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prostration collapse: the act of assuming a prostrate position; abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body

melancholy collapse: a feeling of thoughtful sadness; a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed; characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

cheerless collapse: lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

languish collapse: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

gloom collapse: a feeling of melancholy apprehension; a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom"; an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"

brood collapse: the young of an animal cared for at one time; sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"; think moodily or anxiously about something; hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"

desperate collapse: a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"; showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"; fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"; showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition"; desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"; (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"

depression collapse: pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"; sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object); a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"; a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity; a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment; a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

bleak collapse: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

hopeless collapse: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"; without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"; certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"; of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

worry collapse: a strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles"; touch or rub constantly; "The old man worried his beads"; lacerate by biting; "the dog worried his bone"; disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me"; be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"; be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy; "I worry about my job"

apathetic collapse: marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent"; showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"

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