tread water



abide, bathe, be still, coast, dive, float, freeze, go in swimming, go in wading, keep quiet, lie still, mark time, not breathe, not stir, remain,









   heave round - about ship, back and fill, bear off, beat, beat about, board, boom, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cast, change course, come about, cut loose,

   loquacity - big mouth, candour, communicativeness, effusion, effusiveness, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness,

   fait accompli - accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, action, actuality, adventure, attainment, authenticity, blow, carrying out, consummation, coup, dealings, deed,

   record - Clio, Lordship, accomplishment, accomplishments, account, account rendered, accounting, acme, adventures, album, annals, annual, archives, authority, authorization,

   as a whole - across the board, all, all in all, all things considered, altogether, as a rule, at large, bodily, broadly, by and large, chiefly, collectively, commonly, en bloc, entirely,

   caryatid - arcade, atlas, balustrade, banister, base, colonnade, column, dado, die, jack, pedestal, pier, pilaster, pile, pillar,

   burst of laughter - cackle, chortle, chuckle, convulsion, crow, giggle, guffaw, hilarity, laugh, laughing, laughter, risibility, shout, shriek, snicker,

   afford support - back, back up, bear, bear out, bear up, bolster, brace, buoy up, buttress, carry, cradle, cushion, finance, fund, hold,

   italicized - accented, accentuated, autograph, calligraphic, cursive, decided, emphasized, emphatic, engrossed, flowing, forceful, forcible, graphic, holograph, holographic,

   rebuffed - denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, dismissed, disowned, excepted, excluded, forsworn, ignored, rejected, renounced, spurned ,