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undertake collapse: promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners"; enter upon an activity or enterprise; accept as a charge; accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task"

consume collapse: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"; use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"; spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"; destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

mug collapse: with handle and usually cylindrical; the quantity that can be held in a mug; rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night"

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

hap collapse: an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"

pull back collapse: pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"; move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!"

disintegrate collapse: break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"; lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"; cause to undergo fission or lose particles

Samson collapse: (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah

cataract collapse: a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice; clouding of the natural lens of the eye

attempt collapse: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

Waterloo collapse: the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon; a final crushing defeat; "he met his waterloo"; a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat

punk collapse: substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)

collapse collapse: a mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in; an abrupt failure of function or health; lose significance, effectiveness, or value; "The school system is collapsing"; "The stock market collapsed"; break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"; cause to burst; "The ice broke the pipe"; fold or close up; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand"

bucket shop collapse: (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket; an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm

wear away collapse: diminish, as by friction; "Erosion wore away the surface"

spitfire collapse: a highly emotional and quick-tempered person (especially a girl or woman)

pare collapse: decrease gradually or bit by bit; remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"

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