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push collapse: the act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise"; an effort to advance; "the army made a push toward the sea"; the force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines"; press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate"; move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"; press against forcefully without moving; "she pushed against the wall with all her strength"; move strenuously and with effort; "The crowd pushed forward"; approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"; sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"

asthma collapse: respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin

account for collapse: give reasons for; "Can you account for all these absences?"; be the reason or explanation for; "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

screw collapse: a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head; a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air; a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole; tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions; "Screw the bottle cap on"; cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; "drive in screws or bolts"; turn like a screw

soup collapse: liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food; an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now"; any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup; dope (a racehorse)

confess collapse: confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith; confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

kingmaker collapse: an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence; "the Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"

deduce collapse: reason by deduction; establish by deduction; conclude by reasoning; in logic

overcast collapse: a cast that falls beyond the intended spot; a long whip stitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling; sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books"; sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches; make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"

edema collapse: swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue

lobbyist collapse: someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for bills that the lobbyists favor

bug collapse: general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate; a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly; a fault or defect in a system or machine

rash collapse: a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits"; any red eruption of the skin; imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith

degage collapse: showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"; free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson

tachycardia collapse: abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)

addict collapse: someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms; someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"; to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

promotion collapse: act of raising in rank or position; a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution; "the packaging of new ideas"; encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

loading collapse: the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.; "the loading took 2 hours"; the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift

plasma collapse: colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended; (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"; a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

leukocyte collapse: blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system

immediacy collapse: lack of an intervening or mediating agency; "the immediacy of television coverage"; the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"; immediate intuitive awareness

dominance collapse: the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not; the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"

seniority collapse: higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

leverage collapse: investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses); strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"; the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever; provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"; supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is already available"

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