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skulk collapse: move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day"

nectar collapse: fruit juice especially when undiluted; a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators

fingering collapse: touching something with the fingers; the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument

night collapse: darkness; "it vanished into the night"; the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed"; the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside; the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night"; the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night"; a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom; a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night"

ad infinitum collapse: to infinity; without or seemingly without limit; "talked on and on ad infinitum"

life force collapse: (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

life cycle collapse: a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage; the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

biological clock collapse: an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions

sweetening collapse: the act of adding a sweetener to food; something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

Mayday collapse: an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)

tocsin collapse: a bell used to sound an alarm; the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)

continually collapse: seemingly without interruption; "complained continually that there wasn't enough money"

continual collapse: seemingly without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters"; `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)

ceaseless collapse: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"

sailing collapse: the departure of a vessel from a port; riding in a sailboat

toilet collapse: the act of dressing and preparing yourself; "he made his morning toilet and went to breakfast"; a room or building equipped with one or more toilets; a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

interminably collapse: all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly"

truant collapse: one who is absent from school without permission; absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

attainment collapse: arrival at a new stage; "his attainment of puberty was delayed by malnutrition"; the act of achieving an aim; "the attainment of independence"

all clear collapse: permission to proceed because obstacles have been removed; a signal (usually a siren) that danger is over

responsible collapse: being the agent or cause; "determined who was the responsible party"; "termites were responsible for the damage"; worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable; "a responsible adult"; "responsible journalism"; "a responsible position"; "the captain is responsible for the ship's safety"; "the cabinet is responsible to the parliament"

chronology collapse: the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events; a record of events in the order of their occurrence; an arrangement of events in time

authorship collapse: the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"

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