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bring down collapse: cause to be enthusiastic; "Her playing brought down the house"

suspend collapse: cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"; make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"; hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"; bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.; render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended"

hold off collapse: resist and fight to a standoff; "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off"

put in collapse: make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF"; devote (time, effort, etc.) to a task; "He put in three hours every day at the hospital"

propose collapse: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

save collapse: (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring; "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"; make unnecessary an expenditure or effort; "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"; to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"; feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary"; spend less; buy at a reduced price; spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"; bring into safety; "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"

extenuate collapse: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"

adventure collapse: a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

deaden collapse: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil; make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"; become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor; lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"; make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"

waive collapse: do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"

shipwreck collapse: a wrecked ship (or a part of one); an accident that destroys a ship at sea; an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance"; destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"; cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"; suffer failure, as in some enterprise; ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"

blitz collapse: a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment; attack suddenly and without warning; "Hitler blitzed Poland"

acquire collapse: win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance"; locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar

graph collapse: a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes; represent by means of a graph; "chart the data"; plot upon a graph

put on collapse: add to something existing; "She put on a sun room"; add to the odometer; "He put on 1,000 miles on this trip"; apply to a surface; "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up!"; carry out (performances); "They turned in a splendid effort"; "They turned in top jobs for the second straight game"; put on the stove or ready for cooking; "put on the tea, please!"

deposit collapse: the act of putting something somewhere; a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met; the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating; money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use; "his deposit was refunded when he returned the car"; money deposited in a bank; put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month"

lodge collapse: any of various native American dwellings; a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter; small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener; English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940); fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"; be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"

sojourn collapse: a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest); spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

beadle collapse: a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services; United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)

book collapse: physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop"; a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge; "he bought a book of stamps"; a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah"; a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together); "I am reading a good book on economics"; a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here"; a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game; engage for a performance; "Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"; record a charge in a police register; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"; register in a hotel booker

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