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elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

sum up collapse: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

recapitulate collapse: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"; repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

hypostasis collapse: (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality; any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united; the accumulation of blood in an organ; the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene

extort collapse: get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner; obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"; obtain through intimidation

notional collapse: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

telescope collapse: a magnifier of images of distant objects; make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"; crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

panorama collapse: a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

retrenchment collapse: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable; entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

nominal collapse: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"; insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"; being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; "nominal or face value"; pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase"; relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls"

designing collapse: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger"

weed out collapse: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"

abstraction collapse: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples; the act of withdrawing or removing something; an abstract painting; the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances; a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

diptych collapse: a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)

indeterminate collapse: not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign"; not capable of being determined; "the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle"; not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; "of indeterminate age"; "a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; "an indeterminate point of law"; "the influence of environment is indeterminate"; "an indeterminate future"; having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem"; of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"

abbreviation collapse: shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase

impersonal collapse: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer"; not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark"

selection collapse: an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes"

get rid of collapse: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

abstruse collapse: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

abridge collapse: lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

featureless collapse: lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"

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