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forget collapse: be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"; dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"; leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"; forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"

perorate collapse: deliver an oration in grandiloquent style; conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

bring in collapse: bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment; "He brought in a new judge"; "The new secretary introduced a nasty rumor"; transmit; "The microphone brought in the sounds from the room next to mine"; submit (a verdict) to a court

traction collapse: (orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing; "his leg was in traction for several days"

haw collapse: the nictitating membrane of a horse; utter `haw'; "he hemmed and hawed"

get out collapse: express with difficulty; "I managed to get out a few words"

stimulate collapse: cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"; act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates"; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"; stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"

compile collapse: use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

speculate collapse: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"; talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"; invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"

camouflage collapse: device or stratagem for concealment or deceit; fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background; disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory"

lobby collapse: a group of people who try actively to influence legislation; the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest; detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

bare collapse: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"; having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"; providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"; lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"; lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"; lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"

lynch collapse: kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

weigh collapse: to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind"; determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken"; have a certain weight

juxtapose collapse: place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"

manifest collapse: a customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane; reveal its presence or make an appearance; "the ghost manifests each year on the same day"; record in a ship's manifest; "each passenger must be manifested"

arouse collapse: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"; stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"; to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"

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