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hung collapse: (usually followed by `with' or used in a combining form) having items suspended on or from a support; "walls hung with valuable paintings"; "a vine-hung trellis"

arrears collapse: an unpaid overdue debt; the state of being behind in payments; "an account in arrears"

relapse collapse: go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

reverberate collapse: treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberating furnace; "reverberate ore"; be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"; have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"

revert collapse: undergo reversion, as in a mutation; go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

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

downgrade collapse: the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends; rate lower; lower in value or esteem

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

hark back collapse: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

come back collapse: be restored; "Her old vigor returned"; even the score, in sports

fall back collapse: retreat; fall backwards and down; have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"

deficit collapse: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"; an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"; (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing; a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"