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dash off collapse: write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess"

jab collapse: a quick short straight punch; a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"; poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"; strike or punch with quick and short blows

past collapse: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past; the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"; a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"; earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"; a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"

drug collapse: a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic; administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"; use recreational drugs

poop out collapse: use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"

transport collapse: an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes; move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"; transport commercially; move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

dated collapse: bearing a date; "dated and stamped documents"; marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

parterre collapse: an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern

lay out collapse: provide a detailed plan or design; "She laid out her plans for the new house"; spend or invest; "lay out thousands on gold"; "he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit"

prowl collapse: the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner); move about in or as if in a predatory manner; "The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town"; loiter about, with no apparent aim

botch collapse: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

convulse collapse: be overcome with laughter; make someone convulse with laughter; "The comedian convulsed the crowd"; contract involuntarily, as in a spasm; "The muscles in her face convulsed"; cause to contract; "The spasm convulses her facial muscles"; shake uncontrollably; "earthquakes convulsed the countryside"; move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

sleeping collapse: the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate; the state of being asleep

stillborn collapse: (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"

loot collapse: goods or money obtained illegally; take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

banshee collapse: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

extinct collapse: (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"; no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs"

wilt collapse: causing to become limp or drooping; any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots; become limp; "The flowers wilted"; lose strength; "My opponent was wilting"

carom collapse: a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other; make a carom; rebound after hitting; "The car caromed off several lampposts"

hew collapse: strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"; make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"

dybbuk collapse: (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior

halt collapse: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"

wander collapse: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

esplanade collapse: a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore

impinge collapse: impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"

punish collapse: impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"

collaborate collapse: work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group"; cooperate as a traitor; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris"

drained collapse: emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"

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