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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"

superseded collapse

behindhand collapse: behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"

mistimed collapse

spearhead collapse: the head and sharpened point of a spear; the leading military unit in an attack; someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.); be the leader of; "She spearheaded the effort to find a cure for the disease"

skeleton collapse: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"; a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"; something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"

flatland collapse

dead giveaway collapse

divulgence collapse: the act of disclosing something that was secret or private

theophany collapse: a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person

progressing collapse

dead collapse: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"; a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"; devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"; physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"; no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"; not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"; lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"; drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"; no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"; no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"; lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"; not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"; out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"; unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"; not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"; lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"; devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

umbilicus collapse

navel collapse: scar where the umbilical cord was attached; the center point or middle of something

ended collapse

terminated collapse: (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end

stun collapse: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"; overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"

comatose collapse: in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient"; relating to or associated with a coma; "comatose breathing"; "comatose state"

systematize collapse: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

adventurous collapse: willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"

reposing collapse

arrive collapse: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"; succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!"

terminal case collapse

indefinitely collapse: to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time; "this could go on indefinitely"

bent on collapse

gone collapse: having all been spent; "the money is all gone"

prophesy collapse: predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration

undersign collapse: sign at the bottom of (a document)

pitch in collapse: eat heartily; "The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in"

too soon collapse

overdue collapse

set about collapse: begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project"

shut collapse: not open; "the door slammed shut"

unflavored collapse: without flavoring added

spiceless collapse

earth collapse: the abode of mortals (as contrasted with heaven or hell); "it was hell on earth"; the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"; the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church"; once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles); connect to the earth; "earth the circuit"; hide in the earth like a hunted animal

sagacity collapse: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

beyond measure collapse: in excess or without limit; "amazed beyond measure"

broke collapse: lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"

flabbergast collapse: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!"

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