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effortless collapse: requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"

purify collapse: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"; make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"; become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"

relegate collapse: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"; refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

police collapse: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"

leach collapse: the process of leaching; remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"; permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground"; cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate

snub collapse: a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"; unusually short; "a snub nose"

shave collapse: the act of removing hair with a razor; remove body hair with a razor; touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"; cut closely; "trim my beard"; make shavings of or reduce to shavings; "shave the radish"; cut the price of

starve collapse: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"; deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"; deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"; be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

flail collapse: an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing; move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"

disjoin collapse: become separated, disconnected or disjoint; make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

scavenge collapse: remove unwanted substances from; feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge"; clean refuse from; "Scavenge a street"

detached collapse: used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"; no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"; not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"; being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"

direct collapse: lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite"; direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"; (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"; extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"; similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"; moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth; having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"; in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"; being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"; command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"; give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"; guide the actors in (plays and films); be in charge of

chloroform collapse: a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"; anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"

spiritualize collapse: purify from the corrupting influences of the world; "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized"; give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

bruise collapse: an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration; damage (plant tissue) by abrasion of pressure; "The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them"; break up into small pieces for food preparation; "bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them"; injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee"

cut off collapse: remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"; cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

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