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assumed collapse: accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted"; adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"; taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states"

forced collapse: made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"; forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"; produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"

convince collapse

put on collapse: add to something existing; "She put on a sun room"; add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip"; apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!"; carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game"; put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!"

artificial collapse: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"; contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"; not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

win over collapse

man made collapse

assumption collapse: the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"; the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"; a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"; (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended; celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church

embellished collapse: rich in decorative detail; excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

eye collapse: a small hole or loop (as in a needle); "the thread wouldn't go through the eye"; the organ of sight; good discernment (either visually or as if visually); "she has an eye for fresh talent"; "he has an artist's eye"; attention to what is seen; "he tried to catch her eye"; look at

mistrust collapse

credence collapse: the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true; "he gave credence to the gossip"; "acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years"

thought collapse: the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual; "19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought"

conception collapse: the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon

distrust collapse: the trait of not trusting others; regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

avouch collapse

illegitimate collapse: contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"; of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful

tin collapse: a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide; prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface; plate with tin

pretentious collapse: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

uncritical collapse: not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer"; marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts"

apocryphal collapse: being of questionable authenticity; of or belonging to the Apocrypha

traditionalism collapse: adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters); strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings; the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

exhibit collapse: an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence; show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill; "he exhibits a great talent"

position paper collapse: a report that explains or justifies or recommends some particular policy

vow collapse: a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "they took vows of poverty"; make a vow; promise; "He vowed never to drink alcohol again"; dedicate to a deity by a vow

position collapse: the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom; a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"; (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"; the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"; the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"; a rationalized mental attitude; a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"; the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"; the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position"; cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

vapor collapse: a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance

lore collapse: knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend"

garbled collapse

affidavit collapse: written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath

supposititious collapse

maxim collapse: a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits; English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)

diffidence collapse: lack of self-confidence

autism collapse: (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people

grounds collapse: a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)

unreal collapse: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"; not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"

persuade collapse: cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"

delusion collapse: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas; a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"; (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

doting collapse

sight collapse: a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument; the range of vision; "out of sight of land"; the ability to see; the visual faculty; an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"; a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"; anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"; catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"

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