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clench collapse: squeeze together tightly; "clench one's jaw"; hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"

ballast collapse: any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship; an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps; an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings; coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads; make steady with a ballast

moratorium collapse: suspension of an ongoing activity; a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

cure collapse: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"; be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"; make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"

petrify collapse: cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"

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

stabilize collapse: make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices"; become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized"

smoke collapse: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks"; something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"; an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"; a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas; a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles"; inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"

payroll collapse: the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee; a list of employees and their salaries; "the company had a long payroll"; the total amount of money paid in wages; "the company had a large payroll"

minimum wage collapse: the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law

sliding scale collapse: a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index

fume collapse: be mad, angry, or furious; emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming"

transfix collapse: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"

frostbite collapse: destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

relegate collapse: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"; refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

winter collapse: the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; spend the winter; "We wintered on the Riviera"; "Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"

dither collapse: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"; make a fuss; be agitated; act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain

wage collapse: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

anesthetize collapse: make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"

cling to collapse: hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared"

chloroform collapse: a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"; anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"

chatter collapse: the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys); the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine; speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; make noise as if chattering away; "The magpies were chattering in the trees"; cut unevenly with a chattering tool; click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth"

harden collapse: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"; make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"

ostracize collapse: avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"

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