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overwork collapse: the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"; use too much; "This play has been overworked"; work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students"

inordinately collapse: extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate"

excessively collapse: to an excessive degree; "too big"

overdo collapse: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"

poles apart collapse

preclude collapse: make impossible, especially beforehand

excessiveness collapse

overact collapse: exaggerate one's acting

decamp collapse: leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"; leave a camp; "The hikers decamped before dawn"

fend off collapse

overreact collapse: show an exaggerated response to something; "Don't overreact to the bad news--take it easy"

hypertrophy collapse: abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ; undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids"

forgo collapse: refrain from consuming; "You will have to forgo alcohol"

exorbitance collapse: excessive excess

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

unreasonableness collapse

shrink collapse: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"; become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"; reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

bilk collapse: evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"; cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

overstrain collapse: too much strain; strain excessively; "He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment"

blench collapse

sheer off collapse

flinch collapse: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

ostracize collapse: avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"

radicalism collapse: the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society

overstate collapse: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

eyeball to eyeball collapse

avoid collapse: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"; refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

wince collapse: a reflex response to sudden pain; the facial expression of sudden pain; make a face indicating disgust or dislike; "She winced when she heard his pompous speech"

swear collapse: promise solemnly; take an oath; make a deposition; declare under oath

despise collapse

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

pass up collapse: fail to acknowledge; "he passed me up in the street"

let well enough alone collapse

leave well enough alone collapse

overtax collapse: tax excessively; "Don't overtax my constituents!"

equivocate collapse

cringe collapse

let alone collapse: much less; "she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal"

weasel collapse: small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck

quail collapse: small gallinaceous game birds; flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised

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