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get the better of collapse: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

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

adversary collapse: someone who offers opposition

propel collapse: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"

outdo collapse: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"

lickety split collapse: without delay; "she tackled the job lickety-split"

instigate collapse

interject collapse: to insert between other elements; "She interjected clever remarks"

speed collapse: changing location rapidly; a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"; distance travelled per unit time; travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; "I got a ticket for speeding"

coterie collapse

stoning collapse: pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)

searching collapse: exploring thoroughly; having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

at home collapse: a reception held in your own home; at, to, or toward the place where you reside; "he worked at home"; on the home team's field; "they played at home last night"

older collapse

thicken collapse: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"; make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"; make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour"

outrun collapse: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"

incrassate collapse

accessory collapse: a supplementary component that improves capability; clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing; someone who helps another person commit a crime; furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

work up collapse: develop; "we worked up an as of an appetite"

centenarian collapse: someone who is at least 100 years old; being at least 100 years old

improvise collapse: perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"; manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

schism collapse: division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

no no collapse

personality collapse: the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others"; a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"

offshoot collapse

hot seat collapse: a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism

gallows collapse: an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

dominance collapse: the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not; the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"

suitor collapse: a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess"

garrote collapse: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation; strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"

rummage collapse: a jumble of things to be given away; search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers"

impel collapse: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

leverage collapse: investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses); strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"; the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever; provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"; supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is already available"

cuff collapse: the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg; hit with the hand

banquet collapse: a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread"; a ceremonial dinner party for many people

fete collapse: an elaborate party (often outdoors)

platform collapse: a raised horizontal surface; "the speaker mounted the platform"; any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons; the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system; a document stating the aims and principles of a political party; "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program"

roil collapse: make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

swirl collapse

Marxism collapse: the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism

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