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serious collapse: requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"; of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter"; concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"

tired collapse: depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"

concentration camp collapse: a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions); a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions

deductible collapse: a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount; (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax); acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction)

greens collapse: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

longevity collapse: the property of being long-lived; duration of service; "her longevity as a star"; "had unusual longevity in the company"

gore collapse: a triangular piece of cloth; coagulated blood from a wound; Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948); wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument; cut into gores; "gore a skirt"

buoy collapse: bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; mark with a buoy; keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"; float on the surface of water

destiny collapse: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future; the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny"

animate collapse: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"; belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"; give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

chronology collapse: the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events; a record of events in the order of their occurrence; an arrangement of events in time

melancholy collapse: a feeling of thoughtful sadness; a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed; characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

sick collapse: people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"; deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing"

ego collapse: (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind; an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

escape hatch collapse: hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency

annals collapse: a chronological account of events in successive years; reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

survive collapse: continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"; continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"

casualty collapse: a decrease of military personnel or equipment; someone injured or killed in an accident; someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement

unknown collapse: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation; an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown"; not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"; not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unsuspected depths in her"- Edith Wharton

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

grave collapse: a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"; death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"; of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"; dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

hot seat collapse: a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism

gallows collapse: an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

hushed collapse: in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"

release collapse: (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone; a formal written statement of relinquishment; activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger"; merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film); "a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra"; a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism; a process that liberates or discharges something; "there was a sudden release of oxygen"; "the release of iodine from the thyroid gland"; part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"

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