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equipped collapse: carrying weapons; provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate; "a well equipped playground"; "a ship equipped with every mechanical aid to navigation"; prepared with proper equipment; "equipped for service in the Arctic"

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"

invitation collapse: a tempting allurement; "she was an invitation to trouble"; a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitation away"

bullfight collapse: a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators

soldier collapse: a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony; an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"; serve as a soldier in the military

entrapment collapse: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

petition collapse: write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing

imposed collapse: set forth authoritatively as obligatory; "the imposed taxation"; "rules imposed by society"

informed collapse: having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer"

call on collapse: have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to; "She called on her Representative to help her"; "She turned to her relatives for help"

appeal collapse: (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial; "their appeal was denied in the superior court"; attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates; "his smile was part of his appeal to her"; request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"; take a court case to a higher court for review; "He was found guilty but appealed immediately"; challenge (a decision); "She appealed the verdict"

forbidden fruit collapse: originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)

scrimmage collapse: (American football) practice play between a football team's squads; practice playing (a sport)

tug-of-war collapse: any hard struggle between equally matched groups; a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses

invoke collapse: cite as an authority; resort to; "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"

blandishment collapse: the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery; flattery intended to persuade

inducement collapse: act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of sleep"

plead collapse: appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"; enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"; offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"; make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts

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