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divorce collapse: the legal dissolution of a marriage; get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months"

put away collapse: turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily; "it's time for you to put away childish things"; kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"; stop using; "the children were told to put away their toys"; "the students put away their notebooks"

nonunion collapse: not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union; "nonunion carpenters"; "a nonunion contractor"

separatism collapse: a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists; "separatism is a serious problem in Quebec"; "demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education"

be collapse: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"; work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"; have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"; have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"; be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"; occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"; to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be"; happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"

dislocation collapse: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London"; an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity; a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

disassociation collapse: the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination; "I could not think of him in disassociation from his wife"

disband collapse: stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting"; cause to break up or cease to function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization"

assizes collapse: the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by crown courts)

dissociate collapse: to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

predominate collapse: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood"

educe collapse: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

separate collapse: a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments; separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"; independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"; divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"; force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"; come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"; go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"; make a division or separation; discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"; act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"

disjoint collapse: having no elements in common; separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it"

retrieve collapse: run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve"

zoning collapse: dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc

sequester collapse: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"; undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"; requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

occur collapse: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her"; to be found to exist; "sexism occurs in many workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"

estrange collapse: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"; remove from customary environment or associations; "Her busy schedule removed her from her duties as a mother"

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