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trial collapse: (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"; (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"; trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"; an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"; (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"

powerhouse collapse: a team considered to be the best of its class; a highly energetic and indefatigable person

employed collapse: having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed"; put to use

uncompromising collapse: not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

gamble collapse: a risky act or venture; money that is risked for possible monetary gain; play games for money; take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"

gee collapse: give a command to a horse to turn to the right side; turn to the right side; "the horse geed"

laboriously collapse: in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"

pinball collapse: a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets

roulette collapse: a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in; a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations; a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure

hurried collapse: moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"

homo collapse: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

thorny collapse: bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"

probability collapse: the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost"; a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"

crushing collapse: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

bony collapse: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"; very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

depressed collapse: having the central portion lower than the margin; "a depressed pustule"; lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"; flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

hale collapse: prolific United States writer (1822-1909); United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938); a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776); exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"

down-to-earth collapse: sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense"

uncompassionate collapse: lacking compassion or feeling for others; "nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire"- Shakespeare

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"

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