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61squeeze — Synonyms and related words: arrest, arrestation, arrestment, badger, bar, barricade, bear, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear hard upon, bear hug, bind, blackmail, bleed, block, block up, blockade, blockage, blocking, bolt, boodle,… …
62stew — Synonyms and related words: B girl, Cyprian, Irish stew, Paphian, ado, agitation, agonize, all sorts, all overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apply the mind,… …
63sticky wicket — Synonyms and related words: bind, clutch, complication, crunch, embarrassing position, embarrassment, fine how do you do, hell to pay, hobble, hot water, how do you do, imbroglio, jam, mess, mix, morass, parlous straits, pass, pickle, pinch,… …
64strait — Synonyms and related words: angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, bind, boca, bottleneck, bound, bounded, box, breakers ahead, canal, cardhouse, cause for alarm, channel,… …
65straits — Synonyms and related words: arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, bind, boca, broken fortune, clutch, complication, cove, creek, crunch, difficulties, distress, embarrassing position, embarrassment, estuary, euripus, fine how do you do, fjord,… …
66swamp — Synonyms and related words: baygall, be prodigal with, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cascade, cataract, cesspool, cloaca, cloaca maxima, clutch, complication, crunch, deluge, dip, drain, drown, duck, dump, dunk,… …
67tight spot — Synonyms and related words: bind, clutch, complication, crunch, cubby, cubbyhole, doghouse, embarrassing position, embarrassment, fine how do you do, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot water, how do you do, imbroglio, jam, mess, mix, morass, parlous… …
68tight squeeze — Synonyms and related words: bind, broken fortune, close call, close shave, close squeak, closeness, clutch, complication, confinement, crowdedness, crunch, cubby, cubbyhole, difficulties, distress, doghouse, embarrassing position, embarrassment,… …
69unholy mess — Synonyms and related words: arsy varsiness, bind, clutch, clutter, complication, crunch, embarrassing position, embarrassment, farrago, fine how do you do, hash, hell to pay, helter skelter, higgledy piggledy, hobble, hodgepodge, hot water, how… …
70difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; …
