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excavate collapse: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"; form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"; find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"; lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"

vacant collapse: without an occupant or incumbent; "the throne is never vacant"; void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"

valley collapse: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

aperture collapse: an man-made opening; usually small; a device that controls amount of light admitted; a natural opening in something

clobber collapse: strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"

bleached collapse: having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"; (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

modus vivendi collapse: a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement

flash in the pan collapse: someone who enjoys transient success but then fails

nothing collapse: a nonexistent thing; a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"; in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

defeat collapse: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"

indentation collapse: the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions; the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line; a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

pore collapse: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal; any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

pinched collapse: as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

mealymouthed collapse: hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician"

inlet collapse: an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

hollow collapse: a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"; a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"; as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"; not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"; remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

cadaverous collapse: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"

undo collapse: cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect; "I wish I could undo my actions"; cause the ruin or downfall of; "A single mistake undid the President and he had to resign"

lay figure collapse: dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body

performer collapse: an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

dishonest collapse: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive; lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"; lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable

pointless collapse: lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"; not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless"

artificial collapse: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"; contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"; not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

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