Extreme+tension

  • 61WORDSWORTH (W.) — Dans la perspective de deux siècles, le génie de Wordsworth a surmonté hostilité et dérision et atteint, par delà sa période «militante» (1820 1830), pour citer De Quincey, la consécration «triomphante», qui le place aux côtés de Shakespeare et… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 62dramatisme — ● dramatisme nom masculin Caractère dramatique de quelque chose. ⇒DRAMATISME, subst. masc. CRIT. Tension dramatique, violente. Je pense ici à une certaine imagerie d un pessimisme et d un dramatisme trop simples concernant la nature humaine… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 63bloat — Synonyms and related words: accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloatedness, bloating, blotter, blow up, blowing up, boom, boozehound, boozer, breaking point, breed, broaden, build, build up,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 64breaking point — Synonyms and related words: bloat, bloating, distension, extreme tension, inflation, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, snapping point, strain, straining, stretch, stretching,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 65distension — Synonyms and related words: bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, breaking point, bump, bunion, carbuncle, corn, cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, dropsy, edema, extension, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 66overexpansion — Synonyms and related words: bloat, bloating, breaking point, distension, extreme tension, inflation, overdistension, overdrawing, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, snapping point, strain, straining, stretch, stretching,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 67overextension — Synonyms and related words: bloat, bloating, breaking point, distension, extreme tension, franticness, frenziedness, haul, heave, hyperactivity, hyperkinesia, hyperkinesis, inflation, officiousness, overactivity, overdistension, overdrawing,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 68straining — Synonyms and related words: bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation, distortion, draining, drudging …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 69stretch — Synonyms and related words: adaptability, adaptable, adaptive, add to, aesthetic distance, aggrandize, airing, amble, amplify, amplitude, and quarter, answer, archery ground, area, athletic field, athletics, augment, avail, badminton court,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 70swelling — Synonyms and related words: abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, aposteme, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, aureate, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bed sore,… …

    Moby Thesaurus