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resistant collapse: impervious to being affected; "resistant to the effects of heat"; "resistant to persuasion"

clammy collapse: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"

thorny collapse: bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"

why collapse: the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

question mark collapse: a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question

bony collapse: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"; very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

doughy collapse: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess"

persevere collapse: be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"

brawny collapse: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"

stubborn collapse: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

merciless collapse: having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating"

rioter collapse: troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority

hardheaded collapse: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

containment collapse: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"; (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor; a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"

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