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creek collapse: any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

slip in collapse: insert casually; "She slipped in a reference to her own work"

loot collapse: goods or money obtained illegally; take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

unpremeditated collapse: not prepared or planned in advance; "asked an unpremeditated question"; not premeditated

ruin collapse: a ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins"; an event that results in destruction; an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family"; fall into ruin; reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"; destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"

aching collapse: causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her old achy joints"

jag collapse: a bout of drinking or drug taking; a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing; a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing; a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag of the rock"; cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge

constituent collapse: (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction; a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected"

appendix collapse: a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch; supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book

breach collapse: a failure to perform some promised act or obligation; an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

turkey collapse: large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food; an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"; flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted; a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

pension off collapse: let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile"

obelisk collapse: a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top

wreck collapse: a ship that has been destroyed at sea; something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"

spank collapse: a slap with the flat of the hand; give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

work in collapse: add by mixing or blending on or attaching; "work in the butter and the dough will get the right consistency"; "In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words"

blow out collapse: melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew"; erupt in an uncontrolled manner; "The oil well blew out"

excommunicate collapse: exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"; oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree

basic collapse: (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant; a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use; of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base; serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"; pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"; reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"

lemon collapse: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory; a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons; yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh; a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

explode collapse: increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"; burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle exploded"; be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise; "His anger exploded"; cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"; show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete; show a violent emotional reaction; "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"; drive from the stage by noisy disapproval; cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/; destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge"

recession collapse: the act of ceding back; the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service; the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year

gut collapse: a narrow channel or strait; remove the guts of; "gut the sheep"; empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building"

puppet collapse: a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers; a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

capture collapse: the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property; the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board; the act of taking of a person by force; any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle; a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field; capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap toady"; succeed in representing or expressing something intangible; "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea"; attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"; bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit; "This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons"; "The star captured a comet"

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