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chimera collapse: a grotesque product of the imagination; (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

creature collapse: a human being; `wight' is an archaic term; a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

intellectual collapse: a person who uses the mind creatively; appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"; of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"; of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"

breathless collapse: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"; not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest"; tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure"

pose collapse: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes; pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"; behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"

silence collapse: the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet"; the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"; keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"

expedient collapse: a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one; serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"; appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

trick collapse: a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"; an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"; (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner; a period of work or duty

secrete collapse: generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"; place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"

realize collapse: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"; expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass; convert into cash; of goods and property

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"

dispose of collapse: deal with or settle; "He disposed of these cases quickly"

unfamiliar collapse: not known or well known; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"

lark collapse: any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

overstate collapse: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

connivance collapse: (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing; agreement on a secret plot

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