Related Words:
- putterer
collapse - a person who putters about related words >
- Sunday painter,
- amateur,
- clock watcher,
- coquet,
- dabbler,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dilettante,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- faineant,
- flirt,
- fribble,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- smatterer,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- accompany
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- go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" related words >
- agree,
- associate,
- associate with,
- assort with,
- attend,
- band together,
- be in phase,
- be in time,
- chaperon,
- chaperone,
- chord,
- coexist,
- coextend,
- coincide,
- combine,
- companion,
- concertize,
- concur,
- confederate,
- consociate,
- consort with,
- contemporize,
- convoy,
- couple with,
- do,
- escort,
- execute,
- flock together,
- go along with,
- go with,
- hang around with,
- herd together,
- interpret,
- isochronize,
- keep company with,
- keep in step,
- keep pace with,
- make music,
- match,
- perform,
- play,
- play by ear,
- render,
- run with,
- squire,
- symphonize,
- synchronize,
- time,
- usher,
- wait on
- abide,
- await,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- clock watcher,
- continue,
- dallier,
- dally,
- dawdler,
- delay,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- dillydally,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodle,
- doodler,
- drag,
- drag out,
- draw out,
- drone,
- dwell on,
- extend,
- faineant,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- flag,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get behind,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold your horses,
- idle,
- idler,
- lag,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lengthen,
- lengthen out,
- lie-abed,
- linger,
- linger behind,
- linger on,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lollygag,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mark time,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddle,
- plodder,
- poke,
- potterer,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- prolong,
- protract,
- putterer,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- spin out,
- stay,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straggle,
- stretch out,
- take time,
- tarry,
- temporize,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- trifler,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waiter on Providence,
- waste time
- acceleration
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- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- an increase in rate of change; "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change"
- (physics) a rate of increase of velocity related words >
- accelerando,
- aggravation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- deepening,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- double-quick time,
- drive,
- enhancement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- festination,
- forced march,
- forwarding,
- getaway,
- hastening,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hurrying,
- impetus,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- magnification,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- quickening,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- speeding,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- thrust,
- tightening
- albeit,
- although,
- as,
- as far as,
- as long as,
- as things go,
- at which time,
- because,
- being as how,
- boundary condition,
- catch,
- cause,
- clause,
- condition,
- considering,
- donnee,
- during which time,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- fine print,
- for,
- forasmuch as,
- given,
- grounds,
- howbeit,
- in that,
- inasmuch as,
- insofar as,
- insomuch as,
- joker,
- kicker,
- limiting condition,
- now,
- obligation,
- parameter,
- parce que,
- prerequisite,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- requisite,
- saving clause,
- seeing,
- seeing as how,
- seeing that,
- since,
- sine qua non,
- small print,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- string,
- terms,
- the while,
- ultimatum,
- when,
- while,
- whilst
- eleventh hour
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- the latest possible moment; "money became available at the eleventh hour"; "at the last minute the government changed the rules" related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- bedtime,
- belatedness,
- charged moment,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- curfew,
- deadline,
- deathbed,
- decisive moment,
- high time,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- last minute,
- last-minute,
- late hour,
- lateness,
- later,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- small hours,
- tardiness,
- target date,
- unpreparedness,
- unpunctuality,
- unreadiness,
- untimeliness,
- zero hour
- imminence
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- the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon related words >
- access,
- accession,
- advance,
- advent,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- anticipation,
- approach,
- approaching,
- appropinquation,
- approximation,
- appulse,
- bulldozing,
- by-and-by,
- certainty,
- coming,
- coming near,
- coming toward,
- commination,
- confidence,
- contemplation,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- denunciation,
- determinism,
- distant future,
- empty threat,
- eventuality,
- expectancy,
- expectation,
- flowing toward,
- foreboding,
- foresight,
- forthcoming,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- hereafter,
- idle threat,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- implied threat,
- intimidation,
- menace,
- near future,
- nearing,
- nearness,
- offing,
- oncoming,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- probability,
- project,
- promise of harm,
- prophecy,
- prospect,
- proximation,
- reliance,
- sword of Damocles,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- thought,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- unastonishment,
- warning
- a breath,
- bit,
- breath,
- coup,
- crack,
- flash,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- instant,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- little,
- little bit,
- little while,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- no time,
- pair of winks,
- sec,
- second,
- shake,
- short spell,
- short time,
- small space,
- span,
- split second,
- spurt,
- stroke,
- tick,
- trice,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- wink
- yet
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- up to the present time; "I have yet to see the results"; "details are yet to be worked out" related words >
- above,
- additionally,
- after a while,
- after all,
- again,
- albeit,
- all included,
- all the same,
- along,
- already,
- also,
- although,
- altogether,
- among other things,
- and all,
- and also,
- and so,
- as well,
- as yet,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- au reste,
- before,
- before all,
- beside,
- besides,
- beyond,
- but,
- by this time,
- earlier,
- early,
- else,
- en plus,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- even,
- even so,
- eventually,
- except,
- extra,
- farther,
- finally,
- for all that,
- for lagniappe,
- formerly,
- further,
- furthermore,
- heretofore,
- hereunto,
- hitherto,
- howbeit,
- however,
- in addition,
- in any case,
- in any event,
- in due course,
- inter alia,
- into the bargain,
- item,
- just the same,
- likewise,
- more,
- moreover,
- nevertheless,
- nonetheless,
- notwithstanding,
- on the side,
- on top of,
- or ever,
- over,
- plus,
- previously,
- priorly,
- rather,
- save,
- similarly,
- so far,
- someday,
- sometime,
- somewhen,
- sooner or later,
- still,
- then,
- then as previously,
- theretofore,
- therewith,
- though,
- thus far,
- till now,
- to boot,
- to date,
- to this day,
- too,
- ultimately,
- until now,
- until this time,
- up to now,
- when
- interminably
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- all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly" related words >
- ad infinitum,
- again and again,
- and night,
- at a stretch,
- boundlessly,
- ceaselessly,
- connectedly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- continuously,
- cumulatively,
- cyclically,
- day after day,
- endlessly,
- enduringly,
- eternally,
- everlastingly,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- forever,
- hour after hour,
- illimitably,
- immeasurably,
- immensely,
- in perpetuity,
- incalculably,
- incessantly,
- incomprehensibly,
- indestructibly,
- infinitely,
- innumerably,
- limitlessly,
- long,
- long ago,
- long since,
- measurelessly,
- monotonously,
- month after month,
- morning,
- never-endingly,
- noon,
- on a stretch,
- on and on,
- on end,
- perdurably,
- perennially,
- permanently,
- perpetually,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- repetitively,
- round the clock,
- since time began,
- steadily,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- time without end,
- to infinity,
- together,
- unbrokenly,
- unceasingly,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unrelievedly,
- without a break,
- without cease,
- without end,
- without limit,
- without stopping,
- world without end,
- year after year
- abide,
- bide,
- carry on,
- carry through,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go on,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- keep,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- perennate,
- persist,
- prevail,
- remain,
- run,
- run on,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- subsist,
- survive,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- wear,
- wear well
- vacation
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- the act of making something legally void
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"
- spend or take a vacation related words >
- AWOL,
- Christmas,
- French leave,
- Sunday,
- abeyance,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abrogation,
- abscondence,
- absence,
- absence without leave,
- absentation,
- absenteeism,
- absenting,
- annulment,
- break,
- breathing space,
- caesura,
- cancel,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- cassation,
- cease-fire,
- coffee break,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- cut,
- day off,
- default,
- defeasance,
- departure,
- disappearance,
- downtime,
- drop,
- escape,
- excused absence,
- fleeing,
- furlough,
- go on furlough,
- go on leave,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hooky,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- invalidation,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leave,
- leave of absence,
- leaving,
- letup,
- liberty,
- lull,
- make holiday,
- nonappearance,
- nonattendance,
- nullification,
- off-time,
- paid holiday,
- paid vacation,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- recall,
- recantation,
- recess,
- relief,
- remission,
- renege,
- repeal,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retraction,
- reversal,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- running away,
- sabbatical,
- sabbatical leave,
- sabbatical year,
- setting aside,
- shore leave,
- sick leave,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- take a holiday,
- take leave,
- time off,
- time out,
- truancy,
- truantism,
- truce,
- unexcused absence,
- vacatur,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- weekend,
- withdrawal,
- write-off
- enlist
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- join the military
- engage somebody to enter the army related words >
- affiliate,
- affiliate with,
- alternate,
- associate,
- bring,
- call up,
- carry,
- combine,
- come into,
- commandeer,
- conscript,
- cover,
- creep in,
- decide,
- detach,
- detach for service,
- determine,
- dispose,
- do a hitch,
- do a stint,
- do a tour,
- do time,
- draft,
- employ,
- engage,
- enroll,
- enter,
- fill in for,
- gather,
- get,
- get into,
- get to do,
- go into,
- have a go,
- have tenure,
- hire,
- hold office,
- impress,
- inaugurate,
- incline,
- induce,
- induct,
- influence,
- initiate,
- install,
- instate,
- interest in,
- invest,
- join,
- join up,
- keep a watch,
- lead,
- league with,
- levy,
- list,
- lure,
- make available,
- mobilize,
- muster,
- muster in,
- obtain,
- ordain,
- organize,
- press,
- procure,
- prompt,
- raise,
- re-up,
- recruit,
- reenlist,
- register,
- relieve,
- retain,
- secure,
- serve time,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- sneak in,
- spell,
- spell off,
- summon,
- sway,
- take out membership,
- take turns,
- take up membership,
- team up with,
- team with,
- tempt,
- time off,
- volunteer
- doodle
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- make a doodle; draw aimlessly related words >
- ass,
- bagpipe,
- beat,
- beguile the time,
- bilk,
- black and white,
- blow,
- blow a horn,
- born fool,
- brouillon,
- buffoon,
- bugle,
- burn daylight,
- carillon,
- cartoon,
- chalk,
- charcoal,
- charcoal drawing,
- cheat,
- chiaroscuro,
- chisel,
- clarion,
- clown,
- color,
- consume time,
- copy,
- cozen,
- crayon,
- crosshatch,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dash off,
- daub,
- dawdle,
- defraud,
- delineate,
- delineation,
- depict,
- design,
- diagram,
- diddle,
- dillydally,
- do,
- donkey,
- double-tongue,
- draft,
- draw,
- drawing,
- ebauche,
- egregious ass,
- esquisse,
- fife,
- figure of fun,
- flimflam,
- flute,
- fool,
- footle,
- fribble,
- fritter away time,
- graph,
- gyp,
- hatch,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- imbecile,
- jackass,
- jerk,
- kill time,
- lag,
- limn,
- line drawing,
- linger,
- lip,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- lose time,
- lunatic,
- mess,
- mess around,
- milksop,
- mooncalf,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- overreach,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- pass the time,
- pastel,
- pen-and-ink,
- pencil,
- pencil drawing,
- perfect fool,
- picture,
- picturize,
- piddle,
- pipe,
- poke,
- portray,
- potter,
- puddle,
- putter,
- rough copy,
- rough draft,
- rough outline,
- schmuck,
- scrabble,
- scratch,
- scrawl,
- scribble,
- scumble,
- shade,
- silhouette,
- silver-print drawing,
- sinopia,
- sketch,
- softhead,
- sop,
- sound,
- stencil,
- study,
- stupid ass,
- tinker,
- tint,
- tomfool,
- tongue,
- toot,
- tootle,
- trace,
- tracing,
- trifle,
- triple-tongue,
- trumpet,
- tweedle,
- vignette,
- waste time,
- whistle,
- wind,
- wind the horn,
- zany
- prophecy
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- knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
- a prediction uttered under divine inspiration related words >
- actuarial prediction,
- afflatus,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- apocalypse,
- augury,
- by-and-by,
- cast,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- determinism,
- direct communication,
- distant future,
- divination,
- divine inspiration,
- divine revelation,
- epiphany,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- foreboding,
- forecast,
- forecasting,
- foreshowing,
- foresight,
- foretelling,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- guesswork,
- hereafter,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- improbability,
- inspiration,
- mystical experience,
- mysticism,
- near future,
- offing,
- omen,
- oracle,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- prefiguration,
- prefigurement,
- prefiguring,
- presage,
- presaging,
- presentiment,
- preshowing,
- presignifying,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- project,
- promise,
- prophesying,
- prospect,
- prospectus,
- revelation,
- soothsay,
- soothsaying,
- speculation,
- statistical prediction,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- theophania,
- theophany,
- theopneustia,
- theopneusty,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- vaticination,
- vision,
- weird
- filibuster
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- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
- clock watcher
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- a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time related words >
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- mope,
- moper,
- old soldier,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- soldier,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsher
- a bit previous,
- advanced,
- at the double,
- crowded,
- double-quick,
- double-time,
- far ahead,
- forward,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-pushed,
- hard-run,
- hasty,
- hurried,
- ill-considered,
- impulsive,
- not firm,
- on the double,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- premature,
- pressed,
- pressed for time,
- previous,
- pushed,
- too early,
- too soon,
- uncrystallized,
- unjelled,
- unmatured,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unripe,
- untimely
- tide over
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- suffice for a period between two points; "This money will keep us going for another year" related words >
- abide,
- be safe,
- bide,
- carry on,
- come through,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go on,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- keep,
- keep on,
- keep safe,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persist,
- prevail,
- remain,
- ride out,
- run,
- run on,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- subsist,
- survive,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- wear,
- wear well,
- weather,
- weather the storm
- enumerate
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- specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" related words >
- block out,
- book,
- calendar,
- call off,
- call over,
- call the roll,
- catalog,
- census,
- count,
- detail,
- enroll,
- enter,
- file,
- foliate,
- identify,
- impanel,
- index,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- keep score,
- list,
- measure,
- mention,
- number,
- numerate,
- outline,
- page,
- paginate,
- parse,
- particularize,
- pigeonhole,
- poll,
- post,
- program,
- quantify,
- quantize,
- recite,
- recount,
- register,
- relate,
- resolve,
- run over,
- scan,
- schedule,
- schematize,
- score,
- specialize,
- specify,
- tabulate,
- tale,
- tally,
- tell,
- tell off,
- tick off
- in the long run
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- after a very lengthy period of time; "she will succeed in the long run" related words >
- all in all,
- all things considered,
- almost entirely,
- altogether,
- approximately,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as things go,
- as times go,
- at large,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- commonly,
- effectually,
- essentially,
- eventually,
- finally,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- in due course,
- in due season,
- in due time,
- in general,
- in round numbers,
- in the main,
- in time,
- mainly,
- mostly,
- normally,
- on balance,
- on the average,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- overall,
- predominantly,
- prevailingly,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- speaking generally,
- substantially,
- ultimately,
- usually,
- virtually
- hold off
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- resist and fight to a standoff; "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off" related words >
- abstain,
- adjourn,
- be dilatory,
- beat back,
- beat off,
- blench,
- block,
- boggle,
- brush off,
- chase,
- chase away,
- chase off,
- check,
- continue,
- counter,
- cut,
- defer,
- delay,
- demur,
- dismiss,
- dispense with,
- do without,
- drag out,
- drive away,
- drive back,
- extend,
- falter,
- fend,
- fend off,
- fight shy of,
- filibuster,
- flinch,
- forbear,
- forgo,
- gain time,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- hang off,
- hang up,
- have qualms,
- hesitate,
- hinder,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold over,
- hold up,
- keep at bay,
- keep back,
- keep in hand,
- keep off,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- let alone,
- make bones about,
- make time,
- not touch,
- not use,
- obstruct,
- pack off,
- parry,
- pause,
- pigeonhole,
- play for time,
- postpone,
- procrastinate,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- pull back,
- push aside,
- push back,
- put,
- put aside,
- put back,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- quail,
- rebuff,
- rebut,
- recess,
- recoil,
- refrain,
- refuse,
- repel,
- repulse,
- reserve,
- save,
- scruple,
- send away,
- send off,
- send packing,
- set aside,
- set by,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- shrink,
- shy,
- shy at,
- sleep on,
- snub,
- spare,
- spurn,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stooge around,
- stop,
- strain,
- stretch out,
- suspend,
- table,
- take a recess,
- talk against time,
- temporize,
- thrust back,
- turn aside,
- turn back,
- waive,
- ward off,
- waver,
- wince
- dawdler
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- someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind related words >
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- faineant,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lie-abed,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- plodder,
- potterer,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- order of the day
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- the order of business for an assembly on a given day related words >
- affairs,
- agenda,
- batting order,
- bill,
- bill of fare,
- blueprint,
- budget,
- calendar,
- card,
- carte du jour,
- circumstances,
- concerns,
- condition of things,
- conditions,
- dealings,
- docket,
- doings,
- goings-on,
- life,
- lineup,
- list of agenda,
- march of events,
- matters,
- menu,
- playbill,
- proceedings,
- program,
- program of operation,
- programma,
- prospectus,
- protocol,
- relations,
- roster,
- run of things,
- schedule,
- slate,
- state of affairs,
- the times,
- the world,
- what happens
- linger
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- take one's time; proceed slowly
- remain present although waning or gradually dying; "Her perfume lingered on" related words >
- abide,
- amble,
- await,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- carry on,
- cease not,
- continue,
- crawl,
- creep,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- delay,
- diddle,
- dillydally,
- dither,
- doodle,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag on,
- drift,
- dwell on,
- elaborate,
- endure,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- flag,
- get behind,
- go along,
- go on,
- goof off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hang on,
- harp on,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold steady,
- hold your horses,
- idle,
- jog on,
- keep going,
- keep on,
- labor,
- lag,
- linger behind,
- linger on,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- mark time,
- mope,
- mosey,
- muck,
- never cease,
- pause,
- persevere,
- persist,
- piddle,
- poke,
- procrastinate,
- put off,
- remain,
- run on,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- slog on,
- stagger on,
- stay,
- stay on,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- straggle,
- stroll,
- survive,
- take time,
- tarry,
- temporize,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waste time,
- wear on
- disburse
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- pay out related words >
- administer,
- budget,
- cost,
- cost out,
- deal,
- deal out,
- dispense,
- disperse,
- dispose,
- distribute,
- dole,
- dole out,
- expend,
- fork out,
- give,
- give out,
- go through,
- incur costs,
- invest,
- issue,
- lay,
- lay out,
- measure out,
- mete,
- mete out,
- open the purse,
- outlay,
- parcel out,
- partition,
- pass around,
- pay,
- pay out,
- portion out,
- put out,
- run through,
- schedule,
- shell out,
- sink money in,
- spend,
- splurge,
- spoon out,
- squander,
- throw money around
- interlude
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- a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
- an intervening period or episode
- perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation" related words >
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- anacrusis,
- bass passage,
- bit,
- bourdon,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- chaser,
- chorus,
- cigarette break,
- cocktail hour,
- coda,
- coffee break,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- development,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- division,
- downtime,
- drop,
- enforced respite,
- epilogue,
- episode,
- exode,
- exodus,
- exposition,
- expository scene,
- figure,
- finale,
- folderol,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- harmonic close,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- idyll,
- interim,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- introductory phrase,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- meantime,
- meanwhile,
- measure,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- number,
- off-time,
- ornament,
- parenthesis,
- part,
- passage,
- pause,
- period,
- phrase,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- refrain,
- relief,
- remission,
- resolution,
- respite,
- response,
- rest,
- resting point,
- ritornello,
- routine,
- scene,
- section,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stay,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strain,
- striptease,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tailpiece,
- tea break,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- vacation,
- variation,
- verse,
- wait
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- faineant,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lie-abed,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- plodder,
- potterer,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straggler,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- loiterer
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- someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place related words >
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- faineant,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lie-abed,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- plodder,
- potterer,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straggler,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- convenience
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- the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan"
- the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience" related words >
- WC,
- accommodate,
- accommodation,
- adaptability,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- amenity,
- appliance,
- appropriateness,
- appurtenance,
- auspiciousness,
- avail,
- backhouse,
- basement,
- bathroom,
- behalf,
- behoof,
- beneficialness,
- benefit,
- can,
- chargedness,
- closet,
- comfort,
- comfort station,
- commodiousness,
- coziness,
- crapper,
- criticality,
- crucialness,
- cushioniness,
- decency,
- desirability,
- drive,
- ductility,
- earth closet,
- ease,
- easiness,
- engine,
- enginery,
- expedience,
- expediency,
- facility,
- favor,
- favorableness,
- feasibility,
- felicitousness,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- fixture,
- flexibility,
- free time,
- freedom,
- friendliness,
- fruitfulness,
- goof-off time,
- handiness,
- head,
- homelikeness,
- homeliness,
- homeyness,
- hospitality,
- idle hours,
- interest,
- john,
- johnny,
- johnny house,
- latrine,
- lavatory,
- leisure,
- loadedness,
- loo,
- luxuriousness,
- machine,
- machinery,
- malleability,
- manageability,
- manageableness,
- maneuverability,
- mechanical aid,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- meetness,
- motive power,
- motor,
- necessary,
- odd moments,
- opportuneness,
- outhouse,
- peace,
- peacefulness,
- percentage,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- point,
- politicness,
- powder room,
- power plant,
- power source,
- practicality,
- pregnancy,
- privy,
- profit,
- profitability,
- propitiousness,
- propriety,
- prudence,
- repose,
- reposefulness,
- rest,
- rest room,
- restfulness,
- retirement,
- rightness,
- ripeness,
- roominess,
- seasonableness,
- seemliness,
- semiretirement,
- service,
- snugness,
- softness,
- spare time,
- suitability,
- throne,
- time,
- time to kill,
- time to spare,
- timeliness,
- toilet,
- toilet room,
- untroublesomeness,
- urinal,
- use,
- usefulness,
- utility,
- value,
- warmness,
- washroom,
- water closet,
- wieldableness,
- wieldiness,
- wisdom,
- worth,
- worthwhileness
- letup
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- 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
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- age-old,
- ageless,
- ancient,
- antique,
- auld,
- ceaseless,
- coeternal,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuous,
- conventional,
- customary,
- dateless,
- early,
- elderly,
- endless,
- erstwhile,
- established,
- eternal,
- eterne,
- ever-being,
- ever-durable,
- ever-during,
- everlasting,
- everliving,
- fixed,
- folk,
- fore,
- former,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- incessant,
- indestructible,
- infinite,
- interminable,
- inveterate,
- late,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- mythological,
- never-ceasing,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- nonterminating,
- nonterminous,
- of long standing,
- of old,
- of the folk,
- of yore,
- olamic,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as history,
- old as time,
- old-time,
- olden,
- once,
- onetime,
- oral,
- past,
- perdurable,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- prehistoric,
- prescriptive,
- previous,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- quondam,
- received,
- recent,
- recognized,
- rooted,
- sempiternal,
- sometime,
- steady,
- then,
- time-honored,
- timeless,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- unceasing,
- understood,
- unending,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unremitting,
- unwritten,
- venerable,
- without end,
- worshipful
- alkali flat,
- alluvial plain,
- amount,
- basin,
- bench,
- bottomland,
- break,
- bushveld,
- caliber,
- campo,
- champaign,
- champaign country,
- coastal plain,
- coffee break,
- compass,
- cut,
- degree,
- delta,
- desert,
- down,
- downs,
- downtime,
- extent,
- fell,
- flat,
- flat country,
- flatland,
- flats,
- grade,
- grass veld,
- grassland,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- heath,
- height,
- highland,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lande,
- leap,
- letup,
- level,
- llano,
- lowland,
- lowlands,
- lull,
- lunar mare,
- mare,
- mark,
- measure,
- mesa,
- mesilla,
- moor,
- moorland,
- notch,
- nuance,
- off-time,
- open country,
- pampa,
- pampas,
- pas,
- pause,
- peg,
- peneplain,
- period,
- pitch,
- plain,
- plains,
- plane,
- playa,
- point,
- point of repose,
- prairie,
- proportion,
- quiet spell,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- recess,
- relief,
- remove,
- respite,
- resting point,
- round,
- rung,
- salt flat,
- salt marsh,
- salt pan,
- savanna,
- scale,
- scope,
- sebkha,
- shade,
- shadow,
- space,
- stair,
- standard,
- step,
- steppe,
- stint,
- table,
- table mountain,
- tableland,
- time off,
- time out,
- tread,
- tree veld,
- tundra,
- upland,
- vacation,
- vega,
- veld,
- weald,
- wide-open spaces,
- wold
- quickening
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- the process of showing signs of life; "the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain"
- the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus related words >
- acceleration,
- activating,
- animating,
- animation,
- animative,
- bracing,
- clarification,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- double-quick time,
- drive,
- easing,
- energizing,
- enlivening,
- enlivenment,
- exhilarating,
- exhilaration,
- exhilarative,
- expediting,
- expedition,
- facilitation,
- festination,
- forced march,
- forwarding,
- getaway,
- hastening,
- hurrying,
- impetus,
- invigorating,
- invigoration,
- invigorative,
- life-giving,
- pickup,
- revitalization,
- revival,
- rousing,
- simplification,
- simplifying,
- smoothing,
- speeding,
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- viable,
- vitalization,
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- vivification,
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- bolt,
- bundle,
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- times
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- a more or less definite period of time in history related words >
- affairs,
- circumstances,
- concerns,
- condition of things,
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- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
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- the present juncture,
- the present time,
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- the times,
- the world,
- these days,
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- abandoned,
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- stand,
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- subsist,
- survive,
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- tarry,
- tide over,
- wear,
- wear well
- forehanded
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- having provided for the future related words >
- Scotch,
- anticipant,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- beforetime,
- bright and early,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- clairvoyant,
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- farseeing,
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- foreknowing,
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- in good time,
- intuitive,
- labor-saving,
- longsighted,
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- parsimonious,
- penny-wise,
- precautional,
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- precautious,
- precognitive,
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- prepared,
- prescient,
- prevenient,
- provident,
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- provisional,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- ready,
- sagacious,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- skimping,
- spare,
- sparing,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unwasteful
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