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fail collapse: get worse; "Her health is declining"; stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"; prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"; disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"; become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"; fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"; fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"; judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"; be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"; fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"; be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"

detect collapse: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"

experimental collapse: relying on observation or experiment; "experimental results that supported the hypothesis"; of the nature of or undergoing an experiment; "an experimental drug"; relating to or based on experiment; "experimental physics"

carelessly collapse: without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"

osculate collapse: have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"; be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"

swinger collapse: a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex; someone who swings sports implements

graduate collapse: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts; confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"; receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"

dialectic collapse: any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments; a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history"; of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method"

seminar collapse: a course offered for a small group of advanced students; any meeting for an exchange of ideas

bonny collapse: very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

thud collapse: strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the wall"; make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door"

uptown collapse: a residential part of town away from the central commercial district; of or located in the upper part of a town; "uptown residential areas"; toward or in the upper part of town

heuristic collapse: a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem; of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation

kibbutz collapse: a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively

reach collapse: the act of physically reaching or thrusting out; be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"; move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people"; reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"; reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"; reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade"; to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"

diet collapse: the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods); the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal); a prescribed selection of foods; a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan); eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight; follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

happening collapse: an event that happens; taking place; "the parade is still happening"

ventilation collapse: the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air; a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air; "she was continually adjusting the ventilation"

revue collapse: a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians

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