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pyramid collapse: a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt; (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases; a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex; increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base; arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid; use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal; enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

garrote collapse: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation; strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"

holystone collapse: a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship; scrub with a holystone; "holystone the ship's deck"

sheathe collapse: plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh; enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword"; cover with a protective sheathing; "sheathe her face"

flyover collapse: a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground

wintry collapse: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"

brumal collapse: characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep"

attach collapse: be attached; be in contact with; become attached; "The spider's thread attached to the window sill"; cause to be attached

catwalk collapse: narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge); narrow platform; "models displayed clothes on a catwalk at the fashion show"

algid collapse: chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure"

indemnity collapse: legal exemption from liability for damages; protection against future loss

intercommunication collapse: mutual communication; communication with each other; "they intercepted intercommunication between enemy ships"

coherence collapse: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; the state of cohering or sticking together

cathartic collapse: strongly laxative; emotionally purging (of e.g. art); emotionally purging

altarpiece collapse: a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table

glaucoma collapse: increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor; damages the optic disc and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)

trachoma collapse: a chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue

itinerant collapse: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders"; working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"; traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge"

adamant collapse: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

footstep collapse: the act of taking a step in walking; the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"

union collapse: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"; a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner); the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"; a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"; an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"; a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"; the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"; healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones; the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"; being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"; of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

stick together collapse: be loyal to one another, especially in times of trouble; "The two families stuck together throughout the war"

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