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prospect collapse: the possibility of future success; "his prospects as a writer are excellent"; explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals; search for something desirable; "prospect a job"

victimization collapse: adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him"

solicit collapse: make a solicitation or petition for something desired; "She is too shy to solicit"; incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination; "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents"; make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

gunfire collapse: the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

slant collapse: a biased way of looking at or presenting something; present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"; lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face"

bight collapse: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends); a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"; a bend or curve (especially in a coastline); a loop in a rope; fasten with a bight

fork collapse: cutlery used for serving and eating food; an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs; the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"; shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"; place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

desideratum collapse: something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"

respect collapse: (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect"; an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him"; regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"; show respect towards; "honor your parents!"

woo collapse: make amorous advances towards; "John is courting Mary"; seek someone's favor; "China is wooing Russia"

countermine collapse: (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy; destroy enemy mines with one's own mines; "We countermined the banks of the river"

sweep collapse: a movement in an arc; "a sweep of his arm"; a long oar used in an open boat; a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"; win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships"; sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"; clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor"; move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"; cover the entire range of

temptation collapse: something that seduces or has the quality to seduce; the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; "he felt the temptation and his will power weakened"

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

clam collapse: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness; flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams; gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

quoin collapse: the keystone of an arch; expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

zombie collapse: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

elbow collapse: the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow; the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint; "his coat had patches over the elbows"; a sharp bend in a road or river; a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it; hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped; shove one's elbow into another person's ribs; push one's way with the elbows

leave no stone unturned collapse: search thoroughly and exhaustively; "The police left no stone unturned in looking for the President's murderer"

vapor collapse: a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance

phase collapse: (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"; (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"; a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle; any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"; adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"; arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"

lid collapse: a movable top or cover (hinged or separate) for closing the opening of a container

imagine collapse: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"

apocalypse collapse: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil

trawl collapse: a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths; a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys); fish with trawlers

sideways collapse: toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"; with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"

reverie collapse: an abstracted state of absorption; absentminded dreaming while awake

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