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tight purse strings
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muzzy
collapse
related words >
addlebrained
,
addled
,
addleheaded
,
addlepated
,
afflicted
,
beclouded
,
befuddled
,
bent
,
blear-witted
,
blurred
,
boiled
,
bombed
,
boozy
,
breathy
,
canned
,
choked
,
choking
,
cloudy
,
cockeyed
,
cockeyed drunk
,
croaking
,
crocked
,
crocko
,
dizzy
,
drawling
,
drawly
,
dysphonic
,
elevated
,
fogged
,
foggy
,
fried
,
fuddlebrained
,
fuddled
,
guttural
,
half-seas over
,
harsh
,
hawking
,
hazy
,
high
,
hoarse
,
illuminated
,
in a fog
,
in a muddle
,
inarticulate
,
indistinct
,
lisping
,
lit
,
lit up
,
loaded
,
lubricated
,
lushy
,
mispronounced
,
misted
,
misty
,
muddled
,
muddleheaded
,
muddybrained
,
nasal
,
oiled
,
organized
,
pickled
,
pie-eyed
,
pissed
,
pissy-eyed
,
plastered
,
polluted
,
potted
,
puzzleheaded
,
quavering
,
raddled
,
scramblebrained
,
shaking
,
shaky
,
shellacked
,
skunk-drunk
,
smashed
,
snuffling
,
soaked
,
soused
,
squiffy
,
stewed
,
stifled
,
stinko
,
strangled
,
swacked
,
tanked
,
thick
,
throaty
,
tight
,
tremulous
,
twangy
,
velar
draw in
collapse
pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"
related words >
abbreviate
,
absorb
,
allure
,
argue
,
aspirate
,
bait
,
bait the hook
,
blandish
,
breathe in
,
bring around
,
cajole
,
catch up in
,
circumscribe
,
coarct
,
coax
,
compact
,
compress
,
concentrate
,
concern
,
condense
,
confine
,
consolidate
,
constrict
,
constringe
,
contract
,
convince
,
cramp
,
crank
,
crank in
,
cringe
,
curtail
,
decoy
,
decrease
,
diminish
,
draw
,
draw back
,
draw on
,
draw taut
,
draw together
,
duck
,
embarrass
,
engage
,
enmesh
,
ensnare
,
entangle
,
entice
,
flinch
,
flirt
,
flirt with
,
get
,
give the come-on
,
go in
,
implicate
,
inhale
,
inspire
,
interest
,
inveigle
,
involve
,
knit
,
lead on
,
limit
,
lure
,
narrow
,
offer bait to
,
persuade
,
prevail
,
prompt
,
pucker
,
pucker up
,
pull back
,
pull in
,
pull out
,
purse
,
reduce
,
reel
,
reel in
,
restrict
,
retract
,
rope in
,
seduce
,
shorten
,
shrink
,
shy
,
slurp
,
snape
,
sniff
,
sniffle
,
snuff
,
snuff in
,
snuffle
,
solidify
,
straiten
,
strangle
,
strangulate
,
suck
,
suck in
,
suck into
,
suckle
,
tackle
,
talk into
,
tangle
,
taper
,
tauten
,
tighten
,
trim
,
win over
,
wince
,
winch
,
wind in
,
windlass
,
withdraw
,
woo
,
wrinkle
leash
collapse
restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
related words >
Oregon boat
,
anchor
,
band
,
bandage
,
belt
,
bend
,
bilbo
,
bind
,
bind up
,
bond
,
bonds
,
brace
,
bridle
,
bundle
,
camisole
,
chain
,
chains
,
cinch
,
clover
,
collar
,
cuffs
,
deuce-ace
,
do up
,
enchain
,
entrammel
,
fasten
,
fetter
,
gag
,
gird
,
girdle
,
girt
,
girth
,
gyve
,
gyves
,
halter
,
hamper
,
handcuff
,
handcuffs
,
hobble
,
hobbles
,
hog-tie
,
hopple
,
hopples
,
irons
,
lace
,
lash
,
leading strings
,
make fast
,
manacle
,
moor
,
muzzle
,
peg down
,
picket
,
pillory
,
pin down
,
pinion
,
put in irons
,
reins
,
restrain
,
restraint
,
restraints
,
rope
,
secure
,
set of three
,
shackle
,
shamrock
,
splice
,
stocks
,
straightjacket
,
strait-waistcoat
,
straitjacket
,
stranglehold
,
strap
,
swaddle
,
swathe
,
tercet
,
ternary
,
ternion
,
terzetto
,
tether
,
three
,
threesome
,
tie
,
tie down
,
tie up
,
tierce
,
trammel
,
trammels
,
trefoil
,
trey
,
triad
,
trialogue
,
triangle
,
tricorn
,
trident
,
triennium
,
trihedron
,
trilogy
,
trimester
,
trine
,
trinity
,
trinomial
,
trio
,
triphthong
,
triple crown
,
triple threat
,
triplet
,
triplopy
,
tripod
,
triptych
,
trireme
,
triseme
,
triskelion
,
trisul
,
triumvirate
,
triunity
,
trivet
,
troika
,
truss
,
wire
,
wrap
,
wrap up
,
yoke
combo
collapse
related words >
Anschluss
,
German band
,
Philharmonic
,
addition
,
admixture
,
affiliation
,
agglomeration
,
aggregation
,
agreement
,
alliance
,
alloy
,
amalgam
,
amalgamation
,
assimilation
,
association
,
band
,
big band
,
blend
,
blending
,
brass
,
brass band
,
brass choir
,
brass quintet
,
brass section
,
brasses
,
cabal
,
callithumpian band
,
cartel
,
centralization
,
chamber orchestra
,
coalescence
,
coalition
,
combination
,
combine
,
commixture
,
composite
,
composition
,
compound
,
concert band
,
concoction
,
confection
,
confederacy
,
confederation
,
congeries
,
conglomeration
,
conjugation
,
conjunction
,
consolidation
,
conspiracy
,
desks
,
dixieland band
,
ecumenism
,
embodiment
,
encompassment
,
enosis
,
ensemble
,
federalization
,
federation
,
fusion
,
gamelan orchestra
,
group
,
hookup
,
immixture
,
inclusion
,
incorporation
,
integration
,
intermixture
,
jazz band
,
jug band
,
junction
,
junta
,
league
,
magma
,
marriage
,
meld
,
melding
,
merger
,
military band
,
mixture
,
orchestra
,
package
,
package deal
,
paste
,
quartet
,
quintet
,
ragtime band
,
rock-and-roll group
,
sextet
,
skiffle band
,
solidification
,
steel band
,
street band
,
string band
,
string choir
,
string orchestra
,
string quartet
,
strings
,
swing band
,
symphony
,
symphony orchestra
,
syncretism
,
syndication
,
syneresis
,
synthesis
,
tie-up
,
trio
,
unification
,
union
,
waits
,
wedding
,
woodwind
,
woodwind choir
,
woodwind quartet
,
woodwinds
woodwind
collapse
any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
related words >
English horn
,
German band
,
Pandean pipe
,
Philharmonic
,
aulos
,
band
,
basset horn
,
basset oboe
,
bassoon
,
big band
,
bombard
,
brass
,
brass band
,
brass choir
,
brass quintet
,
brass section
,
brasses
,
callithumpian band
,
chamber orchestra
,
clarinet
,
combo
,
concert band
,
contrabassoon
,
contrafagotto
,
cromorne
,
desks
,
dixieland band
,
double bassoon
,
double reed
,
ensemble
,
fife
,
fipple flute
,
flageolet
,
flute
,
gamelan orchestra
,
group
,
hautboy
,
heckelphone
,
hornpipe
,
jazz band
,
jug band
,
licorice stick
,
military band
,
musette
,
oaten reed
,
oboe
,
oboe da caccia
,
ocarina
,
orchestra
,
panpipe
,
penny-whistle
,
piccolo
,
pipe
,
pommer
,
quartet
,
quintet
,
ragtime band
,
recorder
,
reed
,
reed instrument
,
rock-and-roll group
,
sax
,
saxophone
,
sextet
,
shawm
,
single reed
,
single-reed instrument
,
skiffle band
,
sonorophone
,
steel band
,
street band
,
string band
,
string choir
,
string orchestra
,
string quartet
,
strings
,
sweet potato
,
swing band
,
symphony
,
symphony orchestra
,
syrinx
,
tabor pipe
,
tenoroon
,
tin-whistle
,
trio
,
waits
,
whistle
,
woods
,
woodwind choir
,
woodwind instrument
,
woodwind quartet
,
woodwinds
fetter
collapse
a shackle for the ankles or feet
restrain with fetters
related words >
Oregon boat
,
anchor
,
arrest
,
bearing rein
,
bilbo
,
bind
,
bit
,
bond
,
bonds
,
brake
,
bridle
,
burden
,
camisole
,
chain
,
chains
,
check
,
checkrein
,
chock
,
clog
,
collar
,
countercheck
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
cuffs
,
cumber
,
curb
,
curb bit
,
damper
,
doorstop
,
drag
,
drag sail
,
drift anchor
,
drift sail
,
drogue
,
embarrass
,
enchain
,
encumber
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
fasten
,
gag
,
gyve
,
gyves
,
halter
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
handcuff
,
handcuffs
,
handicap
,
harness
,
hitch up
,
hobble
,
hobbles
,
hog-tie
,
holdback
,
hook up
,
hopple
,
hopples
,
impede
,
involve
,
irons
,
lame
,
lash
,
leading strings
,
leash
,
lime
,
lumber
,
make fast
,
manacle
,
martingale
,
moor
,
muzzle
,
net
,
peg down
,
pelham
,
picket
,
pillory
,
pin down
,
pinion
,
press down
,
put in irons
,
reins
,
remora
,
restrain
,
restraint
,
restraints
,
rope
,
saddle
,
saddle with
,
scotch
,
sea anchor
,
secure
,
shackle
,
snaffle
,
snarl
,
spoke
,
stay
,
stocks
,
stop
,
straightjacket
,
strait-waistcoat
,
straitjacket
,
stranglehold
,
strap
,
tangle
,
tether
,
tie
,
tie down
,
tie up
,
toil
,
trammel
,
trammels
,
weigh down
,
yoke
spend
collapse
pay out; "spend money"
spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"
pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
related words >
ablate
,
absorb
,
allot
,
assign
,
assimilate
,
attend to business
,
be exposed to
,
be subjected to
,
bestow
,
bleed white
,
blow
,
budget
,
burn up
,
busy
,
consecrate to
,
consume
,
contribute
,
cost
,
cost out
,
dedicate to
,
deplete
,
devote
,
digest
,
disburse
,
dish out
,
dissipate
,
drain
,
drain of resources
,
drop
,
eat
,
eat up
,
employ
,
encounter
,
endure
,
engage
,
erode
,
exhaust
,
expend
,
experience
,
feel
,
finish
,
finish off
,
fork out
,
fritter away
,
give
,
give over to
,
give to
,
go
,
go through
,
gobble
,
gobble up
,
hand out
,
have
,
impoverish
,
incur costs
,
ingest
,
invest
,
know
,
labor under
,
lavish
,
lay out
,
lose
,
meet
,
meet up with
,
meet with
,
mind the store
,
occupy
,
open the purse
,
outlay
,
pass
,
pass the time
,
pass through
,
pay
,
pay out
,
prodigal
,
profligate
,
put in
,
put out
,
run
,
run through
,
run up against
,
schedule
,
shell out
,
sink money in
,
spend the time
,
spender
,
spill
,
splurge
,
squander
,
squanderer
,
stand under
,
suck dry
,
suffer
,
sustain
,
swallow
,
swallow up
,
taste
,
throw away
,
throw money around
,
undergo
,
use up
,
waste
,
waste away
,
waster
,
wastethrift
,
wastrel
,
wear away
,
while
,
while away
,
wile
pithy
collapse
concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
allegorical
,
aphoristic
,
aposiopestic
,
associational
,
axiomatic
,
baccate
,
brief
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
connotational
,
connotative
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
definable
,
denotational
,
denotative
,
docked
,
doughy
,
edematous
,
effective
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
expressive
,
extended
,
extensional
,
figurative
,
flabby
,
fleshy
,
forceful
,
formulaic
,
formulistic
,
full of meaning
,
full of point
,
full of substance
,
gnomic
,
indicative
,
intelligible
,
intensional
,
interpretable
,
laconic
,
lean
,
macerated
,
masticated
,
meaning
,
meaningful
,
meaty
,
medullary
,
metaphorical
,
mushy
,
pasty
,
platitudinous
,
pointed
,
pregnant
,
proverbial
,
pruned
,
pulpal
,
pulpar
,
pulped
,
pulplike
,
pulpy
,
pungent
,
readable
,
referential
,
reserved
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
significant
,
significative
,
soft
,
spongy
,
squashy
,
squelchy
,
squishy
,
substantial
,
succinct
,
succulent
,
suggestive
,
summary
,
symbolic
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
transferred
,
truncated
contrive
collapse
related words >
angle
,
arrange
,
be so
,
be such
,
beget
,
breed
,
bring
,
bring forth
,
bring into being
,
bring on
,
calculate
,
call forth
,
call into being
,
cast
,
clear
,
clear the hurdle
,
cogitate
,
coin
,
collogue
,
collude
,
come along
,
come on
,
come out
,
come through
,
conceive
,
concert
,
concoct
,
connive
,
conspire
,
cook up
,
cut out
,
cut the mustard
,
design
,
develop
,
devise
,
discover
,
draw down
,
draw on
,
dream up
,
effect
,
elaborate
,
elicit
,
engender
,
engineer
,
evoke
,
evolve
,
fabricate
,
fare
,
fashion
,
figure
,
finagle
,
forecast
,
formulate
,
frame
,
generate
,
gerrymander
,
get
,
get along
,
get by
,
get on
,
give being to
,
give rise to
,
go along
,
go on
,
hack it
,
handle
,
hatch
,
hatch up
,
improvise
,
induce
,
inspire
,
instigate
,
intend
,
intrigue
,
invent
,
jockey
,
lay plans
,
lead
,
machinate
,
make
,
make a projection
,
make arrangements
,
make do with
,
make it
,
make out
,
make the grade
,
make up
,
manage
,
manage somehow
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
manufacture
,
mature
,
methodize
,
mint
,
motivate
,
move
,
muddle through
,
negotiate
,
obtain
,
organize
,
originate
,
play games
,
plot
,
prearrange
,
procreate
,
procure
,
program
,
project
,
provoke
,
pull strings
,
put over
,
put through
,
rationalize
,
rig
,
schedule
,
schematize
,
scheme
,
scrape along
,
set up
,
shape
,
shape up
,
spawn
,
stack up
,
strike out
,
succeed in
,
superinduce
,
swing
,
swing the deal
,
systematize
,
think out
,
think up
,
turn out
,
vamp up
,
wangle
,
work out
,
work up
,
worry along
constricted
collapse
inhibited; "when modern man feels socially constricted his first impulse is to move"
drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life"
especially tense; especially in some dialects
related words >
angustifoliate
,
angustirostrate
,
angustisellate
,
angustiseptal
,
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
blank
,
blind
,
blind-alley
,
borne
,
cecal
,
choked
,
choked off
,
circumscribed
,
clamped
,
close
,
close-fitting
,
closed
,
compressed
,
concentrated
,
condensed
,
confined
,
consolidated
,
contracted
,
cramp
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
crowded
,
dead
,
dead-end
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
fanatical
,
hidebound
,
illiberal
,
incapacious
,
incommodious
,
insular
,
isthmian
,
isthmic
,
knitted
,
limited
,
little
,
little-minded
,
meager
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
near
,
nearsighted
,
nipped
,
parochial
,
petty
,
pinched
,
pinched-in
,
provincial
,
puckered
,
purblind
,
pursed
,
restricted
,
scant
,
scanty
,
shortsighted
,
shut
,
slender
,
small
,
small-minded
,
solidified
,
squeezed
,
squeezed shut
,
strait
,
straitlaced
,
strangled
,
strangulated
,
stuffy
,
tight
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unopen
,
unopened
,
unvented
,
unventilated
,
wasp-waisted
,
wrinkled
first
previous
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