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slavery collapse: the practice of owning slaves; work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

feint collapse: any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack); deceive by a mock action; "The midfielder feinted to shoot"

evocation collapse: imaginative re-creation; stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy"; calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations

unadulterated collapse: not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"

curve collapse: a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter; a line on a graph representing data; the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

dishonorable collapse: lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge"; morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"

plumb collapse: exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"; exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"; conforming to the direction of a plumb line; adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical; examine thoroughly and in great depth; measure the depth of something; weight with lead

joke collapse: a triviality not to be taken seriously; "I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke"; a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"; act in a funny or teasing way; tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious"

sully collapse: French statesman (1560-1641); United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)

enunciation collapse: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

scend collapse: rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged"

muddy collapse: make turbid; "muddy the water"; cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"; dirty with mud

immoral collapse: deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong; morally unprincipled; "immoral behavior"

vogue collapse: the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"

sensual collapse: sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance"

admit collapse: declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"; allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"; allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club"; serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one adult to the show"; give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the yard"; afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations"

honest collapse: not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"; marked by truth; "gave honest answers"; without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food"; without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion"

smear collapse: a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope; slanderous defamation; make a smudge on; soil by smudging; stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance

legitimate collapse: of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful; in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"; based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"; make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"; show or affirm to be just and legitimate

tempest collapse: (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"

cyclone collapse: a violent rotating windstorm; (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern

evidence collapse: your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"; an indication that makes something evident; "his trembling was evidence of his fear"; (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved

newspaper collapse: the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher; "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"; a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read his newspaper at breakfast"; a business firm that publishes newspapers; "Murdoch owns many newspapers"; cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers; "they used bales of newspaper every day"

swear collapse: promise solemnly; take an oath; make a deposition; declare under oath

copyist collapse: someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

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