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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"

let out collapse: make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"

retract collapse: use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

wrest collapse: obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"

unoccupied collapse: not leased to or occupied by a tenant; "an unoccupied apartment"; "very little unclaimed and untenanted land"; not held or filled or in use; "an unoccupied telephone booth"; "unoccupied hours"; not seized and controlled; "unoccupied areas of France"

receive collapse: convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"; receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"; regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"; accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"; partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament; express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"; get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"; have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"

fascinate collapse: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"

bankrupt collapse: someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts; financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"; reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"

ordeal collapse: a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence; a severe or trying experience

bring out collapse: direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets"; take out of a container or enclosed space; "Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!"; bring out of a specific state; encourage to be less reserved; "The teacher tried to bring out the shy boy"

concentrate collapse: a concentrated example; "the concentrate of contemporary despair"; a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water; make (the solvent of a solution) dense or denser; direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"; draw together or meet in one common center; "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"

approximate collapse: located close together; "with heads close together"; "approximate leaves grow together but are not united"; very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"; not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"; be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own"

centripetal force collapse: the inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body

pessimism collapse: a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things; the feeling that things will turn out badly

bring collapse: bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"; induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well"; go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"; be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?"; cause to come into a particular state or condition; "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"; cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"; attract the attention of; "The noise and the screaming brought the curious"; take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"

disengage collapse: become free; "in neutral, the gears disengage"; release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears"

Tweedledum and Tweedledee collapse: any two people who are hard to tell apart

milk collapse: produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young; a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings; any of several nutritive milklike liquids; a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River; take milk from female mammals; "Cows need to be milked every morning"; add milk to; "milk the tea"; exploit as much as possible; "I am milking this for all it's worth"

eviscerate collapse: having been disembowelled; take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"; remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"

inaccessible collapse: capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all; not capable of being obtained; "a rare work, today almost inaccessible"; "timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands"; "untouchable resources buried deep within the earth"

obstacle collapse: an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented); something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted; "lack of imagination is an obstacle to one's advancement"; "the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education"; "the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan"

rigidly collapse: in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright"

dismember collapse: separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"; divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

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