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lose collapse: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"; suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"; allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"; fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"; fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"; fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

fallout collapse: the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion

air pollution collapse: pollution of the atmosphere; "air pollution reduced the visibility"

wipe collapse: rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He passed his hands over the soft cloth"

kneel collapse: supporting yourself on your knees; rest one's weight on one's knees; "In church you have to kneel during parts of the service"

farina collapse: fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings

granulate collapse: form granulating tissue; "wounds and ulcers can granulate"; become granular; form into grains

meteor collapse: a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode

cadenza collapse: a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music

scavenge collapse: remove unwanted substances from; feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge"; clean refuse from; "Scavenge a street"

go down collapse: be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"; be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"; be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

bran collapse: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains; broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting

delouse collapse: free of lice; "They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps"

crouch collapse: the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body; bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

lint collapse: cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds; fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers

flour collapse: fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain; convert grain into flour; cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it"

bowdlerize collapse: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

clean out collapse: empty completely; "We cleaned out all the drawers"; deprive completely of money or goods; "The robbers cleaned us out in a couple of hours"; force out; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers"

crumble collapse: break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"; fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

grit collapse: a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; clench together; "grit one's teeth"; cover with a grit; "grit roads"

fallout shelter collapse: a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb

spadework collapse: dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking

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