Related Words:
- commit
collapse - cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" related words >
- accept obligation,
- accomplish,
- accredit,
- achieve,
- agree,
- agree to,
- allocate,
- allot,
- answer for,
- assign,
- assure,
- authorize,
- be answerable for,
- be responsible for,
- be security for,
- bind,
- bring about,
- bring off,
- bring to pass,
- carry out,
- charge,
- charter,
- commend,
- commission,
- commit to prison,
- confide,
- confine,
- consecrate,
- consign,
- contract,
- contravene,
- covenant,
- dedicate,
- delegate,
- deliver,
- depute,
- deputize,
- destine,
- detach,
- detail,
- devolute,
- devolve,
- devolve upon,
- devote,
- do,
- do to,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- empower,
- enfeoff,
- engage,
- entrust,
- execute,
- give,
- give in charge,
- give in trust,
- go and do,
- go bail for,
- guarantee,
- hand over,
- have an understanding,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- infeudate,
- inflict,
- institutionalize,
- intern,
- license,
- make,
- make imperative,
- make incumbent,
- mission,
- move,
- obligate,
- oblige,
- offend,
- offer,
- ordain,
- pay,
- perform,
- perpetrate,
- perpetuate,
- pledge,
- post,
- produce,
- promise,
- pull,
- pull off,
- put away,
- realize,
- recommit,
- relegate,
- remand,
- remit,
- remove,
- render,
- require,
- saddle with,
- scandalize,
- send away,
- send out,
- send to jail,
- send up,
- sentence,
- set apart,
- shake hands on,
- shift,
- shut up,
- sin,
- submit,
- swear,
- take and do,
- take the vows,
- tie,
- transfer,
- transgress,
- trespass,
- trust,
- turn over,
- undertake,
- up and do,
- violate,
- vouchsafe,
- vow,
- warrant,
- wreak
- reprieve
collapse
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- relieve temporarily
- postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution related words >
- absolution,
- afterthought,
- amnesty,
- benevolence,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- bureaucratic delay,
- catharsis,
- cleanse,
- cleanse away,
- cleansing,
- clemency,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- condolence,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- deliver,
- deliverance,
- detention,
- discharge,
- double take,
- dragging,
- emotional release,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- favor,
- feeling,
- forbear,
- forbearance,
- forgive,
- forgiveness,
- free,
- free from,
- freeing,
- give quarter,
- give release,
- give respite,
- grace,
- grant a reprieve,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- have mercy upon,
- have pity,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- humanity,
- immunity,
- indemnity,
- interim,
- intermission,
- intermit,
- jam,
- kindness,
- lag,
- lagging,
- leniency,
- let off,
- let up on,
- logjam,
- melt,
- mercy,
- mitigation,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- paperasserie,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- pause,
- pity,
- postponement,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purge away,
- purging,
- quarter,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- redemption,
- relax,
- release,
- relent,
- relief,
- remission,
- remission of sin,
- removal,
- remove,
- rescue,
- respite,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- ruth,
- save,
- self-pity,
- shrift,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- surcease,
- suspend,
- suspension,
- sympathy,
- take pity on,
- thaw,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait
- spoiled
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- having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" related words >
- ausgespielt,
- bad,
- bankrupt,
- barfy,
- beautiless,
- blasted,
- blemished,
- blighted,
- blotted,
- botched,
- brackish,
- broken,
- bungled,
- butchered,
- cacophonic,
- cacophonous,
- cankered,
- carious,
- cloying,
- coddled,
- corrupt,
- decayed,
- decomposed,
- defaced,
- desolated,
- destroyed,
- devastated,
- disfigured,
- done for,
- done in,
- down-and-out,
- dysphemistic,
- dysphemized,
- fallen,
- festering,
- fetid,
- finished,
- flawed,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- fumbled,
- gangrened,
- gangrenous,
- gone bad,
- gone to pot,
- high,
- homely,
- icky,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-done,
- ill-executed,
- ill-managed,
- impaired,
- impolitic,
- in ruins,
- indulged,
- inelegant,
- irremediable,
- kaput,
- maggoty,
- marred,
- mawkish,
- misconducted,
- misdirected,
- misguided,
- mismanaged,
- mortified,
- muffed,
- murdered,
- nasty,
- nauseant,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- necrosed,
- necrotic,
- negligent,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- off,
- offensive,
- overripe,
- overthrown,
- pampered,
- peccant,
- plain,
- poisonous,
- putrefied,
- putrescent,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- ravaged,
- rebarbative,
- rotten,
- rotting,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- short on looks,
- sickening,
- sphacelated,
- spoiled rotten,
- spoilt,
- stinking,
- suppurating,
- suppurative,
- tainted,
- uglified,
- ugly,
- ugly as hell,
- ugly as sin,
- ulcerated,
- unaesthetic,
- unattractive,
- unbeautiful,
- uncomely,
- undone,
- unhandsome,
- unlovely,
- unpleasing,
- unpretty,
- unsightly,
- vile,
- vomity,
- wasted,
- weevily,
- wrecked,
- yucky
- unorthodoxy
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- the quality of being unorthodox
- any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position related words >
- Bohemianism,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- antinomy,
- asymmetry,
- beatnikism,
- capriciousness,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- choppiness,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- dappleness,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- departure,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- difference,
- differentiation,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discordance,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- disorder,
- disparity,
- disproportion,
- disproportionateness,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissimilarity,
- dissonance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- distortion,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversification,
- diversity,
- equivocality,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- far cry,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fringiness,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heterogeneity,
- hippiedom,
- illusion,
- inaccordance,
- incoherence,
- incommensurability,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inconstancy,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- instability,
- irreconcilability,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- mercuriality,
- misapplication,
- misbelief,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mixture,
- motleyness,
- mutability,
- nonconformability,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- odds,
- opposition,
- originality,
- otherness,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- pluralism,
- raggedness,
- revisionism,
- schism,
- self-contradiction,
- separateness,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- unconformability,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- unconventionality,
- unevenness,
- unlikeness,
- unsteadiness,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- variability,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- versatility,
- wavering,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- misapplication
collapse
- wrong use or application related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abuse of terms,
- apparent soundness,
- befoulment,
- casuistry,
- catachresis,
- circularity,
- contorting,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- delusion,
- desecration,
- deviancy,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- eisegesis,
- embezzlement,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- insincerity,
- invalid linking,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- maladministration,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misapplicability,
- misapprehension,
- misappropriation,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconnection,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mismanagement,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misreference,
- misrelation,
- misrendering,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- pilfering,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squeezing,
- subtlety,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- violation,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- anger
collapse
- a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- the state of being angry
- make angry; "The news angered him"
- become angry; "He angers easily" related words >
- a transient madness,
- acedia,
- affront,
- aggravate,
- angriness,
- annoy,
- annoyance,
- antagonism,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- arouse,
- asperity,
- avarice,
- avaritia,
- bad humor,
- bad temper,
- bile,
- biliousness,
- blow up,
- boil,
- boil over,
- bridle,
- bridle up,
- bristle,
- bristle up,
- burn,
- causticity,
- chafe,
- choler,
- corrosiveness,
- dander,
- deadly sin,
- discontent,
- displease,
- displeasure,
- dudgeon,
- dutch,
- eagerness,
- enrage,
- enragement,
- envy,
- exasperate,
- exasperation,
- excite,
- excitement,
- fervency,
- fervidity,
- fervidness,
- fervor,
- flare up,
- flip out,
- fret,
- fury,
- gall,
- get mad,
- get sore,
- gluttony,
- grapes of wrath,
- greed,
- gula,
- heat,
- hit the ceiling,
- huff,
- ill humor,
- ill nature,
- ill temper,
- incense,
- incite,
- indignation,
- inflame,
- infuriate,
- infuriation,
- invidia,
- ira,
- irateness,
- ire,
- irk,
- irritability,
- irritate,
- irritation,
- kindle,
- love,
- lust,
- luxuria,
- mad,
- madden,
- make angry,
- make mad,
- make sore,
- monkey,
- nettle,
- offend,
- outrage,
- pet,
- pique,
- pride,
- provoke,
- rage,
- rant,
- rave,
- reach boiling point,
- resentment,
- rile,
- saeva indignatio,
- see red,
- seethe,
- sexual desire,
- sloth,
- soreness,
- sourness,
- spleen,
- steam up,
- stew,
- storm,
- superbia,
- temper,
- tick off,
- umbrage,
- vex,
- vexation,
- vials of wrath,
- wrath,
- wrathfulness
- legitimate
collapse
- of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
- in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
- based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"
- make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"
- show or affirm to be just and legitimate related words >
- acceptable,
- actionable,
- actor-proof,
- admissible,
- all-star,
- allowable,
- applicable,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- authorize,
- authorized,
- ballet,
- balletic,
- binding,
- bona fide,
- by law,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- certify,
- cinematic,
- cinematographic,
- cogent,
- competent,
- condonable,
- consistent,
- constitutional,
- correct,
- credible,
- de jure,
- defensible,
- dinkum,
- dispensable,
- dramatic,
- dramatical,
- dramaturgic,
- excusable,
- exemptible,
- expiable,
- fair,
- film,
- filmic,
- following the letter,
- forgivable,
- genuine,
- good,
- ham,
- hammy,
- histrionic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- inoffensive,
- judicial,
- juridical,
- just,
- justiciable,
- justifiable,
- kosher,
- lawful,
- lawmaking,
- legal,
- legalize,
- legislative,
- legit,
- legitimatize,
- legitimize,
- legitimized,
- licit,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- logical,
- melodramatic,
- milked,
- monodramatic,
- movie,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- operatic,
- original,
- overacted,
- overplayed,
- pardonable,
- permissible,
- plausible,
- proper,
- pure,
- rational,
- real,
- realistic,
- reasonable,
- remissible,
- right,
- rightful,
- sanction,
- sanctionable,
- sanctioned,
- sane,
- scenic,
- self-consistent,
- sensible,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- solid,
- sound,
- spectacular,
- stagelike,
- stageworthy,
- stagy,
- starstruck,
- statutory,
- stellar,
- sterling,
- substantial,
- sufficient,
- sure-enough,
- theaterlike,
- theatrical,
- thespian,
- thrown away,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- underacted,
- underplayed,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unobjectionable,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- valid,
- validate,
- vaudevillian,
- venial,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vindicable,
- warrant,
- warrantable,
- weighty,
- well-argued,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- wholesome,
- within the law,
- word-for-word
- disorder
collapse
- a disturbance of the peace or of public order
- condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
- bring disorder to related words >
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- affray,
- agitation,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- aloofness,
- amorphia,
- amorphism,
- amorphousness,
- anarchism,
- anarcho-syndicalism,
- anarchy,
- anomie,
- antinomianism,
- ataxia,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- badness,
- ball up,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- bedlam,
- befuddle,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- blobbiness,
- blur,
- blurriness,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brawl,
- broadness,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- capriciousness,
- cardiovascular disease,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- chaos,
- choppiness,
- chronic disease,
- churn,
- circulatory disease,
- civil disorder,
- clamor,
- cloud,
- clutter,
- commotion,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- congenital defect,
- conturbation,
- convulsion,
- criminal syndicalism,
- dappleness,
- daze,
- debilitate,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deform,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- derange,
- derangement,
- deviation,
- devitalize,
- difference,
- differentiation,
- diffusion,
- disability,
- disable,
- disarrange,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcertion,
- discontinuity,
- discourtesy,
- discreteness,
- disease,
- dishevel,
- disjoint,
- disjunction,
- dislocate,
- dislocation,
- disorderliness,
- disorderly conduct,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorientation,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disrupt,
- disruption,
- disruptiveness,
- dissolution,
- distemper,
- distort,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- ebullition,
- embarrassment,
- embroil,
- embroilment,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- entropy,
- epidemic disease,
- excitement,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- fight,
- flap,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- fog,
- fog up,
- fogginess,
- foment,
- formlessness,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- frowned-upon behavior,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fume,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- fuss,
- fuzziness,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- generality,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- hash,
- haze,
- haziness,
- hereditary disease,
- hooliganism,
- horseplay,
- hospitalize,
- hubbub,
- huddle,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill,
- ill-definedness,
- illness,
- imprecision,
- impropriety,
- inaccuracy,
- incapacitate,
- inchoateness,
- incoherence,
- inconsistency,
- inconstancy,
- indecisiveness,
- indefinableness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminateness,
- indispose,
- indisposition,
- inequality,
- inexactness,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- inquietude,
- insanity,
- instability,
- invalid,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- jitters,
- jumble,
- jumpiness,
- knock galley-west,
- laxity,
- lay up,
- litter,
- looseness,
- lynch law,
- maelstrom,
- malady,
- malaise,
- maze,
- melee,
- mercuriality,
- mess,
- mess up,
- messiness,
- misarrange,
- misarrangement,
- misbehavior,
- misconduct,
- misdemeanor,
- misdoing,
- mishmash,
- misrule,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- mix up,
- mob law,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- moil,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- motleyness,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- muscular disease,
- muss,
- muss up,
- mutability,
- naughtiness,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- neurological disease,
- nihilism,
- nonadhesion,
- noncohesion,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonsanctioned behavior,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- nutritional disease,
- obfuscate,
- obscuration,
- obscure,
- obscurity,
- occupational disease,
- ochlocracy,
- orderlessness,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pandemonium,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- perplexity,
- perturb,
- perturbation,
- plant disease,
- pluralism,
- pother,
- primal chaos,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- pucker,
- raggedness,
- rebellion,
- reduce,
- respiratory disease,
- restlessness,
- revolution,
- riot,
- rockiness,
- roil,
- roughhouse,
- rout,
- row,
- rowdiness,
- rowdyism,
- ruffianism,
- ruffle,
- rummage,
- rumple,
- rumpus,
- scatter,
- scattering,
- scramble,
- scuffle,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- seethe,
- seething,
- separateness,
- shake up,
- shambles,
- shapelessness,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sicken,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- snarl,
- stew,
- stir,
- sweat,
- sweepingness,
- swirl,
- swivet,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndicalism,
- syndrome,
- tangle,
- the pip,
- tizzy,
- to-do,
- tohubohu,
- topsy-turviness,
- tousle,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumble,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- turn,
- twitter,
- unadherence,
- unadhesiveness,
- unclearness,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- unease,
- unevenness,
- unform,
- unhinge,
- unorthodoxy,
- unrest,
- unruliness,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- unshape,
- unsteadiness,
- untenacity,
- untidiness,
- upheaval,
- uproar,
- upset,
- urogenital disease,
- vagueness,
- vandalism,
- variability,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- venial sin,
- versatility,
- vice,
- violence,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- wavering,
- weaken,
- worm disease,
- wrongdoing
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- absolution,
- abstemious,
- amnesty,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- benevolent,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- close,
- conciliatory,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- economic,
- economical,
- economization,
- economizing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exiguous,
- exoneration,
- forbearing,
- forehanded,
- forgiving,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- generous,
- grace,
- immunity,
- impoverished,
- indemnity,
- jejune,
- kind,
- labor-saving,
- lean,
- limited,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- low growth rate,
- magnanimous,
- meager,
- mean,
- measured,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- money-saving,
- narrow,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- paltry,
- pardon,
- parsimonious,
- patient,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- penurious,
- placable,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- puny,
- redemption,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- remission,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- restrained,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scraping,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- shrift,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- small,
- sober,
- spare,
- sparse,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stinting,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- temperate,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- time-saving,
- tolerant,
- too frugal,
- ungiving,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unresentful,
- unrevengeful,
- unwasteful,
- wary,
- watered,
- watery
- remission
collapse
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- amnesty,
- assuagement,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- break,
- caesura,
- calming,
- catabasis,
- cease-fire,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- compurgation,
- crash,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescendo,
- deliverance,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- disparagement,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- easing,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- extraction,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- immunity,
- impairment,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lull,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pause,
- plunge,
- purgation,
- purging,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- recess,
- redemption,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- release,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- shortening,
- shrift,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- softening,
- soothing,
- sparing,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- truncation,
- vacation,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- wane
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