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leave off collapse: stop using; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here"; come to an end, stop or cease; "the road leaves off at the edge of the forest"; "leave off where you started"

stern collapse: the rear part of a ship; United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920); severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

translucent collapse: almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely; "translucent amber"; "semitransparent curtains at the windows"

gyrate collapse: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

sag collapse: a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"; droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness; cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably"

speculate collapse: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"; talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"; invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"

rekindle collapse: arouse again; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love"; kindle anew, as of a fire

retire collapse: cause to retire; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base"; lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died"; dispose of; as of old clothes; "She finally retired that old coat"; go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68"; withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"; make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal"; withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds

splurge collapse: an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.); be showy or ostentatious; indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"

diminish collapse: lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues"

caper collapse: a playful leap or hop; a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"; pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces; any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis; jump about playfully

dock collapse: the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair; landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late"; an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial; a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded; any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine; haul into a dock; "dock the ships"; remove or shorten the tail of an animal; come into dock; "the ship docked"; deduct from someone's wages; deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

drop out collapse: give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"; leave school or an educational program prematurely; "Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program"

saw collapse: hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting; cut with a saw; "saw wood for the fireplace"

sneer collapse: a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls; a contemptuous or scornful remark; smile contemptuously; "she sneered at her little sister's efforts to play the song on the piano"; express through a scornful smile; "she sneered her contempt"

refrain collapse: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers; resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

immolate collapse: offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"

replenish collapse: fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please"

give way collapse: end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

deficit collapse: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"; an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"; (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing; a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"

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