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snuff out collapse: put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"; put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"

shut up collapse

overturn collapse: an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"; turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"; cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"

muteness collapse: a refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising"

brevity collapse: the attribute of being brief or fleeting; the use of brief expressions

cut short collapse: interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation"; cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"

overpower collapse: overcome by superior force

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"left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"; no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"; no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"; lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"; not surviving in active use; "Latin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"

disarm collapse: remove offensive capability from; take away the weapons from; render harmless; make less hostile; win over; "Her charm disarmed the prosecution lawyer completely"

jump on collapse

asphyxiate collapse

hog tie collapse

hush hush collapse

dispose of collapse: deal with or settle; "He disposed of these cases quickly"

deathly collapse: in the manner of death; "he was deathly pale"

overwhelm collapse: charge someone with too many tasks; overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

cadaverous collapse: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"

pipe up collapse: begin to play or sing

curtness collapse

rest collapse: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"; a support on which things can be put; "the gun was steadied on a special rest"; a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration; euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"; a state of inaction; "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon"; be at rest; take a short break from one's activities in order to relax; give a rest to; "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for a moment"; not move; be in a resting position; put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying; "Rest your head on my shoulder"; be inactive, refrain from acting; "The committee is resting over the summer"; be inherent or innate in;

defeat collapse: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"

quietly collapse: with little or no sound; "the class was listening quietly and intently"; "she was crying quietly"; with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly'); "her hands rested quietly in her lap"; "the rock star was quietly led out the back door"; "sit here as quiet as you can"

gun down collapse: strike down or shoot down

satori collapse: (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment

catacombs collapse

cist collapse

silence collapse: the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"; the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"; keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"

stamp out collapse: end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"

truss collapse: a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure; (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure; support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges"; tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

de emphasize collapse

spectral collapse: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis"

hamstring collapse: one of the tendons at the back of the knee; cripple by cutting the hamstring; make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules"

charnel house collapse: a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

sepulcher collapse

speak up collapse: speak louder; raise one's voice; "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up"

hold down collapse: restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"; keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"

ossuary collapse: any receptacle for the burial of human bones

crack down on collapse

dumbness collapse

stultify collapse: cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"; prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"

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