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pay back collapse: take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him"

decimal collapse: a number in the decimal system; divided by tens or hundreds; "a decimal fraction"; "decimal coinage"; numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten; "the decimal system"

digital collapse: of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits; "digital computer"; relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital examination"; displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital clock"; "digital readout"

hopeless collapse: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"; without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"; certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"; of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

irremediable collapse: impossible to remedy or correct or redress; "an irremediable error"; "irremediable defects of character"

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"

rule out collapse: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"; include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules

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"

improbable collapse: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"; not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"; having a probability too low to inspire belief

absurd collapse: a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus; inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman; incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

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

incurable collapse: a person whose disease is incurable; unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable optimist"; incapable of being cured; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking"

fanciful collapse: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"; having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"; not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

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"

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