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carabineer collapse

musketeer collapse: a foot soldier armed with a musket

sharpshooter collapse: a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters; an athlete noted for accurate aim

center collapse: a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game; the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"; the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game; a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"; a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"; the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party"; the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering; politically moderate persons; centrists; the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center"; a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"; a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure; an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"; (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff"; (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team; (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team; of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually; move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"

hunt collapse: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport; the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts; an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"; an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport; British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859); United States architect (1827-1895); Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910); pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"; search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"; seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"; oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"; yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"; chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

infallibility collapse: the quality of never making an error

stoned collapse

deaf to collapse

dispossession collapse

oversee collapse: watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?"

override collapse: a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device; ride (a horse) too hard; counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle); prevail over; "health considerations override financial concerns"

bunt collapse: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat; fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; similar to Tilletia caries; disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

motionless collapse

subside collapse: wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"; sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"; sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"

sapped collapse

covet collapse: wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"

phantasm collapse

selfsame collapse

languish collapse: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

six of one and half a dozen of the other collapse

spaced out collapse

ramble collapse: an aimless amble on a winding course

dingy collapse

crosscurrent collapse

oriented collapse: adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination; "the house had its large windows oriented toward the ocean view"; "helping freshmen become oriented to college life"; "the book is value-oriented throughout"

yesteryear collapse

prove collapse: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"; prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof; obtain probate of; "prove a will"; take a trial impression of; be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"

core collapse: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil; the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place; a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"; the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"; the central part of the Earth; a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill; remove the core or center from; "core an apple"

downpour collapse: a heavy rain

round robin collapse: a letter signed by a number of people; a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant

run down collapse: injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle; pursue until captured; "They ran down the fugitive"; move downward; "The water ran down"; deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"; trace; "We are running down a few tips"

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"

at a standstill collapse

go up in smoke collapse

cold storage collapse: refrigerated storage for preservation; in a state of abeyance or postponement

out of touch collapse

nonemotional collapse

predestination collapse: (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind); previous determination as if by destiny or fate

hurtle collapse: move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by"

clique collapse: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

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