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keep on collapse

live on collapse

cast down collapse

trouncing collapse

get the better of collapse: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

outdo collapse: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"

wear well collapse

bear down collapse: exert a force or cause a strain upon; "This tax bears down on the lower middle class"; pay special attention to; "The lectures bore down on the political background"; exert full strength; "The pitcher bore down"; contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery

dwell collapse: inhabit or live in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

outrun collapse: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"

disillusionment collapse

discountenance collapse: show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"; look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

whipping collapse: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

deathblow collapse: the blow that kills (usually mercifully)

thrashing collapse: a sound defeat

whelm collapse

demoralize collapse: confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"

duration collapse: continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required"; the property of enduring or continuing in time; the period of time during which something continues

let down collapse

subsist collapse

stand in the way collapse

subjugation collapse: forced submission to control by others

forgo collapse: refrain from consuming; "You will have to forgo alcohol"

surmount collapse: be on top of; "The scarf surmounted the gown"

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

confute collapse

bafflement collapse

veto collapse: a vote that blocks a decision; the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature); vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill"

shellac collapse: a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood; lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white; cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"

live through collapse

give over collapse

licking collapse

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

subdual collapse

conquer collapse: overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"

survive collapse: continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"; continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"

enervate collapse: weaken mentally or morally

disappointment collapse: an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone; a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment"

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

frustration collapse: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts; a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"; the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

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