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excuse collapse: a note explaining an absence; "he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him"; a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable"; excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities"; serve as a reason or cause or justification of; "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"; grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"; ask for permission to be released from an engagement; accept an excuse for; "Please excuse my dirty hands"

summon collapse: call in an official matter, such as to attend court; ask to come; "summon a lawyer"

cur collapse: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed; a cowardly and despicable person

dazzle collapse: brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily; amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill; "Her arguments dazzled everyone"; "The dancer dazzled the audience with his turns and jumps"; to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light; "She was dazzled by the bright headlights"

helpless collapse: unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"; unable to function; without help; lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter"

procure collapse: get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed"

bring out collapse: direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets"; take out of a container or enclosed space; "Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!"; bring out of a specific state; encourage to be less reserved; "The teacher tried to bring out the shy boy"

induce collapse: reason or establish by induction; cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"; cause to arise; "induce a crisis"; cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions"; produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes

eclipse collapse: one celestial body obscures another; cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"; cause an eclipse of; of celestial bodies; "The moon eclipsed the sun"

interpolate collapse: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby; estimate the value of

waddle collapse: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle"

blown collapse: breathing laboriously or convulsively; being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor; "blown clouds of dust choked the riders"; "blown soil mounded on the window sill"; (of glass) formed by forcing air into a molten ball; "blown glass"

apologize collapse: acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"; defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"

congestion collapse: excessive crowding; "traffic congestion"; excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part

dry rot collapse: a fungus causing dry rot; a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus

slip away collapse: leave furtively and stealthily; "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"

constricted collapse: inhibited; "when modern man feels socially constricted his first impulse is to move"; drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life"; especially tense; especially in some dialects

blasting collapse: causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"

insensible collapse: unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"; incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"

refraction collapse: the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another

darkness collapse: a swarthy complexion; having a dark or somber color; an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

infiltrate collapse: pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict; pass into or through by filtering or permeating; "the substance infiltrated the material"; cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices; enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor"

ferret out collapse: search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"

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