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evade collapse: use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"; practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

compete collapse: compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

shy collapse: a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"; wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"; easily startled or frightened; throw quickly; start suddenly, as from fight

dodge collapse: a quick evasive movement; a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery; make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; "The child dodged the teacher's blow"; move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"

outpost collapse: a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops

facing collapse: a protective covering that protects the outside of a building; a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening; an ornamental coating to a building

frontier collapse: an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"; an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary; a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day"

afforestation collapse: the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)

forestry collapse: the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber

silviculture collapse: the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests

outmaneuver collapse: defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops outmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new supervisor knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations"

keep off collapse: refrain from entering or walking onto; "keep off the grass"; "stay off the premises"; refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"

fence collapse: a barrier that serves to enclose an area; a dealer in stolen property; fight with fencing swords; enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard"; receive stolen goods

worst collapse: the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of; "it was the worst he had ever done on a test"; the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable; "the invaders did their worst"; "so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best"; the least favorable outcome; "the worst that could happen"; (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year"; to the highest degree of inferiority or badness; "She suffered worst of all"; "schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts"; "the worst dressed person present"; defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"

boggle collapse: startle with amazement or fear; hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear

disarrange collapse: disturb the arrangement of; "disarrange the papers"; destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"

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

search collapse: an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"; boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"; the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"; an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"; try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"; subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"; search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"

thump collapse: a heavy blow with the hand; a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects); hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"

drum collapse: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise; a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end; a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids; the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"; play a percussion instrument; make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

antagonize collapse: provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss"; act in opposition to

rumple collapse: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"

thrash collapse: a swimming kick used while treading water; give a thrashing to; beat hard; beat the seeds out of a grain; move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!"; beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

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