nap

• batting
• bed
• break
• catch forty winks
• catnap
• couch
• down
• doze
• dream
• drop off
• drowse
• feel
• fiber
• floss
• fluff
• forty winks
• fur
• fuzz
• get some shut-eye
• grit
• hibernate
• interlude
• intermission
• kip
• lay
• lie
• lint
• lull
• microsleep
• nod
• nod off
• outside
• oversleep
• pause
• pile
• rack
• relax
• repose
• respite
• rest
• roost
• roughness
• shag
• shuteye
• siesta
• sleep
• sleep in
• slumber
• smoothness
• snooze
• spot
• surface
• take a siesta
• take a snooze
• tooth
• wale
• warp
• weave
• weft
• wink
• woof

• arise
• arouse
• awake
• awaken
• continuation
• get up
• inside
• interior
• middle
• rise
• rouse
• uprise
• wake
• waken

• noun
  1. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
  2. A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
  3. The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
  4. A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
  5. A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
  6. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
  7. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
• verb
  1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
  2. To be off one's guard.
  3. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
  4. To grab; to nab.
  5. To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).

• The baby took a peaceful nap in the afternoon sunlight.
• After a long day at work, he decided to take a quick power nap.
• The cat curled up on the windowsill for a cozy afternoon nap.
• She closed her eyes and drifted off for a refreshing cat nap.
• During the picnic, some people chose to lie on the grass and enjoy a short nap.

a bit much

• annoying
• arduous
• baroque
• boresome
• boring
• boundless
• burdensome
• demanding
• devilish
• difficult
• drag
• dragging
• drudging
• dull
• endless
• enervative
• enough
• enough already
• exacting
• excessive
• excruciating
• exhausting
• exorbitant
• extravagant
• extreme
• fancy
• fatiguing
• flat
• hard
• heavy
• heavy-handed
• hefty
• ho-hum
• humdrum
• immeasurable
• immoderate
• impossible
• improper
• inadmissible
• inappropriate
• infinite
• inordinate
• insane
• insufferable
• insupportable
• intolerable
• irksome
• jading
• laborious
• last straw
• lavish
• limitless
• monotonous
• nowhere
• offensive
• onerous
• oppressive
• over-the-top
• overdue
• overextravagant
• overmuch
• overweening
• painful
• plethoric
• steep
• stiff
• strenuous
• tedious
• thick
• tired
• tiring
• too much
• tough
• towering
• trying
• unacceptable
• unbearable
• unconscionable
• uncool
• undesirable
• undue
• unendurable
• uninteresting
• unjustifiable
• unmerciful
• unrelieved
• unrestrained
• unseemly
• unsufferable
• unsupportable
• unsurpassable
• unwarranted
• vexatious
• wearing
• wearisome
• wearying
• yawn

abduct

• capture
• carry off
• catch
• cop
• crimp
• dognap
• grab
• highjack
• hijack
• impress
• kidnap
• make away with
• make off with
• put the snatch on
• remove
• run off with
• seize
• shanghai
• snatch
• sneeze
• spirit
• spirit away
• steal
• take
• waylay

abducted

• apprehended
• appropriated
• arrested
• bound
• captive
• captured
• caught
• confined
• copped
• crimped
• enslaved
• ensnared
• highjacked
• hijacked
• impressed
• imprisoned
• incarcerated
• indentured
• interned
• jailed
• kidnaped
• kidnapped
• made away with
• made off with
• occupied
• ran off with
• seized
• shanghaied
• snatched
• spirited
• stole
• stolen
• subdued
• subjugated
• took
• trapped
• waylaid

abductee

• arrestee
• captive
• capture
• convict
• coprisoner
• internee
• jailbird
• kidnapee
• kidnappee
• prisoner

abductees

• arrestees
• captives
• captures
• co-prisoners
• convicts
• coprisoners
• internees
• jailbirds
• kidnapees
• kidnappees
• prisoners

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