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misfire collapse: an explosion that fails to occur; fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

poop out collapse: use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"

explode collapse: increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"; burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle exploded"; be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise; "His anger exploded"; cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"; show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete; show a violent emotional reaction; "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"; drive from the stage by noisy disapproval; cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/; destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge"

lose collapse: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"; suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"; allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"; fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"; fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"; fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

meanly collapse: in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation"; poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped"; in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society"

hang up collapse: interrupt a telephone conversation; put a telephone receiver back in its cradle

agonizingly collapse: in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly slow"

dodder collapse: a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria

sorely collapse: to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them"

unashamedly collapse: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it"

grievously collapse: in a grievous manner; "the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival"

improperly collapse: in an improper way; "he checked whether the wound had healed improperly"

inexcusably collapse: in an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree; "he was inexcusably cruel to his wife"

inordinately collapse: extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate"

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