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drawback collapse: the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

suffocate collapse: feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"; be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"; suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"; become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

clog collapse: any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction; footwear usually with wooden soles; fill to excess so that function is impaired; "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"; coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots"; impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"; impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden; "horses were clogged until they were tamed"; become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"; dance a clog dance

tapestry collapse: a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs; a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery; something that resembles a tapestry in its complex pictorial designs; "the tapestry of European history"

collage collapse: a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map"; any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories"

embolism collapse: occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle); an insertion into a calendar

lapidary collapse: a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones; an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them; of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them; "the ring is of no lapidary value"- Lord Byron; "lapidary art"

nugget collapse: a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth

squarely collapse: with firmness and conviction; without compromise; "he stood foursquare for religious liberty and toleration"- C.G.Bowers; "dealt straightforwardly with all issues"; firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"; in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"; directly and without evasion; not roundabout; "to face a problem squarely"; "the responsibility lies squarely with them"; "spoke forthright (or forthrightly) and to the point"; in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"

transporter collapse: a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships; a long truck for carrying motor vehicles

conveyer collapse: a person who conveys (carries or transmits); "the conveyer of good tidings"

electric chair collapse: an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"

bottleneck collapse: the narrow part of a bottle near the top; become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"; slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"

sculpt collapse: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"; create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"

shipper collapse: a company in the business of shipping freight; someone who ships goods

iconography collapse: the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot"

mural collapse: a painting that is applied to a wall surface; of or relating to walls; "mural painting"

inhibition collapse: (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires; the quality of being inhibited; (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve"

belly collapse: the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish; a protruding abdomen; the hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship"; a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"; swell out or bulge out

scaffold collapse: a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers; a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded); provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"

punctuation collapse: the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases; the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases; something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions

enclave collapse: an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

strictly collapse: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business"; in a stringent manner; "the laws are stringently enforced"; "stringently controlled"

repression collapse: the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"; (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious; a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects"

swot collapse: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

close up collapse: very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"; refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"; unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella"; cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"

stencil collapse: device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern; mark or print with a stencil

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