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spar collapse: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer; a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging; any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable; fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"; box lightly; fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"; furnish with spars

effect collapse: (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"; an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived); "he just did it for effect"; the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work; a symptom caused by an illness or a drug; "the effects of sleep loss"; "the effect of the anesthetic"; produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave"; act so as to bring into existence; "effect a change"

approximately collapse: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"

shove collapse: the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"; push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"

legion collapse: a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion"; association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion"

administer collapse: give or apply (medications); administer ritually; of church sacraments; work in an administrative capacity; supervise; "administer a program"

extort collapse: get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner; obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"; obtain through intimidation

Niagara collapse: a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York; waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls

for all practical purposes collapse: in every practical sense; "to all intents and purposes the case is closed"; "the rest are for all practical purposes useless"

primarily collapse: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"

pith collapse: soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants; remove the pith from (a plant)

authority collapse: official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times"; the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state"; an authoritative written work; "this book is the final authority on the life of Milton"; an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law"; (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew"

force collapse: physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"; a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"; a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"; group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"; (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"; impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"; do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"; force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

instrumentality collapse: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end; the quality of being instrumental for some purpose; a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement"

bunt collapse: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat; fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; similar to Tilletia caries; disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

turnpike collapse: an expressway on which tolls are collected; (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

neuter collapse: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine); of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"; having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

in practice collapse: in practical applications; "will this work in practice?"

lane collapse: a narrow way or road; a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic

tamp collapse: a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

endeavor collapse: attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

powerful collapse: having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"

blind alley collapse: (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"; a street with only one way in or out

operating collapse: involved in a kind of operation; "the operating conditions of the oxidation pond"

freewheeling collapse: free of restraints or rules; "freewheeling foolishness"; "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"

placation collapse: the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity

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