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slip in collapse: insert casually; "She slipped in a reference to her own work"

pull off collapse: cause to withdraw; "We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged"; be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

dragnet collapse: a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"

quest collapse: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds"; seek alms, as for religious purposes; search the trail of (game); "The dog went off and quested"; make a search (for); "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest"

come collapse: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June"; be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled"; happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this"; reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his face went red"; "your wish will come true"; have a certain priority; "My family comes first"; cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"; move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"; be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda"; experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too upset"; to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience"; develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans"; extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles"; exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came the student from France"

purchase collapse: the acquisition of something for payment; "they closed the purchase with a handshake"; a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; "he could get no purchase on the situation"; something acquired by purchase

lode collapse: a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

honor collapse: a woman's virtue or chastity; the quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor"; the state of being honored; accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts"; bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"

work in collapse: add by mixing or blending on or attaching; "work in the butter and the dough will get the right consistency"; "In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words"

repudiate collapse: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"; reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"; refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"

ante collapse: (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot; place one's stake

pass through collapse: cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution"

revere collapse: American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)

cultivate collapse: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"; foster the growth of

advantage collapse: benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"; the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me"; (tennis) first point scored after deuce; give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich"

take up collapse: pursue or resume; "take up a matter for consideration"; adopt; "take up new ideas"; turn one's interest to; "He took up herpetology at the age of fifty"; take up time or space; "take up the slack"

rectify collapse: convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"; set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"; math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve"

listen collapse: hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello"; listen and pay attention; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision"

capitalize collapse: convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital; consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses; compute the present value of a business or an income; write in capital letters; draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"; supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders

lionize collapse: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"

hell to pay collapse: dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"

telephone collapse: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"; transmitting speech at a distance

graduation collapse: the successful completion of a program of study; a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement; "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch"

premium collapse: payment for insurance; the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value; "they paid a premium for access to water"; having or reflecting superior quality or value; "premium gasoline at a premium price"

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