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forget collapse: be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"; dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"; leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"; forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"

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"

prima facie collapse: as it seems at first sight; "a prima facie case of murder"; at first sight

ease up collapse: reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down"; become less intense

backpedal collapse: modify one's opinion, make it less strong; step backwards, in boxing; pedal backwards on a bicycle

horizon collapse: the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"; the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet; the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth; a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land

despond collapse: lose confidence or hope; become dejected; "The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election"

glimpse collapse: a brief or incomplete view; "from the window he could catch a glimpse of the lake"; a vague indication; "he caught only a glimpse of the professor's meaning"; catch a glimpse of or see briefly; "We glimpsed the Queen as she got into her limousine"

default collapse: loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default"; act of failing to meet a financial obligation; fail to pay up

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"

neglect collapse: the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"; leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"; fail to attend to; "he neglects his children"; give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"

descend collapse: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

fail collapse: get worse; "Her health is declining"; stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"; prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"; disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"; become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"; fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"; fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"; judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"; be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"; fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"; be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"

dwindle collapse: become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

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