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

history collapse: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"; all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"; a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"; the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

fact collapse: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"; a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"; a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"; an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

apathetic collapse: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"; showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"

directly collapse: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"; in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"; without anyone or anything intervening; "these two factors are directly related"; "he was directly responsible"; "measured the physical properties directly"

haunt collapse: a frequently visited place; haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"; follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"

carry weight collapse: have influence to a specified degree; "Her opinion carries a lot of weight"

worry collapse: a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles"; touch or rub constantly; "The old man worried his beads"; lacerate by biting; "the dog worried his bone"; disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me"; be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"; be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy; "I worry about my job"

sheet collapse: bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs; (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind; a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width; used for writing or printing; any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice"; cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body"; come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"

catatonic collapse: characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs

basis collapse: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"; the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice"

clay collapse: United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852); United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978); a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

unbent collapse: not bent; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber"

rectilinear collapse: characterized by a straight line or lines; "rectilinear patterns in wallpaper"; "the rectilinear propagation of light"

Tweedledum and Tweedledee collapse: any two people who are hard to tell apart

inanimate collapse: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"; belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate"

literally collapse: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"; in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally"

dormant collapse: inactive but capable of becoming active; "her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"; of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano"; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"

waddle collapse: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle"

amuse collapse: make (somebody) laugh; "The clown amused the children"; occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"

slow motion collapse: a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate

offal collapse: viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

impassive collapse: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"

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