Term: dealignment: a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties
Candidate hypernym: process: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states → 1
Candidate hypernym: crock: nonsense; foolish talk → 0
Candidate hypernym: igniter: a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire → 0
Candidate hypernym: antheropeas: small genus of North American herbs often included in genus Eriophyllum → 0
Candidate hypernym: skull session: teaching strategy to an athletic team → 0
Candidate hypernym: shoestring catch: (baseball) a running catch made near the ground → 0
Candidate hypernym: meter: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity → 0
Candidate hypernym: mental abnormality: any abnormality of mental function → 0
Candidate hypernym: slave state: any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War → 0
Candidate hypernym: fatal accident: an accident that causes someone to die → 0
Candidate hypernym: primitive: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization → 0