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hapless collapse: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

unmade collapse: (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order; "an unmade bed with tangled sheets and blankets"

fall out collapse: have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question"; leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; "the soldiers fell out"

unsatisfactory collapse: not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory"

inferiority collapse: an inferior quality; the quality of being a competitive disadvantage; the state of being inferior

shy collapse: a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"; wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"; easily startled or frightened; throw quickly; start suddenly, as from fight

give away collapse: make a gift of; "She gave away her antique furniture"; formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father

rain collapse: anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"; water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere; drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds; precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding"

ill-equipped collapse: poorly supplied with physical equipment; "the school was ill-equipped"

brevity collapse: the attribute of being brief or fleeting; the use of brief expressions

condense collapse: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"; compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"; develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material"; become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed"; cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam"; remove water from; "condense the milk"

fallible collapse: likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree"; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"

dive collapse: a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft; a headlong plunge into water; swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells"; plunge into water; "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool"; drop steeply; "the stock market plunged"

in no time collapse: in a relatively short time; "she finished the assignment in no time"

bring down collapse: cause to be enthusiastic; "Her playing brought down the house"

decrescendo collapse: (music) a gradual decrease in loudness; gradually decreasing in volume; grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here"

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