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skewer collapse: a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted; drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ"

furtive collapse: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

bin collapse: a container; usually has a lid; the quantity contained in a bin; store in bins

vat collapse: a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production

sit tight collapse: maintain the same position; wait it out; "Let's not make a decision--let's sit tight"

transfix collapse: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"

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

retreat collapse: (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops"; (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset; (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position; a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet; make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"; move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"

shrimp collapse: small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible; fish for shrimp

emplacement collapse: military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon

supernova collapse: a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process

pulsar collapse: a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation

quasar collapse: a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts

nova collapse: a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process

animal collapse: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals; "the animal kingdom"; "animal instincts"; "animal fats"

slum collapse: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions; visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity

tenement collapse: a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

leaden collapse: (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"; made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids"; made of lead; "a leaden weight"

drawer collapse: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out; the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else

pry collapse: be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"; to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"; make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"

attic collapse: (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof; informal terms for a human head; the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens; of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times; "Attic Greek"

turbulence collapse: unstable flow of a liquid or gas; a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"; instability in the atmosphere

ream collapse: a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires; a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"; enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"; remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"; squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"

shadowing collapse: the act of following someone secretly; following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines"

ambush collapse: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise; wait in hiding to attack

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