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life jacket collapse: life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design

safety belt collapse: belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt

water wings collapse: a life preserver consisting of a connected pair of inflatable bags that fit under a person's arms and provide buoyancy; used by children learning to swim

forfeit collapse: the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.; a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time"; something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty;; lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime

annihilation collapse: destruction by annihilating something; total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll"

ejection seat collapse: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute

life cycle collapse: a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage; the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

biological clock collapse: an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions

life force collapse: (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

lifeboat collapse: a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship

heartbeat collapse: an animating or vital unifying force; "New York is the commercial heartbeat of America"

enlivened collapse: made lively or spirited; "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate"; made sprightly or cheerful

sacrifice collapse: (sacrifice) an out that advances the base runners; the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity; personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective); a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"; kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"; make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals; endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"; sell at a loss

extinction collapse: the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"; a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus; complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"; the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation; no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"; no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano"

privation collapse: act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"; a state of extreme poverty

debit collapse: an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing; enter as debit

destruction collapse: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists; an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something

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