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Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- Socratic method,
- asking,
- bringing into question,
- catechetical method,
- catechization,
- catechizing,
- challenge,
- deepening,
- delving,
- depression,
- digging,
- dispute,
- drilling,
- examination,
- excavation,
- fishing,
- in search of,
- inquest,
- inquiring,
- inquisition,
- interpellation,
- interrogation,
- investigation,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- lowering,
- mining,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- probe,
- prying,
- pumping,
- querying,
- quest,
- questioning,
- quiz,
- quizzing,
- research,
- searching,
- seeking,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- tunneling
- deepening
collapse - a process of becoming deeper and more profound related words >
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- aggravation,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- augmentation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- contentiousness,
- deliberate aggravation,
- depression,
- deterioration,
- digging,
- drilling,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- exasperation,
- excavation,
- explosion,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- increase,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- irritation,
- lowering,
- magnification,
- mining,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- probing,
- provocation,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- sharpening,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- souring,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- tightening,
- tunneling,
- worsening
- mining
collapse
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment related words >
- architecture,
- assembly,
- avulsion,
- building,
- casting,
- coal mining,
- composition,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- cutting out,
- deepening,
- depression,
- deracination,
- devising,
- digging,
- disentanglement,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- elaboration,
- engraving,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- erection,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excavation,
- excision,
- expression,
- exsection,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- gold fever,
- gold mining,
- gold rush,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- indentation,
- lowering,
- machining,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- molding,
- placer claim,
- placer mining,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- pressing out,
- probing,
- processing,
- producing,
- pulling,
- quarrying,
- raising,
- refining,
- removal,
- ripping out,
- shaping,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- smelting,
- squeezing out,
- strip mining,
- tunneling,
- unrooting,
- uprooting,
- withdrawal,
- workmanship,
- wresting out
- excavation
collapse
- the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
- a hole in the ground made by excavating related words >
- abysm,
- abyss,
- arroyo,
- avulsion,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- bringing to light,
- burrow,
- canyon,
- casual discovery,
- catching,
- cavity,
- chance discovery,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cutting out,
- cwm,
- deepening,
- defile,
- dell,
- depression,
- deracination,
- detection,
- determination,
- determining,
- dig,
- digging,
- diggings,
- dike,
- disclosure,
- discovery,
- disentanglement,
- distinguishment,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- engraving,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- espial,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excision,
- exhumation,
- exposure,
- expression,
- exsection,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fault,
- find,
- finding,
- finding out,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- indentation,
- invention,
- joint,
- kloof,
- leak,
- locating,
- location,
- lowering,
- lucky strike,
- mine,
- mining,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- pass,
- passage,
- pit,
- pressing out,
- probing,
- pulling,
- quarry,
- quarrying,
- ravine,
- recognition,
- rediscovery,
- removal,
- rent,
- revelation,
- rift,
- rime,
- ripping out,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- serendipity,
- shaft,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- slit,
- slot,
- split,
- spotting,
- squeezing out,
- strike,
- treasure trove,
- trench,
- trough,
- trouvaille,
- trove,
- tunnel,
- tunneling,
- uncovering,
- unearthing,
- unrooting,
- uprooting,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- well,
- withdrawal,
- workings,
- wresting out
- sinking
collapse
- a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength); "after several hours of sinking an unexpected rally rescued the market"; "he could not control the sinking of his legs"
- a descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"
- a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension; "with a sinking heart"; "a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach" related words >
- Brownian movement,
- advance,
- aging,
- angular motion,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- axial,
- axial motion,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward,
- backward motion,
- bad,
- baptism,
- burial,
- career,
- climbing,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- concavity,
- course,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- current,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decurrent,
- deepening,
- degenerate,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- depressed,
- depression,
- descendant,
- descending,
- descent,
- desolate,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- deteriorating,
- detrusion,
- digging,
- diminishing,
- diminution,
- dip,
- dipping,
- disintegrating,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- done for,
- doting,
- dousing,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- down-trending,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- downward motion,
- draining,
- drift,
- driftage,
- drifting,
- drilling,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- duck,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- engulfment,
- excavation,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- flux,
- flying,
- forlorn,
- forward motion,
- fragmenting,
- fretful,
- getting on,
- given up,
- going,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- hauling down,
- heavy-laden,
- hollowness,
- hopeless,
- immergence,
- immersion,
- in articulo mortis,
- in extremis,
- incapable of life,
- inundation,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- languishing,
- low,
- lowering,
- marcescent,
- mining,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- mounting,
- mournful,
- near death,
- nervous,
- nonviable,
- oblique motion,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- passage,
- passing,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- probing,
- progress,
- progressive,
- queasy,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- receding,
- reduction,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- refluent,
- reflux,
- regression,
- regressive,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogression,
- retrogressive,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- run,
- running,
- rush,
- rushing,
- sagging,
- senescent,
- set,
- setting,
- shaky,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sideward,
- sideward motion,
- sinkage,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- slumping,
- soaring,
- souse,
- sousing,
- sternway,
- stream,
- streaming,
- stricken,
- submergence,
- submerging,
- submersion,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tense,
- terminal,
- thrusting under,
- tottering,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- tumbledown,
- tunneling,
- uneasy,
- unquiet,
- up-trending,
- upward,
- upward motion,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- woeful,
- worsening
- lowering
collapse
- the act of causing something to move to a lower level
- the act of causing to become less related words >
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- Cimmerian,
- Stygian,
- abatement,
- about to be,
- abridgment,
- abusive,
- alleviation,
- already in sight,
- apocalyptic,
- approaching,
- at hand,
- attenuation,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- beetle,
- beetle-browed,
- beetling,
- black,
- black-browed,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- break,
- brewing,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- cadence,
- catenary,
- cheapening,
- close,
- close at hand,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- coming,
- comminatory,
- concavity,
- contraction,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dark,
- dark and gloomy,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decline,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- decurrence,
- deduction,
- deepening,
- deflation,
- degradation,
- dejected,
- demotion,
- denunciatory,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- descent,
- detrusion,
- devaluation,
- digging,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dire,
- dive,
- doomful,
- dour,
- dreary,
- drilling,
- droop,
- ducking,
- dull,
- dumpish,
- dying,
- dying off,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- excavation,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- fateful,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- forthcoming,
- frowning,
- funereal,
- future,
- gathering,
- gloom,
- gloomful,
- gloominess,
- glooming,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- going to happen,
- grim,
- grum,
- hauling down,
- heavy,
- hectoring,
- hollowness,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- inauspicious,
- incumbent,
- instant,
- intimidating,
- jutting,
- languishment,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- letup,
- looming,
- lower,
- lurking,
- markdown,
- melancholy,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- miniaturization,
- mining,
- mitigation,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mumpish,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- nose dive,
- nubilous,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- on the horizon,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- overhanging,
- overhung,
- pending,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- portending,
- portentous,
- preparing,
- price cut,
- price fall,
- price reduction,
- probing,
- projecting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- sag,
- sagging,
- scaling down,
- scowling,
- simplicity,
- sinister,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- slash,
- slump,
- somber,
- somberness,
- sombrous,
- sombrousness,
- stormy,
- submergence,
- subsidence,
- subtraction,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- superincumbent,
- surly,
- swag,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- threatful,
- thrusting under,
- to come,
- tunneling,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- upcoming,
- waiting,
- weakening
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