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famine collapse: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

Walter Mitty collapse: fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs

favored collapse: supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"; preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"

beggary collapse: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person); the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"

drought collapse: a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"; a prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"

exempt collapse: (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"; grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"

forgotten collapse: no longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost art"; "lost civilizations"

incompleteness collapse: the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"

weekend collapse: a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday; spend the weekend

desertion collapse: withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"

daydreamer collapse: someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming

deficit collapse: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"; an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"; (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing; a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"

elopement collapse: the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)

time off collapse: a time period when you are not required to work; "he requested time off to attend his grandmother's funeral"

nullity collapse: something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

reverie collapse: an abstracted state of absorption; absentminded dreaming while awake

subtraction collapse: the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"; an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

starvation collapse: the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"; a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period

absentmindedness collapse: preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored

pipe dream collapse: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

daydream collapse: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"

unreality collapse: the quality possessed by something that is unreal; the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact

irresponsible collapse: showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"

trance collapse: a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep

emptiness collapse: having an empty stomach; the state of containing nothing

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