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famished collapse: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"

deductible collapse: a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount; (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax); acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction)

subnormal collapse: a person of less than normal intelligence; below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"

greens collapse: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

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

whey collapse: watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey"; the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese

nickel collapse: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar; five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin"; a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite; plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

buoy collapse: bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; mark with a buoy; keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"; float on the surface of water

fallout collapse: the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion

extinction collapse: the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"; a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus; complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"; the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation; no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"; no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano"

animate collapse: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"; belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"; give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

defunct collapse: having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"

chronology collapse: the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events; a record of events in the order of their occurrence; an arrangement of events in time

escape hatch collapse: hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency

beyond collapse: in addition; "agreed to provide essentials but nothing beyond"; farther along in space or time or degree; "through the valley and beyond"; "to the eighth grade but not beyond"; "will be influential in the 1990s and beyond"; on the farther side from the observer; "a pond with a hayfield beyond"

annals collapse: a chronological account of events in successive years; reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

destiny collapse: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future; the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"

majority collapse: the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished"; (elections) more than half of the votes; the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs

activity collapse: any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"; (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; "catalytic activity"

composite collapse: considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers; consisting of separate interconnected parts; of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae

third world collapse: underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively

bloodletting collapse: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

indistinguishable collapse: not capable of being distinguished or differentiated; "the two specimens are actually different from each other but the differences are almost indistinguishable"; "the twins were indistinguishable"; "a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity"

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