crocodilian
,
lizardlike
,
ophidian
,
repent
,
reptant
,
reptile
,
reptilelike
,
reptilian
,
reptiliform
,
reptiloid
,
saurian
,
serpentiform
,
serpentile
,
serpentine
,
serpentlike
,
serpentoid
,
slithering
,
snakelike
,
snaky
,
toadish
,
viperiform
,
viperish
,
viperlike
,
viperoid
,
viperous
,
vipery
dilatory
collapse
wasting time
inclined to waste time and lag behind
related words >
Micawberish
,
apathetic
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
bone-lazy
,
cadging
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
deliberate
,
dillydallying
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dragging
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
foot-dragging
,
good-for-nothing
,
grudging
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
lingering
,
loath
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
neglectful
,
negligent
,
nonaggressive
,
parasitic
,
perfunctory
,
procrastinating
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
reluctant
,
remiss
,
renitent
,
restive
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow to
,
sluggish
,
sponging
,
tarrying
,
unenterprising
,
unenthusiastic
,
unhasty
,
unhurried
,
unzealous
,
work-shy
sponging
collapse
related words >
abject
,
ablution
,
absorbency
,
absorbent
,
absorption
,
adsorbent
,
adsorption
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
assimilation
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
blotter
,
blotting
,
blotting paper
,
bone-lazy
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cadging
,
chemisorption
,
chemosorption
,
cleaning out
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
digestion
,
dilatory
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
douche
,
douching
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
elution
,
elutriation
,
endosmosis
,
enema
,
engrossment
,
ergophobic
,
exosmosis
,
faineant
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
flush
,
flushing
,
flushing out
,
footlicking
,
good-for-nothing
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
indolent
,
infiltration
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
irrigation
,
laggard
,
lathering
,
lavabo
,
lavage
,
lavation
,
laving
,
lax
,
lazy
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
mopping
,
mopping up
,
nonaggressive
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
osmosis
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
percolation
,
procrastinative
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
remiss
,
rinse
,
rinsing
,
scouring
,
scrounging
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scrubbing up
,
seepage
,
shampoo
,
shiftless
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
sniveling
,
soaping
,
sorption
,
sponge
,
swabbing
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
unenterprising
,
wash
,
washing
,
washing up
,
washout
,
washup
,
wiping up
,
work-shy
thick witted
collapse
related words >
asleep
,
beef-witted
,
benumbed
,
blear-witted
,
blockish
,
blunt
,
blunt-witted
,
callous
,
dead
,
deadened
,
dense
,
dim
,
dim-witted
,
doltish
,
dopey
,
dull
,
dull of mind
,
dull-headed
,
dull-pated
,
dull-witted
,
dumb
,
fat-witted
,
gross-headed
,
heavy
,
hebetudinous
,
impassible
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
insensate
,
insensible
,
insensitive
,
insentient
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obdurate
,
obtuse
,
slow
,
slow-witted
,
sluggish
,
thick
,
thick-brained
,
thick-headed
,
thick-pated
,
thick-skinned
,
thickheaded
,
thickskulled
,
unfeeling
,
unfelt
,
unperceptive
,
wooden
obeisant
collapse
related words >
abject
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
mealymouthed
,
menial
,
obsequious
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
servile
,
slavish
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
lolling
collapse
related words >
accumbent
,
couchant
,
couche
,
crawling
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
decumbent
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
draped
,
flat
,
goofing off
,
groveling
,
idling
,
lazing
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
loitering
,
lounging
,
lying
,
mopery
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
supine
,
tarrying
,
trifling
laze
collapse
related words >
amble
,
bum
,
bum around
,
claudicate
,
crawl
,
creep
,
do nothing
,
dogtrot
,
drag
,
drag along
,
drag out
,
go dead slow
,
go slow
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
hang around
,
hobble
,
idle
,
idleness
,
inch
,
inch along
,
indolence
,
jog-trot
,
laziness
,
lazy
,
lie around
,
limp
,
loaf
,
loiter
,
loiter about
,
loll
,
loll around
,
lollop around
,
lounge
,
lounge around
,
mooch around
,
moon
,
moon around
,
mosey
,
poke
,
poke along
,
saunter
,
shuffle along
,
sit around
,
slothfulness
,
slouch
,
slouch around
,
sluggishness
,
stagger along
,
stand around
,
stroll
,
toddle
,
toddle along
,
totter along
,
traipse
,
waddle
,
walk
,
worm
,
worm along
slow up
collapse
related words >
afterthought
,
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bind
,
block
,
blockage
,
brake
,
bureaucratic delay
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
curb
,
decelerate
,
deceleration
,
delay
,
delayage
,
delayed reaction
,
detain
,
detention
,
double take
,
drag
,
dragging
,
draw rein
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
ease-off
,
ease-up
,
flagging
,
halt
,
hang-up
,
hindrance
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
holdup
,
impede
,
interim
,
jam
,
keep back
,
lag
,
lagging
,
let down
,
let up
,
letdown
,
letup
,
logjam
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
minus acceleration
,
moderate
,
moratorium
,
obstruct
,
obstruction
,
paperasserie
,
pause
,
red tape
,
red-tapeism
,
red-tapery
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
reprieve
,
respite
,
retard
,
retardance
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
set back
,
setback
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slack-up
,
slacken
,
slackening
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slowdown
,
slowing
,
slowing down
,
slowness
,
slowup
,
stay
,
stay of execution
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
suspension
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
tie-up
,
time lag
,
wait
ease off
collapse
related words >
abate
,
arrest
,
avert
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bate
,
bear off
,
brake
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
curb
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
detain
,
die down
,
diffuse
,
disjoin
,
disperse
,
draw aside
,
draw rein
,
ease
,
ease up
,
ebb
,
edge off
,
fall
,
fly off
,
free
,
gee
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go off
,
haw
,
head off
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
impede
,
jib
,
keep back
,
lax
,
let down
,
let go
,
let up
,
let up on
,
loose
,
loosen
,
loosen up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
make way for
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
move aside
,
obstruct
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
relent
,
remit
,
retard
,
scatter
,
set back
,
sheer off
,
shove aside
,
shunt
,
shy
,
shy off
,
side
,
sidestep
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
stay
,
steer clear of
,
step aside
,
subside
,
switch
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn back
,
unbend
,
unbrace
,
unglue
,
unlax
,
unleash
,
unstick
,
unstrain
,
unstring
,
untighten
,
unwind
,
veer off
,
wane
slow time
collapse
related words >
Alaska time
,
Atlantic time
,
Central time
,
Eastern time
,
GMT
,
Greenwich mean time
,
Greenwich time
,
Mountain time
,
Yukon time
,
apparent time
,
civil time
,
daylight-saving time
,
double march
,
double time
,
double-quick
,
fast time
,
goose step
,
half step
,
local time
,
march
,
mean solar time
,
mean time
,
quick march
,
quick time
,
quickstep
,
quickstep march
,
sidereal time
,
slow march
,
solar time
,
standard time
,
summer time
,
time zone
,
zone time
retard
collapse
cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"
be delayed
related words >
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
balk
,
block
,
bottle up
,
brake
,
bridle
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
confine
,
constrain
,
contain
,
control
,
cool
,
cool off
,
countercheck
,
curb
,
curtail
,
dam up
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
detain
,
dompt
,
drag
,
draw rein
,
dunce
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
enjoin
,
fool
,
frustrate
,
govern
,
guard
,
hinder
,
hold
,
hold at bay
,
hold back
,
hold fast
,
hold in
,
hold in check
,
hold in leash
,
hold up
,
idiot
,
imbecile
,
impede
,
inhibit
,
intercept
,
interfere
,
interfere with
,
intermeddle
,
interrupt
,
intervene
,
jerk
,
keep
,
keep back
,
keep from
,
keep in
,
keep in check
,
keep under control
,
lag
,
lay under restraint
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
make late
,
meddle
,
moderate
,
moron
,
obstruct
,
oppose
,
prohibit
,
pull
,
pull in
,
reef
,
rein
,
rein in
,
relax
,
repress
,
resist
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
retrench
,
scotch
,
set back
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
snub
,
stall
,
stay
,
stop
,
straiten
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
thwart
,
withhold
impede
collapse
be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"
related words >
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bar
,
block
,
bottle up
,
brake
,
burden
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
confine
,
confound
,
countercheck
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
curb
,
dam
,
dam up
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
detain
,
discomfit
,
disconcert
,
drag
,
draw rein
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
faze
,
fetter
,
foil
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
hinder
,
hobble
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
inhibit
,
intercept
,
interfere
,
intermeddle
,
interrupt
,
intervene
,
involve
,
keep back
,
keep in check
,
lag
,
lame
,
let down
,
let up
,
lime
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
lumber
,
make late
,
meddle
,
moderate
,
net
,
obstruct
,
oppose
,
press down
,
rattle
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
repress
,
resist
,
restrain
,
retard
,
saddle with
,
scotch
,
set back
,
shackle
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
snarl
,
snub
,
spike
,
stay
,
stop
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
tangle
,
throttle down
,
thwart
,
toil
,
trammel
,
weigh down
backwater
collapse
any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"
related words >
Charybdis
,
Maelstrom
,
abjure
,
arrest
,
back
,
back away
,
back down
,
back off
,
back out
,
back stream
,
back up
,
backcountry
,
backflow
,
backpedal
,
backtrack
,
backtrail
,
backwash
,
backwoods
,
boondocks
,
brake
,
bush
,
check
,
climb down
,
clip the wings
,
countercurrent
,
counterflow
,
counterflux
,
countermarch
,
crawfish out
,
cry off
,
curb
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
deny
,
detain
,
disavow
,
disclaim
,
disown
,
dodge
,
draw rein
,
duck
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
eat crow
,
eat humble pie
,
eddy
,
elude
,
evade
,
forswear
,
get around
,
go astern
,
go into reverse
,
gulf
,
gurge
,
hinterland
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
impede
,
keep back
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
maelstrom
,
make sternway
,
moderate
,
obstruct
,
recant
,
reef
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
regurgitation
,
rein in
,
relax
,
renege
,
renounce
,
repudiate
,
resile
,
retard
,
retract
,
reverse
,
revoke
,
set back
,
shirk
,
sidestep
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
stay
,
sticks
,
swallow
,
swirl
,
take back
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
twirl
,
unsay
,
up-country
,
vortex
,
welsh
,
whirl
,
whirlpool
,
withdraw
set back
collapse
slow down the progress of; hinder; "His late start set him back"
cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"
related words >
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bog down
,
bottle up
,
brake
,
bridle
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
constrain
,
contain
,
control
,
cool
,
cool off
,
countercheck
,
curb
,
curtail
,
dam up
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
dent
,
depress
,
detain
,
dimple
,
dint
,
dompt
,
draw rein
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
engrave
,
enjoin
,
govern
,
guard
,
hang up
,
hinder
,
hold
,
hold at bay
,
hold back
,
hold fast
,
hold in
,
hold in check
,
hold in leash
,
hold up
,
impede
,
impress
,
imprint
,
indent
,
inhibit
,
intercept
,
interfere
,
intermeddle
,
interrupt
,
intervene
,
keep
,
keep back
,
keep from
,
keep in
,
keep in check
,
keep under control
,
lay under restraint
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
meddle
,
mire
,
moderate
,
notch
,
obstruct
,
oppose
,
pit
,
pock
,
pockmark
,
press in
,
prohibit
,
pull
,
pull in
,
punch
,
punch in
,
recess
,
reef
,
rein
,
rein in
,
relax
,
repress
,
resist
,
restrain
,
retard
,
retrench
,
scotch
,
set in
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
snub
,
stamp
,
stay
,
straiten
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
tamp
,
throttle down
,
withhold
simpleminded
collapse
related words >
arrested
,
artless
,
babbling
,
backward
,
blithering
,
bluff
,
blunt
,
born yesterday
,
burbling
,
candid
,
childlike
,
confiding
,
crackbrained
,
cracked
,
crazy
,
cretinistic
,
cretinous
,
dim-witted
,
direct
,
dithering
,
driveling
,
drooling
,
dull
,
feebleminded
,
frank
,
guileless
,
half-baked
,
half-witted
,
idiotic
,
imbecile
,
imbecilic
,
ingenu
,
ingenuous
,
innocent
,
maundering
,
mentally defective
,
mentally deficient
,
mentally handicapped
,
mentally retarded
,
mongoloid
,
moronic
,
naive
,
not all there
,
open
,
openhearted
,
outspoken
,
plain
,
retarded
,
simple
,
simplehearted
,
simpletonian
,
sincere
,
single-hearted
,
single-minded
,
slobbering
,
slow
,
slow-witted
,
subnormal
,
trustful
,
trusting
,
unguarded
,
unreserved
,
unsophisticated
,
unsuspicious
,
unwary
funeral march
collapse
a slow march to be played for funeral processions
related words >
andante
,
claudication
,
coronach
,
crawl
,
creep
,
dead march
,
death knell
,
death song
,
dirge
,
dogtrot
,
elegy
,
epicedium
,
eulogy
,
footpace
,
funeral oration
,
funeral song
,
graveside oration
,
hobble
,
jog
,
jog trot
,
keen
,
knell
,
leisurely gait
,
limp
,
lumbering pace
,
march
,
martial music
,
military march
,
military music
,
mincing steps
,
monody
,
muffled drums
,
passing bell
,
plod
,
processional march
,
quick march
,
quickstep march
,
rack
,
recessional march
,
requiem
,
saunter
,
shamble
,
shuffle
,
slouch
,
slow march
,
slow motion
,
stroll
,
threnode
,
threnody
,
trudge
,
waddle
,
walk
,
wedding march
detain
collapse
related words >
apprehend
,
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
block
,
bog down
,
bottle up
,
box up
,
brake
,
bust
,
buttonhole
,
cage
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
cloister
,
confine
,
constrain
,
coop
,
coop in
,
coop up
,
cork up
,
countercheck
,
crib
,
curb
,
dam up
,
damp
,
dampen
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
drag
,
draw rein
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
encage
,
enclose
,
fence in
,
hang up
,
hem in
,
hinder
,
hold
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold in custody
,
hold in restraint
,
hold up
,
immure
,
impede
,
impound
,
inhibit
,
intercept
,
interfere
,
intermeddle
,
interrupt
,
intervene
,
keep
,
keep back
,
keep in
,
keep in check
,
keep in custody
,
keep in detention
,
keep out
,
lag
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
make late
,
meddle
,
mew
,
mew up
,
mire
,
moderate
,
nab
,
obstruct
,
oppose
,
pen
,
pen up
,
pick up
,
pinch
,
pound
,
pull in
,
rail in
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
repress
,
reserve
,
resist
,
restrain
,
restrict
,
retain
,
retard
,
run in
,
scotch
,
seal up
,
set back
,
shackle
,
shut in
,
shut up
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
snub
,
stay
,
stop
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
wall in
,
withhold
reclining
collapse
the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
related words >
accubation
,
accumbency
,
accumbent
,
couchancy
,
couchant
,
couche
,
crawling
,
debasement
,
decumbency
,
decumbent
,
depression
,
draped
,
flat
,
groveling
,
loll
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
lowness
,
lying
,
lying down
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
proneness
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
reclination
,
recumbency
,
recumbent
,
repose
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
shortness
,
sprawl
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
squatness
,
squattiness
,
stumpiness
,
subjacency
,
supine
,
supineness
lagging
collapse
used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat
related words >
Micawberish
,
afterthought
,
backward
,
bind
,
block
,
blockage
,
bureaucratic delay
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delay
,
delayage
,
delayed reaction
,
delaying
,
detention
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
double take
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
foot-dragging
,
halt
,
hang-up
,
hindrance
,
holdup
,
interim
,
jam
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lax
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
logjam
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
moratorium
,
obstruction
,
paperasserie
,
pause
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
red tape
,
red-tapeism
,
red-tapery
,
remiss
,
reprieve
,
respite
,
retardance
,
retardation
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
slow-up
,
slowdown
,
slowness
,
sluggish
,
stay
,
stay of execution
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
suspension
,
tarrying
,
tie-up
,
time lag
,
wait
throttle
collapse
related words >
abduct
,
arrest
,
asphyxiate
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bottle up
,
brake
,
burke
,
carry off
,
censor
,
check
,
choke
,
choke off
,
clamp down on
,
clip the wings
,
cork
,
cork up
,
crack down on
,
crush
,
curb
,
damp down
,
decelerate
,
deflate
,
delay
,
detain
,
disarm
,
draw rein
,
drown
,
dumbfound
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
enchain
,
extinguish
,
gag
,
garrote
,
hamstring
,
handcuff
,
hobble
,
hog-tie
,
hold back
,
hold down
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
hush
,
hush-hush
,
impede
,
jump on
,
keep back
,
keep down
,
keep under
,
kidnap
,
kill
,
knock out
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
manacle
,
moderate
,
muffle
,
muzzle
,
obstruct
,
paralyze
,
pour water on
,
prostrate
,
put down
,
put to silence
,
quash
,
quell
,
quench
,
quiet
,
quieten
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
repress
,
retard
,
set back
,
shanghai
,
shush
,
shut down on
,
silence
,
sit down on
,
sit on
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
smash
,
smother
,
soft-pedal
,
squash
,
squelch
,
stanch
,
stay
,
stifle
,
still
,
stop the breath
,
strangle
,
strike dumb
,
stultify
,
subdue
,
suffocate
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
throttle down
,
truss up
renitent
collapse
related words >
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
apathetic
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
breakaway
,
clashing
,
complaining
,
conflicting
,
contradicting
,
contradictory
,
counteractant
,
counteracting
,
counteractive
,
countervailing
,
counterworking
,
cranky
,
crotchety
,
dilatory
,
disputatious
,
disputing
,
dissentient
,
dissenting
,
dissident
,
firm
,
fractious
,
grudging
,
hostile
,
indifferent
,
inimical
,
laggard
,
loath
,
nonconformist
,
noncooperative
,
objecting
,
obstructive
,
on the barricades
,
opposing
,
oppositional
,
oppugnant
,
perfunctory
,
perverse
,
pokerlike
,
proof against
,
protesting
,
ramrodlike
,
reactionary
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
reluctant
,
repellent
,
repugnant
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
resistive
,
restive
,
retardant
,
retardative
,
revolutionary
,
rigid
,
rodlike
,
slow
,
slow to
,
starched
,
starchy
,
stiff
,
stiff as buckram
,
taut
,
tense
,
tight
,
uncooperative
,
unenthusiastic
,
unrelaxed
,
unsubmissive
,
unyielding
,
unzealous
,
up in arms
,
virgate
,
withstanding
rein
collapse
one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
any means of control; "he took up the reins of government"
stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins; "He reined in his horses in front of the post office"
stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins; "They reined in in front of the post office"
related words >
administration
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
brake
,
bridle
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
collect
,
command
,
constrain
,
constraint
,
contain
,
control
,
cool
,
cool off
,
cooling
,
cooling down
,
cooling off
,
curb
,
curtail
,
curtailment
,
decelerate
,
deceleration
,
delay
,
detain
,
dompt
,
draw rein
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
enjoin
,
govern
,
guard
,
harness
,
helm
,
hinder
,
hindrance
,
hold
,
hold at bay
,
hold back
,
hold fast
,
hold in
,
hold in check
,
hold in leash
,
hold up
,
impede
,
inhibit
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
interdict
,
keep
,
keep back
,
keep from
,
keep in
,
keep in check
,
keep under control
,
lay under restraint
,
leadership
,
legal restraint
,
let down
,
let up
,
limit
,
limitation
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
moderate
,
monopoly
,
obstruct
,
power
,
prohibit
,
prohibition
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
protective tariff
,
pull
,
pull in
,
rationing
,
reef
,
rein in
,
reins
,
relax
,
repress
,
restrain
,
restraint
,
restraint of trade
,
restrict
,
retard
,
retardation
,
retrench
,
retrenchment
,
rule
,
running
,
self-control
,
set back
,
simmer down
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
slowing down
,
smother
,
snub
,
stay
,
straiten
,
suppress
,
take in sail
,
tariff wall
,
thought control
,
throttle down
,
tiller
,
withhold
hangdog
collapse
related words >
abashed
,
abject
,
ashamed
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
blushing
,
bootlicking
,
chagrined
,
chapfallen
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
crestfallen
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
crushed
,
embarrassed
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
humbled
,
humiliated
,
ingratiating
,
mealymouthed
,
mortified
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
on bended knee
,
out of countenance
,
parasitic
,
prostrate
,
red-faced
,
shamed
,
shamefaced
,
shamefast
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
truckling
brake
collapse
a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"
stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
related words >
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bar
,
bearing rein
,
bit
,
block
,
boscage
,
bosket
,
bring to
,
bring up short
,
canebrake
,
ceja
,
chain
,
chamisal
,
chaparral
,
check
,
checkmate
,
checkrein
,
chock
,
clip the wings
,
clog
,
constraint
,
control
,
coppice
,
copse
,
copsewood
,
countercheck
,
covert
,
curb
,
curb bit
,
cut short
,
dam
,
damper
,
deadlock
,
decelerate
,
delay
,
detain
,
doorstop
,
drag
,
drag sail
,
draw rein
,
drift anchor
,
drift sail
,
drogue
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
fetter
,
freeze
,
frith
,
halt
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
holdback
,
impede
,
keep back
,
let down
,
let up
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
martingale
,
moderate
,
motte
,
obstruct
,
pelham
,
pull up
,
put paid to
,
reef
,
rein
,
rein in
,
relax
,
remora
,
restraint
,
restriction
,
retard
,
scotch
,
sea anchor
,
set back
,
shackle
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
snaffle
,
spoke
,
stalemate
,
stall
,
stay
,
stem
,
stem the tide
,
stop
,
stop cold
,
stop dead
,
stop short
,
stymie
,
take in sail
,
thicket
,
thickset
,
throttle down
,
trammel
lounging
collapse
related words >
accubation
,
accumbency
,
accumbent
,
couchant
,
couche
,
crawling
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
decumbency
,
decumbent
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
draped
,
flat
,
goofing off
,
groveling
,
idling
,
lazing
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
loitering
,
loll
,
lolling
,
lying
,
mopery
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
proneness
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
reclination
,
reclining
,
recumbency
,
recumbent
,
repose
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
sprawl
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
supine
,
supineness
,
tarrying
,
trifling
blaring
collapse
unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"
related words >
atmospherics
,
blasting
,
blatant
,
blatting
,
blind spot
,
blustering
,
boisterous
,
brassy
,
brawling
,
brazen
,
clamant
,
clamorous
,
clamoursome
,
clanging
,
clangorous
,
clattery
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
drift
,
earsplitting
,
fade-out
,
fading
,
interference
,
mafficking
,
noise
,
noiseful
,
noisy
,
obstreperous
,
piercing
,
rackety
,
reception
,
rip-roaring
,
roaring
,
rowdy
,
static
,
stentorian
,
stentorious
,
strepitant
,
strepitous
,
tumultuous
,
turbulent
,
uproarious
,
vociferous
let up
collapse
related words >
abate
,
ablate
,
arrest
,
backpedal
,
backwater
,
bate
,
be eaten away
,
brake
,
call a recess
,
check
,
clip the wings
,
consume
,
consume away
,
corrode
,
crumble
,
curb
,
decelerate
,
decline
,
decrease
,
delay
,
deliquesce
,
detain
,
die away
,
die down
,
diffuse
,
diminish
,
disjoin
,
disperse
,
dive
,
draw rein
,
drop
,
drop off
,
dwindle
,
ease
,
ease off
,
ease up
,
ebb
,
erode
,
fall
,
fall away
,
fall off
,
forbear
,
forgive
,
free
,
give quarter
,
have mercy upon
,
have pity
,
hesitate
,
hold back
,
hold in check
,
hold up
,
impede
,
keep back
,
languish
,
lessen
,
let down
,
let go
,
let up on
,
loose
,
loosen
,
lose ground
,
lose momentum
,
lose speed
,
melt
,
melt away
,
mitigate
,
moderate
,
obstruct
,
pardon
,
pause
,
plummet
,
plunge
,
recess
,
reef
,
rein in
,
relax
,
relent
,
remit
,
reprieve
,
rest
,
retard
,
run low
,
sag
,
scatter
,
set back
,
shrink
,
sink
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slack up
,
slacken
,
slake
,
slow
,
slow down
,
slow up
,
spare
,
stay
,
subside
,
tail off
,
take a recess
,
take in sail
,
take pity on
,
thaw
,
throttle down
,
unbend
,
unbrace
,
unglue
,
unlax
,
unleash
,
unstick
,
unstrain
,
unstring
,
unwind
,
wane
,
waste
,
waste away
,
wear
,
wear away
supine
collapse
lying face upward
related words >
Laodicean
,
Olympian
,
abject
,
accepting
,
accumbent
,
acquiescent
,
agreeable
,
aloof
,
apathetic
,
assenting
,
benumbed
,
blah
,
blase
,
bored
,
comatose
,
complaisant
,
compliable
,
compliant
,
complying
,
consenting
,
couchant
,
couche
,
crawling
,
crouched
,
dead
,
debased
,
debilitated
,
decumbent
,
depressed
,
desensitized
,
detached
,
disinterested
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
draped
,
droopy
,
drugged
,
dull
,
enervated
,
exanimate
,
flat
,
groveling
,
heartless
,
heavy
,
hebetudinous
,
hopeless
,
idle
,
in a stupor
,
inactive
,
inanimate
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
inert
,
insouciant
,
jaded
,
knee-high
,
knocked flat
,
lackadaisical
,
laid low
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leaden
,
lethargic
,
lifeless
,
listless
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
low
,
low-built
,
low-hung
,
low-level
,
low-leveled
,
low-lying
,
low-set
,
low-statured
,
lumpish
,
lying
,
lying down
,
moribund
,
motionless
,
neap
,
nonchalant
,
nondissenting
,
nonresistant
,
nonresisting
,
nonresistive
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obedient
,
passive
,
phlegmatic
,
pluckless
,
pooped
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resigned
,
resupine
,
runty
,
sated
,
servile
,
short
,
slack
,
sleepy
,
slothful
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
somnolent
,
soporific
,
spiritless
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
spunkless
,
squat
,
squatty
,
stagnant
,
stagnating
,
stoic
,
stooped
,
stultified
,
stumpy
,
stupefied
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
torpid
,
unassertive
,
uncaring
,
uncomplaining
,
unconcerned
,
unelevated
,
uninterested
,
unresistant
,
unresisting
,
vegetable
,
vegetative
,
wan
,
weary
,
withdrawn
,
world-weary
truckling
collapse
the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)
related words >
abject
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
tufthunting
toadying
collapse
related words >
abject
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
slithering
collapse
related words >
amphibian
,
anguine
,
batrachian
,
coasting
,
colubriform
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
crocodilian
,
flow
,
flowing
,
froggy
,
glide
,
gliding
,
lizardlike
,
ophidian
,
repent
,
reptant
,
reptile
,
reptilelike
,
reptilian
,
reptiliform
,
reptiloid
,
sailing
,
saurian
,
serpentiform
,
serpentile
,
serpentine
,
serpentlike
,
serpentoid
,
skating
,
skiing
,
skim
,
sledding
,
slide
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slither
,
snakelike
,
snaky
,
sweep
,
sweeping
,
toadish
,
tobogganing
,
viperiform
,
viperish
,
viperlike
,
viperoid
,
viperous
,
vipery
dead march
collapse
related words >
andante
,
burial
,
burial at sea
,
burying
,
claudication
,
coronach
,
cortege
,
crawl
,
creep
,
death knell
,
death song
,
deep six
,
dirge
,
dogtrot
,
elegy
,
epicedium
,
eulogy
,
footpace
,
funeral
,
funeral march
,
funeral oration
,
funeral procession
,
funeral song
,
graveside oration
,
hobble
,
jog
,
jog trot
,
keen
,
knell
,
last post
,
leisurely gait
,
limp
,
lumbering pace
,
march
,
martial music
,
military march
,
military music
,
mincing steps
,
monody
,
muffled drum
,
muffled drums
,
passing bell
,
plod
,
processional march
,
quick march
,
quickstep march
,
rack
,
recessional march
,
requiem
,
saunter
,
shamble
,
shuffle
,
slouch
,
slow march
,
slow motion
,
stroll
,
taps
,
threnode
,
threnody
,
trudge
,
waddle
,
walk
,
wedding march
batrachian
collapse
related words >
amphibian
,
anguine
,
bullfrog
,
colubriform
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
croaker
,
crocodilian
,
frog
,
froggy
,
hoppytoad
,
hoptoad
,
lizardlike
,
newt
,
ophidian
,
paddock
,
polliwog
,
repent
,
reptant
,
reptile
,
reptilelike
,
reptilian
,
reptiliform
,
reptiloid
,
salamander
,
saurian
,
serpentiform
,
serpentile
,
serpentine
,
serpentlike
,
serpentoid
,
slithering
,
snakelike
,
snaky
,
tadpole
,
toad
,
toadish
,
tree frog
,
tree toad
,
viperiform
,
viperish
,
viperlike
,
viperoid
,
viperous
,
vipery
sprawling
collapse
spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
related words >
accumbent
,
couchant
,
couche
,
crawling
,
decumbent
,
deltoid
,
draped
,
fan-shape
,
fan-shaped
,
fanlike
,
fanned
,
fanning
,
flabelliform
,
flared
,
flaring
,
flat
,
groveling
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
lying
,
open
,
outspread
,
outstretched
,
patulous
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
splay
,
splayed
,
splaying
,
spraddled
,
spraddling
,
sprangled
,
sprangling
,
sprawled
,
sprawly
,
spread
,
spreading
,
stretched-out
,
supine
,
unfolded
,
wide-open
,
widespread
permeated
collapse
occurring throughout; "her poems are permeated with sorrow"
related words >
awash
,
bathed
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
deluged
,
dipped
,
drenched
,
dribbling
,
dripping
,
dripping wet
,
drowned
,
engulfed
,
flooded
,
honeycombed
,
immersed
,
inundated
,
macerated
,
oozing
,
overflowed
,
saturated
,
seeping
,
shot through
,
soaked
,
soaking
,
soaking wet
,
soaky
,
sodden
,
soggy
,
sopping
,
sopping wet
,
soppy
,
soused
,
steeped
,
submerged
,
submersed
,
swamped
,
swarming
,
teeming
,
waterlogged
,
watersoaked
,
weeping
,
weltering
,
whelmed
,
wringing wet
couchant
collapse
related words >
accumbent
,
couche
,
crawling
,
crouched
,
debased
,
decumbent
,
depressed
,
draped
,
flat
,
groveling
,
knee-high
,
knocked flat
,
laid low
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
low
,
low-built
,
low-hung
,
low-level
,
low-leveled
,
low-lying
,
low-set
,
low-statured
,
lying
,
neap
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
runty
,
short
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
squat
,
squatty
,
stooped
,
stumpy
,
supine
,
unelevated
populous
collapse
densely populated
related words >
alive with
,
bristling
,
bursting
,
close
,
colonized
,
compact
,
crammed
,
crawling
,
crowded
,
crowding
,
dense
,
empeopled
,
firm
,
full
,
in profusion
,
inhabited
,
jam-packed
,
jammed
,
lavish
,
legion
,
multifarious
,
multitudinal
,
multitudinous
,
numerous
,
occupied
,
overflowing
,
packed
,
peopled
,
populated
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
proliferating
,
prolific
,
rife
,
serried
,
settled
,
several
,
solid
,
studded
,
sundry
,
superabundant
,
swarming
,
teeming
,
tenanted
,
thick
,
thick as hail
,
thick with
,
thick-coming
,
thronged
,
thronging
,
various
,
voluminous
bristling
collapse
related words >
alive with
,
barbellate
,
bristled
,
bristly
,
bursting
,
close
,
compact
,
crammed
,
crawling
,
crowded
,
crowding
,
dense
,
firm
,
full
,
glochidiate
,
hairy
,
hirsute
,
hispid
,
in profusion
,
jam-packed
,
jammed
,
lavish
,
overflowing
,
packed
,
populous
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
proliferating
,
prolific
,
rife
,
serried
,
setaceous
,
setose
,
setous
,
solid
,
strigal
,
strigate
,
strigose
,
stubbled
,
stubbly
,
studded
,
superabundant
,
swarming
,
teeming
,
thick
,
thick as hail
,
thick with
,
thick-coming
,
thronged
,
thronging
moderately
collapse
in a moderate manner; "he drinks moderately"
related words >
acceptably
,
adequately
,
after a fashion
,
appreciably
,
at a bargain
,
at a sacrifice
,
at any rate
,
at best
,
at budget prices
,
at cost
,
at cost price
,
at least
,
at most
,
at piggy-bank prices
,
at prime cost
,
at reduced rates
,
at small cost
,
at the least
,
at the most
,
at the outside
,
at wholesale
,
at worst
,
calmly
,
cautiously
,
cheap
,
cheaply
,
circumspectly
,
comparatively
,
composedly
,
conservatively
,
coolly
,
crawlingly
,
creepingly
,
decently
,
deliberately
,
detectably
,
dilatorily
,
dispassionately
,
easily
,
equably
,
evenly
,
fair to middling
,
fairishly
,
fairly
,
fairly well
,
falteringly
,
for a song
,
for pennies
,
frugally
,
gently
,
haltingly
,
idly
,
in a manner
,
in a way
,
in balance
,
in low gear
,
in march time
,
in moderation
,
in part
,
in reason
,
in slow motion
,
in slow tempo
,
in some measure
,
incompletely
,
indifferently
,
indolently
,
inexpensively
,
judiciously
,
kind of
,
languidly
,
languorously
,
leastwise
,
leisurely
,
limpingly
,
lingeringly
,
loiteringly
,
mediocrely
,
merely
,
middling well
,
middlingly
,
mildly
,
modestly
,
more or less
,
nominally
,
not comprehensively
,
not exhaustively
,
on the cheap
,
only
,
part
,
partially
,
partly
,
passably
,
pokily
,
pokingly
,
presentably
,
pretty
,
pretty well
,
pro tanto
,
prudently
,
purely
,
quite
,
rather
,
reasonably
,
relatively
,
relaxedly
,
reluctantly
,
respectably
,
restrainedly
,
satisfactorily
,
serenely
,
simply
,
slightly
,
slow
,
slowly
,
sluggishly
,
so far
,
so-so
,
soberly
,
some
,
something
,
somewhat
,
soothingly
,
sort of
,
sparingly
,
steadily
,
stintingly
,
subduedly
,
tarryingly
,
temperately
,
tentatively
,
thus far
,
to a degree
,
to some degree
,
to some extent
,
tolerably
,
tranquilly
,
under easy sail
,
unexceptionably
,
unhurriedly
,
visibly
,
well enough
,
wholesale
,
with agonizing slowness
,
with deliberation
,
within bounds
,
within compass
,
within reason
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