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hostilities collapse: fighting; acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities"

groomed collapse: neat and smart in appearance; well cared for; "the manager was a beautifully groomed young man"; "his horse was always groomed"

struggle collapse: strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"; an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"; to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"

take the cake collapse: rank first; used often in a negative context; "He takes the cake for chutzpah!"

evaluate collapse: form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

battle collapse: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"; battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"

quarrel collapse: an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges; an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"; have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

witch collapse: a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

defy collapse: challenge; "I dare you!"; resist or confront with resistance; "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held"; elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation"

length collapse: a section of something that is long and narrow; "a length of timber"; "a length of tubing"; the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place; "the length of the table was 5 feet"; the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end; "the editor limited the length of my article to 500 words"

equipped collapse: carrying weapons; provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate; "a well equipped playground"; "a ship equipped with every mechanical aid to navigation"; prepared with proper equipment; "equipped for service in the Arctic"

size up collapse: to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror"

parameter collapse: a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves; a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data; any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance

fight collapse: a boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night"; the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"; an intense verbal dispute; "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate"; fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"; make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"

assess collapse: estimate the value of (property) for taxation; "Our house hasn't been assessed in years"; charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine

rumble collapse: a fight between rival gangs of adolescents; a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage; a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder"; make a low noise; "rumbling thunder"

ordeal collapse: a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence; a severe or trying experience

tangle collapse: something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"; a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"

flood tide collapse: the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

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