Related Words:
- hobble
collapse - hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean" related words >
- amble,
- anchor,
- andante,
- barge,
- bind,
- bowl along,
- bridle,
- bundle,
- burden,
- castrate,
- chain,
- claudicate,
- claudication,
- clog,
- clump,
- clutch,
- complication,
- cramp,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cripple,
- crunch,
- cumber,
- curb,
- dead march,
- deflate,
- disable,
- disarm,
- dodder,
- dogtrot,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag out,
- droop,
- emasculate,
- embarrass,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- enchain,
- encumber,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- falter,
- fasten,
- fetter,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- flounce,
- foot,
- footpace,
- footslog,
- funeral march,
- gag,
- gait,
- gallop,
- go dead slow,
- go slow,
- gyve,
- halt,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handcuff,
- handicap,
- hell to pay,
- hinder,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hog-tie,
- hop,
- hopple,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- idle,
- imbroglio,
- impede,
- incapacitate,
- inch,
- inch along,
- involve,
- jam,
- jog,
- jog trot,
- jog-trot,
- jolt,
- jump,
- knock out,
- lame,
- lash,
- laze,
- leash,
- leisurely gait,
- lime,
- limp,
- lock step,
- lumber,
- lumbering pace,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- maim,
- make fast,
- manacle,
- mess,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- mix,
- moor,
- morass,
- mosey,
- muzzle,
- net,
- pace,
- paddle,
- paralyze,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- peg,
- peg down,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- picket,
- pickle,
- pin down,
- pinch,
- pinion,
- plight,
- plod,
- poke,
- poke along,
- prance,
- predicament,
- press down,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- prostrate,
- put in irons,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- rack,
- reel,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- roll,
- rope,
- saddle with,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scrape,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- secure,
- shackle,
- shamble,
- shuffle,
- shuffle along,
- sidle,
- silence,
- single-foot,
- skip,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slough,
- slow march,
- slow motion,
- slowness,
- snarl,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stagger,
- stagger along,
- stalk,
- stamp,
- step,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- strait,
- straitjacket,
- straits,
- strangle,
- strap,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- swagger,
- swamp,
- swing,
- tangle,
- tether,
- throttle,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie up,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- toddle along,
- toil,
- totter,
- totter along,
- traipse,
- trammel,
- tread,
- tricky spot,
- trip,
- trot,
- trudge,
- truss up,
- unholy mess,
- velocity,
- waddle,
- walk,
- wamble,
- weave,
- weigh down,
- wiggle,
- wing,
- wobble,
- worm,
- worm along
- straitened
collapse
- distressed or embarrassed (especially financially) related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- badly off,
- bound,
- bounded,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- copyrighted,
- cramped,
- desperate,
- destitute,
- disciplined,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embarrassed,
- exiguous,
- feeling the pinch,
- finite,
- frugal,
- hard pressed,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inadequate,
- indigent,
- insolvent,
- insufficient,
- jejune,
- land-poor,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- moderated,
- narrow,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- niggardly,
- on the edge,
- oppressed,
- out of pocket,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- patented,
- penniless,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- poverty-stricken,
- prescribed,
- proscribed,
- puny,
- qualified,
- reduced,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sorely pressed,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squeezed,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- strait,
- strapped,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- unmoneyed,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unprosperous,
- up against it,
- watered,
- watery
- desperate
collapse
- a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition"
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men" related words >
- Dionysiac,
- accident-prone,
- aching for,
- acute,
- affording no hope,
- amok,
- apathetic,
- atrocious,
- bacchic,
- baffled,
- balked,
- berserk,
- bleak,
- breakneck,
- careless,
- cheerless,
- climacteric,
- comfortless,
- compelling,
- concentrated,
- corybantic,
- craving,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- dangerous,
- desirous of,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- devil-may-care,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- exquisite,
- fierce,
- foiled,
- foolhardy,
- forlorn,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- frustrated,
- furious,
- grave,
- great,
- grim,
- hard pressed,
- hard up,
- harum-scarum,
- hasty,
- hazardous,
- headlong,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- hotheaded,
- hurried,
- impetuous,
- in despair,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- like one possessed,
- mad,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- monstrous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- panic-stricken,
- perilous,
- pinched,
- precarious,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- pressing,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ranting,
- rash,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- reckless,
- running wild,
- scandalous,
- serious,
- shocking,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- sorely pressed,
- stark-raving mad,
- straitened,
- tenuous,
- terrible,
- thwarted,
- uncontrollable,
- unhopeful,
- up against it,
- urgent,
- vehement,
- venturesome,
- vicious,
- violent,
- wanton,
- wild,
- without hope,
- wretched
- squeeze
collapse
- the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space; "getting through that small opening was a tight squeeze"
- the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze"
- a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"
- (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze"
- a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer; "increased expenses put a squeeze on profits"
- press firmly; "He squeezed my hand" related words >
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- badger,
- bar,
- barricade,
- bear,
- bear against,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear hard upon,
- bear hug,
- bind,
- blackmail,
- bleed,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bolt,
- boodle,
- booty,
- bosom,
- broad,
- check,
- chock,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clamp,
- clamping,
- clamping down,
- clasp,
- clench,
- clinch,
- clip,
- clogging,
- close,
- close off,
- close tight,
- close up,
- closing up,
- closure,
- clutch,
- compact,
- complication,
- compress,
- compression,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- congest,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constriction,
- contort,
- contract,
- cram,
- cramp,
- crowd,
- crunch,
- crush,
- debar,
- decoct,
- delay,
- densen,
- densify,
- detainment,
- detention,
- distill,
- distort,
- dog,
- doxy,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- embosom,
- embrace,
- enfold,
- enfoldment,
- ensphere,
- essentialize,
- exact,
- express,
- extort,
- extract,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fixation,
- fold,
- foot-dragging,
- force,
- force from,
- garble,
- get by,
- get one wrong,
- get through,
- get wrong,
- gloss,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grip,
- hampering,
- haul,
- hell to pay,
- high-pressure,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- hobble,
- hold,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- hot goods,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- hug,
- imbroglio,
- impediment,
- influence,
- infuse,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- jam,
- lean on,
- let,
- levy blackmail,
- lock,
- loot,
- melt down,
- mess,
- milk,
- misapply,
- misapprehend,
- miscite,
- misconceive,
- misconstrue,
- misdeem,
- misexplain,
- misexplicate,
- misexpound,
- misinterpret,
- misjudge,
- misquote,
- misread,
- misrender,
- mistake,
- mistranslate,
- mistress,
- misunderstand,
- mix,
- moll,
- morass,
- negativism,
- nip,
- nuisance value,
- obstruct,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlude,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- pack,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pervert,
- pickings,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- plunder,
- pork barrel,
- predicament,
- press,
- press out,
- pressure,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- prize,
- pry loose from,
- pry out,
- public till,
- public trough,
- push,
- put pressure on,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- ram,
- ram down,
- refine,
- rend,
- rend from,
- render,
- repression,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- rip,
- rip from,
- scrape,
- screw,
- setback,
- shake,
- shake down,
- shut off,
- shut out,
- shut tight,
- slough,
- snatch from,
- soak,
- solidify,
- spoil,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- spot,
- squab,
- squash,
- squeak by,
- squeak through,
- squeeze shut,
- squeezing,
- squish,
- stealings,
- steep,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- stifle,
- stolen goods,
- stop up,
- strain the sense,
- strait,
- straits,
- strangle,
- stranglehold,
- strangulate,
- stricture,
- stuff,
- suffocate,
- suppression,
- swag,
- swamp,
- sweetheart,
- sweetie,
- take,
- tear,
- tear from,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tighten,
- tightening,
- tightrope,
- till,
- torture,
- tricky spot,
- tweak,
- twist the words,
- unholy mess,
- urge,
- wad up,
- wedge,
- wrench,
- wrench from,
- wrest,
- wring,
- wring from,
- wring out
- bind
collapse
- something that hinders as if with bonds
- form a chemical bond with; "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope; "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- provide with a binding; "bind the books in leather"
- create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" related words >
- accept obligation,
- adjoin,
- afterthought,
- agglutinate,
- agree to,
- ally,
- anchor,
- annoyance,
- answer for,
- apply,
- apprentice,
- article,
- associate,
- attach,
- band,
- bandage,
- bar,
- be answerable for,
- be responsible for,
- be security for,
- befringe,
- belt,
- bend,
- bind over,
- bind up,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- border,
- bore,
- bother,
- bound,
- brace,
- bracket,
- braze,
- bridle,
- bundle,
- bung,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caulk,
- cause,
- cause to,
- cement,
- chain,
- chink,
- choke,
- choke off,
- choke up,
- cinch,
- clog,
- clog up,
- clutch,
- commit,
- compel,
- complication,
- congest,
- connect,
- constipate,
- constrain,
- contract,
- cork,
- correlate,
- couple,
- cover,
- crunch,
- dam,
- dam up,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detention,
- dilemma,
- do up,
- double take,
- dragging,
- draw a parallel,
- drive,
- edge,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- enchain,
- encircle,
- enforce,
- enframe,
- engage,
- entrammel,
- equate,
- fasten,
- fetter,
- fill,
- fill up,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fix,
- force,
- foul,
- frame,
- fringe,
- fuse,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girt,
- girth,
- glue,
- go bail for,
- gum,
- gyve,
- halt,
- hamper,
- handcuff,
- hang-up,
- have,
- have an understanding,
- hell to pay,
- hem,
- hindrance,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hold,
- holdup,
- hopple,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- identify,
- imbroglio,
- impel,
- indenture,
- interim,
- interrelate,
- irritant,
- irritation,
- jam,
- lace,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lap,
- lash,
- leash,
- line,
- link,
- list,
- logjam,
- make,
- make fast,
- make imperative,
- make incumbent,
- manacle,
- march,
- marge,
- margin,
- marginate,
- mess,
- mix,
- moor,
- morass,
- moratorium,
- obligate,
- oblige,
- obstipate,
- obstruct,
- obstruction,
- ordeal,
- pack,
- paperasserie,
- parallel,
- parallelize,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- paste,
- pause,
- peg down,
- picket,
- pickle,
- pin down,
- pinch,
- pinion,
- pledge,
- plight,
- plug,
- plug up,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- purfle,
- purl,
- put in irons,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- relate,
- relativize,
- reprieve,
- require,
- respite,
- restrain,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- rim,
- rope,
- saddle with,
- scrape,
- secure,
- set off,
- shackle,
- shake hands on,
- side,
- skirt,
- slough,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- solder,
- spile,
- splice,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stanch,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stench,
- stew,
- stick,
- stick together,
- sticky wicket,
- stop,
- stop up,
- stoppage,
- stopper,
- stopple,
- strait,
- straitjacket,
- straits,
- strap,
- stuff,
- stuff up,
- suspension,
- swaddle,
- swamp,
- swathe,
- take the vows,
- tether,
- tie,
- tie down,
- tie up,
- tie-up,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- time lag,
- trammel,
- trial,
- tricky spot,
- trim,
- truss,
- undertake,
- unholy mess,
- use force upon,
- verge,
- vexation,
- wait,
- wed,
- weld,
- wire,
- wrap,
- wrap up,
- wreathe
- cove
collapse
- a small inlet
- small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain related words >
- Adamite,
- abri,
- alcove,
- antre,
- apse,
- arcade,
- arcature,
- arch,
- arched roof,
- archway,
- arm,
- armlet,
- bastard,
- bay,
- bayou,
- being,
- belt,
- bight,
- bird,
- boca,
- body,
- bugger,
- bunker,
- burrow,
- camber,
- carrel,
- cat,
- cave,
- cavern,
- ceilinged roof,
- chap,
- character,
- concameration,
- concha,
- corner,
- cranny,
- creature,
- creek,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cubicle,
- cupola,
- customer,
- dome,
- duck,
- dugout,
- earthling,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- feller,
- fellow,
- fjord,
- foxhole,
- frith,
- geodesic dome,
- grot,
- grotto,
- groundling,
- gulf,
- gut,
- guy,
- hand,
- harbor,
- head,
- hole,
- homo,
- human,
- human being,
- igloo,
- individual,
- inglenook,
- inlet,
- jasper,
- joker,
- keystone,
- kyle,
- lad,
- lair,
- life,
- living soul,
- loch,
- man,
- mortal,
- mouth,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- niche,
- nook,
- nose,
- ogive,
- one,
- oriel,
- party,
- person,
- personage,
- personality,
- pitchhole,
- reach,
- recess,
- recession,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- roomlet,
- sewer,
- single,
- skewback,
- slough,
- snuggery,
- somebody,
- someone,
- soul,
- sound,
- span,
- strait,
- straits,
- stud,
- subterrane,
- subway,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- tunnel,
- vault,
- vaulting,
- voussoir,
- warren,
- worldling
- gulf
collapse
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"
- a deep wide chasm
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay related words >
- Charybdis,
- Maelstrom,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aperture,
- arm,
- armlet,
- arroyo,
- back stream,
- backflow,
- backwash,
- backwater,
- bay,
- bayou,
- belt,
- bight,
- boca,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- broaching,
- canyon,
- cave,
- cavity,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- countercurrent,
- counterflow,
- counterflux,
- cove,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- creek,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cwm,
- deep,
- defile,
- dell,
- depth,
- dig,
- diggings,
- dike,
- disclosure,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- eddy,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- excavation,
- fault,
- fenestra,
- fiord,
- firth,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- fjord,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fracture,
- frith,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gat,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gully,
- gurge,
- gut,
- harbor,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- inlet,
- interval,
- joint,
- kloof,
- kyle,
- lacuna,
- laying open,
- leak,
- loch,
- lough,
- maelstrom,
- mine,
- moat,
- mouth,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- outlet,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- pit,
- pore,
- quarry,
- ravine,
- reach,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regurgitation,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- separation,
- shaft,
- slit,
- slot,
- slough,
- sound,
- space,
- split,
- stoma,
- strait,
- straits,
- swirl,
- throwing open,
- trench,
- twirl,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- valley,
- void,
- vortex,
- wadi,
- well,
- whirl,
- whirlpool,
- workings,
- yawn,
- yawning abyss
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