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proclaim collapse: state or announce; "`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed"; "The King will proclaim an amnesty"; declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles; "He was proclaimed King"

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

go out collapse: become extinguished; "The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark"; leave the house to go somewhere; "We never went out when our children were small"; take the field; "The soldiers went out on missions"; go out of fashion; become unfashionable

moralize collapse: improve the morals of; interpret the moral meaning of; "moralize a story"

spare collapse: a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls; thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"; kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"; not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"; use frugally or carefully; give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"; refrain from harming; save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"

reef collapse: a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water; reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef; roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area; lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"

predicate collapse: one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements; (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"; affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"; make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"

occupy collapse: live (in a certain place); occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"

interfere collapse: come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle; "Your talking interferes with my work!"

rail collapse: any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud; a horizontal bar (usually of wood); short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"; complain bitterly; fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"; lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"; convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"; separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"; provide with rails; "The yard was railed"; enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"

store collapse: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"; keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"; find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"

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"

confine collapse: prevent from leaving or from being removed; deprive of freedom; take into confinement

mew collapse: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America; utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls

hesitate collapse: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"; interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused"

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"

suppose collapse: express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"

affirm collapse: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"; say yes to

damp collapse: a slight wetness; slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"; restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"

read collapse: something that is read; "the article was a very good read"; to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"; interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"; look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"; interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"; obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"; indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"; audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"; have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"

overcharge collapse: a price that is too high; rip off; ask an unreasonable price

shackle collapse: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner); a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar

cluster collapse: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

get by collapse: pass or move in front of; "Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race"

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

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

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