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blockade collapse: a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy; prevents access or progress; impose a blockade on; obstruct access to

sculpt collapse: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"; create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"

mural collapse: a painting that is applied to a wall surface; of or relating to walls; "mural painting"

scaffold collapse: a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers; a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded); provide with a scaffold for support; "scaffold the building before painting it"

chronology collapse: the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events; a record of events in the order of their occurrence; an arrangement of events in time

restraint collapse: the of act controlling by restraining someone or something; "the unlawful restraint of trade"; a device that retards something's motion; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted"; discipline in personal and social activities; "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself"; a rule or condition that limits freedom; "legal restraints"; "restraints imposed on imports"

enclave collapse: an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

frustration collapse: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts; a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"; the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

trauma collapse: an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

close up collapse: very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed"; refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached"; unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella"; cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"

stencil collapse: device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern; mark or print with a stencil

barricade collapse: a barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy); "they stormed the barricade"; block off with barricades; prevent access to by barricading; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"; render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

biofeedback collapse: a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them

group therapy collapse: psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist; interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic

functional collapse: designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture"; involving or affecting function rather than physiology; "functional deafness"; designed for or adapted to a function or use; "functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical"; "functional architecture"; fit or ready for use or service; "the toaster was still functional even after being dropped"; "the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable"; "an operational aircraft"; "the dishwasher is now in working order"; relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure; "the problem now is not a constitutional one; it is a functional one"; "delegates elected on a functional rather than a geographical basis"

pleasure principle collapse: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

forbid collapse: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

logic collapse: reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"; a system of reasoning; the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation; "economic logic requires it"; "by the logic of war"; the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations; the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference

formalize collapse: make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"

enumerate collapse: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"

strangulation collapse: (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"; the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage

dumbbell collapse: an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle; an ignorant or foolish person

engraving collapse: making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them; a block or plate that has been engraved; a print made from an engraving

intellectual collapse: a person who uses the mind creatively; appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"; of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"; of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"

ax collapse: an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle; terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

basalt collapse: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene

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