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live collapse: exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"; of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option"; in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"; abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch"; actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"; charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"; not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"; lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"; pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

lightning collapse: the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more; abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

ensnare collapse: take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

hell to pay collapse: dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"

lubricious collapse: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"; having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious"

sigh collapse: an utterance made by exhaling audibly; a sound like a person sighing; "she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees"; heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; "She sighed sadly"; utter with a sigh

jazz up collapse: make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"

lust collapse: self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

round out collapse: make bigger or better or more complete; fill out; "These studies round out the results of many years of research"

short circuit collapse: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

belch collapse: a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth

chafe collapse: soreness and warmth caused by friction; "he had a nasty chafe on his knee"; warm by rubbing, as with the hands; tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog's neck"; feel extreme irritation or anger; "He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation"; become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

trumpet collapse: utter in trumpet-like sounds; "Elephants are trumpeting"; proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet; "Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty"; play or blow on the trumpet

gasp collapse: a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; "she gave a gasp and fainted"

zing collapse: a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound; "the zing of the passing bullet"

inkling collapse: a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen"

inflationary spiral collapse: an episode of inflation in which prices increase at an increasing rate and currency rapidly loses value

sandwich collapse: two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them; insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects; "She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men"; make into a sandwich

phase collapse: (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"; (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"; a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle; any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"; adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"; arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"

mange collapse: a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)

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