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animal collapse: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals; "the animal kingdom"; "animal instincts"; "animal fats"

crawl collapse: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"; a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"; a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick; move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"; swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"; be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"; feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

hobble collapse: hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean"

belabor collapse: attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students"; to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious"

trek collapse: any long and difficult trip; a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers); make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis"; journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"

scud collapse: the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale); run before a gale

skip collapse: a gait in which steps and hops alternate; bound off one point after another

brandish collapse: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"; exhibit aggressively; "brandish a sword"

trip collapse: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"; a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"; a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"; an exciting or stimulating experience; a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"; get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend"; put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"; cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up"

totter collapse: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The drunk man tottered over to our table"

foot collapse: travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"; any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates; a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"; the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"; the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"; a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger; a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall"; add a column of numbers; walk; "let's hoof it to the disco"; pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"

peregrinate collapse: travel around, through, or over, especially on foot; "peregrinate the bridge"

cruise collapse: an ocean trip taken for pleasure; sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing; "We were cruising in the Caribbean"; travel at a moderate speed; "Please keep your seat belt fastened while the plane is reaching cruising altitude"; drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure; "She cruised the neighborhood in her new convertible"; look for a sexual partner in a public place; "The men were cruising the park"

flaunt collapse: the act of displaying something ostentatiously; "his behavior was an outrageous flaunt"; display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"

prolix collapse: tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"

andante collapse: a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace); (of tempo) moderately slow; at a moderately slow temp; "this passage must be played andante"

backfire collapse: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker; a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path; a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine; set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire; emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My old car backfires all the time"; come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"

strut collapse: a proud stiff pompous gait; brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression

hunt collapse: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport; the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts; an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"; an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport; British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859); United States architect (1827-1895); Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910); pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"; search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"; seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"; oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"; yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"; chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

invariable collapse: not liable to or capable of change; "an invariable temperature"; "an invariable rule"; "his invariable courtesy"

spring collapse: a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"; a point at which water issues forth; a natural flow of ground water; the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year"; develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"; produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"

everlasting collapse: any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

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