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dark horse collapse: a racehorse about which little is known; a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly

bylaw collapse: a rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs

long shot collapse: a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards; a contestant that is unlikely to win

accident collapse: anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause; a mishap; especially one causing injury or death

stable collapse: a farm building for housing horses or other livestock; maintaining equilibrium; not taking part readily in chemical change; firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation; "the economy is stable"; resistant to change of position or condition; "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices"; shelter in a stable; "stable horses"

away collapse: (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"; used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"; from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"; from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"; out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"; indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"; in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"; in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"; so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"; freely or at will; "fire away!"

uplifting collapse: the rise of something; "the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky"

catch up collapse: learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened; "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"; reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework"

eternity collapse: a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife; time without end; a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)

distance collapse: the property created by the space between two objects or points; size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"; indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance"; a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"; the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"; a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"; keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"

windy collapse: resembling the wind in speed,force, or variability; "a windy dash home"

perch collapse: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes; spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes; support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird); any of numerous fishes of America and Europe; an elevated place serving as a seat; a square rod of land; a linear measure of 16.5 feet; sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the tree"; cause to perch or sit; "She perched her hat on her head"

footage collapse: film that has been shot; "they had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes"; "he edited the news footage"; a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done

giant collapse: any creature of exceptional size; an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant"; an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales; someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful; a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

echelon collapse: a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset; a body of troops arranged in a line

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