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raise hell collapse: take strong and forceful action, as to object or express discontent; "She raised hell when she found out that she wold not be hired again"

succeed collapse: be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"; attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"

encase collapse: enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud"

type collapse: a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"; a subdivision of a particular kind of thing; "what type of sculpture do you prefer?"; all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element' contains five different types of character"; printed characters; "small type is hard to read"; (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon; identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed"; write by means of a keyboard with types; "type the acceptance letter, please"

capital collapse: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature; one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"; the federal government of the United States; a seat of government; a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"; wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value; assets available for use in the production of further assets; uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"; of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"; first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"

announce collapse: announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"; foreshadow or presage; make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly"; give the names of; "He announced the winners of the spelling bee"

generate collapse: bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity"

importune collapse: beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them"

windowpane collapse: very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America; a pane of glass in a window; "the ball shattered the window"

decipher collapse: read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

lionize collapse: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"

beggar collapse: a pauper who lives by begging; reduce to beggary; be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"

adopt collapse: take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"; take up and practice as one's own; choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

loon collapse: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes; a worthless lazy fellow

reinforced collapse: given added strength or support; "reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting"

monopolize collapse: have or exploit a monopoly of; "OPEC wants to monopolize oil"; have and control fully and exclusively; "He monopolizes the laser printer"

citation collapse: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948; a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding; an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement; a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"; (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)

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