Related Words:
- overreach
collapse - fail by aiming too high or trying too hard related words >
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- ballyhoo,
- bamboozle,
- beat,
- beguile,
- betray,
- bilk,
- bluff,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- cajole,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- cheat on,
- chouse,
- circumvent,
- conjure,
- cozen,
- deceive,
- defraud,
- delude,
- diddle,
- do,
- double-cross,
- draw the longbow,
- dupe,
- elude,
- evade,
- exaggerate,
- exceed,
- flimflam,
- foil,
- forestall,
- frustrate,
- gammon,
- get around,
- get round,
- give the runaround,
- give the slip,
- go beyond,
- go one better,
- go to extremes,
- gull,
- gyp,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- hyperbolize,
- juggle,
- lay it on,
- let down,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- mock,
- outfigure,
- outflank,
- outfox,
- outgeneral,
- outguess,
- outmaneuver,
- outplay,
- outreach,
- outsmart,
- outwit,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overestimate,
- overgo,
- overjump,
- overleap,
- overpass,
- overpraise,
- overreact,
- overrun,
- oversell,
- overshoot,
- overshoot the field,
- overshoot the mark,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstep,
- overstress,
- overstride,
- pass,
- pass the buck,
- pigeon,
- pile it on,
- play one false,
- puff,
- put something over,
- snow,
- stonewall,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- string along,
- superabound,
- surpass,
- take in,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tout,
- transcend,
- travesty,
- trick,
- two-time,
- undo,
- victimize
- blind spot
collapse
- the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light
- a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment; "golf is one of his blind spots and he's proud of it" related words >
- ablepsia,
- amaurosis,
- atmospheric attenuation,
- atmospherics,
- authoritarianism,
- benightedness,
- bigotry,
- blaring,
- blasting,
- blind side,
- blind spots,
- blinders,
- blindfolding,
- blinding,
- blindness,
- blurring the eyes,
- cataract,
- cecity,
- closed mind,
- clutter,
- cramped ideas,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- darkness,
- deflection,
- depriving of sight,
- dim-sightedness,
- drift,
- drop serene,
- economic blindness,
- ever-during dark,
- excecation,
- eyelessness,
- fade-out,
- fading,
- false echoes,
- fanaticism,
- glaucoma,
- ground clutter,
- gutta serena,
- hideboundness,
- hoodwinking,
- illiberality,
- insularism,
- insularity,
- interference,
- lack of vision,
- little-mindedness,
- littleness,
- making blind,
- mean mind,
- meanness,
- narrow sympathies,
- narrow views,
- narrow-mindedness,
- narrowness,
- nearsightedness,
- niphablepsia,
- noise,
- odium theologicum,
- parochialism,
- partial blindness,
- pettiness,
- petty mind,
- provincialism,
- psychic blindness,
- purblindness,
- reception,
- reduced sight,
- refraction,
- sea clutter,
- shortsightedness,
- shut mind,
- sightless eyes,
- sightlessness,
- smallness,
- snow blindness,
- soul-blindness,
- spiritual blindness,
- static,
- stone-blindness,
- straitlacedness,
- stuffiness,
- superrefraction,
- total blindness,
- trachoma,
- uncatholicity,
- unenlightenment,
- unseeingness
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippant,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- mirage,
- mocking,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- pleasantry,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- fortification
collapse
- the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)
- defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
- the art or science of strengthening defenses related words >
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- affirmation,
- attestation,
- authentication,
- backing,
- backing up,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bearing out,
- bolstering,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- buttressing,
- case hardening,
- casemate,
- certification,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumstantiation,
- circumvallation,
- confirmation,
- contravallation,
- corroboration,
- corroboratory evidence,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- documentation,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- enrichment,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- glacis,
- hardening,
- invigoration,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- proof,
- proving,
- proving out,
- rampart,
- ratification,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- refreshment,
- reinforcement,
- reinvigoration,
- restoration,
- restrengthening,
- revivification,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- stockade,
- strengthening,
- substantiation,
- support,
- supporting evidence,
- tempering,
- tenaille,
- undergirding,
- validation,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- verification,
- vitaminization,
- work
- defend
collapse
- argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike"
- be on the defensive; act against an attack
- protect against a challenge or attack; "Hold that position behind the trees!"; "Hold the bridge against the enemy's attacks"
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant" related words >
- account,
- advocate,
- air,
- allege in support,
- answer,
- argue,
- argue for,
- arm,
- armor,
- assert,
- avert,
- back,
- battle,
- bless,
- bulwark,
- champion,
- claim,
- cloak,
- compass about,
- conserve,
- contend,
- contend for,
- copyright,
- counter,
- cover,
- cushion,
- ensure,
- espouse,
- explain,
- express,
- fence,
- fend,
- fend off,
- fight,
- fight for,
- flank,
- fortify,
- guarantee,
- guard,
- guard against,
- harbor,
- haven,
- insure,
- justify,
- keep,
- keep from harm,
- keep safe,
- maintain,
- make a plea,
- make safe,
- nestle,
- oppose,
- parry,
- patent,
- plead for,
- police,
- preserve,
- prevent,
- protect,
- rationalize,
- rebut,
- refute,
- register,
- reply,
- resist,
- respond,
- ride shotgun for,
- riposte,
- safeguard,
- save,
- say in defense,
- screen,
- secure,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shroud,
- speak for,
- speak up for,
- stand by,
- stand up for,
- stick up for,
- support,
- sustain,
- underwrite,
- uphold,
- urge reasons for,
- utter,
- vent,
- vindicate,
- voice,
- war,
- ward,
- ward off,
- warrant,
- watch over,
- withstand
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