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mangle collapse: clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers; alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"; press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

objective collapse: the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed; belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"; undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"; emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art"; serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"

hostilities collapse: fighting; acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"

slather collapse: spread thickly; "I can't eat bagels without slathering them with cream cheese"

Turkish bath collapse: you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower; a steam room where facilities are available for a bath followed by a shower and massage

gum up collapse: stick together as if with gum; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up"

clip collapse: a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"; the act of clipping or snipping; any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together; an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress; terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"; attach with a clip; "clip the papers together"

eliminate collapse: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"; terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations; remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"

respire collapse: undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide; breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety

jactitation collapse: (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness; (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)

chill collapse: coldness due to a cold environment; a sudden numbing dread; a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever; uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"; depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"

smack collapse: the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand; an enthusiastic kiss; a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast; press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating; deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"; kiss lightly; have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg"; have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"

detectable collapse: easily seen or detected; "a detectable note of sarcasm"; "he continued after a perceptible pause"; capable of being detected; "after a noticeable pause the lecturer continued"

defame collapse: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

blintz collapse: (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked

disgust collapse: strong feelings of dislike; cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"; fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"

out collapse: (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning"; outer or outlying; "the out islands"; no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"; away from home; "they went out last night"; be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"; reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle; "The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"

catastrophe collapse: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"

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