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nominate collapse: propose as a candidate for some honor; put forward; nominate for appointment to an office; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"

uneager collapse: lacking interest or spirit or animation; "decrepit, colorless uneager things"

volunteer collapse: a person who performs voluntary work; (military) a person who freely enlists for service; tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"; do volunteer work; agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"

aft collapse: at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; "stow the luggage aft"; "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"

recession collapse: the act of ceding back; the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service; the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year

socialize collapse: make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!"; prepare for social life; "Children have to be socialized in school"; train for a social environment; "The children must be properly socialized"; take part in social activities; interact with others; "He never socializes with his colleagues"; "The old man hates to socialize"

retroactive collapse: descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously

loath collapse: unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"; "unwilling to face facts"

fogyish collapse: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

soaring collapse: ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices"; moving to great heights with little apparent effort; "a soaring eagle"

a priori collapse: involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact; "an a priori judgment"; based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment; derived by logic, without observed facts

astern collapse: (of a ship or an airplane) behind; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"; stern foremost or backward; "the steamer went astern at half speed"

promote collapse: change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent; be changed for a superior chess or checker piece; give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"; contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"

relapse collapse: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

transform collapse: change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"; increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage); change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species; convert (one form of energy) to another; "transform energy to light"; change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"; subject to a mathematical transformation

ascent collapse: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"

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