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in hand collapse: under control; "the riots were in hand"

guarantee collapse: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications; a pledge that something will happen or that something is true; "there is no guarantee that they are not lying"; a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults; give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the quality of my products"; make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!"; stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information"

shank collapse: a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball; the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole; cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill; cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head; cylinder forming a long narrow part of something; the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle; a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg; hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction

pitched collapse: set at a slant; "a pitched rather than a flat roof"; (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form; "high-pitched"

old man collapse: an informal term for your father; a man who is very old; (slang) boss

fall collapse: a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"; a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"; a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"; when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat; the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"; the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"; pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"; come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"; go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"; occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"; begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away"; be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"; come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth"; be cast down; "his eyes fell"; assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"; descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"; drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"; lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead"; slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"; move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"; be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"; fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"; be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy"; to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student"; to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"; lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"; suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"; yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell"; lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman"; touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"; die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"; be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month"; come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading"

threshold collapse: the smallest detectable sensation; the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"

paragraph collapse: one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line; write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher; write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"; divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"

rising collapse: newly come into prominence; "a rising young politician"; advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status; "a rising trend"; "a rising market"

throaty collapse: sounding as if pronounced low in the throat; "a rich throaty voice"

revise collapse: make revisions in; "revise a thesis"

filibuster collapse: a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches; a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes; obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation

passing collapse: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"; going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"; the end of something; "the passing of winter"; the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"; euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"

carry collapse: the act of carrying something; continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"; include, as on a list; "How many people are carried on the payroll?"; sing or play against other voices or parts; "He cannot carry a tune"; serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot af anger"; pass on a communication; "The news was carried to every village in the province"; be successful in; "She lost the game but carried the match"; win in an election; "The senator carried his home state"; secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions); "The motion carried easily"; cover a certain distance or advance beyond; "The drive carried to the green"; have a certain range; "This rifle carries for 3,000 feet"; be able to feed; "This land will carry ten cows to the acre"; drink alcohol without showing ill effects; "He can hold his liquor"; "he had drunk more than he could carry"; bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of; "His efforts carried the entire project"; "How many credits is this student carrying?"; "We carry a very large mortgage"; propel or give impetus to; "The sudden gust of air propelled the ball to the other side of the fence"; bear (a crop); "this land does not carry olives"; include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference"; pursue a line of scent or be a bearer; "the dog was taught to fetch and carry"; transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication; "put down 5 and carry 2"; capture after a fight; "The troops carried the town after a brief fight"; have on the surface or on the skin; "carry scars"; take further or advance; "carry a cause"; compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance; "I resent having to carry her all the time"; extend to a certain degree; "carry too far"; "She carries her ideas to the extreme"; win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters"; be equipped with (a mast or sail); "This boat can only carry a small sail"; be necessarily associated with or result in or involve; "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison"; have or possess something abstract; "I carry her image in my mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of life insurance"; keep up with financial support; "The Federal Government carried the province for many years"; have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"; be conveyed over a certain distance; "Her voice carries very well in this big opera house"; have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence; "This new washer carries a two year guarantee"; "The loan carries a high interest rate"; "this undertaking carries many dangers"; "She carries her mother's genes"; "These bonds carry warrants"; "The restaurant carries an unusual name"

moderate collapse: not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"; being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart"; marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response"; make less fast or intense; "moderate your speed"; preside over; "John moderated the discussion"

stopped collapse: (of a nose) blocked; "a stopped (or stopped-up) nose"

wide open spaces collapse

prune collapse: dried plum

lour collapse

shift collapse: the act of moving from one place to another; "his constant shifting disrupted the class"; an event in which something is displaced without rotation; a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time; the time period during which you are at work; move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion"; change gears; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"; move from one setting or context to another; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"; change in quality; "His tone shifted"; change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"; use a shift key on a keyboard; "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"; change place or direction; "Shift one's position"

reaction collapse: doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"; a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age"; an idea evoked by some experience; "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do"; extreme conservatism in political or social matters; "the forces of reaction carried the election"; a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"; "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp"; (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body; "every action has an equal and opposite reaction"

new collapse: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"; having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"; (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"; in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"; not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"; unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"

printing collapse: the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution; text handwritten in the style of printed matter; reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

let off collapse

gulp collapse: a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp"; a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing; utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly; "He gulped for help after choking on a big piece of meat"; to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"

flounder collapse: any of various European and non-European marine flatfish; flesh of any of various American and European flatfish; behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college"

untimely collapse

phonetic collapse: of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis"; of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription"

tug collapse: a sudden abrupt pull; struggle in opposition; "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts"; pull hard; "The prisoner tugged at the chains"; "This movie tugs at the heart strings"; pull or strain hard at; "Each oar was tugged by several men"; move by pulling hard; "The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud"; tow (a vessel) with a tug; "The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor"; strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

isolate collapse: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"; obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"; separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

lard collapse: soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog; prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat"

harness collapse: stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart; a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute); exploit the power of; "harness natural forces and resources"; put a harness; "harness the horse"; control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse"

mow collapse: cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"

recantation collapse

hire collapse: the act of hiring something or someone; "he signed up for a week's car hire"; a newly hired employee; "the new hires need special training"; engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?"

servility collapse

bush collapse: a large wilderness area; vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924); United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974); 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946); provide with a bushing

set right collapse

write off collapse: reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"; concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody; "write it off as a loss"; write something fluently, and without hesitation; cancel (a debt)

palatal collapse: a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast'); produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin'); relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils"

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