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

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

homo collapse: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

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"

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

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

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

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"

deflate collapse: become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"; reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"; produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy"; reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence"; release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress"; collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon"

turn to collapse: direct one's interest or attention towards; go into; "The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction"; "People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium"

pass away collapse: go out of existence; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away"

mortify collapse: hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"; practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

dwindle collapse: become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

set about collapse: begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project"

tilt collapse: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"; a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward conservative rulings"; charge with a tilt

queue collapse: a braid of hair at the back of the head; (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a line of people or vehicles waiting for something

retrograde collapse: of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma; moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth; going from better to worse; go back over; "retrograde arguments"; move back; "The glacier retrogrades"; move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"; move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

ascend collapse: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"; slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"; go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"; become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"; go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

invite collapse: a colloquial expression for invitation; "he didn't get no invite to the party"; ask someone in a friendly way to do something; request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference"; ask to enter; "We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee"; increase the likelihood of; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism"; invite someone to one's house; "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?"; have as a guest; "I invited them to a restaurant"

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