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sour collapse: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth; a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar; smelling of fermentation or staleness; having a sharp biting taste; one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons; go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"; make sour or more sour

swamp collapse: low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog; a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"; drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"

abashed collapse: feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"

modality collapse: a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment; a particular sense; a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

refrigerate collapse: cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine"; preserve by chilling; "many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil"

dehydrate collapse: remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"; preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"

strait collapse: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water; strict and severe; "strait is the gate"

mummify collapse: dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found"; remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs"; preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of"

pretext collapse: something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

irradiate collapse: expose to radiation; "irradiate food"; cast rays of light upon

slough collapse: any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake); a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou); a hollow filled with mud

motley collapse: a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England; a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume); having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"; make motley; color with different colors

clutch collapse: a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism; "this year's model has an improved clutch"; a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism; "he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other"; a number of birds hatched at the same time; a tense critical situation; "he is a good man in the clutch"

ambrosia collapse: (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal; fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut

crunch collapse: the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"; a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources); "an end-of-the year crunch"; "a financial crunch"; make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"; chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"; press or grind with a crunching noise

predicament collapse: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"

dilemma collapse: state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

fish collapse: any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"; the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish"; catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; "I like to go fishing on weekends"; seek indirectly; "fish for compliments"

gambit collapse: a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position; an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

embarrassment collapse: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"; the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public; the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"

problem collapse: a question raised for consideration or solution; "our homework consisted of ten problems to solve"; a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"

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