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instability
collapse
the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
unreliability attributable to being unstable
an unstable order
related words >
ambitendency
,
ambivalence
,
caducity
,
capriciousness
,
chanciness
,
change of mind
,
changeability
,
changeableness
,
choppiness
,
corruptibility
,
criticalness
,
danger
,
dappleness
,
death
,
decrepitude
,
delicacy
,
desultoriness
,
deviability
,
deviation
,
difference
,
differentiation
,
disorder
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
double-mindedness
,
doubtfulness
,
dubiety
,
dubiousness
,
eccentricity
,
ephemerality
,
ephemeralness
,
erraticism
,
evanescence
,
fence-sitting
,
fence-straddling
,
fickleness
,
finitude
,
fleetingness
,
flightiness
,
freakishness
,
fugacity
,
hazard
,
hazardousness
,
impermanence
,
impermanency
,
impulsiveness
,
incapacity
,
inconsistency
,
inconstancy
,
indecision
,
indecisiveness
,
inequality
,
infirmity
,
infirmity of purpose
,
insecurity
,
insipidity
,
insolidity
,
insubstantiality
,
invalidism
,
irregularity
,
irresolution
,
jerkiness
,
mercuriality
,
momentariness
,
moodiness
,
mortality
,
motleyness
,
mugwumpery
,
mugwumpism
,
mutability
,
nonconformism
,
nonconformity
,
nonstandardization
,
nonuniformity
,
peril
,
perilousness
,
perishability
,
pluralism
,
precariousness
,
raggedness
,
restlessness
,
ricketiness
,
risk
,
riskiness
,
second thoughts
,
senility
,
shakiness
,
shiftiness
,
shiftingness
,
slipperiness
,
speculativeness
,
sword of Damocles
,
tergiversation
,
ticklish business
,
ticklishness
,
totteriness
,
touchiness
,
transience
,
transiency
,
transientness
,
transitoriness
,
treacherousness
,
treachery
,
unauthenticity
,
unauthoritativeness
,
uncertainty
,
unconformism
,
unconformity
,
undecidedness
,
undependability
,
undeterminedness
,
unevenness
,
unfaithworthiness
,
unfirmness
,
unfixedness
,
unhealthiness
,
unorthodoxy
,
unpredictability
,
unreliability
,
unsafeness
,
unsettledness
,
unsettlement
,
unsolidity
,
unsoundness
,
unstableness
,
unsteadfastness
,
unsteadiness
,
unsturdiness
,
unsubstantiality
,
unsureness
,
untrustworthiness
,
vapidity
,
variability
,
variation
,
variegation
,
variety
,
variousness
,
versatility
,
volatility
,
wantonness
,
wateriness
,
wavering
,
waywardness
,
whimsicality
,
wishy-washiness
nestle
collapse
position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her mother's elbow"
lie in a sheltered position; "The little cottage nestles in the forest"
related words >
arm
,
armor
,
bed
,
bless
,
bundle
,
burrow
,
champion
,
cloak
,
compass about
,
copyright
,
cover
,
cradle
,
croodle
,
cuddle
,
cuddle up
,
curl up
,
cushion
,
defend
,
ensure
,
fence
,
fend
,
guarantee
,
guard
,
harbor
,
haven
,
huddle
,
insure
,
keep
,
keep from harm
,
lap
,
make safe
,
nuzzle
,
patent
,
police
,
protect
,
put to bed
,
register
,
ride shotgun for
,
safeguard
,
screen
,
secure
,
shelter
,
shield
,
shroud
,
snug
,
snug up
,
snuggle
,
snuggle up to
,
tuck in
,
underwrite
beg the question
collapse
related words >
about the bush
,
around the bush
,
beat about
,
beat around
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quibble
,
recoil
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shrink
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
step aside
,
swerve
,
tergiversate
,
ward off
swerve
collapse
the act of turning aside suddenly
turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
related words >
L
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
about ship
,
about the bush
,
alter
,
ameliorate
,
angle
,
angle off
,
apex
,
avoid
,
back and fill
,
be changed
,
be converted into
,
be renewed
,
bear away
,
bear off
,
bear to starboard
,
beat
,
beat about
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
bend
,
bent
,
bias
,
bifurcate
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
blench
,
blink
,
bottom out
,
box off
,
branch
,
branch off
,
branching off
,
break
,
bring about
,
bring round
,
cant
,
cant round
,
career
,
cast
,
cast about
,
change
,
change course
,
change the bearing
,
change the heading
,
checker
,
chevron
,
chop
,
chop and change
,
circuitousness
,
coin
,
come about
,
come around
,
come round
,
corner
,
crank
,
cringe
,
crook
,
crotchet
,
curve
,
declination
,
deflect
,
deflection
,
degenerate
,
depart
,
depart from
,
departure
,
deteriorate
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviate
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digress
,
digression
,
dip
,
discursion
,
divagate
,
divagation
,
divaricate
,
divarication
,
diverge
,
divergence
,
diversify
,
diversion
,
dodge
,
dogleg
,
double
,
double a point
,
draw back
,
drift
,
drifting
,
duck
,
elbow
,
ell
,
equivocate
,
err
,
errantry
,
evade
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
fade
,
fall back
,
fence
,
fetch about
,
flinch
,
flop
,
fork
,
furcate
,
furcation
,
go about
,
gybe
,
hairpin
,
hang back
,
haul around
,
heave round
,
hedge
,
heel
,
hem and haw
,
hook
,
improve
,
indirection
,
inflection
,
jib
,
jibe
,
jibe all standing
,
knee
,
lurch
,
meliorate
,
miss stays
,
mitigate
,
modulate
,
mutate
,
nook
,
oblique
,
obliquity
,
parry
,
pererration
,
ply
,
point
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put about
,
put back
,
put off
,
quail
,
quoin
,
rambling
,
recoil
,
reel back
,
retreat
,
revive
,
round a point
,
sheer
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
shrink
,
shrink back
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
skew
,
slant
,
slew
,
slue
,
start aside
,
start back
,
step aside
,
stray
,
straying
,
sway
,
sweep
,
swerving
,
swing
,
swing round
,
swing the stern
,
swinging
,
tack
,
take a turn
,
throw about
,
trend
,
turn
,
turn aside
,
turn back
,
turn into
,
turn the corner
,
turning
,
twist
,
undergo a change
,
variation
,
vary
,
veer
,
vertex
,
wander
,
wandering
,
ward off
,
warp
,
waver
,
wear
,
wear ship
,
weasel
,
weasel out
,
wince
,
wind
,
worsen
,
yaw
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
nonintervention
collapse
a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes
related words >
autarky
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bimetallism
,
capitalism
,
circumvention
,
defense mechanism
,
dodge
,
duck
,
economic self-sufficiency
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
free competition
,
free enterprise
,
free trade
,
getting around
,
governmentalism
,
isolationism
,
jink
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
let-alone policy
,
let-alone principle
,
liberalism
,
line
,
localism
,
managed currency
,
neutrality
,
noninterference
,
noninvolvement
,
nullification
,
party line
,
party principle
,
planned economy
,
policy
,
polity
,
position
,
prevention
,
price supports
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
public policy
,
pump-priming
,
refraining
,
sectionalism
,
self-regulating market
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
the runaround
,
zigzag
veering
collapse
related words >
aberrant
,
aberrative
,
broken
,
capricious
,
careening
,
catchy
,
choppy
,
circuitous
,
departing
,
desultory
,
deviant
,
deviating
,
deviative
,
deviatory
,
devious
,
digressive
,
disconnected
,
discontinuous
,
discursive
,
eccentric
,
errant
,
erratic
,
excursive
,
fitful
,
flickering
,
fluctuating
,
guttering
,
halting
,
herky-jerky
,
heteroclite
,
immethodical
,
inconstant
,
indirect
,
intermittent
,
intermitting
,
irregular
,
jerky
,
labyrinthine
,
lurching
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
nonuniform
,
out-of-the-way
,
patchy
,
planetary
,
rambling
,
rough
,
roving
,
scrappy
,
serpentine
,
shifting
,
snaky
,
snatchy
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
sporadic
,
spotty
,
staggering
,
stray
,
swerving
,
turning
,
twisting
,
uncertain
,
undirected
,
unequal
,
uneven
,
unmethodical
,
unmetrical
,
unregular
,
unrhythmical
,
unsettled
,
unsteady
,
unsystematic
,
vagrant
,
variable
,
wandering
,
wavering
,
winding
,
wobbling
,
wobbly
,
zigzag
dogleg
collapse
a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway
angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog
related words >
L
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
angle
,
apex
,
bend
,
bias
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
branching off
,
cant
,
chevron
,
circuitousness
,
coin
,
corner
,
crank
,
crankiness
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crotchet
,
curve
,
declination
,
deflection
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
discursion
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
elbow
,
ell
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
flexuosity
,
fork
,
furcation
,
hairpin
,
hook
,
indirection
,
inflection
,
knee
,
nook
,
obliquity
,
pererration
,
point
,
quoin
,
rambling
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
slant
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
switchback
,
tack
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
variation
,
veer
,
vertex
,
wandering
,
warp
,
yaw
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
uncommitted
collapse
not bound or pledged
related words >
Laodicean
,
afoot and lighthearted
,
apathetic
,
at large
,
at liberty
,
centrist
,
clear
,
detached
,
disengaged
,
easygoing
,
emancipated
,
even
,
fifty-fifty
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
free
,
free and easy
,
free as air
,
freeborn
,
freed
,
go-as-you-please
,
half-and-half
,
impartial
,
in the clear
,
independent
,
indifferent
,
liberated
,
loose
,
midway
,
moderate
,
neuter
,
neutral
,
nonaligned
,
noncommitted
,
nonpartisan
,
on the fence
,
on the loose
,
passive
,
released
,
scot-free
,
third-force
,
third-world
,
unattached
,
unengaged
,
uninvolved
forestalling
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
arrestation
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
circumvention
,
confident
,
debarment
,
defense mechanism
,
determent
,
deterrence
,
deterrent
,
deterring
,
discouragement
,
discouraging
,
dodge
,
duck
,
eager
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
estoppel
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forbearance
,
forbiddance
,
forbidding
,
forearmed
,
foreclosure
,
forestallment
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
getting around
,
halt
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
jink
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
not surprised
,
obviation
,
optimistic
,
preclusion
,
preclusive
,
prepared
,
preventative
,
prevention
,
preventive
,
prohibition
,
prohibitive
,
prophylactic
,
ready
,
refraining
,
sanguine
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
stopping
,
sure
,
the runaround
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
zigzag
bootleg
collapse
the part of a boot above the instep
distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
produce or distribute illegally; "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing"
sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol; "They were bootlegging whiskey"
related words >
actionable
,
against the law
,
anarchic
,
anarchistic
,
anomic
,
bathtub gin
,
black-market
,
black-marketeer
,
blockade
,
brew
,
chargeable
,
contraband
,
contrary to law
,
criminal
,
distill
,
felonious
,
fence
,
flawed
,
hooch
,
illegal
,
illegitimate
,
illicit
,
impermissible
,
irregular
,
justiciable
,
lawless
,
moonlight
,
moonshine
,
mountain dew
,
nonconstitutional
,
nonlegal
,
nonlicit
,
outlaw
,
outlawed
,
punishable
,
push
,
run
,
shove
,
triable
,
unallowed
,
unauthorized
,
unconstitutional
,
under-the-counter
,
under-the-table
,
unlawful
,
unofficial
,
unstatutory
,
unwarrantable
,
unwarranted
,
white lightning
,
wrongful
flexuous
collapse
having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream"
related words >
adaptable
,
ambagious
,
anfractuous
,
bendable
,
bending
,
bendy
,
chevronwise
,
chevrony
,
circuitous
,
circumlocutory
,
compliant
,
convoluted
,
convolutional
,
crankled
,
crooked
,
curvy
,
ductile
,
elastic
,
extensible
,
extensile
,
fabricable
,
facile
,
fictile
,
flexible
,
flexile
,
flexuose
,
formable
,
formative
,
giving
,
hairpin
,
impressible
,
impressionable
,
involute
,
involuted
,
involutional
,
labyrinthine
,
like putty
,
limber
,
lissome
,
lithe
,
lithesome
,
malleable
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
meandrous
,
moldable
,
plastic
,
pliable
,
pliant
,
receptive
,
responsive
,
rivose
,
rivulose
,
roundabout
,
ruffled
,
sensitive
,
sequacious
,
serpentine
,
shapable
,
sinuate
,
sinuose
,
sinuous
,
snaky
,
springy
,
staggered
,
submissive
,
supple
,
susceptible
,
torsional
,
tortile
,
tortuous
,
tractable
,
tractile
,
turning
,
twisting
,
twisty
,
whippy
,
whorled
,
willowy
,
winding
,
wreathlike
,
wreathy
,
yielding
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggy
,
zigzagways
swerving
collapse
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberrant
,
aberration
,
aberrative
,
bend
,
bias
,
branching off
,
circuitous
,
circuitousness
,
corner
,
crook
,
curve
,
declination
,
departing
,
departure
,
desultory
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviant
,
deviating
,
deviation
,
deviative
,
deviatory
,
devious
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
digressive
,
discursion
,
discursive
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
errant
,
errantry
,
erratic
,
excursion
,
excursive
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
hairpin
,
indirect
,
indirection
,
labyrinthine
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
obliquity
,
out-of-the-way
,
pererration
,
planetary
,
rambling
,
roving
,
serpentine
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
slant
,
snaky
,
stray
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swinging
,
tack
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
twisting
,
undirected
,
vagrant
,
variation
,
veer
,
veering
,
wandering
,
warp
,
winding
,
yaw
,
zigzag
vertex
collapse
the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure
the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"
related words >
L
,
acme
,
angle
,
apex
,
apogee
,
bend
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
brow
,
cant
,
cap
,
chevron
,
climax
,
cloud nine
,
coin
,
corner
,
crank
,
crest
,
crook
,
crotchet
,
crown
,
culmen
,
culmination
,
deflection
,
dogleg
,
edge
,
elbow
,
ell
,
extreme limit
,
extremity
,
fork
,
furcation
,
heaven
,
heavens
,
height
,
heights
,
high noon
,
highest pitch
,
highest point
,
hook
,
inflection
,
knee
,
limit
,
maximum
,
meridian
,
mountaintop
,
ne plus ultra
,
no place higher
,
nook
,
noon
,
peak
,
pinnacle
,
pitch
,
point
,
pole
,
quoin
,
ridge
,
roof
,
seventh heaven
,
sky
,
spire
,
summit
,
swerve
,
tip
,
tip-top
,
top
,
upmost
,
upper extremity
,
uppermost
,
utmost
,
veer
,
very top
,
zag
,
zenith
,
zig
,
zigzag
nitpick
collapse
be overly critical; criticize minor details
related words >
around the bush
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
carp
,
catch at straws
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
cut up
,
dodge
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fault-find
,
fence
,
find fault
,
hedge
,
mystify
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
pettifog
,
pick holes
,
pick nits
,
pick to pieces
,
prevaricate
,
pull apart
,
pull to pieces
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
take exception
,
tear apart
,
tear to pieces
,
tergiversate
dig in
collapse
related words >
arm
,
armor
,
armor-plate
,
bank
,
barricade
,
battle
,
blockade
,
bulwark
,
castellate
,
crenellate
,
embattle
,
entrench
,
fence
,
fortify
,
garrison
,
hang in
,
hang in there
,
hang tough
,
hold fast
,
hold out
,
man
,
man the garrison
,
mine
,
palisade
,
remain firm
,
stand fast
,
stand firm
,
stand no nonsense
,
stand the gaff
,
stick
,
stick fast
,
take what comes
,
wall
middle of the road
collapse
related words >
average
,
balance
,
center
,
compromise
,
fence
,
generality
,
golden mean
,
half measures
,
half-and-half measures
,
halfway measures
,
happy medium
,
juste-milieu
,
mean
,
median
,
mediocrity
,
medium
,
middle
,
middle course
,
middle ground
,
middle point
,
middle position
,
middle state
,
middle way
,
middle-of-the-road
,
midpoint
,
moderantism
,
moderate position
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderatism
,
neutral ground
,
norm
,
normal
,
par
,
rule
,
run
,
third force
,
via media
shirk
collapse
avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
related words >
abandon
,
avoid
,
bilk
,
burke
,
bypass
,
creep
,
cut
,
dodge
,
dog it
,
double
,
duck
,
duck duty
,
eschew
,
evade
,
fence
,
get around
,
get out of
,
goldbrick
,
goof off
,
gumshoe
,
jump
,
leave
,
leave loose ends
,
leave undone
,
let alone
,
let be
,
let dangle
,
let go
,
lurk
,
malinger
,
miss
,
not pull fair
,
omit
,
parry
,
pass over
,
pass up
,
pretermit
,
procrastinate
,
pussyfoot
,
shrink from
,
shun
,
sidestep
,
skip
,
skive
,
skulk
,
slack
,
slide out of
,
slink
,
slip
,
slip out of
,
snake
,
sneak out of
,
soldier
,
steal
,
trifle
,
welsh
discursion
collapse
related words >
Wanderjahr
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
afoot and lighthearted
,
aside
,
bend
,
bias
,
branching off
,
bumming
,
bypath
,
byway
,
circuitousness
,
corner
,
crook
,
curve
,
declination
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
episode
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
flitting
,
gadding
,
hairpin
,
hoboism
,
indirection
,
itineracy
,
itinerancy
,
nomadism
,
obliquity
,
parenthesis
,
peregrination
,
pererration
,
ramble
,
rambling
,
roam
,
roaming
,
rove
,
roving
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
side path
,
side road
,
sidetrack
,
skew
,
slant
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
tack
,
traipsing
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
vagabondage
,
vagabondia
,
vagabondism
,
vagrancy
,
variation
,
veer
,
wandering
,
wayfaring
,
yaw
,
zigzag
beat around the bush
collapse
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
related words >
about the bush
,
around the bush
,
beat about
,
beat around
,
beg the question
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
circumlocute
,
dodge
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
fence
,
go round about
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
periphrase
,
pick nits
,
prevaricate
,
pull away
,
pull back
,
pussyfoot
,
put off
,
quibble
,
recoil
,
sheer off
,
shift
,
shift off
,
shrink
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
shy away
,
shy off
,
sidestep
,
split hairs
,
step aside
,
swerve
,
tergiversate
,
ward off
pull back
collapse
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
balustrade
collapse
related words >
Samson post
,
baluster
,
banister
,
barrier
,
base
,
boundary
,
caryatid
,
colonnade
,
column
,
dado
,
die
,
doorjamb
,
doorpost
,
fence
,
footstalk
,
gatepost
,
hitching post
,
jack
,
jamb
,
king post
,
milepost
,
mullion
,
newel-post
,
pedestal
,
pedicel
,
peduncle
,
pier
,
pilaster
,
pile
,
piling
,
pillar
,
plinth
,
pole
,
post
,
queen-post
,
rail
,
railing
,
shaft
,
signpost
,
snubbing post
,
socle
,
staff
,
stalk
,
stanchion
,
stand
,
standard
,
stem
,
stile
,
stone wall
,
subbase
,
surbase
,
trunk
,
upright
,
wall
Milquetoast
collapse
related words >
baby
,
big baby
,
chicken
,
chicken liver
,
coward
,
crybaby
,
doormat
,
dull tool
,
fence-sitter
,
fraid-cat
,
fraidy-cat
,
funk
,
funker
,
gutless wonder
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
lightweight
,
lily liver
,
meek soul
,
milksop
,
mollycoddle
,
mouse
,
mugwump
,
namby-pamby
,
nebbish
,
nonentity
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pushover
,
sad sack
,
scaredy-cat
,
shilly-shally
,
sissy
,
softling
,
softy
,
sop
,
waverer
,
weak sister
,
weakling
,
white feather
,
white liver
,
wobbler
winding
collapse
related words >
aberrant
,
aberrative
,
ambages
,
ambagious
,
anfractuosity
,
anfractuous
,
bending
,
circuitous
,
circuitousness
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
circumlocutory
,
circumvolution
,
convoluted
,
convolution
,
convolutional
,
crinkle
,
crinkling
,
crooked
,
curving
,
departing
,
desultory
,
deviant
,
deviating
,
deviative
,
deviatory
,
devious
,
digressive
,
discursive
,
errant
,
erratic
,
excursive
,
flexuose
,
flexuosity
,
flexuous
,
flexuousness
,
indirect
,
intorsion
,
involute
,
involuted
,
involution
,
involutional
,
labyrinthine
,
mazy
,
meander
,
meandering
,
meandrous
,
out-of-the-way
,
planetary
,
rambling
,
rivose
,
rivulation
,
rivulose
,
roundabout
,
roving
,
ruffled
,
serpentine
,
shifting
,
sinuate
,
sinuation
,
sinuose
,
sinuosity
,
sinuous
,
sinuousness
,
slinkiness
,
snakiness
,
snaky
,
stray
,
swerving
,
torsion
,
torsional
,
tortile
,
tortility
,
tortuosity
,
tortuous
,
tortuousness
,
turning
,
twisting
,
twisty
,
undirected
,
undulation
,
vagrant
,
veering
,
wandering
,
wave
,
waving
,
whorled
,
wreathlike
,
wreathy
,
zigzag
moat
collapse
ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
related words >
abri
,
abysm
,
abyss
,
approach trench
,
aqueduct
,
arch dam
,
arroyo
,
backstop
,
bamboo curtain
,
bank
,
bar
,
barrage
,
barrier
,
bear-trap dam
,
beaver dam
,
boom
,
box canyon
,
breach
,
break
,
breakwater
,
breastwork
,
brick wall
,
buffer
,
bulkhead
,
bulwark
,
bunker
,
canal
,
canalization
,
canyon
,
cavity
,
channel
,
chap
,
chasm
,
check
,
chimney
,
chink
,
cleft
,
cleuch
,
clough
,
cofferdam
,
col
,
communication trench
,
coulee
,
couloir
,
countermine
,
coupure
,
crack
,
cranny
,
crevasse
,
crevice
,
crimp
,
cut
,
cwm
,
dam
,
defense
,
defile
,
dell
,
dike
,
ditch
,
donga
,
double sap
,
draw
,
dugout
,
earthwork
,
embankment
,
entrenchment
,
excavation
,
fault
,
fence
,
fire trench
,
fissure
,
flaw
,
flume
,
flying sap
,
fortified tunnel
,
fosse
,
foxhole
,
fracture
,
furrow
,
gallery
,
gap
,
gape
,
gash
,
gate
,
goffer
,
gorge
,
gravity dam
,
groin
,
groove
,
gulch
,
gulf
,
gully
,
gutter
,
ha-ha
,
hole
,
hydraulic-fill dam
,
incision
,
iron curtain
,
jam
,
jetty
,
joint
,
kennel
,
kloof
,
leak
,
leaping weir
,
levee
,
logjam
,
milldam
,
mine
,
mole
,
mound
,
notch
,
nullah
,
opening
,
parallel
,
parapet
,
pass
,
passage
,
pleat
,
portcullis
,
rampart
,
ravine
,
rent
,
rift
,
rime
,
roadblock
,
rock-fill dam
,
rupture
,
sap
,
scissure
,
seam
,
seawall
,
shutter dam
,
slit
,
slit trench
,
slot
,
split
,
stone wall
,
sunk fence
,
trench
,
trough
,
tunnel
,
valley
,
void
,
wadi
,
wall
,
weir
,
wicket dam
,
work
contravallation
collapse
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
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
bartizan
collapse
related words >
abatis
,
advanced work
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
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
abatis
collapse
related words >
advanced work
,
balistraria
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
contravallation
,
counterscarp
,
curtain
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
earthwork
,
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
teeter totter
collapse
related words >
Ferris wheel
,
Lissajous figure
,
alternate
,
alternation
,
back and fill
,
back-and-forth
,
battledore and shuttlecock
,
carousel
,
chute-the-chutes
,
chutes
,
come and go
,
coming and going
,
ebb and flow
,
flounder
,
fluctuate
,
flux and reflux
,
flying horses
,
go through phases
,
hitch and hike
,
merry-go-round
,
metronome
,
oscillate
,
oscillator
,
pass and repass
,
pendulate
,
pendulum
,
reciprocate
,
reciprocation
,
rhythmic play
,
ride and tie
,
ring the changes
,
rocker
,
rocking chair
,
rocking stone
,
roller coaster
,
roundabout
,
seesaw
,
seesawing
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shuttle
,
shuttlecock
,
sine wave
,
stagger
,
sway
,
swing
,
teeter
,
teeter-tottering
,
teeterboard
,
teetering
,
teetery-bender
,
to-and-fro
,
totter
,
tottering
,
turn
,
ups and downs
,
vacillate
,
vary
,
vibrator
,
waver
,
wax and wane
,
whip
,
whirligig
,
wibble-wabble
,
wigwag
,
wobble
,
zigzag
compete
collapse
compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
related words >
antagonize
,
approach
,
attempt
,
battle
,
beat against
,
beat up against
,
breast the wave
,
buck
,
buffet
,
buffet the waves
,
challenge
,
clash
,
close with
,
collide
,
combat
,
compete with
,
conflict
,
contend
,
contend against
,
contest
,
cope
,
dispute
,
emulate
,
equal
,
essay
,
fence
,
fight
,
fight against
,
grapple with
,
jockey
,
join battle with
,
joust
,
labor against
,
match
,
meet
,
militate against
,
offer resistance
,
outvie
,
reluct
,
reluctate
,
rival
,
stem the tide
,
strive
,
strive against
,
struggle
,
struggle against
,
take on
,
test one another
,
touch
,
try
,
vie
,
vie with
chitchat
collapse
light informal conversation for social occasions
related words >
babble
,
back-fence gossip
,
backchat
,
beauty-parlor chitchat
,
cackle
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
cocktail-party chitchat
,
gabble
,
gossip
,
gossiping
,
gossipmongering
,
gossipry
,
groundless rumor
,
idle chat
,
idle talk
,
newsmongering
,
piece of gossip
,
prattle
,
small talk
,
story
,
table talk
,
tale
,
talebearing
,
taletelling
,
talk
,
talkee-talkee
,
tattle
,
tea-table talk
,
tittle-tattle
undirected
collapse
related words >
aberrant
,
aberrative
,
aimless
,
amorphous
,
capricious
,
casual
,
causeless
,
circuitous
,
departing
,
designless
,
desultory
,
deviant
,
deviating
,
deviative
,
deviatory
,
devious
,
digressive
,
disarticulated
,
discontinuous
,
discursive
,
disjunct
,
disordered
,
dispersed
,
disproportionate
,
driftless
,
dysteleological
,
errant
,
erratic
,
excursive
,
fitful
,
formless
,
frivolous
,
gratuitous
,
haphazard
,
hit-or-miss
,
immethodical
,
inchoate
,
incoherent
,
indirect
,
indiscriminate
,
inexplicable
,
irregular
,
labyrinthine
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
meaningless
,
mindless
,
misshapen
,
nonsymmetrical
,
nonsystematic
,
nonuniform
,
orderless
,
out-of-the-way
,
planetary
,
planless
,
promiscuous
,
purposeless
,
rambling
,
random
,
roving
,
senseless
,
serpentine
,
shapeless
,
shifting
,
snaky
,
spasmodic
,
sporadic
,
stochastic
,
straggling
,
straggly
,
stray
,
swerving
,
systemless
,
turning
,
twisting
,
unaccountable
,
unarranged
,
unclassified
,
ungraded
,
unjoined
,
unmethodical
,
unmotivated
,
unordered
,
unorganized
,
unsorted
,
unsymmetrical
,
unsystematic
,
ununiform
,
vagrant
,
vague
,
veering
,
wandering
,
winding
,
zigzag
serrate
collapse
notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of the teeth"
related words >
V-shaped
,
Vandyke
,
Y-shaped
,
akimbo
,
angular
,
battlemented
,
bent
,
blaze
,
chop
,
chopped
,
cornered
,
corrugated
,
cragged
,
craggy
,
crenate
,
crenated
,
crenellate
,
crenellated
,
crenulate
,
crimp
,
crinkled
,
crooked
,
crotched
,
crumpled
,
cut
,
dentate
,
dentated
,
embrasured
,
erose
,
forked
,
furcal
,
furcate
,
gash
,
gashed
,
geniculate
,
geniculated
,
gravelly
,
harsh
,
hooked
,
incise
,
incised
,
indent
,
indented
,
ironbound
,
jag
,
jagged
,
jaggy
,
knee-shaped
,
knurl
,
lacerate
,
lacerated
,
machicolate
,
mill
,
nick
,
nicked
,
notch
,
notched
,
picot
,
pink
,
pointed
,
ragged
,
rockbound
,
rocky
,
rugged
,
rugose
,
rugous
,
saw-toothed
,
sawlike
,
sawtooth
,
scallop
,
scalloped
,
scarify
,
score
,
scored
,
scotch
,
scragged
,
scraggly
,
scraggy
,
serrated
,
serrulated
,
sharp
,
sharp-cornered
,
slash
,
snagged
,
snaggled
,
snaggy
,
stony
,
tooth
,
toothed
,
wrinkled
,
zigzag
shilly shally
collapse
related words >
alternate
,
back and fill
,
back down
,
balance
,
change
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
debate
,
delay
,
deliberate
,
demur
,
dillydally
,
dither
,
drag
,
equivocate
,
falter
,
fear
,
flag
,
fluctuate
,
goof off
,
halt
,
hang back
,
hem and haw
,
hesitate
,
hover
,
hum and haw
,
jib
,
lag
,
linger
,
loiter
,
lollygag
,
oscillate
,
pause
,
pendulate
,
ponder
,
pull back
,
retreat
,
scruple
,
shift
,
shy
,
stick at
,
stickle
,
stop to consider
,
straddle the fence
,
strain at
,
tarry
,
teeter
,
tergiversate
,
think twice about
,
totter
,
trail
,
vacillate
,
vary
,
waste time
,
waver
,
withdraw
,
wobble
,
yield
battlement
collapse
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
circumvention
collapse
the act of evading by going around
related words >
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
buck-passing
,
calculated deception
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defense mechanism
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
dodge
,
duck
,
dupery
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
foiling
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frustration
,
getting around
,
getting round
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
illusion
,
jink
,
kidding
,
mirage
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
outguessing
,
outmaneuvering
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
passing the buck
,
phantasm
,
prevention
,
putting on
,
refraining
,
self-deception
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
the runaround
,
the slip
,
thwarting
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
zigzag
beleaguer
collapse
related words >
annoy
,
bedevil
,
beset
,
besiege
,
blockade
,
bound
,
box in
,
cage
,
chamber
,
close in
,
compass
,
contain
,
coop
,
coop in
,
coop up
,
cordon
,
cordon off
,
corral
,
encircle
,
enclose
,
encompass
,
enshrine
,
envelop
,
fence in
,
gnaw
,
harass
,
harry
,
hedge in
,
hem in
,
house in
,
impound
,
imprison
,
incarcerate
,
include
,
invest
,
jail
,
kennel
,
lay siege to
,
leaguer
,
mew
,
mew up
,
pen
,
pen in
,
pester
,
plague
,
pocket
,
quarantine
,
rail in
,
shrine
,
shut in
,
shut up
,
siege
,
soften up
,
stable
,
storm
,
surround
,
tease
,
wall in
,
wrap
,
yard
,
yard up
redoubt
collapse
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
snowdrift
collapse
a mass of snow heaped up by the wind
related words >
anthill
,
avalanche
,
bank
,
blizzard
,
cock
,
crystal
,
drift
,
driven snow
,
dune
,
embankment
,
flake
,
flurry
,
granular snow
,
haycock
,
haymow
,
hayrick
,
haystack
,
heap
,
hill
,
igloo
,
mantle of snow
,
mogul
,
molehill
,
mound
,
mow
,
pile
,
pyramid
,
rick
,
slosh
,
slush
,
snow
,
snow banner
,
snow bed
,
snow blanket
,
snow blast
,
snow fence
,
snow flurry
,
snow roller
,
snow slush
,
snow squall
,
snow wreath
,
snow-crystal
,
snowball
,
snowbank
,
snowbridge
,
snowcap
,
snowfall
,
snowfield
,
snowflake
,
snowland
,
snowman
,
snowscape
,
snowshed
,
snowslide
,
snowslip
,
snowstorm
,
stack
,
wet snow
fickle
collapse
marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
related words >
adrift
,
afloat
,
agnostic
,
alternating
,
ambiguous
,
ambitendent
,
ambivalent
,
amorphous
,
at loose ends
,
brittle
,
capricious
,
chancy
,
changeable
,
changeful
,
coquettish
,
corruptible
,
deciduous
,
derelict
,
desultory
,
deviable
,
dicey
,
disaffected
,
disloyal
,
dizzy
,
double-minded
,
doubting
,
dubious
,
dying
,
eccentric
,
ephemeral
,
equivocal
,
erratic
,
evanescent
,
faddish
,
fading
,
faithless
,
false
,
fanciful
,
fast and loose
,
fence-sitting
,
fence-straddling
,
fitful
,
fleeting
,
flickering
,
flighty
,
flirtatious
,
flitting
,
fluctuating
,
fly-by-night
,
flying
,
fragile
,
frail
,
freakish
,
frivolous
,
fugacious
,
fugitive
,
giddy
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
impermanent
,
impetuous
,
impulsive
,
incalculable
,
inconsistent
,
inconstant
,
indecisive
,
indemonstrable
,
infirm
,
infirm of purpose
,
insubstantial
,
irregular
,
irresolute
,
irresolved
,
irresponsible
,
light
,
lubricious
,
mazy
,
mercurial
,
momentary
,
moody
,
mortal
,
mugwumpian
,
mugwumpish
,
mutable
,
nondurable
,
nonpermanent
,
not true to
,
of bad faith
,
of two minds
,
passing
,
perishable
,
polysemous
,
quicksilver
,
rambling
,
recreant
,
restless
,
roving
,
scatterbrained
,
shapeless
,
shifting
,
shifty
,
short-lived
,
shuffling
,
skeptical
,
skittish
,
spasmodic
,
spineless
,
temperamental
,
temporal
,
temporary
,
ticklish
,
touch-and-go
,
toying
,
transient
,
transitive
,
transitory
,
trothless
,
unaccountable
,
uncertain
,
unconfirmable
,
uncontrolled
,
unconvinced
,
undecided
,
undependable
,
undetermined
,
undisciplined
,
undivinable
,
undurable
,
unenduring
,
unfaithful
,
unfixed
,
unforeseeable
,
unloyal
,
unpersuaded
,
unpredictable
,
unprovable
,
unreliable
,
unresolved
,
unrestrained
,
unsettled
,
unstable
,
unstable as water
,
unstaid
,
unsteadfast
,
unsteady
,
unsure
,
untrue
,
untrustworthy
,
unverifiable
,
vacillating
,
vagrant
,
variable
,
versatile
,
vicissitudinary
,
vicissitudinous
,
volatile
,
wandering
,
wanton
,
wavering
,
wavery
,
wavy
,
wayward
,
whimsical
,
wishy-washy
prevaricate
collapse
related words >
around the bush
,
back and fill
,
be untruthful
,
beat about
,
beg the question
,
belie
,
bicker
,
boggle
,
cavil
,
choplogic
,
deceive
,
dodge
,
draw the longbow
,
duck
,
equivocate
,
evade
,
evade the issue
,
exaggerate
,
falsify
,
fence
,
fib
,
garble
,
hedge
,
hem and haw
,
hum and haw
,
lie
,
lie flatly
,
mince the truth
,
mince words
,
mislead
,
misrepresent
,
mystify
,
nitpick
,
obscure
,
palter
,
parry
,
pick nits
,
pussyfoot
,
quibble
,
shift
,
shuffle
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
speak falsely
,
split hairs
,
story
,
stretch the truth
,
tell a lie
,
tergiversate
,
waffle
,
weasel
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