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survive collapse: continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"; continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"

bungling collapse: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

alienated collapse: caused to be unloved; socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"

flying start collapse: a quick and auspicious beginning; a racing start in which the contestants are already in full motion when they pass the starting line

improbability collapse: the quality of being improbable; "impossibility should never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability of such rare coincidences"

mutinous collapse: consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny; "mutinous acts"; "mutinous thoughts"; "a mutinous speech"; disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate"

far cry collapse: a disappointing disparity; "it was a far cry from what he had expected"; distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry; "it's a far cry from here"

casualty collapse: a decrease of military personnel or equipment; someone injured or killed in an accident; someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement

dissimilar collapse: not similar; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"

butt collapse: thick end of the handle; the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking); a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons); a victim of ridicule or pranks; the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots; to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns; "He butted his sister out of the way"; place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"

unemployed collapse: not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

unlike collapse: marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different"; not equal in amount; "they distributed unlike (or unequal) sums to the various charities"

potshot collapse: a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter); criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration; "reporters took potshots at the mayor"

let alone collapse: much less; "she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal"

toss collapse: an abrupt movement; "a toss of his head"; agitate; "toss the salad"

get by collapse: pass or move in front of; "Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race"

diverse collapse: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth"

disparate collapse: including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"; fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"

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