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banshee collapse: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

Sherlock Holmes collapse: a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle

scouring collapse: moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"

floater collapse: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location; an object that floats or is capable of floating; a swimmer who floats in the water; a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election; an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed; a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)

croup collapse: a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing

event collapse: something that happens at a given place and time; a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory; a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"

epilogue collapse: a short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters"; a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play

swan song collapse: a final performance or effort (especially before retirement)

bummer collapse: a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug; an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"

dybbuk collapse: (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior

get through collapse: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"; succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems; "We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister"

communications collapse: the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study"

bottleneck collapse: the narrow part of a bottle near the top; become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"; slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"

esplanade collapse: a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore

steadily collapse: at a steady rate or pace; "his interest eroded steadily"; in a steady manner; "he could still walk steadily"

flea market collapse: an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles

bazaar collapse: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"; a shop where a variety of goods are sold; a street of small shops (especially in Orient)

eventually collapse: within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time; "he will understand eventually"; "he longed for the flowers that were yet to show themselves"; "sooner or later you will have to face the facts"; "in time they came to accept the harsh reality"

decoding collapse: the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text; "a secret key or password is required for decryption"

peroration collapse: (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"; a flowery and highly rhetorical oration

drained collapse: emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"

hip collapse: either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh; the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum; the fruit of a rose plant

tramp collapse: a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots"; a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"; cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks"; travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"

result collapse: something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio"; issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end; "result in tragedy"

corpus collapse: the main part of an organ or other bodily structure; a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"

upright collapse: a piano with a vertical sounding board; a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"; in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"

inexhaustible collapse: incapable of being entirely consumed or used up; "an inexhaustible supply of coal"; that cannot be entirely consumed or used up; "an inexhaustible supply of coal"

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