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evisceration collapse: altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"; surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient

propagation collapse: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions; the movement of a wave through a medium

watering collapse: wetting with water; "the lawn needs a great deal of watering"

distribution collapse: the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning; the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer; the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume; (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

insubstantiality collapse: lacking substance or reality; lack of solid substance and strength

diffraction collapse: when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands

scattering collapse: a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby; the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions; a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his temples"

weakening collapse: the act of reducing the strength of something; becoming weaker; moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

dissemination collapse: the property of being diffused or dispersed; the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

pollution collapse: undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

rarity collapse: a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"; noteworthy scarcity

vagueness collapse: indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner"; unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey"

airiness collapse: lightness in movement or manner; the property of something weightless and insubstantial; the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air

softening collapse: the process of becoming softer; "refrigeration delayed the softening of the fruit"; "he observed the softening of iron by heat"

relaxation collapse: a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount; an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"; (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance; (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

splay collapse: an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger; turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees"; spread open or apart; "He splayed his huge hands over the table"

thinness collapse: a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup"; relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"

exhaustion collapse: the act of exhausting something entirely; extreme fatigue

radiation collapse: the act of spreading outward from a central source; a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain; the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats; energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles; the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay

dispensation collapse: the act of dispensing (giving out in portions); an exemption from some rule or obligation; a share that has been dispensed or distributed

attrition collapse: the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction; a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"; sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation

dissipation collapse: breaking up and scattering by dispersion; "the dissipation of the mist"

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