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remit collapse: diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"; forgive; "God will remit their sins"; refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision; release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The taxes were remitted"; send (money) in payment; "remit $25"

fade collapse: gradually ceasing to be visible; become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"; lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"

cant collapse: insincere talk about religion or morals; heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

transpire collapse: give off (water) through the skin; come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week"; come to light; become known; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany"; exude water vapor; "plants transpire"; pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas

go down collapse: be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"; be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"; be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

stumble collapse: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"; miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"; walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"; encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

hem and haw collapse: utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"

languish collapse: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

lapse collapse: a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"; drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards; end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"; let slip; "He lapsed his membership"

give way collapse: end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

bushwhack collapse: cut one's way through the woods or bush; live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla

back door collapse: a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door"; an entrance at the rear of a building; an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains

parachute collapse: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

accrue collapse: grow by addition; "The interest accrues"; come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"

swoop collapse: a swift descent through the air; a very rapid raid; (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"; seize or catch with a swooping motion; move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc

assail collapse: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"

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

go out collapse: become extinguished; "The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark"; leave the house to go somewhere; "We never went out when our children were small"; take the field; "The soldiers went out on missions"; go out of fashion; become unfashionable

become collapse: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"; come into existence; "What becomes has duration"; undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"; enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

retort collapse: a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat; answer back

ransom collapse: the act of freeing from captivity or punishment; payment for the release of someone; money demanded for the return of a captured person; exchange or buy back for money; under threat

withdraw collapse: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"; remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

delayed collapse: caused to be slower or later; "the delayed plane finally arrived"; not as far along as normal in development

renege collapse: fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise"

recharge collapse: charge anew; "recharge a battery"; load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully"

reversed collapse: turned inside out and resewn; "the reversed collar looked as good as new"

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