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hive collapse: a teeming multitude; gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"; move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving"; store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"

forgive collapse: stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday"; absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"

impale collapse: kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die"

compassion collapse: the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it; a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

syncopation collapse: music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm; a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat

confines collapse: a bounded scope; "he stayed within the confines of the city"

casting collapse: the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie; the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel

broadside collapse: the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship; the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern; "the ship was broadside to the dock"; all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship; toward a full side; "a broadside attack"; with a side facing an object; "the train hit the truck broadside"; "the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it"; collide with the broad side of; "her car broad-sided mine"

pathos collapse: a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"; a style that has the power to evoke feelings

distemper collapse: a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery; a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder; paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder; any of various infectious viral diseases of animals; paint with distemper

hour collapse: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"; a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"; clock time; "the hour is getting late"; a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

neighborhood collapse: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"

mercy collapse: alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"; something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive"

vicinity collapse: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

cradle collapse: a baby bed with sides and rockers; birth of a person; "he was taught from the cradle never to cry"; run with the stick; hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms"; wash in a cradle; "cradle gold"; cut grain with a cradle scythe; hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"; bring up from infancy

orientation collapse: the act of orienting; a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships; an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs; position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

department collapse: a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"; a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"; the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

stranglehold collapse: a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe; complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"

thoroughbred collapse: a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses; a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares; a well-bred person

azimuth collapse: the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian

presto collapse: (of tempo) very fast; suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift; at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)

fraction collapse: a small part or item forming a piece of a whole; the quotient of two rational numbers; a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process

steering collapse: the act of steering a ship; the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king"

construction collapse: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"; the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"; the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"; the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

architecture collapse: the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect; an architectural product or work; the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"

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