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difficulty collapse: the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"; a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"; a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"

affliction collapse: a cause of great suffering and distress; a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health; a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

questionable collapse: able to be refuted; subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"

suspecting collapse

unremorseful collapse

fibrous collapse: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

diligent collapse: characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"; quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"

steeled collapse

lean on collapse: rest on for support; "you can lean on me if you get tired"

hamper collapse: a basket usually with a cover; prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

unromantic collapse: neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance

rigidity collapse: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

lucre collapse

hard collapse: dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"; unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"; resisting weight or pressure; dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";; (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"; (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source; being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"; very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"; with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"; to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"; slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"; causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"; with firmness; "held hard to the railing"; earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"; with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"; very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"; into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"

heartless collapse: devoid of courage or enthusiasm

leery collapse: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

oppressor collapse: a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

racking collapse: causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"

inured collapse

prescriptive collapse: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"

schlemiel collapse: (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler

unpersuadable collapse: not susceptible to persuasion

destitute collapse: poor enough to need help from others

complex collapse: a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"; (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior; a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated; complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

nonporous collapse: not porous; especially not having vessels that appear as pores; "nonporous wood"

respire collapse: undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide; breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety

cohesive collapse: causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent"; cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive organization"

strike home collapse

sink in collapse

steely collapse: resembling steel in hardness; resembling steel as in hardness; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack"

insolvency collapse: the lack of financial resources

queasy collapse

choler collapse

agonizing collapse: extremely painful

white goods collapse: drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth; large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel

irreconcilable collapse: impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences"

sesquipedalian collapse: a very long word (a foot and a half long); given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipedalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"

stiffness collapse: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"; the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"; the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

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