psychological defences



defence mechanism, guard, protection, resistance, self-defence, self-preservation, self-protection, ward ,

   compressor - astringent, clamp, machinery, pincers, styptic ,

   sparkling - beaming, beaten, beatific, beatified, biting, blessed, blinking, blissful, blistered, blistering, blistery, blithe, blithesome, blooming, bright,

   make tracks - bound, bugger, canter, cut out, flee, fly, fox trot, gallop, get, get out, hop, hotfoot, hurriedness, leap, lope,

   to infinity - ad infinitum, endlessly, eternally, forever, immeasurably, immensely, infinitely, interminably ,

   cods - bag, balls, basket, beard, breast, cervix, clitoris, female organs, genitals, gonads, lips, male organs, meat, ovary, penis,

   bring to reason - assure, bring home to, bring round, captivate, charm, con, convert, convict, convince, gain, hook, persuade, prevail upon, satisfy, sell,

   pauper - almsman, bankrupt, beggar, break, bum, bust, casual, charity case, down-and-out, down-and-outer, fold up, impoverish, indigent, insolvent, mendicant,

   blotting paper - absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, blotter, digestion, infiltration, osmosis, paper, percolation, seepage, sponge, sponging ,

   equanimity - accordance, aplomb, assurance, balance, calm, calmness, composure, confidence, consistency, consonance, constancy, continuity, coolness, correspondence, detachment,

   mere scratch - epidermis, gloss, pinprick, rind, scratch, skin, superficiality, surface, triviality, veneer ,