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intransitive collapse: designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object

transitive collapse: designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning

auxiliary collapse: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

idiom collapse: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

clause collapse: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

geld collapse: cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the vet gelded the young horse"

paragraph collapse: one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line; write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher; write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"; divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"

masculine collapse: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male; associated with men and not with women; of grammatical gender; (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'"

halfhearted collapse: feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"

sterilize collapse: make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"; make free from bacteria

centrist collapse: a person who takes a position in the political center; supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative

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"

feminine collapse: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female; associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"; of grammatical gender; (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"

impartial collapse: showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

abstain collapse: choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"; refrain from voting

third world collapse: underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively

lukewarm collapse: moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water"

midway collapse: naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands; the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located

nonpartisan collapse: a person who is nonpartisan; free from party affiliation or bias

paralytic collapse: a person suffering from paralysis; affected or subject to with paralysis; relating to or of the nature of paralysis; "paralytic symptoms"

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