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bring round collapse: cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"

prove collapse: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"; prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof; obtain probate of; "prove a will"; take a trial impression of; be shown or be found to be; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"

isolate collapse: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"; obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"; separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

retreat collapse: (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops"; (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset; (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position; a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet; make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"; move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"

hover collapse: hang in the air; fly or be suspended above; move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"; be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"

evacuate collapse: excrete or discharge from the body; empty completely; "evacuate the bottle"; create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel); move out of an unsafe location into safety; "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"; move people from their homes or country

tauten collapse: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"; become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"

brake collapse: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle; an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant; any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants; cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"; stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

retrieve collapse: run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve"

extradite collapse: hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"

extricate collapse: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

rearward collapse: direction toward the rear; "his outfit marched to the rearward of the tank divisions"; directed or moving toward the rear; "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement"

uproot collapse: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"; destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"

segregate collapse: someone who is or has been segregated; separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"; divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"; separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"

comeback collapse: return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity

bridle collapse: the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"; headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control; respond to the reins, as of horses; put a bridle on; "bridle horses"

resound collapse: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"

breech collapse: opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded

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