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ruffle collapse: pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"; disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"; erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"; trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"; discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"

barrage collapse: the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"; the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"

beat around the bush collapse: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

outshine collapse: attract more attention and praise than others; "This film outshone all the others in quality"; shine brighter than; "What star outshines the sun?"

get the better of collapse: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

downbeat collapse: the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)

outrun collapse: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"

din collapse: instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students"

pulse collapse: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"; edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.); the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health; produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"; drive by or as if by pulsation; "A soft breeze pulsed the air"

pound collapse: a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"; United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972); a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec; 16 ounces; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"; break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone"; shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"; partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal"

patter collapse: a quick succession of light rapid sounds; "the patter of mice"; "the patter of tiny feet"; make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering rain"

join battle collapse: engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined"

take the cake collapse: rank first; used often in a negative context; "He takes the cake for chutzpah!"

roughen collapse: make rough or rougher; "roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other"

signalize collapse: make conspicuous or noteworthy; point out carefully and clearly; provide with traffic signals; "signalize a busy intersection"

cackle collapse: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle; the sound made by a hen after laying an egg; emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing; squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens; talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"

bole collapse: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa; a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)

beating collapse: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows; the act of overcoming or outdoing; expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart"

cluck collapse: the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks); make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

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

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