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pick up collapse: lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile"; take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read"; give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"; take and lift upward; register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"; buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack"; get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"; meet someone for sexual purposes; "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"

frontal collapse: a drapery that covers the front of an altar; belonging to the front part; "a frontal appendage"; of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone; "the frontal lobes"; meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision"; of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air; "frontal rainfall"

gauze collapse: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave; (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings

quicken collapse: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"; give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"

clamp collapse: a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together; impose or inflict forcefully; "The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital"; fasten or fix with a clamp; "clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened"

crave collapse: plead or ask for earnestly; have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

walking stick collapse: any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies; a stick carried in the hand for support in walking

lint collapse: cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds; fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers

nerve collapse: any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body

canine collapse: any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles; one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars; of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae; of or relating to a pointed conical tooth

dent collapse: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow); an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it made a dent in my bank account"

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

tent collapse: a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek"

bracer collapse: a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor); a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports

steel collapse: knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod; an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range; cover, plate, or edge with steel; get ready for something difficult or unpleasant

confirm collapse: make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"; establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"; strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"; administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"; support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"

tighten collapse: become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened"; make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

crutch collapse: anything that serves as an expedient; "he uses drugs as a psychological crutch"; a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking

wire collapse: ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc; a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance; the finishing line on a racetrack; fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support"; string on a wire; "wire beads"; provide with electrical circuits; "wire the addition to the house"

antecedent collapse: the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun; a preceding occurrence or cause or event; anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"; preceding in time or order

senior collapse: an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation; older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer"

tooth collapse: a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"; toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell; something resembling the tooth of an animal; one of a number of uniform projections on a gear; hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

title page collapse: a page of a book displaying the title and author and publisher

leech collapse: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end; a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

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

past collapse: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past; the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"; a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"; earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"; a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"

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