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burn collapse: damage inflicted by fire; a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body); an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation; pain that feels hot as if it were on fire; burn with heat, fire, or radiation; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"; undergo combustion; "Maple wood burns well"; cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil"; destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"; feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion; "She was burning with anger"; "He was burning to try out his new skies"; feel hot or painful; "My eyes are burning"; spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"; burn at the stake; "Witches were burned in Salem"; cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"; shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"

red flag collapse: something that irritates or demands immediate action; "doing that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull"; the emblem of socialist revolution; a flag that serves as a warning signal; "we didn't swim at the beach because the red flag was up"

carp collapse: any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised

realize collapse: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"; expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass; convert into cash; of goods and property

fathom collapse: (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore; a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth; measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

in practice collapse: in practical applications; "will this work in practice?"

high sign collapse: a silent signal of warning or recognition; "she started to speak but he gave her the high sign"

taxi collapse: travel slowly; "The plane taxied down the runway"; ride in a taxicab

operating collapse: involved in a kind of operation; "the operating conditions of the oxidation pond"

magnet collapse: (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field

hang up collapse: interrupt a telephone conversation; put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

on the way collapse: on a route to some place; "help is on the way"; "we saw him on the way to California"

eye opener collapse: something surprising and revealing; an alcoholic drink intended to wake one up early in the morning

pulsation collapse: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"; a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity

damper collapse: a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"; a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations; a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace

leave behind collapse: depart and not take along; "He left behind all his possessions when he moved to Europe"

espouse collapse: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"

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