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bachelorhood collapse: the state of being an unmarried man; the time of a man's life prior to marriage

spinsterhood collapse: the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman)

sooner collapse: comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"

already collapse: prior to a specified or implied time; "she has already graduated"

recently collapse: in the recent past; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"; very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes"

monasticism collapse: asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience

historically collapse: with respect to history; "this is historically interesting"; throughout history; "historically they have never coexisted peacefully"

under collapse: further down; "see under for further discussion"; down below; "get under quickly!"; below the horizon; "the sun went under"; below some quantity or limit; "fifty dollars or under"; in or into a state of subordination or subjugation; "we must keep our disappointment under"; down to defeat, death, or ruin; "their competitors went under"; into unconsciousness; "this will put the patient under"; through a range downward; "children six and under will be admitted free"

previously collapse: at an earlier time or formerly; "she had previously lived in Chicago"; "he was previously president of a bank"; "better than anything previously proposed"; "a previously unquestioned attitude"; "antecedently arranged"

precedence collapse: status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"

so far collapse: used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet"; used after a superlative; "this is the best so far"; "the largest drug bust yet"

amnesia collapse: partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

former collapse: the first of two or the first mentioned of two; "Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today"

singleness collapse: the quality of concentrating on one central objective; "his singleness of purpose"; without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not be questioned"

earlier collapse: (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"; earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier"

fugue collapse: a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement; a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days; dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state

lowest collapse: in the lowest position; nearest the ground; "the branch with the big peaches on it hung lowest"

homeostasis collapse: (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes

yet collapse: up to the present time; "I have yet to see the results"; "details are yet to be worked out"

anterior collapse: earlier in time; of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body

yesterday collapse: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"; the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"; on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"; in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"

materialism collapse: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality; a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

prior collapse: the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot

animalism collapse: preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites; the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature

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