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grease collapse: a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery); lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"

death collapse: the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"; the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"; the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"; the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"; the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"; the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last"; the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

elocution collapse: an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture

tenor collapse: the pitch range of the highest male voice; the general meaning or substance of an utterance; "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"; a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"; the adult male singing voice above baritone; an adult male with a tenor voice; of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice; "tenor voice"; (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; "a tenor sax"

overhead collapse: a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head; (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship; located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing"; above the head; over the head; "bring the legs together overhead"; above your head; in the sky; "planes were flying overhead"

flare up collapse: ignite quickly and suddenly, especially after having died down; "the fire flared up and died down once again"

acrostic collapse: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

investigation collapse: the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

high time collapse: the latest possible moment; "it is high time you went to work"

sutra collapse: a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization

crucible collapse: a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

pivotal collapse: being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal"

saturation point collapse: (chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor

thundering collapse: extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"; sounding like thunder; "the thundering herd"

pole vault collapse: a competition that involves jumping over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole

guttural collapse: a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat; relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds"

dictionary collapse: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

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