Related Words:
- resist
collapse - withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"
- stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something
- refuse to comply
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" related words >
- antagonize,
- arrest,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- baffle,
- balk,
- battle,
- be antipathetic,
- be at cross-purposes,
- be inimical,
- be proof against,
- bear up,
- bear up against,
- beat against,
- block,
- bottle up,
- bridle,
- buck,
- check,
- clash,
- collide,
- combat,
- conflict,
- conflict with,
- confute,
- contest,
- contradict,
- contrapose,
- contravene,
- control,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterattack,
- countercheck,
- counterpose,
- countervail,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- curb,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- defy,
- delay,
- deny,
- detain,
- dispute,
- duel,
- endure,
- fight,
- fight against,
- foil,
- forgo,
- frustrate,
- gainsay,
- go against,
- go counter to,
- hinder,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold out,
- hold out against,
- hold up,
- impede,
- impugn,
- inhibit,
- intercept,
- interfere,
- interfere with,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- join the opposition,
- keep at bay,
- keep back,
- keep in check,
- lock horns,
- meddle,
- meet head-on,
- militate against,
- not abide,
- obstruct,
- oppose,
- oppugn,
- outlast,
- play at cross-purposes,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- protest,
- rebuff,
- refuse,
- repel,
- repress,
- repulse,
- restrain,
- retard,
- run against,
- run counter to,
- scotch,
- set back,
- slacken,
- snub,
- stand,
- stand up,
- stand up against,
- stand up to,
- stem,
- stop,
- suppress,
- swim upstream,
- take issue with,
- thwart,
- traverse,
- turn down,
- vote against,
- weather,
- withstand,
- work against
- counteract
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- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" related words >
- annul,
- antagonize,
- baffle,
- balance,
- balk,
- be antipathetic,
- be at cross-purposes,
- be inimical,
- be opposed to,
- beat against,
- blast,
- brave,
- bump heads,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- challenge,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- clash,
- collide,
- conflict,
- conflict with,
- confound,
- confront,
- confute,
- contend,
- contradict,
- contrapose,
- contraposit,
- contrast,
- contrast with,
- contravene,
- controvert,
- correct,
- counter,
- counterattack,
- counterbalance,
- countercheck,
- countermand,
- counterpoise,
- counterpose,
- countervail,
- counterweigh,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- dash,
- defeat,
- defy,
- destroy,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disrupt,
- elude,
- equiponderate,
- face,
- fix,
- flummox,
- foil,
- front,
- frustrate,
- go against,
- go counter to,
- interfere with,
- join the opposition,
- juxtapose in opposition,
- knock the chocks,
- lie opposite,
- lock horns,
- match,
- meet head-on,
- militate against,
- mitigate,
- negate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- nonplus,
- not abide,
- nullify,
- offset,
- oppose,
- oppugn,
- perplex,
- play at cross-purposes,
- polarize,
- pose against,
- protest,
- put in opposition,
- rectify,
- redress,
- resist,
- right,
- ruin,
- run against,
- run counter to,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- set off,
- set over against,
- spike,
- spoil,
- square,
- square up,
- stand opposed,
- stand opposite,
- stonewall,
- stump,
- subtend,
- swim upstream,
- take issue with,
- thwart,
- traverse,
- upset,
- vote against,
- withstand,
- work against
- grant
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- the act of providing a subsidy
- a right or privilege that has been granted
- 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
- United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
- Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- any monetary aid
- transfer by deed; "grant land"
- bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights" related words >
- OK,
- accede to,
- accept,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accord to,
- accordance,
- acknowledge,
- administer,
- admit,
- admit everything,
- admit exceptions,
- afford,
- agree provisionally,
- agree to,
- aid,
- alimony,
- allocate,
- allot,
- allotment,
- allow,
- allow for,
- allowance,
- alms,
- annuity,
- approve,
- approve of,
- assent,
- assent grudgingly,
- assign,
- assistance,
- assume,
- avow,
- award,
- awarding,
- be afraid,
- be willing,
- believe,
- benefaction,
- bequest,
- bestow,
- bestow on,
- bestowal,
- bestowment,
- blank check,
- bounty,
- brevet,
- carte blanche,
- cede,
- cession,
- charity,
- charter,
- circumscription,
- come clean,
- communicate,
- communication,
- concede,
- conceive,
- concession,
- conclude,
- condescend,
- confer,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- confess,
- connive at,
- consent,
- consent to,
- consent to silently,
- consider,
- consider the circumstances,
- consider the source,
- contribution,
- cop a plea,
- copyright,
- daresay,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deduce,
- deem,
- deign,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- depletion allowance,
- diploma,
- discount,
- dish out,
- dispensation,
- dispense,
- disregard,
- distribute,
- divine,
- dole,
- dole out,
- donate,
- donation,
- dream,
- endorse,
- endowment,
- exception,
- exemption,
- expect,
- express general agreement,
- extend,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fancy,
- favor,
- feel,
- fellowship,
- financial assistance,
- fork out,
- franchise,
- freedom,
- furnish,
- furnishment,
- gather,
- gift,
- gift with,
- gifting,
- give,
- give consent,
- give freely,
- give leave,
- give out,
- give permission,
- give the go-ahead,
- give the word,
- give up,
- giving,
- go along with,
- grain of salt,
- grant-in-aid,
- granting,
- guaranteed annual income,
- hand out,
- handout,
- have no objection,
- heap,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- help,
- help to,
- hold with,
- imagine,
- immunity,
- impart,
- impartation,
- impartment,
- indulgence,
- infer,
- investiture,
- issue,
- lavish,
- leave,
- let,
- let be,
- let have,
- let on,
- letters patent,
- liberality,
- liberty,
- license,
- lift temporarily,
- limitation,
- make allowance for,
- make possible,
- mental reservation,
- mete,
- mete out,
- modification,
- nod,
- nod assent,
- not oppose,
- not refuse,
- offer,
- okay,
- old-age insurance,
- open up,
- opine,
- out with it,
- own,
- own up,
- patent,
- pecuniary aid,
- pension,
- permit,
- plead guilty,
- pour,
- prefigure,
- present,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- price support,
- privilege,
- proffer,
- provide for,
- provision,
- provisionally accept,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- qualification,
- rain,
- ratify,
- reckon,
- recognize,
- relax,
- relax the condition,
- release,
- relief,
- relinquish,
- render,
- repute,
- reservation,
- restriction,
- retirement benefits,
- royal grant,
- salvo,
- sanction,
- say,
- say aye,
- say the word,
- say yes,
- scholarship,
- serve,
- set aside,
- shell out,
- shower,
- slip,
- snow,
- special case,
- special favor,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- spill,
- spill it,
- spit it out,
- stipend,
- subscription,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- supply,
- supplying,
- support,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- surrender,
- suspect,
- take,
- take account of,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take into account,
- take into consideration,
- take it,
- take kindly to,
- take to be,
- tax benefit,
- tell all,
- tell the truth,
- tender,
- think,
- understand,
- vote affirmatively,
- vote aye,
- vouchsafe,
- vouchsafement,
- waive,
- waiver,
- warrant,
- welfare,
- welfare aid,
- welfare payments,
- wink at,
- yield,
- yield assent
- filibuster
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- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
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