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Synonyms for collar
Synonyms for collar: catch and leash. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for collar
- catchnoun, in the sense "the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)"
- leashnoun, in the sense "a figurative restraint"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of collar, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar.
The true synonym
catch
Same sentence, swapped: The policeman on the beat got credit for the catch.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for collar in the sentence quoted.
- leash
- choker
- conquering
a figurative restraint
Asked for a collar on program trading in the stock market.
The true synonym
leash
Same sentence, swapped: Asked for a leash on program trading in the stock market.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- check
- confinement
- suppression
Where collar turns up in the game
collar is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where collar is the trap
- rigverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is set, in the sense "equip with sails or masts", so collar is there to be ruled out.
- bridlenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is check, in the sense "the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess", with collar sitting one tile away.
- suppressionnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is curtailment, in the sense "the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation", and collar is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play collar
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so collar reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. collar carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.