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aggravate collapse

consume collapse: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"; use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"; spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"; destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

virtuoso collapse: a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry

charmer collapse: a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)

dragon collapse: any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body; a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings; a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

pique collapse: tightly woven fabric with raised cords; a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood"; cause to feel resentment or indignation; "Her tactless remark offended me"

belligerent collapse: engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war"

scrappy collapse: full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral"

most collapse: used to form the superlative; "the king cobra is the most dangerous snake"; very; "a most welcome relief"

imbibe collapse: receive into the mind and retain; "Imbibe ethical principles"

strangle collapse: die from strangulation; kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"

ambrosial collapse: worthy of the gods; extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food"

orb collapse: move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"

fall to collapse

scrumptious collapse

hero collapse: the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem; (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her; (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god; a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"; Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

relish collapse: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth; spicy or savory condiment

adore collapse: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"

thug collapse

parasite collapse: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

peacock collapse: male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots; European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot

hoodlum collapse

missile collapse: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control

paramount collapse

personage collapse: another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door"

identification collapse: the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons); evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing; the condition of having your identity established; "the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest"

mite collapse: any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods

delightful collapse: greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke"

fiend collapse

prey collapse: animal hunted or caught for food; a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"; profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"

ruffle collapse: pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"; disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"; erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"; trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"; discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"

worn collapse: affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"

prostrate collapse: render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy"; throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration"; get into a prostrate position, as in submission

ape collapse: any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all; imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior"

bite collapse: a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"; the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws; (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait; "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"; a light informal meal; a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person; penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface"; to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"; cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"

card collapse: one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes; "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys"; a card certifying the identity of the bearer; "he had to show his card to get in"; (golf) a record of scores (as in golf); "you have to turn in your card to get a handicap"; a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures); "they sent us a card from Miami"; thin cardboard, usually rectangular; ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor; "I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!"

corn collapse: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"; ears of corn grown for human food; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times; (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland); the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal; a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes; preserve with salt; "corned beef"; feed (cattle) with corn

fowl collapse: hunt fowl in the forest; hunt fowl

circle collapse: any circular or rotating mechanism; "the machine punched out metal circles"; a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra; "they had excellent seats in the dress circle"; ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point; "he calculated the circumference of the circle"; something approximating the shape of a circle; "the chairs were arranged in a circle"; travel around something; "circle the globe"; move in circles

bristle collapse: a stiff hair; a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic; react in an offended or angry manner; "He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program"; rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"

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