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enter upon collapse: take possession of; "She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives"

slope collapse: an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"; be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"

fall off collapse: diminish in size or intensity; come off; "This button had fallen off"

happen collapse: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"; come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"; happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana); chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"

secede collapse: withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

petition collapse: write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing

ablate collapse: remove an organ or bodily structure; wear away through erosion or vaporization

justification collapse: the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller; something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"; a statement in explanation of some action or belief

decompose collapse: separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts; break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

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"

amnesty collapse: the formal act of liberating someone; a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment; grant a pardon to (a group of people)

purification collapse: the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing; "purification through repentance"; a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites; the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

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"

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

transgression collapse: the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit; the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"; the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

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

self-pity collapse: a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings

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

arabesque collapse: an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design; position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose

descend collapse: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

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