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contract collapse: a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid; a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law; (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make; be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"; enter into a contractual arrangement; make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"

tribune collapse: the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne; (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests

fingerprint collapse: biometric identification from a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used as evidence in criminal investigations; a generic term for any identifying characteristic; "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it"; take an impression of a person's fingerprints

thumbprint collapse: fingerprint made by the thumb (especially by the pad of the thumb)

relegate collapse: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"; refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

bolt collapse: a sudden abandonment (as from a political party); a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener; the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key; a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech; a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length; make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric"; swallow hastily; secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door"; move or jump suddenly; "She bolted from her seat"

stagger collapse: to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"; astound or overwhelm, as with shock; "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake"; walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"; walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow"

antagonize collapse: provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss"; act in opposition to

clop collapse: make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

clap collapse: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music"; strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise; "clap two boards together"; strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting; put quickly or forcibly; "The judge clapped him in jail"; strike the air in flight; "the wings of the birds clapped loudly"; cause to strike the air in flight; "The big bird clapped its wings"

harmoniously collapse: in a harmonious manner; "the problem of absorbing immigrants harmoniously into British society is as important to the immigrants as to the British"

interval collapse: the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"; a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints; the difference in pitch between two notes

intensification collapse: action that makes something stronger or more extreme; the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film)

footprint collapse: the area taken up by some object; "the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches"; a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"; a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important; "the footprints of an earlier civilization"

shuffle collapse: the act of mixing cards haphazardly; mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"; walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"; move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"

dais collapse: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

earshot collapse: the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot"

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