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diverge
collapse
move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here"
extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged"
have no limits as a mathematical series
related words >
aberrate
,
agree to disagree
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
angle
,
angle off
,
be changed
,
be converted into
,
be distinct
,
be distinguished
,
be renewed
,
bear off
,
bend
,
bestrew
,
bias
,
bottom out
,
branch off
,
branch out
,
break
,
break up
,
break with
,
broadcast
,
change
,
change the bearing
,
checker
,
chop
,
chop and change
,
circumfuse
,
clash with
,
come about
,
come around
,
come round
,
conflict with
,
contrast with
,
crook
,
curve
,
deal out
,
deflect
,
degenerate
,
depart
,
depart from
,
deploy
,
deteriorate
,
detour
,
deviate
,
deviate from
,
differ
,
differentiate
,
diffract
,
diffuse
,
digress
,
disaccord with
,
disagree
,
disagree with
,
disband
,
dispel
,
dispense
,
disperse
,
dispread
,
disseminate
,
dissent
,
distort
,
distribute
,
disunify
,
divagate
,
divaricate
,
divaricate from
,
diverge from
,
diversify
,
divert
,
divide
,
dogleg
,
drift
,
excurse
,
fall out
,
fan out
,
flop
,
fork
,
go away
,
go off
,
go separate ways
,
hairpin
,
haul around
,
have a falling-out
,
heel
,
improve
,
issue
,
jar with
,
jibe
,
meliorate
,
mitigate
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
not accord with
,
not square with
,
oblique
,
outspread
,
overscatter
,
oversow
,
overspread
,
part
,
part company
,
propagate
,
publish
,
pull
,
radiate
,
ramble
,
ramify
,
refract
,
relieve
,
retail
,
revive
,
scatter
,
separate
,
sheer
,
shift
,
skew
,
slue
,
sow
,
sow broadcast
,
splay
,
split
,
split up
,
spread
,
spread out
,
stand apart
,
stand over against
,
stray
,
strew
,
subdivide
,
sway
,
swerve
,
tack
,
take a turn
,
trend
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn into
,
turn the corner
,
twist
,
undergo a change
,
utter
,
variate
,
variegate
,
vary
,
veer
,
wander
,
warp
,
worsen
,
zigzag
municipality
collapse
people living in a town or city having local self-government
an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
related words >
Stadt
,
bailiwick
,
banlieue
,
boom town
,
borough
,
bourg
,
bureau
,
burg
,
burgh
,
city
,
commissariat
,
constablery
,
constablewick
,
constabulary
,
conurbation
,
department
,
district
,
exurb
,
exurbia
,
faubourg
,
ghost town
,
greater city
,
market town
,
megalopolis
,
metropolis
,
metropolitan area
,
ministry
,
office
,
outskirts
,
polis
,
secretariat
,
sheriffalty
,
sheriffwick
,
shrievalty
,
spread city
,
suburb
,
suburbia
,
town
,
township
,
urban complex
,
urban sprawl
,
urbs
,
village
,
ville
escalate
collapse
increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"
related words >
boost
,
broaden
,
buoy up
,
cast up
,
climb
,
elevate
,
enlarge
,
erect
,
escalade
,
expand
,
grow
,
heave
,
heft
,
heighten
,
heist
,
hike
,
hoick
,
hoist
,
hold up
,
increase
,
intensify
,
jerk up
,
knock up
,
levitate
,
lift
,
lift up
,
lob
,
loft
,
mount
,
perk up
,
raise
,
raise up
,
rear
,
rear up
,
rise
,
scale
,
set up
,
sky
,
spread
,
stick up
,
throw up
,
up
,
upbuoy
,
upcast
,
upclimb
,
upgo
,
upheave
,
uphoist
,
uphold
,
uplift
,
upraise
,
uprear
,
upthrow
,
widen
chop down
collapse
cut down; "George chopped down the cherry tree"
related words >
beat down
,
blow down
,
blow over
,
bowl down
,
bowl over
,
break down
,
bring down
,
bulldog
,
bulldoze
,
burn down
,
cast down
,
cut down
,
dash down
,
deck
,
down
,
drop
,
fell
,
fetch down
,
flatten
,
floor
,
ground
,
hew down
,
knock down
,
knock over
,
lay level
,
lay low
,
lay out
,
level
,
mow down
,
precipitate
,
prostrate
,
pull down
,
rase
,
raze
,
send headlong
,
smash
,
spread-eagle
,
steamroller
,
supinate
,
take down
,
tear down
,
throw
,
throw down
,
topple
,
trip
,
tumble
,
whack down
mow down
collapse
related words >
beat down
,
blow down
,
blow over
,
bowl down
,
bowl over
,
break down
,
bring down
,
bulldog
,
bulldoze
,
burn down
,
cast down
,
chop down
,
cut down
,
dash down
,
deck
,
down
,
drop
,
fell
,
fetch down
,
flatten
,
floor
,
ground
,
hew down
,
knock down
,
knock over
,
lay level
,
lay low
,
lay out
,
level
,
precipitate
,
prostrate
,
pull down
,
rase
,
raze
,
send headlong
,
smash
,
spread-eagle
,
steamroller
,
supinate
,
take down
,
tear down
,
throw
,
throw down
,
topple
,
trip
,
tumble
,
whack down
set sail
collapse
related words >
begin
,
blast away
,
blast off
,
clap on
,
commence
,
crack on
,
dive in
,
fall to
,
get to
,
give her beans
,
go ahead
,
head into
,
hoist sail
,
jump off
,
kick off
,
make sail
,
pack on
,
pack on sail
,
pitch in
,
plunge into
,
put on sail
,
send off
,
set about
,
set in
,
set out
,
set to
,
spread sail
,
square away
,
square the yards
,
start
,
start in
,
start off
,
start out
,
take off
,
trim sail
,
turn to
reinforced
collapse
given added strength or support; "reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting"
related words >
accelerated
,
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
augmented
,
backed
,
beefed-up
,
bloated
,
boosted
,
broadened
,
calcified
,
callous
,
calloused
,
case-hardened
,
crusted
,
crusty
,
crystallized
,
deepened
,
elevated
,
enhanced
,
enlarged
,
expanded
,
extended
,
fossilized
,
granulated
,
hardened
,
heightened
,
hiked
,
hornified
,
increased
,
incrusted
,
indurate
,
indurated
,
inflated
,
intensified
,
jazzed up
,
lapidified
,
magnified
,
multiplied
,
ossified
,
petrified
,
proliferated
,
raised
,
rigidified
,
sclerotic
,
set
,
solidified
,
spread
,
steeled
,
stiffened
,
strengthened
,
swollen
,
tightened
,
toughened
,
vitrified
,
widened
stiffened
collapse
related words >
accelerated
,
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
augmented
,
backed
,
beefed-up
,
bloated
,
boosted
,
broadened
,
calcified
,
callous
,
calloused
,
case-hardened
,
crusted
,
crusty
,
crystallized
,
deepened
,
elevated
,
enhanced
,
enlarged
,
expanded
,
extended
,
fossilized
,
granulated
,
hardened
,
heightened
,
hiked
,
hornified
,
increased
,
incrusted
,
indurate
,
indurated
,
inflated
,
intensified
,
jazzed up
,
lapidified
,
magnified
,
multiplied
,
ossified
,
petrified
,
proliferated
,
raised
,
reinforced
,
rigidified
,
sclerotic
,
set
,
solidified
,
spread
,
steeled
,
strengthened
,
swollen
,
tightened
,
toughened
,
vitrified
,
widened
strengthened
collapse
related words >
accelerated
,
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
augmented
,
backed
,
beefed-up
,
bloated
,
boosted
,
broadened
,
calcified
,
callous
,
calloused
,
case-hardened
,
crusted
,
crusty
,
crystallized
,
deepened
,
elevated
,
enhanced
,
enlarged
,
expanded
,
extended
,
fossilized
,
granulated
,
hardened
,
heightened
,
hiked
,
hornified
,
increased
,
incrusted
,
indurate
,
indurated
,
inflated
,
intensified
,
jazzed up
,
lapidified
,
magnified
,
multiplied
,
ossified
,
petrified
,
proliferated
,
raised
,
reinforced
,
rigidified
,
sclerotic
,
set
,
solidified
,
spread
,
steeled
,
stiffened
,
swollen
,
tightened
,
toughened
,
vitrified
,
widened
inveigle
collapse
related words >
allure
,
bait
,
bait the hook
,
birdlime
,
blandish
,
cajole
,
catch
,
catch out
,
coax
,
decoy
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw on
,
enmesh
,
ensnare
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entice
,
entoil
,
entrap
,
enweb
,
flirt
,
flirt with
,
gin
,
give the come-on
,
hook
,
hook in
,
lead on
,
lime
,
lure
,
mesh
,
net
,
noose
,
offer bait to
,
rope in
,
seduce
,
snare
,
snarl
,
sniggle
,
spread the toils
,
suck in
,
tangle
,
tempt
,
toll
,
trap
,
trip
,
wind
,
woo
ensnarl
collapse
related words >
allure
,
bait the hook
,
birdlime
,
burden
,
catch
,
catch out
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cumber
,
decoy
,
embarrass
,
embrangle
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnare
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
enweb
,
fetter
,
gin
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handicap
,
hobble
,
hook
,
hook in
,
impede
,
inveigle
,
involve
,
lame
,
lime
,
lumber
,
lure
,
mesh
,
net
,
noose
,
perplex
,
press down
,
saddle with
,
shackle
,
snare
,
snarl
,
sniggle
,
spread the toils
,
tangle
,
toil
,
trammel
,
trap
,
trip
,
weigh down
,
wind
under way
collapse
in motion; set in motion; "the ship got under way"
related words >
accepted
,
accidental
,
accompanying
,
ado
,
afloat
,
afoot
,
assumed
,
astir
,
at sea
,
brewing
,
chanced
,
circumstantial
,
current
,
doing
,
eventuating
,
forthcoming
,
going on
,
happening
,
homeward bound
,
in blue water
,
in embryo
,
in hand
,
in motion
,
in preparation
,
in process
,
in production
,
in progress
,
in soundings
,
in the oven
,
in the wind
,
in the works
,
incidental
,
making way
,
occasional
,
occurring
,
off soundings
,
off the course
,
off the heading
,
on
,
on foot
,
on stream
,
on the anvil
,
on the fire
,
on the go
,
on the move
,
on the run
,
on the way
,
ongoing
,
passing
,
prevailing
,
prevalent
,
resultant
,
taking place
,
under bare poles
,
under construction
,
under revision
,
under sail
,
undertaken
,
with sails spread
,
with way on
fall flat
collapse
related words >
bomb
,
break down
,
capsize
,
careen
,
collapse
,
come a cropper
,
come to naught
,
come to nothing
,
crash
,
fall
,
fall dead
,
fall down
,
fall headlong
,
fall in
,
fall over
,
fall prostrate
,
fall short
,
fall stillborn
,
fall through
,
fizzle out
,
flounder
,
flunk
,
get a cropper
,
get bogged down
,
get hung up
,
get mired
,
go to smash
,
list
,
lurch
,
peter out
,
pitch
,
poop out
,
spin
,
sprawl
,
spread-eagle
,
stagger
,
stumble
,
take a fall
,
take a flop
,
take a header
,
take a pratfall
,
take a spill
,
tilt
,
topple
,
topple down
,
topple over
,
totter
,
trip
,
tumble
,
turn turtle
,
wash out
,
wear thin
edible
collapse
suitable for use as food
related words >
board
,
bread
,
bread and butter
,
cheer
,
comestible
,
comestibles
,
creature comfort
,
cuisine
,
daily bread
,
dainty
,
delicious
,
digestible
,
eatable
,
eatables
,
edibles
,
esculent
,
fare
,
fast food
,
feast
,
food
,
food and drink
,
foodstuff
,
good to eat
,
gustable
,
health food
,
ingesta
,
junk food
,
kitchen stuff
,
kosher
,
meat
,
nourishing
,
nutritious
,
nutritive
,
palatable
,
provender
,
provision
,
savory
,
spread
,
succulent
,
sustenance
,
table
,
tasty
,
toothsome
,
tucker
,
viands
,
victuals
,
vittles
,
wholesome
periodical
collapse
a publication that appears at fixed intervals
related words >
airing
,
almanac
,
alternate
,
annual
,
bandying
,
bimonthly
,
biweekly
,
book
,
broadcast
,
broadcasting
,
bruiting
,
bruiting about
,
circulation
,
daily
,
daybook
,
diary
,
diffusion
,
display
,
dissemination
,
ephemeris
,
evulgation
,
fortnightly
,
gazette
,
hebdomadal
,
isochronal
,
issuance
,
issue
,
journal
,
magazine
,
monthly
,
newsletter
,
newsmagazine
,
newspaper
,
organ
,
paper
,
pictorial
,
printing
,
promulgation
,
propagation
,
publication
,
publishing
,
quarterly
,
recurring
,
renew
,
review
,
serial
,
slick magazine
,
spread
,
spreading
,
spreading abroad
,
telecasting
,
trade magazine
,
ventilation
,
weekly
,
yearbook
screamer
collapse
gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call
a sensational newspaper headline
related words >
banner
,
banner head
,
bloomer
,
blooper
,
bobble
,
bonehead play
,
boner
,
boo-boo
,
boob stunt
,
boot
,
caption
,
drop head
,
dropline
,
dumb trick
,
epigraph
,
fool mistake
,
foozle
,
foul-up
,
goof
,
hanger
,
head
,
heading
,
headline
,
howler
,
jump head
,
legend
,
louse-up
,
motto
,
muck-up
,
overline
,
pratfall
,
rubric
,
running head
,
running title
,
scarehead
,
screw-up
,
spread
,
spreadhead
,
streamer
,
subhead
,
subheading
,
subtitle
,
superscription
,
title
,
title page
option
collapse
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
related words >
alternate choice
,
alternative
,
call
,
chance
,
choice
,
discretion
,
druthers
,
election
,
emption
,
first option
,
first refusal
,
free choice
,
free decision
,
free will
,
full consent
,
noncontingent free will
,
opportunity
,
optionality
,
pleasure
,
possible choice
,
preemption
,
preference
,
prerogative
,
privilege
,
put
,
put and call
,
recourse
,
refusal
,
right
,
right of emption
,
right of preemption
,
say
,
say-so
,
selection
,
spread
,
stock option
,
straddle
,
strap
,
strip
,
way out
,
will and pleasure
migration
collapse
the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
(chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
related words >
communication
,
conduction
,
contagion
,
convection
,
delivery
,
deportation
,
diapedesis
,
diffusion
,
dissemination
,
emigration
,
expatriation
,
export
,
exportation
,
expulsion
,
extradition
,
flight
,
immigration
,
import
,
importation
,
in-migration
,
interchange
,
intermigration
,
metastasis
,
metathesis
,
metempsychosis
,
mutual transfer
,
osmosis
,
out-migration
,
passage
,
passing over
,
perfusion
,
remigration
,
run
,
spread
,
spreading
,
swarm
,
swarming
,
transduction
,
transfer
,
transfer of property
,
transference
,
transfusion
,
transit
,
transition
,
translation
,
translocation
,
transmigration
,
transmigration of souls
,
transmission
,
transmittal
,
transmittance
,
transplacement
,
transplantation
,
transposal
,
transposition
,
travel
,
trek
overlay
collapse
put something on top of something else; "cover the meat with a lot of gravy"
related words >
adorn
,
applique
,
apply to
,
blanket
,
block
,
canopy
,
cap
,
cloak
,
clothe
,
cloud
,
convolute
,
cope
,
cover
,
cover up
,
cowl
,
crown
,
curtain
,
decorate
,
eclipse
,
elaborate
,
embellish
,
embroider
,
enrich
,
festoon
,
film
,
flap
,
flourish
,
fly
,
gild
,
hood
,
imbrication
,
involve
,
lap
,
lay on
,
lay over
,
load with ornament
,
mantle
,
mask
,
muffle
,
obduce
,
obscure
,
occult
,
ornament
,
overcast
,
overcharge
,
overlap
,
overlapping
,
overlayer
,
overload
,
overspread
,
put on
,
screen
,
scum
,
shield
,
spread over
,
superimpose
,
superpose
,
trick out
,
varnish
,
veil
enhanced
collapse
increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality; "her enhanced beauty was the result of a good night's sleep rather than makeup"; "careful cleaning was responsible for the enhanced value of the painting"
related words >
accelerated
,
advanced
,
aggrandized
,
aggravated
,
ameliorated
,
amplified
,
annoyed
,
augmented
,
beautified
,
beefed-up
,
bettered
,
bloated
,
boosted
,
broadened
,
civilized
,
converted
,
cultivated
,
cultured
,
deepened
,
deliberately provoked
,
developed
,
educated
,
elevated
,
embellished
,
embittered
,
enlarged
,
enriched
,
exacerbated
,
exasperated
,
expanded
,
extended
,
heated up
,
heightened
,
hiked
,
hotted up
,
improved
,
increased
,
inflated
,
intensified
,
irritated
,
jazzed up
,
magnified
,
multiplied
,
perfected
,
polished
,
proliferated
,
provoked
,
raised
,
refined
,
reformed
,
reinforced
,
soured
,
spread
,
stiffened
,
strengthened
,
swollen
,
tightened
,
transfigured
,
transformed
,
widened
,
worse
,
worsened
scatter
collapse
the act of scattering
a haphazard distribution in all directions
distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
sow by scattering; "scatter seeds"
related words >
atomize
,
bend
,
besprinkle
,
bestrew
,
bias
,
blow
,
break into pieces
,
break to pieces
,
break up
,
broadcast
,
cast
,
circulate
,
circumfuse
,
clutter
,
confound
,
crash
,
crook
,
crunch
,
crush
,
curve
,
cut to pieces
,
deactivate
,
deal out
,
debrief
,
deflect
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
demob
,
demobilize
,
demolish
,
derange
,
detach
,
deviate
,
diffract
,
diffraction
,
diffuse
,
diffusion
,
disarrange
,
disarray
,
disband
,
discard
,
discharge
,
discomfit
,
dishevel
,
disintegrate
,
disjoin
,
dislocate
,
dismiss
,
disorder
,
disorganize
,
dispel
,
dispense
,
disperse
,
dispersion
,
dispread
,
disrupt
,
disseminate
,
dissipate
,
dissolve
,
distort
,
distortion
,
distribute
,
diverge
,
divert
,
divide
,
dogleg
,
ease
,
ease off
,
emanate
,
fan out
,
fission
,
flection
,
flexure
,
fragment
,
free
,
gamble away
,
go off
,
go separate ways
,
go through
,
grind
,
hairpin
,
hang the expense
,
issue
,
lavish
,
let go
,
let up
,
litter
,
loose
,
loosen
,
make mincemeat of
,
mess
,
mess up
,
mince
,
misarrange
,
muss
,
muss up
,
muster out
,
overscatter
,
oversow
,
overspread
,
panic
,
part
,
part company
,
propagate
,
publish
,
pull
,
pulverize
,
put to flight
,
put to rout
,
radiate
,
ray
,
refract
,
refraction
,
relax
,
release
,
retail
,
rout
,
ruffle
,
rumple
,
run through
,
seize the day
,
separate
,
sever
,
shatter
,
shed
,
shiver
,
shower
,
skew
,
skewness
,
slack
,
slack off
,
slacken
,
slather
,
smash
,
smash up
,
sow
,
sow broadcast
,
splay
,
splinter
,
split up
,
spread
,
spread out
,
sprinkle
,
squander
,
squash
,
squish
,
stampede
,
straw
,
strew
,
throw away
,
throw money around
,
torsion
,
tousle
,
turn
,
twist
,
unglue
,
unleash
,
unstick
,
utter
,
warp
,
zigzag
accrue
collapse
grow by addition; "The interest accrues"
come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"
related words >
accrue from
,
accrue to
,
accumulate
,
advance
,
appreciate
,
arise from
,
balloon
,
be contingent on
,
be due to
,
be received
,
bloat
,
boom
,
breed
,
broaden
,
bud from
,
come from
,
come in
,
come out of
,
come to hand
,
crescendo
,
depend on
,
derive from
,
descend from
,
develop
,
emanate from
,
emerge from
,
ensue from
,
fall due
,
fall to one
,
flow from
,
follow from
,
gain
,
gain strength
,
germinate from
,
get ahead
,
go up
,
grow
,
grow from
,
grow out of
,
hang on
,
hinge on
,
increase
,
intensify
,
issue from
,
mature
,
mount
,
multiply
,
originate in
,
proceed from
,
proliferate
,
rise
,
run up
,
shoot up
,
snowball
,
spread
,
spring from
,
sprout from
,
stem from
,
strengthen
,
swell
,
turn on
,
wax
,
widen
dimension
collapse
the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)
one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space
shape or form to required dimensions
indicate the dimensions on; "These techniques permit us to dimension the human heart"
related words >
acreage
,
ambit
,
amplitude
,
area
,
bigness
,
body
,
breadth
,
bulk
,
caliber
,
circle
,
compass
,
confines
,
continuum
,
coverage
,
depth
,
diameter
,
dimensions
,
emptiness
,
empty space
,
expanse
,
expansion
,
extension
,
extent
,
field
,
galactic space
,
gauge
,
girth
,
greatness
,
height
,
infinite space
,
interstellar space
,
largeness
,
length
,
magnitude
,
mass
,
measure
,
measurement
,
nothingness
,
outer space
,
proportion
,
proportions
,
radius
,
range
,
reach
,
scale
,
scope
,
size
,
space
,
spatial extension
,
sphere
,
spread
,
superficial extension
,
surface
,
tract
,
void
,
volume
,
width
daily bread
collapse
related words >
TLC
,
board
,
bread
,
bread and butter
,
care
,
cheer
,
comestibles
,
creature comfort
,
cuisine
,
eatables
,
economic support
,
edibles
,
endowment
,
fare
,
fast food
,
feast
,
food
,
food and drink
,
foodstuff
,
health food
,
ingesta
,
junk food
,
keep
,
kitchen stuff
,
livelihood
,
living
,
maintenance
,
manna
,
meat
,
mothering
,
nourishment
,
nurture
,
price support
,
provender
,
provision
,
spread
,
subsidization
,
subsidy
,
subsistence
,
subvention
,
support
,
sustainment
,
sustenance
,
sustentation
,
table
,
tender loving care
,
tucker
,
upkeep
,
viands
,
victuals
,
vittles
perfuse
collapse
force a fluid through (a body part or tissue); "perfuse a liver with a salt solution"
related words >
assign
,
bleed
,
carry over
,
communicate
,
consign
,
cup
,
deliver
,
deport
,
diffuse
,
disseminate
,
ease in
,
expel
,
export
,
extradite
,
give a transfusion
,
hand forward
,
hand on
,
hand over
,
impart
,
import
,
infuse
,
inject
,
inoculate
,
insert
,
insinuate
,
interject
,
introduce
,
intromit
,
leech
,
let blood
,
make over
,
metastasize
,
metathesize
,
pass
,
pass on
,
pass over
,
pass the buck
,
phlebotomize
,
pop in
,
put in
,
relay
,
set in
,
slip in
,
spread
,
stick in
,
switch
,
throw in
,
transfer
,
transfer property
,
transfuse
,
translate
,
translocate
,
transmit
,
transplace
,
transplant
,
transpose
,
tuck in
,
turn over
,
whip in
widening
collapse
the act of making something wider
an increase in width
related words >
access
,
accession
,
accretion
,
accrual
,
accruement
,
accumulation
,
addition
,
adjunct
,
advance
,
aggrandizement
,
ampliation
,
amplification
,
appreciation
,
ascent
,
augmentation
,
ballooning
,
bloating
,
boom
,
boost
,
broadening
,
buildup
,
crescendo
,
deployment
,
development
,
dispersion
,
edema
,
elevation
,
enlargement
,
expansion
,
extension
,
fanning out
,
flare
,
flood
,
gain
,
greatening
,
growth
,
gush
,
hike
,
hiking
,
increase
,
increment
,
inflation
,
jump
,
leap
,
magnification
,
mounting
,
multiplication
,
productiveness
,
proliferation
,
raise
,
raising
,
rise
,
snowballing
,
splay
,
spread
,
spreading
,
surge
,
swelling
,
tumescence
,
up
,
upping
,
upsurge
,
upswing
,
uptrend
,
upturn
,
waxing
propagation
collapse
the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
the movement of a wave through a medium
related words >
airing
,
attenuation
,
bandying
,
begetting
,
book
,
breeding
,
broadcast
,
broadcasting
,
bruiting
,
bruiting about
,
circulation
,
circumfusion
,
crossbreeding
,
diffraction
,
diffusion
,
dilution
,
dispensation
,
dispersal
,
dispersion
,
display
,
dissemination
,
dissipation
,
dissogeny
,
distribution
,
divergence
,
endogamy
,
engenderment
,
evaporation
,
evulgation
,
expansion
,
fragmentation
,
generation
,
inbreeding
,
issuance
,
issue
,
linebreeding
,
multiplication
,
outbreeding
,
peppering
,
periodical
,
printing
,
procreation
,
proliferation
,
promulgation
,
publication
,
publishing
,
radiation
,
scattering
,
scatterment
,
shotgun pattern
,
sowing
,
spattering
,
splay
,
spread
,
spreading
,
spreading abroad
,
sprinkling
,
strewing
,
telecasting
,
ventilation
,
volatilization
,
xenogamy
headline
collapse
the heading or caption of a newspaper article
publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline
provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline
related words >
banner
,
banner head
,
be a gas
,
be a hit
,
bill
,
bomb
,
caption
,
dramatize
,
drop head
,
dropline
,
epigraph
,
fail
,
feature
,
flop
,
hanger
,
head
,
head up
,
heading
,
jump head
,
legend
,
make a hit
,
melodramatize
,
motto
,
mount
,
open
,
open a show
,
overline
,
premiere
,
present
,
preview
,
produce
,
put on
,
rubric
,
running head
,
running title
,
scarehead
,
scenarize
,
screamer
,
set the stage
,
spread
,
spreadhead
,
stage
,
star
,
streamer
,
subhead
,
subheading
,
subtitle
,
succeed
,
superscription
,
theatricalize
,
title
,
title page
,
try out
broach
collapse
bring up a topic for discussion
related words >
advance
,
air
,
auger
,
bite
,
bleed
,
blue
,
bore
,
bring before
,
bring forward
,
bring in
,
bring up
,
chink
,
christen
,
cleave
,
clip
,
commend to attention
,
countersink
,
crack
,
crevasse
,
cut
,
cut open
,
decant
,
dispart
,
display
,
divaricate
,
divide
,
divulge
,
draft
,
draft off
,
drain
,
draw
,
draw from
,
draw off
,
drill
,
empierce
,
empty
,
establish
,
exhaust
,
expansive
,
extended
,
fissure
,
fix
,
float
,
fly open
,
found
,
give out
,
gore
,
gouge
,
gouge out
,
hint at
,
hole
,
honeycomb
,
impale
,
inaugurate
,
incise
,
induct
,
initiate
,
install
,
institute
,
interject
,
interpose
,
introduce
,
lance
,
launch
,
lay before
,
lay open
,
let
,
let blood
,
let out
,
lift up
,
make a motion
,
make known
,
make public
,
mention
,
milk
,
moot
,
move
,
needle
,
off-color
,
offer a resolution
,
ope
,
open
,
open up
,
part
,
penetrate
,
perforate
,
phlebotomize
,
pierce
,
pin
,
pink
,
pipette
,
pose
,
postulate
,
prefer
,
prick
,
propose
,
proposition
,
propound
,
pump
,
pump out
,
punch
,
puncture
,
purple
,
put forth
,
put forward
,
put it to
,
put out
,
racy
,
raise
,
ream
,
ream out
,
recommend
,
rent
,
riddle
,
rift
,
ring in
,
rip
,
risque
,
rive
,
run through
,
salty
,
scopic
,
separate
,
set agoing
,
set before
,
set forth
,
set on foot
,
set up
,
shady
,
siphon off
,
skewer
,
slit
,
spear
,
spicy
,
spike
,
spit
,
split
,
spread
,
spread out
,
spring open
,
stab
,
start
,
start going
,
start up
,
stick
,
submit
,
suck
,
suck out
,
suggest
,
suggestive
,
swing open
,
talk about
,
tap
,
tear
,
tear open
,
throw open
,
touch on
,
touch upon
,
transfix
,
transpierce
,
trepan
,
trephine
,
turn on
,
usher in
,
venesect
,
ventilate
,
wicked
,
wide
groveling
collapse
related words >
abject
,
accumbent
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
couchant
,
couche
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
decumbent
,
draped
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flat
,
flattering
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
lying
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
on bended knee
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
procumbent
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
reclining
,
recumbent
,
reposing
,
resupine
,
sniveling
,
sponging
,
sprawled
,
sprawling
,
spread
,
supine
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
cleave
collapse
separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
related words >
accelerate
,
activate
,
adhere
,
adhere to
,
agglomerate
,
amputate
,
associate
,
atomize
,
ax
,
bifurcate
,
bisect
,
bite
,
bombard
,
branch
,
breach
,
break
,
break to pieces
,
broach
,
bunch
,
butcher
,
by two
,
carve
,
check
,
chink
,
chop
,
clasp
,
cleave to
,
clench
,
clinch
,
cling
,
cling to
,
clip
,
clot
,
cluster
,
clutch
,
coagulate
,
cohere
,
combine
,
congeal
,
conglomerate
,
conjoin
,
crack
,
crevasse
,
cross-bombard
,
cut
,
cut apart
,
cut away
,
cut in two
,
cut off
,
cut open
,
demolish
,
dichotomize
,
dimidiate
,
disassemble
,
disintegrate
,
dismantle
,
dispart
,
dissect
,
dissever
,
ditch
,
divaricate
,
divide
,
divorce
,
embrace
,
excise
,
fission
,
fissure
,
fly open
,
fork
,
fracture
,
fragment
,
freeze to
,
furrow
,
gap
,
gash
,
grapple
,
grasp
,
grip
,
gripe
,
groove
,
grow together
,
hack
,
halve
,
hang on
,
hang on to
,
hang together
,
hew
,
hold
,
hold fast
,
hold on
,
hold on to
,
hold tight
,
hold together
,
hug
,
in half
,
incise
,
jigsaw
,
join
,
keep hold of
,
lance
,
lay open
,
link
,
make mincemeat of
,
mass
,
never let go
,
nip
,
nucleize
,
ope
,
open
,
open up
,
pare
,
part
,
persist
,
pick to pieces
,
prune
,
pull in pieces
,
pull to pieces
,
pulverize
,
ramify
,
reduce to rubble
,
rend
,
rent
,
rift
,
rip
,
rive
,
rupture
,
saw
,
scissor
,
separate
,
set
,
sever
,
shatter
,
slash
,
slice
,
slit
,
slot
,
smash
,
smash the atom
,
snip
,
solidify
,
split
,
split in two
,
spread
,
spread out
,
spring open
,
stay
,
stay put
,
stick
,
stick to
,
stick together
,
subdivide
,
sunder
,
swing open
,
take apart
,
take hold of
,
tap
,
tear
,
tear apart
,
tear open
,
tear to pieces
,
tear to shreds
,
tear to tatters
,
throw open
,
total
,
transect
,
trench
,
unbuild
,
undo
,
unite
,
unmake
,
whittle
,
wrack up
,
wreck
ensnare
collapse
take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
related words >
allure
,
bag
,
bait
,
bait the hook
,
birdlime
,
blandish
,
cajole
,
capture
,
catch
,
catch out
,
catch up
,
coax
,
decoy
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw on
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entice
,
entoil
,
entrap
,
enweb
,
flirt
,
flirt with
,
foul
,
gin
,
give the come-on
,
harpoon
,
hook
,
hook in
,
inveigle
,
land
,
lasso
,
lead on
,
lime
,
lure
,
mesh
,
nail
,
net
,
noose
,
offer bait to
,
rope
,
rope in
,
sack
,
seduce
,
snag
,
snare
,
snarl
,
sniggle
,
spear
,
spread the toils
,
suck in
,
take
,
tangle
,
tangle up with
,
trap
,
trip
,
wind
,
woo
throw down
collapse
related words >
beat down
,
blow down
,
blow over
,
bowl down
,
bowl over
,
break down
,
bring
,
bring down
,
bulldog
,
bulldoze
,
burn down
,
cast down
,
chop down
,
cut down
,
dash down
,
deck
,
down
,
drop
,
fell
,
fetch down
,
flatten
,
floor
,
ground
,
hew down
,
honeycomb
,
knock down
,
knock over
,
lay level
,
lay low
,
lay out
,
level
,
mow down
,
overset
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
precipitate
,
prostrate
,
pull down
,
rase
,
raze
,
sap
,
sap the foundations
,
send headlong
,
smash
,
spread-eagle
,
steamroller
,
subvert
,
supinate
,
take down
,
tear down
,
throw
,
throw over
,
topple
,
trip
,
tumble
,
undermine
,
upend
,
upset
,
weaken
,
whack down
conduction
collapse
the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
related words >
communication
,
conductance
,
conductivity
,
conductor
,
contagion
,
convection
,
delivery
,
deportation
,
diapedesis
,
dielectric
,
diffusion
,
dissemination
,
electric conduction
,
export
,
exportation
,
expulsion
,
extradition
,
gas conduction
,
import
,
importation
,
insulator
,
interchange
,
ionic conduction
,
liquid conduction
,
metallic conduction
,
metastasis
,
metathesis
,
metempsychosis
,
mho
,
migration
,
mutual transfer
,
nonconductor
,
osmosis
,
passage
,
passing over
,
perfusion
,
photoconduction
,
semiconductor
,
spread
,
spreading
,
superconductivity
,
superconductor
,
transduction
,
transfer
,
transfer of property
,
transference
,
transfusion
,
transit
,
transition
,
translation
,
translocation
,
transmigration
,
transmigration of souls
,
transmission
,
transmittal
,
transmittance
,
transplacement
,
transplantation
,
transposal
,
transposition
,
travel
dispersal
collapse
related words >
aloofness
,
anarchy
,
attenuation
,
breakup
,
broadcast
,
broadcasting
,
chaos
,
circumfusion
,
confusion
,
crack-up
,
deactivation
,
demobilization
,
detachment
,
diaspora
,
diffraction
,
diffusion
,
dilution
,
disbandment
,
discontinuity
,
discreteness
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
dislocation
,
dismissal
,
disorder
,
disorganization
,
dispensation
,
dispersion
,
disruption
,
dissemination
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
distribution
,
divergence
,
entropy
,
evaporation
,
exfoliation
,
expansion
,
fragmentation
,
incoherence
,
inconsistency
,
nonadhesion
,
noncohesion
,
parting
,
peppering
,
propagation
,
publication
,
radiation
,
release
,
revolution
,
scaling
,
scattering
,
scatterment
,
separateness
,
separation
,
shattering
,
shotgun pattern
,
sowing
,
spattering
,
splay
,
split-up
,
spread
,
spreading
,
sprinkling
,
strewing
,
unadherence
,
unadhesiveness
,
untenacity
,
volatilization
cope
collapse
come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
related words >
apply to
,
blanket
,
block
,
canopy
,
challenge
,
cloak
,
clothe
,
cloud
,
come through
,
compete
,
compete with
,
contend against
,
contend with
,
cope with
,
cover
,
cover up
,
cowl
,
curtain
,
deal with
,
dispose of
,
do with
,
eclipse
,
eke out
,
emulate
,
film
,
get along
,
get along on
,
get by
,
get by on
,
handle
,
hood
,
jockey
,
keep afloat
,
lay on
,
lay over
,
make do
,
make ends meet
,
make out
,
makeshift
,
manage
,
manage with
,
mantle
,
mask
,
meet
,
muffle
,
obduce
,
obscure
,
occult
,
outvie
,
overlay
,
overspread
,
put on
,
rival
,
scrape along
,
screen
,
scum
,
shield
,
spread over
,
subsist
,
superimpose
,
superpose
,
survive
,
test one another
,
veil
,
vie
,
vie with
,
withstand
butter
collapse
an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
spread butter on; "butter bread"
related words >
albumen
,
batter
,
bedaub
,
besmear
,
blandness
,
blarney
,
blubber
,
bonnyclabber
,
breeze
,
butter up
,
buttermilk
,
cataplasm
,
certified milk
,
cheese
,
clabber
,
clay
,
coat
,
condensed milk
,
cornstarch
,
cream
,
crush
,
curd
,
cushion
,
dab
,
dairy products
,
daub
,
dental pulp
,
dough
,
down
,
egg white
,
eiderdown
,
enamel
,
fair words
,
feather bed
,
feathers
,
fleece
,
floss
,
flue
,
fluff
,
foam
,
fulsomeness
,
gaum
,
gel
,
gelatin
,
get around
,
ghee
,
gild
,
glair
,
glibness
,
glop
,
gloss
,
glue
,
gluten
,
goo
,
gook
,
goop
,
gruel
,
gumbo
,
gunk
,
half-and-half
,
heavy cream
,
honey
,
honeyed words
,
incense
,
jam
,
jell
,
jelly
,
jolly
,
kapok
,
kid along
,
lacquer
,
lay it on
,
lay on
,
light cream
,
loblolly
,
margarine
,
mash
,
milk
,
molasses
,
mucilage
,
mucus
,
mush
,
nonfat dry milk
,
oil
,
oiliness
,
oleo
,
oleomargarine
,
overdo it
,
pap
,
paper pulp
,
paste
,
pillow
,
pith
,
plaster
,
play up to
,
plush
,
porridge
,
poultice
,
prime
,
pudding
,
puff
,
pulp
,
pulp lead
,
pulpwood
,
puree
,
putty
,
rag pulp
,
raw milk
,
rob
,
rubber
,
satin
,
sauce
,
semifluid
,
semiliquid
,
silk
,
size
,
skim milk
,
slap on
,
slather
,
smash
,
smear
,
smear on
,
smoothness
,
smugness
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
soft words
,
soft-soap
,
soften up
,
soup
,
sour cream
,
sponge
,
spread on
,
spread with
,
squash
,
starch
,
sticky mess
,
string along
,
stroke
,
suaveness
,
suavity
,
sulfate pulp
,
sulfite pulp
,
swansdown
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
syrup
,
tar
,
thistledown
,
treacle
,
unctuousness
,
undercoat
,
velvet
,
wax
,
whey
,
whipping cream
,
white lead
,
wood pulp
,
wool
,
yogurt
,
zephyr
stretched out
collapse
related words >
deltoid
,
dragged out
,
drawn
,
drawn out
,
drawn-out
,
elongated
,
extended
,
fan-shape
,
fan-shaped
,
fanlike
,
fanned
,
fanning
,
flabelliform
,
flared
,
flaring
,
interminable
,
languishing
,
lasting
,
lengthened
,
lingering
,
long
,
long-continuing
,
long-drawn
,
long-drawn-out
,
long-pending
,
long-winded
,
marathon
,
open
,
outspread
,
outstretched
,
overlong
,
patulous
,
prolongated
,
prolonged
,
protracted
,
pulled
,
splay
,
splayed
,
splaying
,
spraddled
,
spraddling
,
sprangled
,
sprangling
,
sprawling
,
sprawly
,
spread
,
spreading
,
spun out
,
spun-out
,
straggling
,
strained
,
stretched
,
stretched out
,
strung out
,
taut
,
tense
,
tight
,
unfolded
,
wide-open
,
widespread
shed
collapse
an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring"
get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
related words >
Nissen hut
,
Quonset hut
,
abandon
,
addition
,
booth
,
cashier
,
cast
,
cast off
,
cote
,
crib
,
defoliate
,
desquamate
,
discard
,
discharge
,
divest
,
dock
,
doff
,
drop
,
emanate
,
emit
,
exude
,
exuviate
,
flake off
,
focus
,
gatehouse
,
hangar
,
housing
,
hut
,
hutch
,
impart
,
jettison
,
junk
,
kiosk
,
lean-to
,
let fall
,
molt
,
ooze
,
outbuilding
,
outhouse
,
pavilion
,
peel off
,
pen
,
penthouse
,
pour forth
,
radiate
,
reject
,
release
,
scatter
,
scrap
,
sentry box
,
shack
,
shanty
,
shelter
,
shine
,
slip
,
slough
,
spill
,
spread
,
stall
,
structure
,
take off
,
throw
,
throw away
,
throw off
,
throw out
,
tollbooth
,
tollhouse
,
weep
supinate
collapse
turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg)
related words >
blow down
,
blow over
,
bowl down
,
bowl over
,
bring down
,
bulldog
,
cast down
,
chop down
,
convert
,
couch
,
cut down
,
dash down
,
deck
,
down
,
drop
,
evert
,
fell
,
fetch down
,
floor
,
ground
,
hew down
,
introvert
,
intussuscept
,
invaginate
,
inverse
,
invert
,
knock down
,
lay level
,
lay low
,
lay out
,
level
,
lie down
,
mow down
,
precipitate
,
pronate
,
prone
,
prostrate
,
pull down
,
rase
,
raze
,
recline
,
resupinate
,
reverse
,
revolve
,
rotate
,
send headlong
,
spread-eagle
,
take down
,
throw
,
throw down
,
topple
,
transpose
,
trip
,
tumble
,
turn about
,
turn around
,
turn down
,
turn in
,
turn inside out
,
turn out
,
turn over
,
turn the scale
,
turn the tables
,
turn upside down
,
whack down
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