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mark time collapse

pin down collapse: define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"; attach with or as if with a pin; "pin up a picture"

quiver collapse: case for holding arrows; shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"

take home pay collapse

cohere collapse: have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"; cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups"

stalemate collapse: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check; subject to a stalemate

blast collapse: a very long fly ball; an explosion (as of dynamite); use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"; make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"

debar collapse: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"

remuneration collapse: the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses; "adequate remuneration for his work"

retain collapse: keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information"; secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"; allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; hold within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"

bring to collapse: return to consciousness; "These pictures bring back sad memories"

cling collapse: fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit; hold on tightly or tenaciously; "hang on to your father's hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron"; come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"; to remain emotionally or intellectually attached; "He clings to the idea that she might still love him."

paralyze collapse: cause to be paralyzed and immobile; "The poison paralyzed him"; "Fear paralyzed her"; make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

dry collapse: a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages; practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal"; lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique"; having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin"; without a mucous or watery discharge; "a dry cough"; "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose"; humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"; (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat"; having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"; unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas"; used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight"; lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown; (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"; not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes"; free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"; not producing milk; "a dry cow"; opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state"; lacking moisture or volatile components; "dry paint"; remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"; become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"

salt collapse: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth; white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food; a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal); (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"; preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"; add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"; sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"; add salt to

gross income collapse

net income collapse: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

purchasing power collapse

pull up collapse

stuff collapse: miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"; unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"; a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"; senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"; information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"; informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"; fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"; treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"; obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"; fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"

shut out collapse

deadlock collapse: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

checkmate collapse: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king; complete victory; place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

prohibit collapse

stick together collapse: be loyal to one another, especially in times of trouble; "The two families stuck together throughout the war"

shiver collapse: shake, as from cold; "The children are shivering--turn on the heat!"

stun collapse: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"; overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"

funk collapse: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar; United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967); a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk"

grease collapse: a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery); lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"

hold fast collapse

frost collapse: United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); the formation of frost or ice on a surface; ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside); damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"; cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"; provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"; decorate with frosting; "frost a cake"

embargo collapse: a government order imposing a trade barrier; prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Libya"; ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons; "embargoed publications"

remain collapse: be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

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