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bronze collapse: a sculpture made of bronze; an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin; of the color of bronze; made from or consisting of bronze; give the color and appearance of bronze to something; "bronze baby shoes"

leap year collapse: in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years not divisible by 400

nonagenarian collapse: someone whose age is in the nineties; being from 90 to 99 years old; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home"

octogenarian collapse: someone whose age is in the eighties; being from 80 to 89 years old

sexagenarian collapse: someone whose age is in the sixties; being from 60 to 69 years old; "the sexagenarian population is growing"

empiricism collapse: the application of empirical methods in any art or science; (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

gnome collapse: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth; a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

lemon collapse: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory; a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons; yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh; a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

saying collapse: a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"

centennial collapse: the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it); of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years; "centennial celebration"

quietism collapse: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

suffocate collapse: feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"; be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"; suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"; become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

commemoration collapse: a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something

moral collapse: the significance of a story or event; "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor"; concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life"; psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect; "a moral victory"; "moral support"; arising from the sense of right and wrong; "a moral obligation"; relating to principles of right and wrong; i.e. to morals or ethics; "moral philosophy"

reliquary collapse: a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

nirvana collapse: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

biennial collapse: a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season; having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"; occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions"

forbidden fruit collapse: originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)

pacifism collapse: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration; the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable

longevity collapse: the property of being long-lived; duration of service; "her longevity as a star"; "had unusual longevity in the company"

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