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developer collapse: photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film; someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)

unearth collapse: bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President"

disjoint collapse: having no elements in common; separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it"

snub collapse: a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"; unusually short; "a snub nose"

arrears collapse: an unpaid overdue debt; the state of being behind in payments; "an account in arrears"

instantaneous collapse: occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"

pinched collapse: as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"

aphoristic collapse: terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

minus collapse: involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"; on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"

bring up collapse: cause to come to a sudden stop; "The noise brought her up in shock"; promote from a lower position or rank; "This player was brought up to the major league"

foreshorten collapse: shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

distressed collapse: facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"

boil down collapse: be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"

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

missing collapse: not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"

swift collapse: a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight; an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745); United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)

sequester collapse: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"; undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"; requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

stall collapse: a tactic used to mislead or delay; a booth where articles are displayed for sale; a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed; seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater; a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"; deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"; come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"; cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"; cause an airplane to go into a stall; experience a stall in flight, of airplanes; put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"

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