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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"

irreverence collapse: a disrespectful act; an irreverent mental attitude

newspaperman collapse

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"

ghoul collapse: an evil spirit or ghost

primitive collapse: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"; a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived; a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization; used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"

worker collapse: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae; a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"

perish collapse

minion collapse: a servile or fawning dependant

happen upon collapse

chance upon collapse

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"

copywriter collapse: a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy

precisian collapse

baron collapse: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"; a British peer of the lowest rank; a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank

Atlas collapse: a figure of a man used as a supporting column; the 1st cervical vertebra; a collection of maps in book form; (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders

peace officer collapse

clergyman collapse: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

seaman collapse: muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)

limey collapse: a man of English descent

fisherman collapse: someone whose occupation is catching fish

whaler collapse: a ship engaged in whale fishing; a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales

truckle collapse: yield to out of weakness

hardcase collapse

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!"

mogul collapse: a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857; a bump on a ski slope

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

benthos collapse: organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea; a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones

Christ collapse

paranymph collapse

fall collapse: a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"; a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"; a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"; when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat; the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"; the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"; pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"; come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"; go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"; occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"; begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away"; be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"; come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth"; be cast down; "his eyes fell"; assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"; descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"; drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"; lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead"; slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"; move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"; be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"; fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"; be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy"; to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student"; to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"; lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"; suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"; yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell"; lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman"; touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"; die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"; be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month"; come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading"

Messiah collapse: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742; the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people; Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer; any expected deliverer

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

hero collapse: the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem; (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her; (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god; a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"; Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

nonentity collapse

helot collapse

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"

something collapse: a thing of some kind; "is there something you want?"

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

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