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zap collapse: a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact; "they gave it another zap of radiation"; kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens"; strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes"

parcel of land collapse

apply collapse: ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job"; refer (a word or name) to a person or thing; "He applied this racial slur to me!"; apply oneself to; "Please apply yourself to your homework"; be pertinent or relevant or applicable; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone"

hug collapse: a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug"; fit closely or tightly; "The dress hugged her hips"

alarm collapse: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event; an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger; fear resulting from the awareness of danger; warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"

choke collapse: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine; a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current; breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"; constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing; reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"; be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"; wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"; check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"; fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"

market collapse: the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"; the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor"; the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"; engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"; deal in a market; buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"

disoblige collapse: ignore someone's wishes

unsocial collapse: not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions; "the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors"

on board collapse

cuss out collapse

whip up collapse: prepare or cook quickly or hastily

exclamation collapse: an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it"; a loud complaint or protest or reproach

hole up collapse: score a hole in one; remain secluded or in hiding; "He is writing his book and is holing up in his study"

kinescope collapse: a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen

bring about collapse: cause to move into the opposite direction; "they brought about the boat when they saw a storm approaching"

aphoristic collapse: terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

gnomic collapse: relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"

rejuvenate collapse: become young again; "The old man rejuvenated when he became a grandfather"; make younger or more youthful; "The contact with his grandchildren rejuvenated him"; develop youthful topographical features; "the land rejuvenated"; cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land

beat the drum collapse

necessity collapse: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"; the condition of being essential or indispensable

cluck collapse: the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks); make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

call attention to collapse

gerrymander collapse: an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage); divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

sit down with collapse

awake collapse

affront collapse

undersell collapse: sell cheaper than one's competition

suffocating collapse

center collapse: a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game; the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"; the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game; a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"; a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"; the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party"; the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering; politically moderate persons; centrists; the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center"; a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"; a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure; an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"; (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff"; (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team; (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team; of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually; move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"

detract collapse

moo collapse: the sound made by a cow or bull; make a low noise, characteristic of bovines

mewl collapse

meow collapse: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this); cry like a cat; "the cat meowed"

neigh collapse: the characteristic sounds made by a horse; make a characteristic sound, of a horse

whinny collapse

yip collapse: a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)

enclave collapse: an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

lead to collapse

vociferate collapse: utter in a very loud voice; "They vociferated their demands"

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