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wad collapse: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"

furnish collapse: provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style"

stopper collapse: (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump"; close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"

enclose collapse: surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"; close in or confine

befit collapse: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!"

contribute collapse: contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office"; be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing"

provide collapse: take measures in preparation for; "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"; determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation; "The will provides that each child should receive half of the money"; "The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"; provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"; supply means of subsistence; earn a living; "He provides for his large family by working three jobs"; "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"

pall collapse: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped; lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"; become less interesting or attractive; cause to become flat; "pall the beer"; cover with a pall

subsidize collapse: support through subsidies; "The arts in Europe are heavily subsidized"; secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces

bamboo curtain collapse: an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s

include collapse: add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category; "We must include this chemical element in the group"; consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of culprits"; have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers"

logjam collapse: an immovable mass of logs blocking a river; any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"

fulminate collapse: a salt or ester of fulminic acid; cause to explode violently and with loud noise; come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"; criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"

shallow collapse: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"; not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"; lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"; become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"; make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

weir collapse: a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow; a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish

avail collapse: a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"; use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"; take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"; be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty"

parapet collapse: fortification consisting of a low wall; a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony

cram collapse: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam; study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"; put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"

skinful collapse: a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk; "someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful"

bellyful collapse: an undesirable overabundance; "a bellyful of your complaints"

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