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tantalizing collapse: very pleasantly inviting; "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"; arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; "a tantalizing taste of success"

galvanize collapse: stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock; cover with zinc; "galvanize steel"

declivitous collapse: sloping down rather steeply

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"

impatient collapse: restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

electrify collapse: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"; charge (a conductor) with electricity; excite suddenly and intensely; "The news electrified us"

drop in the bucket collapse

truncate collapse: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"; make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"; replace a corner by a plane

momentary collapse

flowing collapse: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall"

reap collapse: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"; get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

bucket collapse: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top; the quantity contained in a bucket; carry in a bucket; put into a bucket

brake collapse: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle; an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant; any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants; cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"; stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

teasing collapse: playful vexation; "the parody was just a form of teasing"; arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile"

embarrassed collapse: made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"

pittance collapse: an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

wanting collapse

abstracted collapse: taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead

throwback collapse

elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

ambush collapse: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise; wait in hiding to attack

to the point collapse

waterfall collapse: a steep descent of the water of a river

sum up collapse: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

surly collapse: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

energize collapse

recapitulate collapse: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"; repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

swinging collapse

sliding collapse: being a smooth continuous motion

gruff collapse: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

recrudescence collapse: a return of something after a period of abatement; "a recrudescence of racism"; "a recrudescence of the symptoms"

impromptu collapse: an extemporaneous speech or remark; "a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated"; a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation

abbreviate collapse: shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

telescope collapse: a magnifier of images of distant objects; make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"; crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

novel collapse: a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"; a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story; pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

curt collapse

summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

regression collapse: returning to a former state; the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x); (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

subplot collapse

local color collapse

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