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take the cake collapse: rank first; used often in a negative context; "He takes the cake for chutzpah!"

pull off collapse: cause to withdraw; "We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged"; be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

carry through collapse: put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"

kidnap collapse: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

shanghai collapse: the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world; take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"

get through collapse: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"; succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister"

perpetrate collapse: perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"

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"

put through collapse: connect by telephone; "the operator put a call through to Rio"

reach out collapse: attempt to communicate; "I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me"

work at collapse: to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something; "the child worked at the multiplication table until she had it down cold"

win collapse: a victory (as in a race or other competition); "he was happy to get the win"; be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game"

lynch collapse: kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

dislodge collapse: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"; remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"

capitalize collapse: convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital; consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses; compute the present value of a business or an income; write in capital letters; draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"; supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders

gestate collapse: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"

implement collapse: instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end; apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design; "implement a procedure"

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