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modeling collapse: a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied

proliferate collapse: cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"; grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"

become collapse: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"; come into existence; "What becomes has duration"; undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"; enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

dress collapse: a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice; (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes; "a dress dinner"; "a full-dress ceremony"; arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"; dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"; give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses"; put on clothes; "we had to dress quickly"; "dress the patient"; "Can the child dress by herself?"; provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"; apply a bandage or medication to; "dress the victim's wounds"; convert into leather; "dress the tanned skins"; kill and prepare for market or consumption; "dress a turkey"; cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width; put a finish on; "dress the surface smooth"; put a dressing on; "dress the salads"; provide with decoration; "dress the windows"; arrange in ranks; "dress troops"

eiderdown collapse: down of the eider duck; a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider

garnish collapse: any decoration added as a trimming or adornment; something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration

dress up collapse: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"; make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"

spruce up collapse: dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party"; make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"

oscillate collapse: move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating"

lubricate collapse: make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant; "lubricate the key"; apply a lubricant to; "lubricate my car"; have lubricating properties; "the liquid in this can lubricates well"

prank collapse: dress up showily; "He pranked himself out in his best clothes"; dress or decorate showily or gaudily; "Roses were pranking the lawn"

go up collapse: be erected, built, or constructed; "New buildings are going up everywhere"

hypertrophy collapse: abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ; undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids"

sou collapse: a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money; "he hasn't a sou to his name"

fig collapse: fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried; Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

augment collapse: enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"; grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"

vegetate collapse: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"; grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"; grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"; produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"; establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house"; lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind

broaden collapse: become broader; "The road broadened"; make broader; "broaden the road"

scarecrow collapse: an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

get up collapse: get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"; cause to rise; "The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M."

intensify collapse: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"; make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"; make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

recording collapse: the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"; signal encoding something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded; a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded

ripen collapse: grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"; cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"

pillow collapse: a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person; rest on or as if on a pillow; "pillow your head"

linen collapse: white goods or clothing made with linen cloth; a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant; a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish

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