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related words >
Augean task
,
Herculean task
,
arduousness
,
backbreaker
,
backbreaking work
,
ballbuster
,
bitch
,
burdensomeness
,
chore
,
dead lift
,
effortfulness
,
handful
,
hard labor
,
hard pull
,
hard work
,
heavy sledding
,
laboriousness
,
large order
,
man-sized job
,
onerousness
,
oppressiveness
,
rough go
,
strenuousness
,
tall order
,
toilsomeness
,
tough job
,
tough proposition
,
troublesomeness
,
uphill work
,
warm work
paperback
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(of books) having a flexible binding
related words >
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
definitive work
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
limp-cover book
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
picture book
,
playbook
,
pocket book
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalmbook
,
psalter
,
publication
,
serial
,
sketchbook
,
soft-cover
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
storybook
,
title
,
tome
,
trade book
,
volume
,
work
,
writing
soft cover
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related words >
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
definitive work
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
limp-cover book
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
paperback
,
picture book
,
playbook
,
pocket book
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalmbook
,
psalter
,
publication
,
serial
,
sketchbook
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
storybook
,
title
,
tome
,
trade book
,
volume
,
work
,
writing
tome
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a (usually) large and scholarly book
related words >
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
definitive work
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
limp-cover book
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
paperback
,
picture book
,
playbook
,
pocket book
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalmbook
,
psalter
,
publication
,
serial
,
sketchbook
,
soft-cover
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
storybook
,
title
,
trade book
,
volume
,
work
,
writing
needing
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related words >
appetitive
,
arrested
,
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
callow
,
defective
,
deficient
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
desiderative
,
desireful
,
desiring
,
desirous
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
eager
,
embryonic
,
empty of
,
failing
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
hoping
,
hormic
,
hypoplastic
,
immature
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
in default
,
in default of
,
in short supply
,
in want of
,
inadequate
,
incomplete
,
infant
,
lacking
,
lascivious
,
libidinal
,
libidinous
,
lickerish
,
lustful
,
missing
,
optative
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
part
,
partial
,
patchy
,
scant
,
scant of
,
scanty
,
scrappy
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
sketchy
,
tempted
,
unblessed with
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unpossessed of
,
void of
,
wanting
,
wishing
hesitate
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pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"
interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"
related words >
alternate
,
back down
,
balance
,
balk
,
be dilatory
,
blench
,
boggle
,
call a recess
,
debate
,
delay
,
deliberate
,
demur
,
dither
,
equivocate
,
falter
,
fear
,
fight shy of
,
filibuster
,
flinch
,
fluctuate
,
fumble
,
gain time
,
halt
,
hang
,
hang back
,
hang fire
,
hang in doubt
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
haver
,
haw
,
hem
,
hem and haw
,
hold back
,
hold off
,
hover
,
hum
,
hum and haw
,
jib
,
let up
,
make bones about
,
make time
,
mammer
,
pause
,
play for time
,
ponder
,
procrastinate
,
pull back
,
quail
,
recess
,
recoil
,
rest
,
retreat
,
scruple
,
shilly-shally
,
shrink
,
shrink from
,
shy
,
shy at
,
splutter
,
sputter
,
stall
,
stall for time
,
stall off
,
stammer
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stooge around
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
strain
,
strain at
,
stumble
,
stutter
,
take a recess
,
talk against time
,
temporize
,
tergiversate
,
think twice
,
think twice about
,
vacillate
,
wait
,
waver
,
wince
,
withdraw
,
yield
quail
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small gallinaceous game birds
flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
related words >
Cornish hen
,
avoid
,
blanch
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
broiler
,
caille
,
canard
,
caneton
,
capon
,
chapon
,
chicken
,
cower
,
cringe
,
crouch
,
damsel
,
demur
,
dindon
,
dodge
,
draw back
,
duck
,
duckling
,
evade
,
fade
,
faisan
,
fall back
,
falter
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
fowl
,
fryer
,
funk
,
gal
,
goose
,
grouse
,
guinea hen
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
jib
,
lass
,
lassie
,
maid
,
maiden
,
make bones about
,
miss
,
missy
,
oie
,
partridge
,
pause
,
pheasant
,
pigeon
,
pigeonneau
,
poulet
,
pull back
,
quiff
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retreat
,
roaster
,
scruple
,
sheer off
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shy
,
shy at
,
sidestep
,
skulk
,
slink
,
sneak
,
squab
,
squinch
,
start
,
start aside
,
start back
,
stewing chicken
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
strain
,
swerve
,
turkey
,
turn aside
,
volaille
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wild duck
,
wince
out of pocket
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related words >
at a loss
,
badly off
,
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
embarrassed
,
empty of
,
feeling the pinch
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
in Queer Street
,
in default of
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
in the red
,
in want of
,
lacking
,
land-poor
,
missing
,
narrow
,
needing
,
on the edge
,
out
,
out of
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
reduced
,
scant of
,
short
,
short of
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
shy
,
shy of
,
squeezed
,
straitened
,
strapped
,
to the bad
,
unblessed with
,
unmoneyed
,
unpossessed of
,
unprofitably
,
unprosperous
,
void of
,
wanting
hang back
collapse
related words >
avoid
,
back down
,
balance
,
be dilatory
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
cringe
,
dawdle
,
debate
,
deliberate
,
demur
,
dodge
,
drag
,
draw back
,
duck
,
evade
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
falter
,
fear
,
fight shy of
,
filibuster
,
flinch
,
gain time
,
get behind
,
hang
,
hang fire
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
hem and haw
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
hover
,
hum and haw
,
jib
,
lag
,
linger
,
linger behind
,
loiter
,
make bones about
,
make time
,
pause
,
play for time
,
ponder
,
procrastinate
,
pull back
,
quail
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retreat
,
scruple
,
sheer off
,
shilly-shally
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shy
,
shy at
,
sidestep
,
stall
,
stall for time
,
stall off
,
start aside
,
start back
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stooge around
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
straggle
,
strain
,
strain at
,
swerve
,
talk against time
,
temporize
,
think twice about
,
trail
,
trail behind
,
turn aside
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
,
withdraw
,
yield
shun
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avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
related words >
abstain
,
abstain from
,
avoid
,
be stuck-up
,
bilk
,
cold-shoulder
,
decline
,
despise
,
disdain
,
do without
,
dodge
,
double
,
duck
,
elude
,
eschew
,
evade
,
fight shy of
,
forbear
,
forgo
,
give place to
,
give up
,
hold aloof
,
hold aloof from
,
hold back
,
keep aloof
,
keep away from
,
keep clear of
,
keep from
,
keep hands off
,
keep remote from
,
let alone
,
let go by
,
make way for
,
never touch
,
not meddle with
,
not touch
,
pass up
,
rebuff
,
refrain
,
refrain from
,
refuse
,
reject
,
run away from
,
scorn
,
shrink from
,
shy
,
snub
,
spare
,
spurn
,
stand
,
stand aloof
,
stand aloof from
,
stay detached from
,
steer clear of
,
turn away from
,
withhold
dilatory
collapse
wasting time
inclined to waste time and lag behind
related words >
Micawberish
,
apathetic
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
bone-lazy
,
cadging
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
deliberate
,
dillydallying
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dragging
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
foot-dragging
,
good-for-nothing
,
grudging
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
lingering
,
loath
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
neglectful
,
negligent
,
nonaggressive
,
parasitic
,
perfunctory
,
procrastinating
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
reluctant
,
remiss
,
renitent
,
restive
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow to
,
sluggish
,
sponging
,
tarrying
,
unenterprising
,
unenthusiastic
,
unhasty
,
unhurried
,
unzealous
,
work-shy
slavery
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the practice of owning slaves
work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
related words >
abjectness
,
absolutism
,
attendance
,
baseness
,
bond service
,
bondage
,
captivity
,
control
,
debt slavery
,
deprivation of freedom
,
dirty work
,
disenfranchisement
,
disfranchisement
,
domination
,
donkeywork
,
drudge
,
drudgery
,
employ
,
employment
,
enslavement
,
enthrallment
,
fag
,
fatigue
,
feudalism
,
feudality
,
grind
,
handiwork
,
handwork
,
hard labor
,
helotism
,
helotry
,
indentureship
,
industry
,
labor
,
lick
,
lick of work
,
manual labor
,
meanness
,
menialness
,
ministration
,
ministry
,
moil
,
peonage
,
plugging
,
rat race
,
restraint
,
scut work
,
serfdom
,
serfhood
,
servility
,
servitium
,
servitorship
,
servitude
,
slavishness
,
spadework
,
strain
,
stroke
,
stroke of work
,
subjection
,
subjugation
,
submissiveness
,
subservience
,
subserviency
,
sweat
,
task
,
tendance
,
thrall
,
thralldom
,
tiresome work
,
toil
,
travail
,
treadmill
,
tyranny
,
vassalage
,
villenage
,
work
,
yoke
psalmbook
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related words >
Book of Psalms
,
Psalm Book
,
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
definitive work
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
limp-cover book
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
paperback
,
picture book
,
playbook
,
pocket book
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalter
,
publication
,
serial
,
sketchbook
,
soft-cover
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
storybook
,
the Psalms
,
the Psalter
,
the Psaltery
,
title
,
tome
,
trade book
,
volume
,
work
,
writing
psalter
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a collection of Psalms for liturgical use
related words >
Book of Psalms
,
Psalm Book
,
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
definitive work
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
limp-cover book
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
paperback
,
picture book
,
playbook
,
pocket book
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalmbook
,
publication
,
serial
,
sketchbook
,
soft-cover
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
storybook
,
the Psalms
,
the Psalter
,
the Psaltery
,
title
,
tome
,
trade book
,
volume
,
work
,
writing
art work
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related words >
art object
,
brainchild
,
bric-a-brac
,
classic
,
composition
,
creation
,
design
,
grotesque
,
kitsch
,
master
,
masterpiece
,
masterwork
,
mobile
,
museum piece
,
nude
,
old master
,
pasticcio
,
pastiche
,
piece
,
piece of virtu
,
stabile
,
statue
,
still life
,
study
,
virtu
,
work
,
work of art
scrounging
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related words >
abstraction
,
annexation
,
appropriation
,
beggary
,
begging
,
bone-lazy
,
boosting
,
bumming
,
cadging
,
conversion
,
conveyance
,
dilatory
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
embezzlement
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
filching
,
fraud
,
good-for-nothing
,
graft
,
indolent
,
laggard
,
lax
,
lazy
,
liberation
,
lifting
,
mendicancy
,
mendicant
,
mendicity
,
mooching
,
nonaggressive
,
panhandling
,
parasitic
,
petitionary
,
pilferage
,
pilfering
,
pinching
,
poaching
,
prayerful
,
precative
,
procrastinative
,
remiss
,
shiftless
,
shoplifting
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
snatching
,
sneak thievery
,
snitching
,
sponging
,
stealage
,
stealing
,
suppliant
,
supplicant
,
supplicating
,
supplicatory
,
swindle
,
swiping
,
theft
,
thievery
,
thieving
,
unenterprising
,
work-shy
work at
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to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something; "the child worked at the multiplication table until she had it down cold"
related words >
be employed
,
carry on
,
carry on business
,
conduct
,
do
,
do business
,
employ
,
engage in
,
exercise
,
follow
,
follow a trade
,
go in for
,
have a job
,
keep up
,
labor
,
moonlight
,
practice
,
practice a profession
,
prosecute
,
pursue
,
set up shop
,
specialize in
,
stay employed
,
tackle
,
take on
,
take to
,
take up
,
toil
,
transact business
,
undertake
,
use
,
wage
,
work
,
work for
chore
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related words >
Augean task
,
Herculean task
,
administer to
,
assignment
,
attend
,
attend on
,
backbreaker
,
ballbuster
,
bitch
,
busywork
,
care for
,
char
,
chare
,
charge
,
commission
,
dance attendance upon
,
dead lift
,
devoir
,
do chars
,
do for
,
do service to
,
do the chores
,
drudge
,
duty
,
effort
,
errand
,
exercise
,
fish to fry
,
handful
,
hard job
,
hard pull
,
heavy sledding
,
help
,
homework
,
job
,
job of work
,
labor
,
lackey
,
large order
,
look after
,
maid
,
make-work
,
man-sized job
,
matters in hand
,
minister to
,
mission
,
odd job
,
pander to
,
piece of work
,
project
,
rough go
,
serve
,
service
,
stint
,
take care of
,
tall order
,
task
,
tend
,
things to do
,
tough job
,
tough proposition
,
trial
,
tribulation
,
turn a hand
,
uphill work
,
upon
,
valet
,
wait
,
wait on
,
work
,
work for
pull back
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pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"
move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!"
related words >
about the bush
,
abrupt
,
alienate
,
avoid
,
back down
,
back out
,
backslide
,
balance
,
beat a retreat
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
cast off
,
cast out
,
cock
,
cringe
,
cut adrift
,
cut off
,
cut out
,
debate
,
delete
,
deliberate
,
demur
,
depart
,
disarticulate
,
disconnect
,
disengage
,
disjoin
,
disjoint
,
dissociate
,
disunite
,
divide
,
divorce
,
dodge
,
draw back
,
draw in
,
draw off
,
duck
,
eject
,
equivocate
,
estrange
,
evade
,
expel
,
fade
,
fall astern
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
falter
,
fear
,
fence
,
fight shy of
,
flinch
,
get behind
,
give ground
,
give place
,
go back
,
go backwards
,
go behind
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
hover
,
hum and haw
,
isolate
,
jerk back
,
jib
,
lapse
,
leave
,
lose ground
,
make bones about
,
move back
,
parry
,
part
,
pause
,
ponder
,
pull away
,
pull in
,
pull out
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quail
,
recede
,
recidivate
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
regress
,
relapse
,
retire
,
retract
,
retreat
,
retrocede
,
retroflex
,
retrograde
,
retrogress
,
return
,
revert
,
run back
,
scruple
,
segregate
,
separate
,
sequester
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shilly-shally
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shut off
,
shy
,
shy at
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
slip back
,
split
,
stand aloof
,
stand apart
,
stand aside
,
stand back
,
start aside
,
start back
,
step aside
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
strain
,
strain at
,
subtract
,
swerve
,
think twice about
,
throw off
,
throw out
,
turn aside
,
uncouple
,
unyoke
,
ward off
,
waver
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
,
withdraw
,
yield
travail
collapse
related words >
accouchement
,
be confined
,
bear
,
bear a child
,
bear young
,
birth
,
birth throes
,
birthing
,
blessed event
,
calve
,
cast
,
childbearing
,
childbed
,
childbirth
,
confinement
,
delivery
,
dig
,
dirty work
,
donkeywork
,
drop
,
drudge
,
drudgery
,
employment
,
fag
,
farrow
,
fatigue
,
fawn
,
foal
,
genesis
,
give birth
,
giving birth
,
grind
,
grub
,
hammer
,
hammer away
,
handiwork
,
handwork
,
hatching
,
have
,
have a baby
,
have young
,
having a baby
,
industry
,
kitten
,
labor
,
lamb
,
lick
,
lick of work
,
lie in
,
litter
,
manual labor
,
moil
,
multiparity
,
nascency
,
nativity
,
pains
,
parturition
,
peg
,
peg away
,
plod
,
plug
,
plug along
,
plug away
,
plugging
,
pound away
,
pup
,
rat race
,
scut work
,
slavery
,
slog
,
spadework
,
stroke
,
stroke of work
,
struggle
,
sweat
,
task
,
the Nativity
,
the stork
,
throw
,
tiresome work
,
toil
,
treadmill
,
wade through
,
whelp
,
work
,
work away
,
yean
rat race
collapse
an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
related words >
Charybdis
,
absurdity
,
aimlessness
,
bootlessness
,
busyness
,
dirty work
,
dizzy round
,
donkeywork
,
drudgery
,
eddy
,
employment
,
emptiness
,
fag
,
fatigue
,
fatuity
,
fecklessness
,
fruitlessness
,
futility
,
grind
,
gurge
,
gyre
,
handiwork
,
handwork
,
hollowness
,
impotence
,
inanity
,
industry
,
ineffectiveness
,
ineffectuality
,
inefficacy
,
labor
,
lick
,
lick of work
,
maelstrom
,
manual labor
,
meaninglessness
,
moil
,
nugacity
,
otiosity
,
pirouette
,
plenty to do
,
pointlessness
,
press of business
,
profitlessness
,
purposelessness
,
reel
,
round
,
scut work
,
slavery
,
spadework
,
spin
,
stroke
,
stroke of work
,
surge
,
sweat
,
swirl
,
task
,
the absurd
,
the rat race
,
tiresome work
,
toil
,
travail
,
treadmill
,
triviality
,
turn
,
twirl
,
unproductiveness
,
unprofitability
,
unprofitableness
,
valuelessness
,
vanity
,
vicious circle
,
vortex
,
wheel
,
whirl
,
whirlpool
,
whirlwind
,
work
,
worthlessness
skeptical
collapse
related words >
Humean
,
Pyrrhonic
,
agnostic
,
ambiguous
,
capricious
,
cautious
,
chancy
,
changeable
,
cynical
,
dicey
,
disbelieving
,
disinclined to believe
,
disposed to doubt
,
dissenting
,
distrustful
,
doubtful
,
doubting
,
dubious
,
equivocal
,
erratic
,
fickle
,
freethinking
,
from Missouri
,
guarded
,
hard of belief
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
impervious to persuasion
,
in doubt
,
incalculable
,
inconvincible
,
incredulous
,
indecisive
,
indemonstrable
,
irresolute
,
leery
,
mistrustful
,
mistrusting
,
polysemous
,
questioning
,
scrupulous
,
shy
,
shy of belief
,
skeptic
,
suspecting
,
suspicious
,
touch-and-go
,
unaccountable
,
unbelieving
,
uncertain
,
unconfirmable
,
unconvinced
,
unconvincible
,
uncredulous
,
undivinable
,
unforeseeable
,
unpersuadable
,
unpersuaded
,
unpersuasible
,
unpredictable
,
unprovable
,
unsure
,
untrusting
,
unverifiable
,
unwilling to accept
,
variable
,
wary
,
wavering
,
whimsical
homework
collapse
preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
related words >
assignment
,
busywork
,
chalk talk
,
chare
,
charge
,
chore
,
commission
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
duty
,
errand
,
exercise
,
exposition
,
fish to fry
,
harangue
,
homily
,
instruction
,
job
,
job of work
,
labor
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lesson
,
make-work
,
matters in hand
,
mission
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
object lesson
,
odd job
,
piece of work
,
preachment
,
project
,
recital
,
recitation
,
sermon
,
service
,
set task
,
skull session
,
stint
,
talk
,
task
,
teaching
,
things to do
,
work
waver
collapse
the act of moving back and forth
someone who communicates by waving
sway to and fro
related words >
alternate
,
back and fill
,
beat
,
beating
,
bicker
,
blench
,
bob
,
bobble
,
boggle
,
careen
,
change
,
coggle
,
dance
,
dangle
,
demur
,
dither
,
ebb and flow
,
equivocate
,
falter
,
fight shy of
,
flap
,
flick
,
flicker
,
flinch
,
flip
,
flit
,
flitter
,
flop
,
flounder
,
fluctuate
,
flutter
,
go pitapat
,
go through phases
,
gutter
,
halt
,
hang back
,
hang off
,
have qualms
,
hem and haw
,
hesitate
,
hold off
,
librate
,
lurch
,
make bones about
,
nutate
,
oscillate
,
palpitate
,
palpitation
,
palter
,
pause
,
pendulate
,
pitapat
,
pitch
,
pitter-patter
,
play
,
pull back
,
pulse
,
quail
,
quiver
,
recoil
,
reel
,
resonate
,
ring the changes
,
rock
,
roll
,
scruple
,
seesaw
,
shake
,
shift
,
shilly-shally
,
shrink
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
shy at
,
slat
,
splutter
,
sputter
,
stagger
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
strain
,
swag
,
sway
,
swing
,
swinging
,
teeter
,
teeter-totter
,
tergiversate
,
throb
,
toss
,
totter
,
trim
,
turn
,
vacillate
,
vary
,
vibrate
,
wag
,
waggle
,
wave
,
wax and wane
,
whiffle
,
wince
,
wobble
shunt
collapse
implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
transfer to another track, of trains
provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
related words >
advance
,
avert
,
bear off
,
bowl
,
bunt
,
butt
,
carry away
,
carry off
,
cart away
,
change
,
deflect
,
delocalize
,
dislodge
,
displace
,
divert
,
draw aside
,
drive
,
ease off
,
edge off
,
fly off
,
forward
,
gee
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go off
,
haw
,
head off
,
impel
,
jib
,
lay aside
,
make way for
,
manhandle
,
move
,
move aside
,
pedal
,
pole
,
propel
,
push
,
push aside
,
put aside
,
relocate
,
remove
,
roll
,
row
,
send
,
set aside
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shove
,
shove aside
,
shuttle
,
shy
,
shy off
,
side
,
sidestep
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
steer clear of
,
step aside
,
sweep
,
sweep along
,
switch
,
take away
,
thrust
,
transfer
,
treadle
,
troll
,
trundle
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn back
,
veer off
playbook
collapse
a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"
a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays; "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene"
a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)
related words >
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
continuity
,
cue
,
definitive work
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
libretto
,
limp-cover book
,
lines
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
paperback
,
picture book
,
pocket book
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalmbook
,
psalter
,
publication
,
scenario
,
scene plot
,
score
,
script
,
serial
,
shooting script
,
side
,
sketchbook
,
soft-cover
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
storybook
,
text
,
title
,
tome
,
trade book
,
volume
,
work
,
writing
step aside
collapse
related words >
abdicate
,
about the bush
,
abrupt
,
alienate
,
avert
,
be pensioned
,
be superannuated
,
bear off
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
cast off
,
cast out
,
cut adrift
,
cut off
,
cut out
,
delete
,
demit
,
depart
,
disarticulate
,
disconnect
,
disengage
,
disjoin
,
disjoint
,
dissociate
,
disunite
,
divide
,
divorce
,
dodge
,
draw aside
,
duck
,
ease off
,
edge off
,
eject
,
equivocate
,
estrange
,
expel
,
fence
,
fly off
,
gee
,
give up
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go off
,
haw
,
head off
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
isolate
,
jib
,
leave
,
make way for
,
move aside
,
parry
,
part
,
pension off
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pull out
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quit
,
recoil
,
relinquish
,
renounce the throne
,
resign
,
retire
,
retire from office
,
segregate
,
separate
,
sequester
,
set apart
,
set aside
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shove aside
,
shrink
,
shunt
,
shut off
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
side
,
sidestep
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
split
,
stand aloof
,
stand apart
,
stand aside
,
stand down
,
steer clear of
,
subtract
,
superannuate
,
swerve
,
switch
,
throw off
,
throw out
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn back
,
uncouple
,
unyoke
,
vacate
,
veer off
,
ward off
,
withdraw
,
withdraw from
work for
collapse
related words >
administer to
,
attend
,
attend on
,
be employed
,
care for
,
carry on business
,
cater to
,
chore
,
dance attendance upon
,
do business
,
do for
,
do service to
,
drudge
,
follow a trade
,
have a job
,
help
,
keep up
,
labor
,
lackey
,
look after
,
maid
,
minister to
,
moonlight
,
pander to
,
practice a profession
,
serve
,
set up shop
,
stay employed
,
take care of
,
tend
,
toil
,
transact business
,
upon
,
valet
,
wait
,
wait on
,
work
,
work at
work wonders
collapse
related words >
be blooded
,
be successful
,
catch on
,
click
,
come off
,
connect
,
farewell
,
go
,
go great guns
,
go off
,
go over
,
go over big
,
go to town
,
graduate
,
make a hit
,
meet with success
,
pass
,
prevail
,
prosper
,
qualify
,
succeed
,
take
,
work well
on duty
collapse
related words >
at it
,
at work
,
busy
,
employed
,
engaged
,
full of business
,
hard at it
,
hard at work
,
in harness
,
occupied
,
on the go
,
on the hop
,
on the job
,
on the jump
,
on the move
,
on the run
,
tied up
,
working
parry
collapse
(fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword
impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack"
related words >
about the bush
,
answer
,
answer conclusively
,
argue down
,
around the bush
,
back and fill
,
beat about
,
beat around
,
beat off
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
block
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
check
,
choplogic
,
confound
,
confute
,
contradict
,
controvert
,
counter
,
crush
,
defeat
,
demolish
,
deny
,
dismiss
,
dispose of
,
dodge
,
drive back
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
fend
,
fend off
,
finish
,
floor
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hinder
,
hold at bay
,
hold off
,
hum and haw
,
keep at bay
,
keep off
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
nonplus
,
obscure
,
obstruct
,
overthrow
,
overturn
,
overwhelm
,
palter
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
push back
,
pussyfoot
,
put back
,
put off
,
put to silence
,
quibble
,
rebuff
,
rebut
,
recoil
,
reduce to silence
,
refute
,
repel
,
repulse
,
settle
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shrink
,
shuffle
,
shut up
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
silence
,
smash all opposition
,
split hairs
,
squash
,
squelch
,
stave off
,
step aside
,
stop
,
subvert
,
swerve
,
tergiversate
,
turn aside
,
undermine
,
upset
,
waffle
,
ward off
,
weasel
avert
collapse
turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"
related words >
about-face
,
anticipate
,
balk
,
bar
,
bear off
,
check
,
debar
,
deflect
,
deter
,
discourage
,
dishearten
,
divert
,
draw aside
,
ease off
,
edge off
,
estop
,
exclude
,
face about
,
fend
,
fend off
,
fly off
,
foil
,
forbid
,
foreclose
,
forestall
,
frustrate
,
gee
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go off
,
halt
,
haw
,
head off
,
help
,
jib
,
keep from
,
keep off
,
make way for
,
move aside
,
obviate
,
pivot
,
preclude
,
prevent
,
prohibit
,
remove
,
repel
,
right-about-face
,
rule out
,
save
,
sheer
,
sheer off
,
shove aside
,
shunt
,
shy
,
shy off
,
side
,
sidestep
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
stave off
,
stay
,
steer clear of
,
step aside
,
stop
,
switch
,
thwart
,
transfer
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn back
,
veer
,
veer off
,
volte-face
,
ward
,
ward off
,
wheel
,
whip
,
whirl
overwork
collapse
the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
use too much; "This play has been overworked"
work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students"
related words >
burden
,
busy
,
carry too far
,
do double duty
,
drive
,
elucubrate
,
exaggerate
,
exhaust
,
fag
,
go overboard
,
go to extremes
,
go too far
,
hit the ball
,
hustle
,
keep busy
,
know no bounds
,
lucubrate
,
oppress
,
overact
,
overburden
,
overcarry
,
overcarrying
,
overdevelop
,
overdo
,
overdoing
,
overdrive
,
overelaborate
,
overemphasis
,
overemphasize
,
overexercise
,
overexert
,
overexertion
,
overexpend
,
overexpenditure
,
overimportance
,
overindulge
,
overlabor
,
overload
,
overplay
,
overreaching
,
overreact
,
overreaction
,
overspend
,
overstrain
,
overstress
,
overstudy
,
overtask
,
overtax
,
overtaxing
,
overtrain
,
overuse
,
pass all bounds
,
pour it on
,
protest too much
,
scratch
,
slave
,
strain
,
supererogation
,
sweat
,
task
,
tax
,
work
,
work hard
,
work late
,
work overtime
missing
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not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"
related words >
absconded
,
absent
,
arrested
,
away
,
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
callow
,
defective
,
deficient
,
deleted
,
denuded of
,
departed
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid
,
devoid of
,
disappeared
,
embryonic
,
empty of
,
existless
,
extinct
,
failing
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
gone
,
gone away
,
hypoplastic
,
immature
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
in default
,
in default of
,
in short supply
,
in want of
,
inadequate
,
incomplete
,
infant
,
lacking
,
lost
,
lost to sight
,
lost to view
,
minus
,
needing
,
negative
,
no longer present
,
no more
,
nonattendant
,
nonexistent
,
not found
,
not present
,
null
,
omitted
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
out of sight
,
part
,
partial
,
past and gone
,
patchy
,
scant
,
scant of
,
scanty
,
scrappy
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
sketchy
,
subtracted
,
taken away
,
unblessed with
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unexisting
,
unpossessed of
,
vacuous
,
vanished
,
void
,
void of
,
wanting
,
without being
storybook
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a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children)
related words >
airy
,
autistic
,
best seller
,
book
,
bound book
,
classic
,
coloring book
,
definitive work
,
dereistic
,
folio
,
great work
,
hardback
,
idealistic
,
impractical
,
in the clouds
,
juvenile
,
juvenile book
,
limp-cover book
,
magnum opus
,
nonbook
,
notebook
,
novel
,
opus
,
opuscule
,
opusculum
,
otherworldly
,
paperback
,
picture book
,
playbook
,
pocket book
,
poetic
,
prayer book
,
production
,
psalmbook
,
psalter
,
publication
,
quixotic
,
romancing
,
romantic
,
romanticized
,
serial
,
sketchbook
,
soft-cover
,
songbook
,
standard work
,
starry-eyed
,
title
,
tome
,
trade book
,
transcendental
,
transmundane
,
unpractical
,
unrealistic
,
visionary
,
volume
,
wish-fulfilling
,
work
,
writing
out of work
collapse
related words >
at leisure
,
at liberty
,
at loose ends
,
available
,
disengaged
,
fallow
,
free
,
idle
,
jobless
,
leisure
,
leisured
,
lumpen
,
off
,
off duty
,
off work
,
otiose
,
out of employ
,
out of harness
,
unemployable
,
unemployed
,
unoccupied
jobless
collapse
related words >
at leisure
,
at liberty
,
at loose ends
,
available
,
disengaged
,
fallow
,
free
,
idle
,
leisure
,
leisured
,
lumpen
,
off
,
off duty
,
off work
,
otiose
,
out of employ
,
out of harness
,
out of work
,
unemployable
,
unemployed
,
unoccupied
,
workless
off duty
collapse
related words >
at leisure
,
at liberty
,
at loose ends
,
available
,
disengaged
,
fallow
,
free
,
idle
,
jobless
,
leisure
,
leisured
,
lumpen
,
off
,
off work
,
on furlough
,
on leave
,
otiose
,
out of employ
,
out of harness
,
out of work
,
unemployable
,
unemployed
,
unoccupied
sidestep
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a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)
related words >
about the bush
,
around the bush
,
avert
,
avoid
,
back and fill
,
bear off
,
beat about
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
blench
,
blink
,
boggle
,
burke
,
bypass
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
circumvent
,
cringe
,
dodge
,
draw aside
,
draw back
,
duck
,
ease off
,
edge
,
edge off
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fence
,
flinch
,
fly off
,
gee
,
glance
,
glance off
,
go crabwise
,
go off
,
go sideways
,
hang back
,
haw
,
head off
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hum and haw
,
jib
,
lateral
,
lateralize
,
make leeway
,
make way for
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
move aside
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quail
,
quibble
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retreat
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shirk
,
shove aside
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shuffle
,
shun
,
shunt
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
side
,
sideslip
,
sidetrack
,
sidle
,
skew
,
skid
,
skirt
,
split hairs
,
start aside
,
start back
,
steer clear of
,
step aside
,
swerve
,
switch
,
tergiversate
,
turn aside
,
turn away
,
turn back
,
veer
,
veer off
,
waffle
,
ward off
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
do business
collapse
related words >
barter
,
be employed
,
buy and sell
,
carry on business
,
change
,
deal
,
exchange
,
follow a trade
,
give in exchange
,
have a job
,
horse-trade
,
interchange
,
keep up
,
labor
,
moonlight
,
practice a profession
,
set up shop
,
stay employed
,
swap
,
swap horses
,
switch
,
take in exchange
,
toil
,
trade
,
trade in
,
trade off
,
trade sight unseen
,
traffic
,
transact business
,
truck
,
work
,
work at
,
work for
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