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ditch collapse: a long narrow excavation in the earth; any small natural waterway; crash or crash-land; "ditch a car"; "ditch a plane"; make an emergency landing on water; forsake; "ditch a lover"

picket collapse: a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake; a wooden strip forming part of a fence; a vehicle performing sentinel duty; a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack; a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work; fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"; serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"

battle collapse: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"; battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"

boundary collapse: the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; a line determining the limits of an area

deceleration collapse: the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed; "he initiated deceleration by braking"; a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"; (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity

stalemate collapse: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check; subject to a stalemate

stray collapse: wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"

prohibition collapse: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"; a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"; a decree that prohibits something; refusal to approve or assent to; the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

imprison collapse: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"; confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

hem in collapse: surround in a restrictive manner; "The building was hemmed in by flowers"

tent collapse: a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek"

glaze collapse: coating for fabrics, ceramics, metal, etc.; a glossy finish on a fabric; any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods; become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored"; coat with a glaze; "the potter glazed the dishes"

groundwork collapse: preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation; "we are prepared today because of groundwork that was done ten years ago"

separation collapse: the act of dividing or disconnecting; the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"; sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"; the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal); coming apart; the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"; the state of lacking unity

pinched collapse: as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

besiege collapse: harass, as with questions or requests; "The press photographers besieged the movie star"; surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna"; cause to feel distressed or worried; "She was besieged by so many problems that she got discouraged"

distressed collapse: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"

impound collapse: place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray"; take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"

fence collapse: a barrier that serves to enclose an area; a dealer in stolen property; fight with fencing swords; enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"; receive stolen goods

panorama collapse: a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

close in collapse: advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him"

retrenchment collapse: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable; entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

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