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perishable collapse: food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated; liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay; "this minute and perishable planet"; "perishable foods such as butter and fruit"

fly-by-night collapse: a debtor who flees to avoid paying; ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"; of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty; "a fly-by-night operation"

corruptible collapse: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

ephemeral collapse: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

fleeting collapse: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

impermanent collapse: existing or enduring for a limited time only; not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"

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

deciduous collapse: (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season; (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth"

fragile collapse: vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

brittle collapse: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets; having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"; (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured; lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"

temporal collapse: of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"; not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt; concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"; of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"; of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"; of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"

mutable collapse: capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

fugitive collapse: someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice; someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"

flying collapse: done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line; "a flying start"; "crossed the goal line with a flying leap"; hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"; of or relating to passage through the air (especially aviation); "a flying time of three hours between cities"; "unidentified flying objects"; designed for swift movement or action; "a flying police squad is trained for quick action anywhere in the city"; capable of or engaged in flight; "the bat is a flying animal"

fickle collapse: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

volatile collapse: a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"; tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"; evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents"

unstable collapse: highly or violently reactive; "sensitive and highly unstable compounds"; disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"; lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"

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