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summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

exclude collapse: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"; prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"; lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages"

abridge collapse: lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

tamp collapse: a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

abbreviated collapse: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"; cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"

clipped collapse: (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"; cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"

abridged collapse: (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"

scuffle collapse: a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling; fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle"

dissociate collapse: to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

eject collapse: leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule

work in collapse: add by mixing or blending on or attaching; "work in the butter and the dough will get the right consistency"; "In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words"

sheared collapse: (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb"; having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"

undercut collapse: a cut made underneath to remove material; a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall; the material removed by a cut made underneath; cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall; strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot; cut away the underpart of; "undercut a vein of ore"; cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief

invade collapse: march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"; penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"; occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"

excommunicate collapse: exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"; oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree

elbow collapse: the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow; the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint; "his coat had patches over the elbows"; a sharp bend in a road or river; a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it; hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped; shove one's elbow into another person's ribs; push one's way with the elbows

trundle collapse: small wheel or roller; move heavily; "the streetcar trundled down the avenue"

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