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afforestation collapse: the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)

silviculture collapse: the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests

forestry collapse: the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber

Gothic collapse: a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas; characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"; of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

modeling collapse: a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied

antediluvian collapse: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"; of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man"

unnerved collapse: deprived of courage and strength; "the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer"

membrane collapse: a thin pliable sheet of material; a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals

backlog collapse: an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services); large log at the back of a hearth fire; accumulate and create a backlog

crusty collapse: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

typography collapse: the craft of composing type and printing from it; art and technique of printing with movable type

rotogravure collapse: printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press; printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

gravure collapse: the act of intaglio printing; an intaglio print produced by gravure; a printing plate used in the process of gravure

ruin collapse: a ruined building; "they explored several Roman ruins"; an event that results in destruction; an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction; "you have brought ruin on this entire family"; fall into ruin; reduce to ruins; "The country lay ruined after the war"; destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"

stave collapse: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket; burst or force (a hole) into something; furnish with staves; "stave a ladder"

callous collapse: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"; make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

printmaking collapse: artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens

petrified collapse: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move"; converted into a mineral; "petrified wood"; converted into stone

mineral collapse: solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition; of or containing or derived from minerals; "a mineral deposit"; "mineral water"; composed of matter other than plant or animal; "the inorganic mineral world"; relating to minerals; "mineral elements"; "mineral deposits"

xerography collapse: forming an image by the action of light on a specially coated charged plate; the latent image is developed with powders that adhere only to electrically charged areas; "edge enhancement is intrinsic in xerography"

flinty collapse: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"; containing flint

scarecrow collapse: an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

lithography collapse: the act of making a lithographic print; a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

intaglio collapse: glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)

vegetable oil collapse: any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

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