Related Words:
- behindhand
collapse - behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent" related words >
- after time,
- ahead of time,
- anachronistic,
- antedated,
- arrested,
- back,
- backward,
- beforehand,
- behind,
- behind time,
- belated,
- belatedly,
- blocked,
- careless,
- dated,
- deep into,
- defaulting,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- detained,
- disregardful,
- early,
- far on,
- foredated,
- held up,
- hung up,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- jammed,
- late,
- latish,
- lax,
- metachronistic,
- misdated,
- mistimed,
- moratory,
- neglectful,
- never on time,
- none too soon,
- nonpaying,
- obstructed,
- out of date,
- out of season,
- overdue,
- parachronistic,
- past due,
- postdated,
- prochronistic,
- regardless,
- remiss,
- retarded,
- slack,
- slow,
- stopped,
- tardy,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unprogressive,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- unseasonable,
- untimely
- once
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- on one occasion; "once I ran into her"
- at a previous time; "at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once";
- as soon as; "once we are home, we can rest" related words >
- alone,
- already,
- ancient,
- anytime,
- anyway,
- anywise,
- apart,
- at a stroke,
- at all,
- at any time,
- at intervals,
- at once,
- at one time,
- at times,
- at whatever time,
- before,
- by itself,
- bygone,
- conclusively,
- decidedly,
- definitely,
- directly,
- earlier,
- early,
- erstwhile,
- finally,
- for good,
- fore,
- former,
- formerly,
- heretofore,
- if ever,
- immediately,
- immemorial,
- in a jiffy,
- in a trice,
- in a wink,
- in the singular,
- individually,
- instantly,
- just this once,
- late,
- long ago,
- no matter when,
- now and again,
- occasionally,
- old,
- olden,
- on one occasion,
- once for all,
- one by one,
- one day,
- one fine morning,
- one time,
- onetime,
- only once,
- particularly,
- past,
- per se,
- periodically,
- positively,
- prehistoric,
- previous,
- previously,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- promptly,
- quondam,
- recent,
- right away,
- separately,
- severally,
- simultaneously,
- single-handedly,
- singly,
- singularly,
- some time ago,
- sometime,
- sometimes,
- sporadically,
- then,
- time was,
- together,
- whenever,
- whensoever,
- whilom,
- without delay
- unweave
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- undo strands that have been woven together related words >
- answer,
- bottom,
- clarify,
- clear up,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- disembroil,
- disentangle,
- disintricate,
- disinvolve,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- explain,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- interpret,
- make out,
- open the lock,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- solve,
- sort out,
- unbraid,
- unclutter,
- uncoil,
- undo,
- unknot,
- unlock,
- unmix,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- unsnarl,
- untangle,
- unthread,
- untwine,
- untwist,
- unwind,
- work,
- work out
- untwist
collapse
- cause to become untwisted related words >
- answer,
- bottom,
- clarify,
- clear up,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- disembroil,
- disentangle,
- disintricate,
- disinvolve,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- explain,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- interpret,
- make out,
- open the lock,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- solve,
- sort out,
- unbraid,
- unclutter,
- uncoil,
- undo,
- unknot,
- unlock,
- unmix,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- unsnarl,
- untangle,
- unthread,
- untwine,
- unweave,
- unwind,
- work,
- work out
- loft
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- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept
- floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
- lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull
- kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball"
- propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air"
- store in a loft related words >
- agency,
- atelier,
- attic,
- attic room,
- barbershop,
- beauty parlor,
- beauty shop,
- bench,
- butcher shop,
- cockloft,
- company,
- concern,
- corporation,
- desk,
- establishment,
- facility,
- firm,
- garret,
- hayloft,
- house,
- installation,
- institution,
- junk room,
- library,
- lumber room,
- office,
- organization,
- parlor,
- sail loft,
- shop,
- sky parlor,
- stacks,
- storeroom,
- studio,
- study,
- sweatshop,
- work site,
- work space,
- workbench,
- workhouse,
- working space,
- workplace,
- workroom,
- workshop,
- worktable
- later
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- comparative of the adverb `late'; "he stayed later than you did" related words >
- after,
- after a time,
- after a while,
- after all,
- after that,
- afterward,
- afterwards,
- anon,
- approaching,
- attendant,
- before long,
- behind,
- by,
- by and by,
- by destiny,
- cadet,
- coming,
- consecutive,
- deathbed,
- desired,
- destinal,
- destined,
- determined,
- eleventh-hour,
- emergent,
- ensuing,
- eventual,
- ex post facto,
- extrapolated,
- fatal,
- fatally,
- fated,
- fatidic,
- following,
- forthcoming,
- future,
- futuristic,
- hereafter,
- hoped-for,
- hopefully,
- imminent,
- imminently,
- in aftertime,
- in the aftermath,
- in the future,
- in the sequel,
- junior,
- last-minute,
- late,
- latter,
- lineal,
- nearing,
- newly come,
- next,
- of yesterday,
- planned,
- plotted,
- posterior,
- predictably,
- predicted,
- probable,
- probably,
- projected,
- prophesied,
- prospective,
- proximo,
- puisne,
- recent,
- sequent,
- since,
- soon,
- subsequent,
- subsequently,
- succeeding,
- successive,
- then,
- thereafter,
- thereon,
- thereupon,
- therewith,
- to come,
- to-be,
- tomorrow,
- ultimate,
- younger
- absorbed in,
- at it,
- at work,
- bound,
- burdened with debt,
- busy,
- caught up in,
- deep in debt,
- embarrassed,
- employed,
- encumbered,
- engaged,
- enmeshed in,
- entangled in,
- far-gone,
- fettered,
- full of business,
- hampered,
- handcuffed,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- immersed in,
- implicated in,
- in bonds,
- in chains,
- in debt,
- in difficulties,
- in embarrassed circumstances,
- in harness,
- in hock,
- in irons,
- in the hole,
- in the red,
- indebted,
- involved,
- involved in,
- ironbound,
- manacled,
- mortgaged,
- occupied,
- on duty,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- plunged in debt,
- shackled,
- strapped,
- submerged in,
- tethered,
- tied,
- tied down,
- tied up in,
- trammeled,
- working,
- wrapped up in
- unfortunate
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- a person who suffers misfortune
- unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
- not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" related words >
- abortive,
- afflictive,
- apocalyptic,
- awful,
- awkward,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- bootless,
- calamitous,
- catastrophic,
- cursed,
- dark,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dismal,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- donsie,
- doomed,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- forlorn,
- fortuneless,
- fruitless,
- funest,
- futile,
- gloomy,
- graceless,
- grievous,
- hapless,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- heartbreaking,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-advised,
- ill-boding,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- impolitic,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inadvisable,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- inauspicious,
- incongruous,
- inconvenient,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- lame,
- lamentable,
- late,
- loser,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- malefic,
- manque,
- menacing,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- miserable,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- of no effect,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of place,
- out of time,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poor unfortunate,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- regrettable,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- sad sack,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- starred,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- sure loser,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- tragic,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- undesirable,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmeet,
- unprofitable,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwise,
- upsetting,
- useless,
- victim,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- wrong
- battlement
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- a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns related words >
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- castellation,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- crenel,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- embrasure,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- stockade,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- work
- unripe
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- not fully prepared related words >
- a bit previous,
- a novice at,
- a stranger to,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acescent,
- adolescent,
- advanced,
- at half cock,
- awkward,
- blankminded,
- budding,
- callow,
- crab,
- crabbed,
- dewy,
- dry,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- far ahead,
- fledgling,
- forward,
- fresh,
- gauche,
- green,
- green as grass,
- groping,
- growing,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- half-grown,
- hasty,
- ignorant,
- ill-considered,
- ill-digested,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-timed,
- immature,
- improper,
- impubic,
- impulsive,
- inane,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- inexperienced,
- infant,
- infelicitous,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- inopportune,
- intact,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- juicy,
- juvenile,
- know-nothing,
- late,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- minor,
- mistimed,
- naive,
- nescient,
- new to,
- new-fledged,
- not firm,
- off base,
- out of line,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- pickled,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- premature,
- previous,
- pungent,
- raw,
- ripening,
- rushed,
- sappy,
- sec,
- simple,
- sour,
- sour as vinegar,
- soured,
- sourish,
- strange to,
- tart,
- tartish,
- tender,
- tentative,
- too early,
- too late,
- too soon,
- unaccustomed to,
- unacquainted,
- unacquainted with,
- unadult,
- unapprized,
- unbefitting,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- unconversant with,
- uncrystallized,
- underage,
- underripe,
- undeveloped,
- unenlightened,
- unexperienced,
- unfamiliar,
- unfamiliar with,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- unfortunate,
- ungrown,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- uninitiated in,
- unintelligent,
- unjelled,
- unknowing,
- unlicked,
- unlucky,
- unmatured,
- unmeditated,
- unmellowed,
- unposted,
- unpracticed,
- unpracticed in,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unpropitious,
- unready,
- unseasonable,
- unseasoned,
- unskilled in,
- unsuitable,
- unsure,
- unsweet,
- unsweetened,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- untried,
- unused to,
- unversed,
- unversed in,
- vacuous,
- vernal,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- virginal,
- wrong,
- youthful
- catch on
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- become popular; "This fashion caught on in Paris"
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" related words >
- absorb,
- appreciate,
- apprehend,
- ascertain,
- assimilate,
- be blooded,
- be hep to,
- be on to,
- be successful,
- be wise to,
- be with one,
- become popular,
- become the rage,
- catch,
- catch on to,
- click,
- come off,
- comprehend,
- conceive,
- connect,
- determine,
- dig,
- digest,
- farewell,
- fathom,
- find out,
- follow,
- get,
- get hold of,
- get the drift,
- get the idea,
- get the picture,
- go,
- go great guns,
- go off,
- go over,
- go over big,
- go to town,
- graduate,
- grasp,
- have,
- have it taped,
- hear,
- ken,
- know,
- learn,
- make a hit,
- master,
- meet with success,
- pass,
- penetrate,
- prevail,
- prosper,
- qualify,
- read,
- realize,
- savvy,
- see,
- see through,
- seize,
- seize the meaning,
- sense,
- succeed,
- take,
- take in,
- tumble,
- tumble to,
- understand,
- unearth,
- wise up to,
- work well,
- work wonders
- agitate,
- answer,
- bottom,
- bug,
- clear up,
- convulse,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- discompose,
- disentangle,
- distract,
- disturb,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- embroil,
- explain,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- interpret,
- make out,
- open the lock,
- perturb,
- plumb,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- solve,
- sort out,
- spook,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- trouble,
- undo,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- unsettle,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- upset,
- work,
- work out
- click
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- depression of a button on a computer mouse; "a click on the right button for example"
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
- produce a click; "Xhosa speakers click"
- make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away" related words >
- be blooded,
- be successful,
- bump,
- catch on,
- chink,
- clack,
- clink,
- clop,
- clump,
- clunk,
- come off,
- connect,
- crack,
- cracking,
- crackle,
- crackling,
- crepitate,
- crepitation,
- crump,
- decrepitate,
- decrepitation,
- dull thud,
- farewell,
- flick,
- flump,
- go,
- go great guns,
- go off,
- go over,
- go over big,
- go to town,
- graduate,
- make a hit,
- meet with success,
- pad,
- pan out,
- pass,
- pat,
- patter,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pop,
- prevail,
- prosper,
- prove out,
- qualify,
- rap,
- sizzling,
- snap,
- snapping,
- spit,
- spitting,
- succeed,
- take,
- tap,
- thud,
- thump,
- tick,
- tinkle,
- tunk,
- work well,
- work wonders
- redoubt
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- a forbidding stronghold related words >
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- citadel,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fastness,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- fortress,
- glacis,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- stockade,
- stronghold,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- work
- systematize
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- arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" related words >
- adjust,
- arrange,
- array,
- calculate,
- cast,
- chart,
- codify,
- concert,
- contrive,
- cool off,
- coordinate,
- cut out,
- deploy,
- design,
- devise,
- dispose,
- figure,
- fix,
- forecast,
- form,
- frame,
- grade,
- harmonize,
- hierarchize,
- intend,
- lay out,
- lay plans,
- line up,
- make a projection,
- make arrangements,
- marshal,
- methodize,
- normalize,
- order,
- organize,
- pacify,
- plan,
- plan ahead,
- prearrange,
- program,
- project,
- quiet,
- rank,
- rationalize,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- routinize,
- schedule,
- schematize,
- set up,
- settle,
- shape,
- standardize,
- structure,
- synchronize,
- tranquilize,
- tune,
- tune up,
- work out,
- work up
- bric-a-brac
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- miscellaneous curios related words >
- art object,
- bauble,
- bibelot,
- brainchild,
- chaff,
- chicken feed,
- chickenshit,
- classic,
- composition,
- creation,
- design,
- details,
- fribble,
- froth,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- gimcrackery,
- grotesque,
- kickshaw,
- kitsch,
- knack,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- minutiae,
- mobile,
- museum piece,
- nude,
- old master,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- peanuts,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- rubbish,
- small beer,
- small change,
- stabile,
- statue,
- still life,
- study,
- toy,
- trash,
- trifles,
- trinket,
- trivia,
- trumpery,
- virtu,
- whim-wham,
- work,
- work of art
- calculate
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- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- judge to be probable
- specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public related words >
- add,
- add up,
- algebraize,
- appraise,
- appreciate,
- arrange,
- ascertain,
- assay,
- assess,
- bank on,
- build on,
- calibrate,
- caliper,
- cast,
- check a parameter,
- cipher,
- compute,
- concert,
- consider,
- contrive,
- count,
- count on,
- cut out,
- depend,
- design,
- determine,
- devise,
- dial,
- discover,
- divide,
- dope out,
- estimate,
- evaluate,
- extract roots,
- fathom,
- figure,
- figure in,
- figure out,
- forecast,
- forethink,
- frame,
- gauge,
- graduate,
- intend,
- lay plans,
- lot,
- make a projection,
- make arrangements,
- measure,
- mensurate,
- mete,
- meter,
- methodize,
- multiply,
- organize,
- pace,
- plan,
- plan ahead,
- plot,
- plumb,
- prearrange,
- premeditate,
- preresolve,
- price,
- prize,
- probe,
- program,
- project,
- quantify,
- quantize,
- rate,
- rationalize,
- reckon,
- reckon on,
- schedule,
- schematize,
- scheme,
- score,
- set up,
- shape,
- size,
- size up,
- sound,
- span,
- step,
- study,
- subtract,
- survey,
- systematize,
- take a reading,
- take account of,
- tally,
- triangulate,
- trust in,
- valuate,
- value,
- weigh,
- work out,
- work out beforehand,
- work up
- a bit previous,
- above,
- advanced,
- aforementioned,
- aforesaid,
- ahead,
- ancient,
- ante,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- anticipatory,
- before,
- beforehand,
- ci-devant,
- earlier,
- early,
- elder,
- erstwhile,
- far ahead,
- first,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- former,
- forward,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- hasty,
- ill-considered,
- immemorial,
- impulsive,
- in advance,
- late,
- not firm,
- old,
- olden,
- older,
- once,
- onetime,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- past,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- precurrent,
- preexistent,
- prehistoric,
- premature,
- previous to,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- prior to,
- quondam,
- recent,
- rushed,
- senior,
- sometime,
- soon,
- then,
- too early,
- too soon,
- uncrystallized,
- unjelled,
- unmatured,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unripe,
- untimely,
- whilom
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- arrested,
- back,
- backward,
- behindhand,
- belated,
- beset,
- besotted,
- blocked,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- confused,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- detained,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- fixated,
- gripped,
- held,
- held up,
- hung-up,
- ill at ease,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- infatuated,
- jammed,
- late,
- latish,
- monomaniac,
- monomaniacal,
- moratory,
- mortified,
- never on time,
- obsessed,
- obstructed,
- out of countenance,
- overdue,
- perturbed,
- possessed,
- preoccupied,
- prepossessed,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- retarded,
- slow,
- stopped,
- tardy,
- troubled,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- untimely,
- upset
- ahead of time,
- anachronistic,
- antedated,
- anticipated,
- arrested,
- awaited,
- back,
- backward,
- beforehand,
- behind,
- behind time,
- behindhand,
- belated,
- blocked,
- dated,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- detained,
- due,
- early,
- expected,
- foredated,
- foreseen,
- held up,
- hoped-for,
- hung up,
- imminent,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- in prospect,
- in view,
- jammed,
- late,
- latish,
- long-expected,
- mature,
- metachronistic,
- misdated,
- mistimed,
- moratory,
- never on time,
- obstructed,
- on the horizon,
- out of date,
- out of season,
- outstanding,
- owing,
- parachronistic,
- past due,
- payable,
- postdated,
- presumed,
- probable,
- prochronistic,
- promised,
- prospective,
- retarded,
- slow,
- stopped,
- tardy,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- unseasonable,
- unsettled,
- untimely
- answer,
- bottom,
- break the bank,
- clear up,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- disentangle,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- explain,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit the jackpot,
- hit the mark,
- interpret,
- make a killing,
- make out,
- open the lock,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- ring the bell,
- score,
- score a success,
- solve,
- sort out,
- turn up trumps,
- undo,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- work,
- work out
- ashes,
- barebones,
- bean pole,
- beanstalk,
- body,
- bones,
- broomstick,
- cadaver,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- clay,
- clothes pole,
- corpus delicti,
- crowbait,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- decedent,
- dry bones,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- food for worms,
- lanky,
- late lamented,
- mortal remains,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- organic remains,
- rattlebones,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- shadow,
- skeleton,
- slim,
- spindlelegs,
- spindleshanks,
- stack of bones,
- stiff,
- stilt,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- twiggy,
- walking skeleton
- wiretap
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- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" related words >
- attend,
- attend to,
- auscultate,
- be all ears,
- bend an ear,
- bug,
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- cock the ears,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- eavesdrop,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- examine by ear,
- following,
- give attention,
- give audience to,
- give ear,
- hark,
- hear,
- hear out,
- hearken,
- heed,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- intercept,
- lend an ear,
- listen,
- listen at,
- listen in,
- listen to,
- military intelligence,
- observation,
- secret police,
- secret service,
- shadowing,
- sit in on,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- tap,
- trailing,
- wiretapping
- ablate,
- absorb,
- abuse,
- assimilate,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- burn up,
- consume,
- denude,
- deplete,
- deplume,
- despoil,
- digest,
- displume,
- divest,
- drain,
- drain of resources,
- dry,
- eat,
- eat up,
- erode,
- exhaust,
- expend,
- exploit,
- finish,
- finish off,
- flay,
- fleece,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- ill-use,
- impose upon,
- impoverish,
- ingest,
- make use of,
- manipulate,
- milk,
- misuse,
- pick clean,
- play on,
- pluck,
- presume upon,
- shear,
- skin,
- spend,
- squander,
- strip,
- strip bare,
- stroke,
- swallow,
- swallow up,
- take advantage of,
- use,
- use ill,
- use up,
- waste away,
- wear away,
- work on,
- work upon
- ash,
- body,
- bones,
- brand,
- cadaver,
- calx,
- carbon,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- charcoal,
- cinder,
- cinders,
- clay,
- clinker,
- clinkers,
- coal,
- coke,
- coom,
- corpse,
- corpus delicti,
- crowbait,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- decedent,
- dross,
- dry bones,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- food for worms,
- fume,
- late lamented,
- lava,
- mortal remains,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- organic remains,
- reek,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- scoria,
- skeleton,
- slag,
- smoke,
- smudge,
- smut,
- soot,
- stiff,
- sullage,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one
- add,
- algebraize,
- answer,
- bottom,
- calculate,
- cast,
- cipher,
- clear up,
- compute,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- disentangle,
- divide,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- estimate,
- explain,
- extract roots,
- fathom,
- figure,
- figure in,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- interpret,
- make out,
- measure,
- multiply,
- open the lock,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- reckon,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- score,
- solve,
- sort out,
- subtract,
- take account of,
- tally,
- undo,
- unfold,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- work,
- work out
- busy
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- crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" related words >
- absorb,
- active,
- arabesque,
- assiduous,
- at it,
- at work,
- attend to business,
- baroque,
- burden,
- bustling,
- busybody,
- chichi,
- complex,
- complicated,
- detailed,
- devote,
- diligent,
- divert,
- drive,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- employ,
- employed,
- energetic,
- engage,
- engaged,
- engross,
- fag,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- forward,
- frilly,
- full of business,
- fussy,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- hectic,
- high-wrought,
- hustling,
- immerse,
- impertinent,
- in harness,
- industrious,
- inquisitive,
- intricate,
- involve,
- involved,
- keep busy,
- labored,
- lively,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mind the store,
- moresque,
- nosy,
- occupied,
- occupy,
- officious,
- on duty,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- oppress,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overdrive,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overwork,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pass the time,
- picturesque,
- presumptuous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- rich,
- rococo,
- self-appointed,
- snoopy,
- soak,
- spend,
- spend the time,
- sweat,
- task,
- tax,
- tied up,
- work,
- working
- escarpment
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- a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
- a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion related words >
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bluff,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- cliff,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- crag,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- face,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- palisades,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- precipice,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scar,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- steep,
- stockade,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- wall,
- work
- novel
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- a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"
- a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
- pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort" related words >
- Bildungsroman,
- Gothic novel,
- authentic,
- avant-garde,
- bauble,
- best seller,
- bibelot,
- blockbuster,
- book,
- bound book,
- classic,
- coloring book,
- comic novel,
- creative,
- curio,
- definitive work,
- detective novel,
- different,
- dime novel,
- dreadful,
- epistolary novel,
- erotic novel,
- firsthand,
- folio,
- fresh,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- great work,
- hardback,
- historical novel,
- imaginative,
- juvenile,
- juvenile book,
- limp-cover book,
- magnum opus,
- modern,
- modernistic,
- narrative,
- neoteric,
- new,
- new-fashioned,
- newfangled,
- nonbook,
- notebook,
- nouvelle,
- novel of character,
- novel of ideas,
- novel of incident,
- novel of manners,
- novel of sensibility,
- novelette,
- novella,
- odd,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- opusculum,
- original,
- paperback,
- peculiar,
- penny dreadful,
- picaresque novel,
- picture book,
- playbook,
- pocket book,
- pornographic novel,
- prayer book,
- problem novel,
- production,
- proletarian novel,
- propaganda novel,
- psalmbook,
- psalter,
- psychological novel,
- publication,
- recent,
- regional novel,
- revolutionary,
- river novel,
- roman,
- roman a clef,
- roman-fleuve,
- romance,
- satirical novel,
- science-fiction novel,
- sentimental novel,
- serial,
- shilling shocker,
- short story,
- short-short,
- singular,
- sketchbook,
- sociological novel,
- soft-cover,
- songbook,
- special,
- standard work,
- storiette,
- story,
- storybook,
- strange,
- stream-of-consciousness novel,
- tale,
- thesis novel,
- title,
- tome,
- trade book,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- uncommon,
- unconventional,
- underived,
- unfamiliar,
- unheard-of,
- unique,
- untested,
- untried,
- unusual,
- vignette,
- volume,
- whatnot,
- work,
- writing
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- advance,
- advantage,
- answer,
- attain,
- avail,
- be handy,
- be of use,
- be right,
- befit,
- befitting,
- benefit,
- bestead,
- bring off,
- bring through,
- carry off,
- compass,
- consummate,
- crown with success,
- deal with,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- do,
- do the job,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- enact,
- execute,
- fetch,
- fill the bill,
- fit,
- forward,
- fulfill,
- get by,
- give good returns,
- knock off,
- make,
- manage,
- not come amiss,
- pay,
- pay off,
- perform,
- polish off,
- produce,
- profit,
- promote,
- pull off,
- put across,
- put away,
- put over,
- put through,
- realize,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- succeed,
- suffice,
- suit the occasion,
- take care of,
- turn the trick,
- work,
- work out,
- yield a profit
- stint
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- an individuals prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" related words >
- allotment,
- amount,
- anchor watch,
- apportionment,
- assignment,
- begrudge,
- bit,
- bound,
- bout,
- box,
- box in,
- box up,
- busywork,
- caliber,
- chare,
- charge,
- check,
- chore,
- circumscribe,
- circumscription,
- commission,
- compass,
- condition,
- confine,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- contain,
- control,
- copyright,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- curb,
- cut,
- cut corners,
- day shift,
- degree,
- devoir,
- discipline,
- dogwatch,
- draw the line,
- duty,
- economize,
- errand,
- exercise,
- extent,
- famish,
- fish to fry,
- full time,
- go,
- grade,
- graveyard shift,
- grudge,
- half time,
- hedge about,
- height,
- hem,
- hem in,
- homework,
- interval,
- job,
- job of work,
- keep from spreading,
- keep within bounds,
- labor,
- leap,
- level,
- limit,
- limitation,
- live upon nothing,
- lobster trick,
- localize,
- make-work,
- mark,
- matters in hand,
- measure,
- mission,
- moderate,
- narrow,
- night shift,
- notch,
- nuance,
- obligation,
- odd job,
- overtime,
- part time,
- participation,
- pas,
- patent,
- peg,
- period,
- piece of work,
- pinch,
- pinch pennies,
- pitch,
- plane,
- plateau,
- point,
- project,
- proportion,
- qualification,
- qualify,
- quantity,
- quota,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- register,
- relay,
- remove,
- reservation,
- responsibility,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrict,
- restriction,
- round,
- routine,
- rung,
- scale,
- scamp,
- scant,
- scope,
- scrape,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- service,
- shade,
- shadow,
- share,
- shift,
- short,
- skimp,
- space,
- spare,
- specialize,
- split schedule,
- split shift,
- stair,
- standard,
- starve,
- step,
- straiten,
- stretch,
- stricture,
- sunrise watch,
- swing shift,
- task,
- term,
- things to do,
- tighten,
- time,
- tour,
- tour of duty,
- tread,
- trick,
- turn,
- turn of work,
- watch,
- withhold,
- work,
- work shift
- accede,
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- approach,
- arrive,
- arrive at,
- arrive in,
- attain to,
- be instated,
- be received,
- blow in,
- bob up,
- check in,
- clock in,
- come,
- come in,
- come to,
- come to hand,
- compass,
- consummate,
- deal with,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- do,
- do the job,
- do the trick,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- enact,
- execute,
- fetch,
- fetch up at,
- find,
- fulfill,
- gain,
- get in,
- get there,
- get to,
- hit,
- hit town,
- knock off,
- make,
- make good,
- make it,
- manage,
- mount the throne,
- perform,
- polish off,
- pop up,
- produce,
- pull in,
- punch in,
- put away,
- reach,
- realize,
- ring in,
- roll in,
- score,
- show up,
- sign in,
- succeed,
- take care of,
- take office,
- time in,
- turn the trick,
- turn up,
- win,
- work,
- work out
- still life
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- a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers related words >
- abstract,
- abstraction,
- altarpiece,
- art object,
- block print,
- brainchild,
- bric-a-brac,
- classic,
- collage,
- color print,
- composition,
- copy,
- creation,
- cyclorama,
- daub,
- design,
- diptych,
- engraving,
- fresco,
- grotesque,
- icon,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- image,
- kitsch,
- likeness,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- miniature,
- mobile,
- montage,
- mosaic,
- mural,
- museum piece,
- nude,
- old master,
- panorama,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- photograph,
- picture,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- print,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- stabile,
- stained glass window,
- statue,
- stencil,
- study,
- tableau,
- tapestry,
- triptych,
- virtu,
- wall painting,
- work,
- work of art
- studio
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- workplace for the teaching or practice of an art; "she ran a dance studio"; "the music department provided studios for their students"; "you don't need a studio to make a passport photograph"
- workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded related words >
- AM station,
- FM station,
- RDF station,
- agency,
- atelier,
- barbershop,
- beauty parlor,
- beauty shop,
- bench,
- butcher shop,
- clear-channel station,
- company,
- concern,
- corporation,
- desk,
- direction-finder station,
- establishment,
- facility,
- firm,
- gallery,
- house,
- installation,
- institution,
- library,
- loft,
- office,
- organization,
- parlor,
- radio relay station,
- radio station,
- relay station,
- sail loft,
- shop,
- shortwave station,
- stacks,
- studio plant,
- study,
- sweatshop,
- ultrahigh-frequency station,
- work site,
- work space,
- workbench,
- workhouse,
- working space,
- workplace,
- workroom,
- workshop,
- worktable
- abuse,
- active use,
- appliance,
- application,
- atrocity,
- batter,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- bruise,
- buffet,
- consumption,
- do violence to,
- do wrong by,
- do wrong to,
- drain,
- employ,
- employment,
- exercise,
- exertion,
- exploit,
- good use,
- hard usage,
- hard use,
- ill use,
- ill-treat,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- impose upon,
- injure,
- injury,
- knock about,
- make use of,
- maltreat,
- maltreatment,
- manhandle,
- manipulate,
- maul,
- milk,
- mishandle,
- mistreat,
- mistreatment,
- misuse,
- molest,
- molestation,
- outrage,
- play on,
- presume upon,
- rough,
- rough up,
- rough usage,
- savage,
- stroke,
- suck dry,
- take advantage of,
- usage,
- use,
- use ill,
- using up,
- violation,
- violence,
- work on,
- work upon,
- wrong use
- unscramble
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- make intelligible; "Can you unscramble the message?" related words >
- answer,
- bottom,
- clarify,
- clear,
- clear up,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- disburden,
- disembarrass,
- disembroil,
- disencumber,
- disengage,
- disentangle,
- disintricate,
- disinvolve,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- explain,
- extricate,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- free,
- free up,
- get,
- get right,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- interpret,
- liberate,
- make out,
- open the lock,
- plumb,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- solve,
- sort out,
- unbraid,
- unclutter,
- uncoil,
- undo,
- unknot,
- unlock,
- unmix,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unsnarl,
- untangle,
- unthread,
- untwine,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- unwind,
- work,
- work out
- secret police
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- a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) related words >
- Cheka,
- FBI,
- Gestapo,
- Interpol,
- MP,
- MVD,
- Mounties,
- NKVD,
- OGPU,
- RCMP,
- SP,
- Scotland Yard,
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- constabulary,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- county police,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- highway patrol,
- intelligence,
- intelligence work,
- law enforcement agency,
- military intelligence,
- military police,
- observation,
- police,
- police force,
- political police,
- posse,
- provincial police,
- riot police,
- secret service,
- security force,
- shadowing,
- shore patrol,
- special police,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- state police,
- surveillance,
- tactical police,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- troopers,
- vigilance committee,
- vigilantes,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping
- behind
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- in or to or toward the rear; "he followed behind"; "seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"; "the final runners were far behind"
- remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from; "when he died he left much unfinished work behind"; "left a large family behind"; "the children left their books behind"; "he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"
- in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills"
- in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"
- of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" related words >
- after,
- after time,
- afterpart,
- afterpiece,
- afterward,
- arrested,
- back,
- back door,
- back of,
- back seat,
- back side,
- back to back,
- backside,
- backward,
- behind the scenes,
- behind time,
- behindhand,
- belatedly,
- below,
- beyond,
- bottom,
- breech,
- butt,
- buttocks,
- by and by,
- can,
- checked,
- croup,
- crupper,
- deep into,
- delayed,
- derriere,
- detained,
- fanny,
- far on,
- following,
- haunches,
- heel,
- heinie,
- hind end,
- hind part,
- hindhead,
- impeded,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in back of,
- in support of,
- in the background,
- in the rear,
- infra,
- late,
- later,
- later than,
- latterly,
- nates,
- next,
- none too soon,
- occiput,
- past,
- posterior,
- postern,
- rear,
- rear end,
- rearward,
- retarded,
- reverse,
- rump,
- set back,
- since,
- slow,
- slowed down,
- stern,
- subsequent to,
- subsequently,
- supporting,
- tail,
- tail end,
- tailpiece,
- tandem,
- tardy
- KO,
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- attain,
- blast,
- blot out,
- bump off,
- call off,
- cancel,
- compass,
- complete,
- consummate,
- croak,
- deal with,
- delete,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- do,
- do in,
- do the job,
- do the trick,
- drop the curtain,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- enact,
- end off,
- erase,
- execute,
- expunge,
- extinguish,
- fetch,
- finalize,
- finish,
- fix,
- fold up,
- fulfill,
- get,
- get it over,
- get over with,
- get through with,
- give the business,
- give the quietus,
- gun down,
- hit,
- ice,
- kayo,
- kibosh,
- kill,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- lay out,
- make,
- manage,
- off,
- perfect,
- perform,
- produce,
- punish,
- put,
- put away,
- put paid to,
- realize,
- rub out,
- scrag,
- settle,
- shoot down,
- succeed,
- take care of,
- turn the trick,
- waste,
- wipe out,
- work,
- work out,
- zap
- abuse,
- benefit from,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- capitalize on,
- carpe diem,
- cash in,
- cash in on,
- deceive,
- drain,
- exploit,
- foist on,
- ill-use,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- improve,
- improve the occasion,
- make capital of,
- make hay,
- make use of,
- manipulate,
- milk,
- misuse,
- not be behindhand,
- pass off on,
- pass the buck,
- play on,
- presume upon,
- profit by,
- put across,
- put on,
- put over,
- put to advantage,
- put upon,
- seize the day,
- shift the blame,
- shift the responsibility,
- stroke,
- suck dry,
- trade on,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- turn to use,
- use,
- use ill,
- use to advantage,
- work on,
- work upon
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