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Adagio
a. & adv. · 78% connection
Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Astern
adverb · 78% connection
In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Bar
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Barricade
noun · 78% connection
A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Belay
verb · 78% connection
To lay on or cover; to adorn.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Blench
verb · 78% connection
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Block
verb · 78% connection
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Blockade
verb · 78% connection
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Boom
noun · 78% connection
A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Choke
verb · 78% connection
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Clog
verb · 78% connection
That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Contravene
verb · 78% connection
To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Criminal maintenance
noun · 78% connection
the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Cross
noun · 78% connection
A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Cumber
verb · 78% connection
To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an obj…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Cumbrous
adjective · 78% connection
Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Dam
noun · 78% connection
A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
Embarrass
verb · 78% connection
To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: slow, hinder, obstruct, forslow.
