Related Words:
- curtailment
collapse - the temporal property of being cut short related words >
- abbreviation,
- abridgment,
- abstract,
- apocope,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- attrition,
- bereavement,
- bottleneck,
- cervix,
- check,
- cheeseparing,
- circumscription,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- cut,
- cutback,
- cutting,
- deceleration,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- deprivation,
- deprivement,
- derogation,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- disburdening,
- disburdenment,
- disentitlement,
- disparagement,
- divestment,
- economization,
- economizing,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- epitome,
- extraction,
- foreshortening,
- hindrance,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- impairment,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- legal restraint,
- lessening,
- low growth rate,
- monopoly,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- precis,
- privation,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- puckering,
- pullback,
- pursing,
- rationing,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- reduction,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- rein,
- relieving,
- remission,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- retardation,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- rollback,
- saving,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- self-control,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- skimping,
- slowdown,
- slowing down,
- solidification,
- sparing,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- striction,
- stricture,
- summary,
- summation,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- systole,
- tariff wall,
- telescoping,
- thought control,
- truncation,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
- prosperity
collapse
- the condition of prospering; having good fortune
- an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment related words >
- Saturnia regna,
- Saturnian age,
- abundance,
- accomplishment,
- advantage,
- affluence,
- age of Aquarius,
- arrival,
- assets,
- bed of roses,
- benefit,
- boom,
- bottoming out,
- bottomless purse,
- bounty,
- bulging purse,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- cooling off,
- crisis,
- depression,
- do,
- downturn,
- ease,
- easy circumstances,
- easy street,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- embarras de richesses,
- era of prosperity,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- fair weather,
- fortunate outcome,
- fortune,
- go,
- gold,
- golden age,
- golden era,
- golden time,
- good,
- good fortune,
- good times,
- growth,
- halcyon days,
- handsome fortune,
- heaven,
- heyday,
- high growth rate,
- high income,
- high tax bracket,
- independence,
- inflation,
- interest,
- life of ease,
- low,
- lucre,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- mammon,
- market expansion,
- material wealth,
- millennium,
- money,
- money to burn,
- moneybags,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- palmy days,
- peak,
- peaking,
- pelf,
- piping times,
- plenty,
- possessions,
- property,
- prosperous issue,
- prosperousness,
- recession,
- recovery,
- reign of Saturn,
- riches,
- richness,
- rosy era,
- six-figure income,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- substance,
- success,
- sunshine,
- the good life,
- thriving,
- treasure,
- upper bracket,
- upturn,
- utopia,
- victory,
- wealth,
- wealthiness,
- well-being
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- absolution,
- abstemious,
- amnesty,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- benevolent,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- close,
- conciliatory,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- economic,
- economical,
- economization,
- economizing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exiguous,
- exoneration,
- forbearing,
- forehanded,
- forgiving,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- generous,
- grace,
- immunity,
- impoverished,
- indemnity,
- jejune,
- kind,
- labor-saving,
- lean,
- limited,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- low growth rate,
- magnanimous,
- meager,
- mean,
- measured,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- money-saving,
- narrow,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- paltry,
- pardon,
- parsimonious,
- patient,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- penurious,
- placable,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- puny,
- redemption,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- remission,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- restrained,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scraping,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- shrift,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- small,
- sober,
- spare,
- sparse,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stinting,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- temperate,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- time-saving,
- tolerant,
- too frugal,
- ungiving,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unresentful,
- unrevengeful,
- unwasteful,
- wary,
- watered,
- watery
- afterthought,
- armed robbery,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- asportation,
- assault and robbery,
- banditry,
- bank robbery,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bureaucratic delay,
- cattle lifting,
- cattle stealing,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- dead time,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- detention,
- double take,
- drag,
- dragging,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- exploitation,
- extortion,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gain,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- heist,
- highway robbery,
- hijacking,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- hysteresis,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- interruption,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- loan-sharking,
- logjam,
- minus acceleration,
- moratorium,
- mugging,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- output lag,
- overassessment,
- overcharge,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pocket picking,
- process lag,
- purse snatching,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- robbery,
- robbing,
- setback,
- shylocking,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stickup,
- stickup job,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- surcharge,
- suspension,
- throughput,
- tie-up,
- time constants,
- time lag,
- time lead,
- usury,
- wait
- remission
collapse
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- amnesty,
- assuagement,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- break,
- caesura,
- calming,
- catabasis,
- cease-fire,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- compurgation,
- crash,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescendo,
- deliverance,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- disparagement,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- easing,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- extraction,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- immunity,
- impairment,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lull,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pause,
- plunge,
- purgation,
- purging,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- recess,
- redemption,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- release,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- shortening,
- shrift,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- softening,
- soothing,
- sparing,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- truncation,
- vacation,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- wane
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- atavism,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backward deviation,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- betrayed hope,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- blow,
- buffet,
- check,
- checkmate,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- comedown,
- confusion,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- deceleration,
- defeat,
- delay,
- descent,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disappointment,
- discomfiture,
- disillusionment,
- dissatisfaction,
- down,
- drag,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- falling back,
- fiasco,
- fixation,
- fizzle,
- flagging,
- foil,
- foiling,
- foot-dragging,
- forlorn hope,
- frustration,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hope deferred,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- lag,
- lapse,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- minus acceleration,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recession,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recrudescence,
- recurrence,
- reentry,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- relapse,
- renewal,
- repression,
- repulse,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retrusion,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reverse of fortune,
- reversion,
- rollback,
- rout,
- severe check,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- sore disappointment,
- squeeze,
- sternway,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- stumbling block,
- suppression,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- throwback
- tie up
collapse
- finish the last row
- restrain from moving or operating normally; "Traffic is tied up for miles around the bridge where the accident occurred"
- invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes; "All my money is tied up in long-term investments" related words >
- Anschluss,
- act in concert,
- act together,
- addition,
- affiliate,
- affiliation,
- afterthought,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alight,
- alignment,
- alliance,
- ally,
- amalgamate,
- amalgamation,
- anchor,
- articulation,
- assimilation,
- associate,
- association,
- bale,
- band,
- band together,
- bandage,
- be in league,
- belt,
- bend,
- bind,
- bind up,
- blend,
- blending,
- block,
- blockage,
- bond,
- boycott,
- boycottage,
- brace,
- bracketing,
- bridle,
- bundle,
- bundle up,
- bureaucratic delay,
- cabal,
- cahoots,
- cartel,
- cast anchor,
- centralization,
- chain,
- cinch,
- clog,
- club together,
- clustering,
- coact,
- coadunation,
- coalesce,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- collaborate,
- colleagueship,
- collegialism,
- collegiality,
- collude,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- come to anchor,
- come to land,
- communication,
- composition,
- comradeship,
- concatenation,
- concert,
- concord,
- concourse,
- concur,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederate,
- confederation,
- confluence,
- confraternity,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consolidate,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- convergence,
- cooperate,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- copulation,
- corner,
- coupling,
- curb,
- debark,
- debus,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- deplane,
- detention,
- detrain,
- disembark,
- disemplane,
- do business with,
- do up,
- dock,
- double take,
- dragging,
- drop anchor,
- drop the hook,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- enchain,
- encompassment,
- engross,
- enosis,
- entrammel,
- fasten,
- federalization,
- federate,
- federation,
- fellowship,
- fetter,
- forestall,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- fraternization,
- freemasonry,
- fuse,
- fusion,
- gathering,
- get heads together,
- get together,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girt,
- girth,
- go ashore,
- go partners,
- gyve,
- halt,
- hamper,
- handcuff,
- hang together,
- hang-up,
- harmonize,
- hindrance,
- hobble,
- hog,
- hog-tie,
- hold together,
- holdup,
- hook up,
- hookup,
- hopple,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interim,
- interlinking,
- jam,
- job action,
- join,
- join in,
- join together,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- junta,
- kedge,
- kedge off,
- keep together,
- knotting,
- lace,
- lag,
- lagging,
- land,
- lash,
- lash and tie,
- lay anchor,
- league,
- league together,
- leash,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- lockout,
- logjam,
- make a landfall,
- make common cause,
- make fast,
- make land,
- make port,
- manacle,
- marriage,
- meeting,
- meld,
- melding,
- merge,
- merger,
- merging,
- monopolize,
- moor,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- outlaw strike,
- pack,
- package,
- package deal,
- pairing,
- paperasserie,
- parcel,
- partner,
- partnership,
- pause,
- peg down,
- picket,
- pin down,
- pinion,
- play ball,
- pull together,
- put heads together,
- put in,
- put in irons,
- put into port,
- reach land,
- reciprocate,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- restrain,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- revolt,
- roll up,
- rope,
- rulebook slowdown,
- secure,
- shackle,
- sick-in,
- sit-down,
- sit-down strike,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- sodality,
- solidification,
- sorority,
- splice,
- stand together,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- straitjacket,
- strap,
- strike,
- suspension,
- swaddle,
- swathe,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy strike,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- take it all,
- team up,
- tether,
- throw in together,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie in,
- tie-in,
- time lag,
- trammel,
- truss,
- truss up,
- turnout,
- unboat,
- unification,
- union,
- unite,
- unite efforts,
- wait,
- walkout,
- wedding,
- wildcat strike,
- wire,
- work stoppage,
- work together,
- wrap,
- wrap up,
- yoking
- crisis
collapse
- a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
- an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis" related words >
- bench mark,
- boom,
- bottoming out,
- breakers ahead,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- calamity,
- cardhouse,
- cardinal point,
- catastrophe,
- cause for alarm,
- chief thing,
- climacteric,
- climax,
- clutch,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- cooling off,
- core,
- cornerstone,
- critical juncture,
- critical moment,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- crux,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- depression,
- disaster,
- dollar crisis,
- dollar gap,
- downturn,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- emergency,
- endangerment,
- essence,
- essential,
- essential matter,
- exigency,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- extremity,
- financial crisis,
- fundamental,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- great point,
- growth,
- hazard,
- heart,
- high growth rate,
- high point,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- house of cards,
- imperativeness,
- imperilment,
- important thing,
- issue,
- jeopardy,
- kernel,
- keystone,
- landmark,
- low,
- main point,
- main thing,
- market expansion,
- material point,
- meat,
- menace,
- milestone,
- nub,
- pass,
- peak,
- peaking,
- peril,
- pinch,
- pith,
- pivot,
- plight,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressure,
- prosperity,
- push,
- quicksand,
- real issue,
- recession,
- recovery,
- risk,
- rocks ahead,
- rub,
- salient point,
- sine qua non,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- stress,
- substance,
- substantive point,
- tension,
- the bottom line,
- the point,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- turn,
- turning point,
- upturn,
- urgency,
- zero hour
- letup
collapse
- a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- abridgment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- arrest,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- blunting,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- caesura,
- calming,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- check,
- cigarette break,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- contraction,
- dampening,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- delay,
- demulsion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- detention,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- downtime,
- drag,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- easing,
- enforced respite,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- fissure,
- flagging,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lull,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- minus acceleration,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- obstruction,
- off-time,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- recess,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- setback,
- simplicity,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowup,
- softening,
- soothing,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subtraction,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- tempering,
- time off,
- time out,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- vacation,
- weakening
- retardation
collapse
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back related words >
- afterthought,
- amentia,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrested development,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bind,
- blithering idiocy,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bureaucratic delay,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- cramp,
- cretinism,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- drag,
- dragging,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- half-wittedness,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- idiocy,
- idiotism,
- imbecility,
- impediment,
- infantilism,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- insanity,
- interdict,
- interference,
- interim,
- interruption,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- legal restraint,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- logjam,
- mental defectiveness,
- mental deficiency,
- mental handicap,
- mental retardation,
- minus acceleration,
- mongolianism,
- mongolism,
- mongoloid idiocy,
- monopoly,
- moratorium,
- moronism,
- moronity,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- profound idiocy,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- rationing,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- rein,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardment,
- retrenchment,
- self-control,
- setback,
- simple-wittedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- subnormality,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- tariff wall,
- thought control,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait
- declension
collapse
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages related words >
- IC analysis,
- abnegation,
- accidence,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- bound morpheme,
- cascade,
- catabasis,
- cataract,
- chute,
- collapse,
- comedown,
- conjugation,
- contradiction,
- crash,
- cutting,
- debacle,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- deceleration,
- declination,
- declinature,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decrescendo,
- defluxion,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- denial,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- deprivation,
- derivation,
- derogation,
- descending,
- descension,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- difference of form,
- dilapidation,
- diminuendo,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dissent,
- dive,
- down,
- downbend,
- downcome,
- downcurve,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downgrade,
- downpour,
- downrush,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- enclitic,
- fading,
- failing,
- fall,
- falling,
- falling-off,
- formative,
- free form,
- gravitation,
- holding back,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- inclination,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- involution,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- paradigm,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- pounce,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- radical,
- rapids,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- regression,
- rejection,
- remission,
- repudiation,
- retention,
- retreat,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- root,
- ruination,
- slippage,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- stem,
- stoop,
- subsidence,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- swoop,
- theme,
- thumbs-down,
- turndown,
- unwillingness,
- wane,
- waterfall,
- withholding,
- word-formation
- obstruction
collapse
- getting in someone's way
- the act of obstructing; "obstruction of justice"
- any structure that makes progress difficult
- the state or condition of being obstructed related words >
- afterthought,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- bar,
- barrier,
- bind,
- blank wall,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottleneck,
- bureaucratic delay,
- catch,
- cecum,
- cessation,
- check,
- checking,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clog,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- cordon,
- costiveness,
- cramp,
- cul-de-sac,
- curtain,
- dead end,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- detention,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- difficulty,
- double take,
- drag,
- dragging,
- drawback,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidding,
- gorge,
- halt,
- halting,
- hamper,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- hazard,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hurdle,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- impeding,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- interruption,
- jam,
- joker,
- lag,
- lagging,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- limitation,
- limiting,
- logjam,
- minus acceleration,
- moratorium,
- mountain,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstructionism,
- obstructive,
- occlusion,
- one small difficulty,
- opposition,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- proscription,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- rub,
- sealing off,
- setback,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- snag,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping,
- stranglehold,
- strangulation,
- stricture,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait
first
previous
Advertisement