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annihilation collapse: destruction by annihilating something; total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"

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

immolate collapse: offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"

bitter end collapse: (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt; the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be); "he was determined to fight to the bitter end"

safety belt collapse: belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt

life jacket collapse: life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design

water wings collapse: a life preserver consisting of a connected pair of inflatable bags that fit under a person's arms and provide buoyancy; used by children learning to swim

extinction collapse: the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"; a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus; complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"; the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation; no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"; no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano"

endways collapse: with the end forward or toward the observer; "houses built endways"; in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise; "endways pressure"; on end or upright; "sticks leaning against the wall endways"

ejection seat collapse: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute

biological clock collapse: an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions

life cycle collapse: a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage; the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

life force collapse: (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

ending collapse: the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"; event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"

exterminate collapse: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

starve collapse: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"; deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"; deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"; be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

interminably collapse: all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly"

chloroform collapse: a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"; anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"

euthanasia collapse: the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)

lifeboat collapse: a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship

parting collapse: delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the door"; "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy"- Bret Harte

knell collapse: the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something; ring as in announcing death

heartbeat collapse: an animating or vital unifying force; "New York is the commercial heartbeat of America"

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