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wander collapse: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

miss collapse: a form of address for an unmarried woman; a failure to hit (or meet or find etc); fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"; fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"; feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"; fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"; fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"; fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"; be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"; be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"

mistake collapse: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"; an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"; identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"

detector collapse: any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner; electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity; rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

fall upon collapse: find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

misinterpretation collapse: putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning"

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"

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

come across collapse: communicate the intended meaning or impression; "He came across very clearly"; be perceived in a certain way; make a certain impression

corrode collapse: become destroyed by water, air, or an etching chemical such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted"; cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

incur collapse: make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health"

deviate collapse: turn aside; turn away from; cause to turn away from a previous or expected course; "The river was deviated to prevent flooding"; be at variance with; be out of line with

careen collapse: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

run into collapse: collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole"; be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"

testing collapse: the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons"; an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox"

drop off collapse: fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"

errant collapse: uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"; straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

fall for collapse: fall in love with; become infatuated with; "She fell for the man from Brazil"; be deceived, duped, or entrapped by; "He fell for her charms"; "He fell for the con man's story"

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