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close up collapse: very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"; refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"; unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella"; cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"

stencil collapse: device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern; mark or print with a stencil

barricade collapse: a barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy); "they stormed the barricade"; block off with barricades; prevent access to by barricading; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"; render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

forbid collapse: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

delusion collapse: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas; a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"; (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

formalize collapse: make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"

enumerate collapse: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"

strangulation collapse: (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"; the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage

dumbbell collapse: an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle; an ignorant or foolish person

engraving collapse: making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them; a block or plate that has been engraved; a print made from an engraving

ax collapse: an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle; terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

basalt collapse: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene

sandstone collapse: a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

cordon collapse: adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord; cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank

loon collapse: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes; a worthless lazy fellow

crucifixion collapse: the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering; the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross; the death of Jesus on the cross

saprolite collapse: a deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place

hemlock collapse: an evergreen tree; soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock; large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous; poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"

moratorium collapse: suspension of an ongoing activity; a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

obstruction collapse: getting in someone's way; the act of obstructing; "obstruction of justice"; any structure that makes progress difficult; the state or condition of being obstructed

strangle collapse: die from strangulation; kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"

longhand collapse: rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper; having words written out in full by hand; "longhand writing"

dunce collapse: these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence

overlay collapse: put something on top of something else; "cover the meat with a lot of gravy"

snag collapse: a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest; "a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds"; a sharp protuberance; hew jaggedly; catch on a snag; "I snagged my stocking"; get by acting quickly and smartly; "snag a bargain"

deter collapse: try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"

hang up collapse: interrupt a telephone conversation; put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

cursive collapse: having successive letter joined together; "cursive script"

objection collapse: (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality; the speech act of objecting

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