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retainer collapse: a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment; a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone

rationalize collapse: remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"; think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"; structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"

body count collapse: a count of troops killed in an operation or time period; "the daily body count increased as the war went on"

menu collapse: an agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports"; a list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in French"; (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user; the dishes making up a meal

marginal collapse: being close to a lower limit or or of lower class; "marginal abilities"; producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"

portrait collapse: any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits"; a painting of a person's face

confirmation collapse: a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church; a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism; additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"; information that confirms or verifies

unimportant collapse: not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

prevention collapse: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

dun collapse: horse of a dull brownish grey color; a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun"; of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"; make a dun color; cure by salting; "dun codfish"; persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

demythologize collapse: remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"

rationale collapse: (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines"

blood money collapse: paid to a hired murderer; a reward for information about a murderer; compensation paid to the family of a murdered person

impotent collapse: lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"; (of a male) unable to copulate

pillory collapse: a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn; punish by putting in a pillory; expose to ridicule or public scorn

popularize collapse: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"; cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

effectively collapse: in actuality or reality or fact; "she is effectively his wife"; "in effect, they had no choice"

explain collapse: make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"; define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"

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