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fertilize collapse: provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"; make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination"

conditioning collapse: a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

deflower collapse: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"

nourish collapse: provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

complexion collapse: (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament; texture and appearance of the skin of the face; the coloring of a person's face; a point of view or general attitude or inclination; "he altered the complexion of his times"; "a liberal political complexion"; a combination that results from coupling or interlinking; "diphthongs are complexions of vowels"; give a certain color to; "The setting sun complexioned the hills"

violence collapse: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"; a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.

functioning collapse: performing or able to perform its regular function; "a functioning flashlight"

polarization collapse: the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration; the condition of having or giving polarity

isolationist collapse: an advocate of isolationism in international affairs; of or relating to isolationism

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"

confirmed collapse: having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker"; of persons; not subject to change; "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid"; having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation; "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic"

quirk collapse: a narrow groove beside a beading; twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

spirit collapse: a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character; any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings; the vital principle or animating force within living things; the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"; infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"

dyne collapse: a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram

feckless collapse: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"; not fit to assume responsibility

backlash collapse: an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"

hue collapse: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength; take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey"

propel collapse: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"

referent collapse: something that refers; a term that refers to another term; the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate; something referred to; the object of a reference; having reference; "judgments referent to the indictment"

existent collapse: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"

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