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hawk collapse: diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail; an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations; hunt with hawks; "the tribes like to hawk in the desert"

protrude collapse

fire extinguisher collapse: a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires

begin collapse: Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992); set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"; begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began; begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"; achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"; begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"; have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"; have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"; have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"; be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"

outset collapse

takeoff collapse: a departure; especially of airplanes; the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne

muscle man collapse

superscription collapse: the activity of superscribing; an inscription written above something else

enter upon collapse: take possession of; "She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives"

look in collapse

hunt down collapse

unintermittent collapse

jump collapse: the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"; descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"; (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another; a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"; increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"; bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"; enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"; make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"; move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"; cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"; jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

torpedo collapse: armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target; a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead; a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface; an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas); attack or hit with torpedoes

stoker collapse: a mechanical device for stoking a furnace; a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship); Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)

busboy collapse: a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes

ace in the hole collapse

add to collapse: have an increased effect; "This adds to my worries"

free lance collapse

gun down collapse: strike down or shoot down

taxi collapse: travel slowly; "The plane taxied down the runway"; ride in a taxicab

bestraddle collapse

send off collapse

set sail collapse

standstill collapse

purser collapse: an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare

arrogate collapse: make undue claims to having

bust in collapse

fire hydrant collapse

fireplug collapse: an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

head start collapse

skyrocket collapse: sends a firework display high into the sky

uprise collapse: ascend as a sound; "The choirs singing uprose and filled the church"

ionization collapse: the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas; the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas"

pop in collapse: enter briefly; "He popped in for two minutes"

fireworks collapse

dead shot collapse

crack shot collapse

eject collapse: leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule

exterminator collapse: someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

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