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avoid collapse: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"; refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

consign collapse: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"; commit forever; commit irrevocably; send to an address

orbit collapse: the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another; "he plotted the orbit of the moon"; the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom

pore collapse: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal; any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

turnpike collapse: an expressway on which tolls are collected; (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

get around collapse: move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?"

blind alley collapse: (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"; a street with only one way in or out

get rid of collapse: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

furlough collapse: a temporary leave of absence from military duty; grant a leave to; "The prisoner was furloughed for the weekend to visit her children"; dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"

slide collapse: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"; a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector; a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study; plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide; (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.; move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the money over to the other gambler"

transmit collapse: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"

roadway collapse: a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel

bypass collapse: a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town; a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part); avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!"

weir collapse: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow; a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish

resistance collapse: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"; the military action of resisting the enemy's advance; "the enemy offered little resistance"; group action in opposition to those in power; (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness; the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria); any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

artery collapse: a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic; a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body

landing collapse: the act of coming to land after a voyage; the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface); "the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike"; structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods; an intermediate platform in a staircase

projection collapse: any structure that branches out from a central support; the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction; a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations; the projection of an image from a film onto a screen; the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else; any solid convex shape that juts out from something

climb collapse: the act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to the top"; an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.); improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"; go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"; move with difficulty, by grasping; slope upward; "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"

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