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eke out collapse: obtain with difficulty; "He eked out some information from the archives"; make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter"; supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"; live from day to day, as with some hardship; "He eked out his years in great poverty"

break through collapse: penetrate; "The sun broke through the clouds"; "The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft"; pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

feign collapse: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

organize collapse: bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?"; arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"; cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea

kick back collapse: spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"; pay a kickback; make an illegal payment

go through the motions collapse: pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it; "She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions"

nail down collapse: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

scrape along collapse: manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"

scale collapse: a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals; an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks; a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass; (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave); a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin; a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin; relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale"; the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model"; an ordered reference standard; "judging on a scale of 1 to 10"; size or measure according to a scale; "This model must be scaled down"; measure with or as if with scales; "scale the gold"; remove the scales from; "scale fish"; pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard; climb up by means of a ladder; reach the highest point of; "We scaled the Mont Blanc"; take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"; measure by or as if by a scale; "This bike scales only 25 pounds"

tuberosity collapse: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

jutting collapse: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

scenario collapse: a postulated sequence of possible events; "planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack"; an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work); a setting for a work of art or literature; "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror"

pretend collapse: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"

underestimate collapse: an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value; make too low an estimate of; "he underestimated the work that went into the renovation"; "Don't underestimate the danger of such a raft trip on this river"

index collapse: the finger next to the thumb; an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed; a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time; a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number; adjust through indexation; "The government indexes wages and prices"; provide with an index; "index the book"; list in an index

work out collapse: come up with; "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client"; be calculated; "The fees work out to less than $1,000"; happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well; "Things worked out in an interesting way"; "Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed"

projection collapse: any structure that branches out from a central support; the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction; a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations; the projection of an image from a film onto a screen; the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection"; "a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice"; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else; any solid convex shape that juts out from something

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