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dither collapse: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"; make a fuss; be agitated; act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain

misfire collapse: an explosion that fails to occur; fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

ripple collapse: a small wave on the surface of a liquid; (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value; stir up (water) so as to form ripples; flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"

horripilate collapse: cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps; "Hitchcock movies horripilate me"; have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps; "I horripilate when I see violence on television"

ache collapse: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain; have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"; be the source of pain

zero collapse: the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale; a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number; indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"; indicating an initial point or origin; of or relating to the null set (a set with no members); adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"; adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

molasses collapse: thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining

goose step collapse: a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high; march in a military fashion

sucker collapse: mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps; an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction; flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws; a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw); a shoot arising from a plant's roots

poultry collapse: flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

shiver collapse: shake, as from cold; "The children are shivering--turn on the heat!"

leech collapse: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end; a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

dud collapse: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"

glue collapse: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive; be fixed as if by glue; "His eyes were glued on her"; join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign on the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text"

thistle collapse: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves

cold sweat collapse: concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear

goose collapse: web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks; flesh of a goose (domestic or wild); give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car"; prod into action; pinch in the buttocks; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"

flash in the pan collapse: someone who enjoys transient success but then fails

nothing collapse: a nonexistent thing; a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"; in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

turkey collapse: large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food; an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"; flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted; a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

drake collapse: adult male of a wild or domestic duck; English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

grouse collapse: popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet; flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil; hunt grouse

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