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destine collapse: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist"

pit collapse: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"; a trap in the form of a concealed hole; a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"; a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression); remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"; set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"

discriminate collapse: marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"; noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument"; recognize or perceive the difference; distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"; treat differently on the basis of sex or race

describe collapse: give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

demarcate collapse: set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something; separate clearly and as if by boundaries

egress collapse: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent; (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

personalize collapse: make personal or more personal; "personalized service"

mottle collapse: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"; colour with streaks or blotches of different shades; mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

anatomize collapse: analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior"; dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease"

specify collapse: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"; be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?"; determine the essential quality of

commemorate collapse: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"; be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"; mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the anniversary of his death"

pore collapse: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal; any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

track collapse: the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track; any road or path affording passage especially a rough one; a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll; a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels; a groove on a phonograph recording; (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data; an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground; make tracks upon; carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house"; observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile"

circumscribe collapse: draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"; to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect

ligature collapse: thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood); a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone; character consisting of two or more letters combined into one; (music) a group of notes connected by a slur

comma collapse: anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing; a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence

scratch collapse: an indication of damage; cut the surface of; wear away the surface of; carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

terminus collapse: either end of a railroad or bus route; (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome

punctuate collapse: insert punctuation marks into; interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"

lurid collapse: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"; ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"; glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"; horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"

dock collapse: the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair; landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late"; an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial; a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded; any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine; haul into a dock; "dock the ships"; remove or shorten the tail of an animal; come into dock; "the ship docked"; deduct from someone's wages; deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty

ironmonger collapse: someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger"

grocer collapse: a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)

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