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perturb collapse: throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"; disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"; cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"; disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"

slum collapse: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions; visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity

sculler collapse: someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward)

uptown collapse: a residential part of town away from the central commercial district; of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas"; toward or in the upper part of town

confuse collapse: mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"; make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"; make unclear or incomprehensible; "The new tax return forms only confuse"; be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"; cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"

scattered collapse: occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages"

anarchic collapse: without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic"

Linotype collapse: a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal

mistral collapse: a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter

chaotic collapse: lacking a visible order or organization; completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing; of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions

suburbia collapse: suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture

plodder collapse: someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"; someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours

bakery collapse: a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold

tenderloin collapse: the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column

beast of burden collapse: an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work

westward collapse: toward the west; "they traveled westward toward the setting sun"

northern collapse: a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans; situated in or coming from regions of the north; "the northern hemisphere"; "northern autumn colors"; in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "Northern liberals"; "northern industry"; "northern cities"

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