Related Words:
- improvement
collapse - the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property"
- a change for the better; progress in development
- a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement" related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- advance,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amendment,
- apostasy,
- apprenticeship,
- basic training,
- betterment,
- break,
- breaking,
- breeding,
- change,
- change of allegiance,
- change of heart,
- change of mind,
- changeableness,
- conditioning,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- convalescence,
- conversion,
- cultivation,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deterioration,
- development,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discipline,
- discontinuity,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- drill,
- drilling,
- enhancement,
- exercise,
- fetching-up,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- fostering,
- gain,
- gradual change,
- grooming,
- housebreaking,
- in-service training,
- increase,
- instauration,
- manual training,
- melioration,
- military training,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- new birth,
- nurture,
- nurturing,
- on-the-job training,
- overthrow,
- practice,
- preparation,
- progress,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- raising,
- re-creation,
- reactivation,
- readying,
- realignment,
- rearing,
- rebirth,
- reclamation,
- reconstitution,
- reconversion,
- recovery,
- recrudescence,
- recuperation,
- redemption,
- redesign,
- redintegration,
- reenactment,
- reestablishment,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regeneration,
- rehabilitation,
- rehearsal,
- reinstatement,
- reinstation,
- reinstitution,
- reinvestiture,
- reinvestment,
- remaking,
- renascence,
- renewal,
- repair,
- replacement,
- reshaping,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- reversion,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- rise,
- shift,
- sloyd,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- total change,
- training,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upbringing,
- upgrading,
- upheaval,
- upswing,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- vocational education,
- vocational training,
- worsening
- Sanforizing,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- air-drying,
- anhydration,
- arrogant,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- baneful,
- biting,
- bitter,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- caustic,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- coming apart,
- consuming,
- consumption,
- consumptive,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- cutting,
- deadly,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- dehumidification,
- dehydration,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desiccation,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- deteriorating,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- disdainful,
- disintegrating,
- doomful,
- drainage,
- draining,
- drooping,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- evaporation,
- exclusive,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- fratricidal,
- going to pieces,
- haughty,
- incisive,
- insolation,
- internecine,
- keen,
- languishing,
- marcescence,
- marcescent,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mummification,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- parching,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pining,
- preshrinkage,
- ravaging,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- scornful,
- searing,
- self-destructive,
- sharp,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- subsiding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- supercilious,
- tabetic,
- tart,
- thinning,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trenchant,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- waning,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- worsening
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnegation,
- aging,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- contempt,
- contractive,
- contradiction,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declined,
- declivate,
- declivitous,
- declivous,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- descendant,
- descending,
- despisal,
- despising,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- dipping,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- disintegrating,
- dismissal,
- disobedience,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- dissent,
- doting,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- holding back,
- ignoring,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonconsideration,
- nonobservance,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- on the wane,
- passing by,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- rebuff,
- recantation,
- receding,
- reductive,
- refusal,
- regressive,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- retention,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sagging,
- scouting,
- senescent,
- setting,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- spurning,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- throwing out,
- thumbs-down,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- turndown,
- turning out,
- unwillingness,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- withholding,
- worsening
- flagging
collapse
- a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
- flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" related words >
- ambling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- coming apart,
- cracking,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- crumbling,
- debilitated,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- deliberate,
- deteriorating,
- disintegrating,
- draining,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dwindling,
- easy,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- fading,
- fagged,
- failing,
- faint,
- fainting,
- falling,
- faltering,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- foot-dragging,
- footsore,
- fragmenting,
- frazzled,
- gentle,
- going to pieces,
- good and tired,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indolent,
- jaded,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- marcescent,
- moderate,
- pining,
- poking,
- poky,
- ready to drop,
- regressive,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sauntering,
- seedy,
- shriveling,
- shuffling,
- sinking,
- slack,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- slumping,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tentative,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toddling,
- toilworn,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- waddling,
- waning,
- wasting,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- worsening
- upheaval
collapse
- (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apoplexy,
- apostasy,
- apotheosis,
- ascent,
- assumption,
- beatification,
- betterment,
- blaze,
- bouleversement,
- break,
- breakup,
- burst,
- canonization,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- chaos,
- clamor,
- climax,
- commotion,
- confusion,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- convulsion,
- cyclone,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deification,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- diastrophism,
- difference,
- disaster,
- discontinuity,
- disorder,
- disruption,
- disturbance,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- downfall,
- elevation,
- enshrinement,
- erection,
- eruption,
- escalation,
- exaltation,
- explosion,
- fall,
- ferment,
- fit,
- fitting,
- flare-up,
- flip-flop,
- furor,
- furore,
- gale,
- gradual change,
- gust,
- heaving,
- height,
- hurricane,
- improvement,
- irruption,
- lifting,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- outbreak,
- outburst,
- outcry,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- paroxysm,
- prostration,
- quake,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- raising,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- rearing,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- sabotage,
- seizure,
- shift,
- spasm,
- stirring,
- storm,
- stroke,
- subversion,
- sudden change,
- sursum corda,
- switch,
- temblor,
- tempest,
- tidal wave,
- tornado,
- total change,
- transition,
- tsunami,
- tumult,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- unrest,
- upbuoying,
- upcast,
- uplift,
- uplifting,
- upping,
- uprearing,
- upset,
- upthrow,
- upthrust,
- upturn,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- whirlwind,
- worsening
- abandonment,
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alienation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- backsliding,
- bad debt,
- betrayal,
- betterment,
- blemish,
- bolt,
- break,
- breakaway,
- bug,
- catch,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- crack,
- crossing-over,
- default,
- defect,
- deficiency,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- delinquence,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- deserter,
- desertion,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disaffection,
- discontinuity,
- dishonor,
- dishonoring,
- disloyalty,
- disownment,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- divorce,
- drawback,
- estrangement,
- failing,
- failure,
- faithlessness,
- falseness,
- fault,
- faute,
- fitting,
- flaw,
- flip-flop,
- foible,
- forsaking,
- frailty,
- going over,
- gradual change,
- hole,
- imperfection,
- improvement,
- inadequacy,
- infirmity,
- kink,
- little problem,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- nondischarge of debts,
- nonpayment,
- nonremittal,
- overthrow,
- parting,
- problem,
- protest,
- protested bill,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- ratting,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recreancy,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- rejection,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- renunciation,
- repudiation,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- rift,
- runout,
- schism,
- secession,
- separation,
- shift,
- shortcoming,
- snag,
- something missing,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- taint,
- tergiversation,
- total change,
- transition,
- treason,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turning traitor,
- uncollectible,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- vulnerable place,
- walkout,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- worsening
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- afterthoughts,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- apostate,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backslider,
- backsliding,
- backup,
- better thoughts,
- betterment,
- bolter,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- change of mind,
- changeableness,
- collaborationist,
- collaborator,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- convert,
- coward,
- defection,
- defector,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deserter,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disenchantment,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- fifth columnist,
- fitting,
- flip,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- improvement,
- lapse,
- mature judgment,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- mugwump,
- overthrow,
- proselyte,
- qualification,
- quisling,
- quitter,
- radical change,
- rat,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recidivist,
- reclamation,
- reconversion,
- recreant,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regress,
- regression,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- relapse,
- remaking,
- renegade,
- renegado,
- renegate,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- restructuring,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retroversion,
- return,
- returning,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- reversion,
- reversionist,
- reverting,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- revulsion,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- runagate,
- schismatic,
- seceder,
- secessionist,
- second thoughts,
- separatist,
- shift,
- slipping back,
- strikebreaker,
- sudden change,
- swingaround,
- switch,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- tergiversation,
- tergiversator,
- total change,
- traitor,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnaround,
- turncoat,
- turning,
- turntail,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- volte-face,
- worsening
- degeneration
collapse
- passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
- the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality related words >
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- atrophy,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- closed loop,
- closed sequence,
- comedown,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- current-control circuit,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- defection,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degenerative change,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- devolution,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- dissoluteness,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- downfall,
- downgrade,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- feedback,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- flip-flop circuit,
- gradual change,
- improvement,
- involution,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- overthrow,
- perversion,
- positive feedback,
- process loop,
- profligacy,
- qualification,
- quality loop,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regression,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reprobacy,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- reversal,
- reversed feedback,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- rottenness,
- shift,
- slippage,
- slump,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turpitude,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- wane,
- worsening
- deterioration
collapse
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- aggravation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- apostasy,
- atrophy,
- augmentation,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- comedown,
- constructive change,
- contentiousness,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- crumbling,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decaying,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decomposition,
- deepening,
- defection,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- degradation,
- deliberate aggravation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- devaluation,
- deviation,
- devolution,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disintegration,
- dislocation,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- downfall,
- downgrade,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dry rot,
- dying,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effeteness,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- gradual change,
- heightening,
- impairment,
- improvement,
- increase,
- intensification,
- involution,
- irritation,
- lapse,
- lessening,
- loss of tone,
- magnification,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- overthrow,
- provocation,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regression,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- rotting,
- ruin,
- sharpening,
- shift,
- slippage,
- slump,
- souring,
- spoiling,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- wane,
- waning,
- worsening
- renewal
collapse
- the act of renewing related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amendment,
- another shot,
- another try,
- apostasy,
- atavism,
- backset,
- backward deviation,
- betterment,
- bracer,
- bracing,
- break,
- change,
- change of allegiance,
- change of heart,
- change of mind,
- changeableness,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- cordial,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- doubling,
- duplication,
- echo,
- enlivenment,
- exhilaration,
- face-lift,
- falling back,
- fitting,
- flip-flop,
- fresh start,
- furbishment,
- gradual change,
- imitation,
- improvement,
- invigoration,
- lapse,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- new beginning,
- new birth,
- overthrow,
- palingenesis,
- palingenesy,
- pick-me-up,
- plagiarism,
- qualification,
- quotation,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- reanimation,
- reappearance,
- rebeginning,
- rebirth,
- reclamation,
- recommencement,
- reconditioning,
- recreation,
- recrudescence,
- recurrence,
- redemption,
- redesign,
- redoubling,
- reduplication,
- reecho,
- reentrance,
- refection,
- reform,
- reformation,
- refreshing,
- refreshment,
- refurbishment,
- regale,
- regalement,
- regeneracy,
- regenerateness,
- regeneration,
- regenesis,
- regression,
- regurgitation,
- reincarnation,
- reinvigoration,
- rejuvenation,
- rejuvenescence,
- relapse,
- remaking,
- renaissance,
- renascence,
- renovation,
- reoccurrence,
- reopening,
- repetition,
- reproduction,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- resumption,
- resurgence,
- resurrection,
- resuscitation,
- retread,
- retreading,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversion,
- revival,
- revivescence,
- revivescency,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- second wind,
- second youth,
- setback,
- shift,
- slum clearance,
- stimulation,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- throwback,
- tonic,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- urban renewal,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- vivification,
- worsening
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