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depreciate collapse: lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again"; lower the value of something; "The Fed depreciated the dollar once again"

keel over collapse: turn over and fall; "the man had a heart attack and keeled over"

comb collapse: the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb"; the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds; ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore; a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair; any of several tools for straightening fibers; a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl; smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool"; search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"; straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"

epithet collapse: descriptive word or phrase

lap up collapse

identify with collapse

declension collapse: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"; the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

want collapse: wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!"; have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"; hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"; be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"

machination collapse

hit collapse: (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"; a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"; the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"; a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"; a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"; a dose of a narcotic drug; pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"; hit the intended target or goal; consume to excess; "hit the bottle"; affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"; hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"; deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"; cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"; drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"; cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear"

implicate collapse: bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

knavish collapse

list collapse: a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics); give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; "List the states west of the Mississippi"; tilt to one side; "The balloon heeled over"; "the wind made the vessel heel"; "The ship listed to starboard"; cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"; include in a list; "Am I listed in your register?"

muff collapse: a warm tubular covering for the hands; fail to catch, as of a ball

corrupt collapse: lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"; touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"; containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"; alter from the original; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

rapids collapse

tackle collapse: (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground; a position on the line of scrimmage; "it takes a big man to play tackle"; the person who plays that position on a football team; "the right tackle is a straight A student"; seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball

unravel collapse: become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of; "unravel the thread"

blurt collapse

clash collapse: a state of conflict between persons; a state of conflict between colors; "her dress was a disturbing clash of colors"; disagree violently; "We clashed over the new farm policies"; be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"

barfy collapse

sniggle collapse

not accept collapse

hideous collapse: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"; grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

howler collapse: a glaring blunder

fulsome collapse

run down collapse: injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle; pursue until captured; "They ran down the fugitive"; move downward; "The water ran down"; deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"; trace; "We are running down a few tips"

abate collapse: become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"

contaminated collapse: rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"; corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"; contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

smoldering collapse: showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel

proceed collapse: follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"; move ahead; travel onward in time or space; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"

stormy weather collapse

injurious collapse

law of averages collapse: a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance

gamy collapse

purging collapse

paw collapse: a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped; touch clumsily; "The man tried to paw her"; scrape with the paws; "The bear pawed the door"

mortified collapse

mildewed collapse

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