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Niagara collapse: a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York; waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls

war collapse: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"; the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"; an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"; a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"; make or wage war

instrumentality collapse: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end; the quality of being instrumental for some purpose; a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement"

virulence collapse: extreme hostility; "the virulence of the malicious old man"; extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); "the virulence of the plague"

bunt collapse: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat; fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; similar to Tilletia caries; disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

neuter collapse: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine); of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"; having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

accepting collapse: tolerating without protest; "always more accepting of coaching suggestion than her teammates"; "the atmosphere was judged to be more supporting and accepting"

in practice collapse: in practical applications; "will this work in practice?"

tamp collapse: a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

freewheeling collapse: free of restraints or rules; "freewheeling foolishness"; "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"

placation collapse: the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity

operating collapse: involved in a kind of operation; "the operating conditions of the oxidation pond"

vehemence collapse: intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"

philosophical collapse: characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life"; characteristic of or imbued with the attitude of a philosopher or based on philosophy; "that breadth of outlook that distinguishes the philosophic mind"; "their differences were philosophical"

productiveness collapse: the quality of being productive or having the power to produce

compel collapse: force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"

regular collapse: a garment size for persons of average height and weight; a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture"; a dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars"; a soldier in the regular army; in accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"; relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker"; officially full-time; "regular students"; not deviating from what is normal; "her regular bedtime"; in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties"; (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula; (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces; "the regular army"; conforming to a standard or pattern; "following the regular procedure of the legislature"; "a regular electrical outlet"; regularly scheduled for fixed times; "at a regular meeting of the PTA"; "regular bus departures"

adduction collapse: (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body

sortie collapse: (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation); a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position

extortion collapse: the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence); unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"; an exorbitant charge

unit collapse: a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"; an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"; a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids"; an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit"

evict collapse: expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"; expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."

unabated collapse: continuing at full strength or intensity; "the winds are unabated"; "the popularity of his books among young people continued unabated"

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