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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"

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

disqualified collapse: disqualified by law or rule or provision; barred from competition for violation of rules; "a disqualified player"

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"

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"

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"

stagger collapse: to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"; astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"; walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"; walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

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"

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