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reputable collapse: having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"

invest collapse: make an investment; "Put money into bonds"; provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights"; furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

dispensation collapse: the act of dispensing (giving out in portions); an exemption from some rule or obligation; a share that has been dispensed or distributed

unpopular collapse: regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval; "unpopular ideas"; "an unpopular war"

pamper collapse: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

take after collapse: imitate in behavior; take as a model; "Teenagers follow their friends in everything"; be similar to a relative; "She takes after her father!"

determine collapse: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"; fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; the tree determines the border of the property; shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"; establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"; find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"

handshake collapse: grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

catch on collapse: become popular; "This fashion caught on in Paris"; understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

undo collapse: cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect; "I wish I could undo my actions"; cause the ruin or downfall of; "A single mistake undid the President and he had to resign"

arrive collapse: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"; succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!"

approve collapse: judge to be right or commendable; think well of; give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"

clemency collapse: leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"

transfigure collapse: elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

discredited collapse: suffering shame; being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"

discovery collapse: the act of discovering something; a productive insight; something that is discovered; (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

vest collapse: a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat; clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes; clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments; become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees"; place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"

nail down collapse: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

replenish collapse: fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please"

doom collapse: an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"; make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

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