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soldier collapse: a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony; an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"; serve as a soldier in the military

worker collapse: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae; a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"

queen collapse: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs; an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males; (chess) the most powerful piece; one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen; a female sovereign ruler; the wife or widow of a king; something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"; become a queen; "her pawn queened"; promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

polarize collapse: become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation; cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions; cause to vibrate in a definite pattern; "polarize light waves"

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

stonewall collapse: engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate; "The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist"; obstruct or hinder any discussion; "Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation"; "When she doesn't like to face a problem, she simply stonewalls"

discountenance collapse: show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"; look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

antagonize collapse: provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss"; act in opposition to

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

countermand collapse: a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command

checkmate collapse: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king; complete victory; place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

thwart collapse: a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

sabotage collapse: a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged; destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

resist collapse: withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"; stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something; refuse to comply; resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

compensate collapse: make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"; make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"; adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

counteract collapse: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues"

baffle collapse: a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy; check the emission of (sound)

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