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brighten collapse: become brighter; "The sky brightened"; make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room"; become brighter; "The sky brightened around noon"; "Her face brightened when she heard the good news"

ivory collapse: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

sweeten collapse: make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal"; make sweeter in taste

mollycoddle collapse: a pampered darling; an effeminate man

jellyfish collapse: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

chalky collapse: of something having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"

goody goody collapse

weakling collapse: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual

swan collapse: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult; sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"

hoar collapse

snowy collapse

mouse collapse: any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails; a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball"; person who is quiet or timid; manipulate the mouse of a computer

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"

soft collapse: not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"; willing to negotiate and compromise; out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance; "he was too soft for the army"; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks"; yielding readily to pressure or weight; compassionate and kind; conciliatory; "he was soft on his children"; (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh'); (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected; (of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"; not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "soft targets"; using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation; "soft data"; "the soft sciences"; (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value; "the market for computers is soft"

blameless collapse: free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"

weak collapse: deficient in intelligence or mental power; "a weak mind"; likely to fail under stress or pressure; "the weak link in the chain"; not having authority, political strength, or governing power; "a weak president"; (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection; deficient or lacking in some skill; "he's weak in spelling"; having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak link"; tending downward in price; "a weak market for oil stocks"

grizzly collapse: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

grizzled collapse: having dark hairs mixed with grey or white

invertebrate collapse: any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification; lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals"

embellish collapse

old woman collapse: a woman who is old

funk collapse: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar; United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967); a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk"

untarnished collapse

maggot collapse: the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

gild collapse: decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

frosted collapse: (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost; "frosted glass"

bigoted collapse: blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

hoary collapse: ancient; "hoary jokes"

alabaster collapse: a very light white; a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving; a hard compact kind of calcite; of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue"

flower collapse: reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts; a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms; the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

sheet collapse: bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs; (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind; a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width; used for writing or printing; any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice"; cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body"; come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon"

frosty collapse: covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner

pearl collapse: a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel; gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean

white collapse: (board games) the lighter pieces; the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black); a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri; a member of the Caucasoid race; United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918); United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985); United States architect (1853-1906); United States political journalist (1915-1986); Australian writer (1912-1990); United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921); of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"; of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"; being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"; (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"; (of coffee) having cream or milk added; benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"; glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"; restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"; marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"; free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"

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