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crumble collapse: break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"; fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

enter upon collapse: take possession of; "She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives"

slope collapse: an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"; be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"

slide collapse: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"; a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector; a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study; plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide; (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.; move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the money over to the other gambler"

fall off collapse: diminish in size or intensity; come off; "This button had fallen off"

cough collapse: the act of exhaling air suddenly with a noise; sudden expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis; exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion; "The smoker coughs all day"

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"

saxhorn collapse: any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves

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

French horn collapse: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

inspiration collapse: arousing to a particular emotion or action; a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"; a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem; arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity

hiccup collapse: (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?"; breathe spasmodically, and make a sound; "When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water"

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"

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"

marker collapse: some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; "the buoys were markers for the channel"; a writing implement for making a mark; a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"

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

swag collapse: a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman; valuable goods; sway heavily or unsteadily

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

cannonball collapse: a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon

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"

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