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obsessed collapse: influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed"

forgery collapse: criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

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

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

hem and haw collapse: utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"

pinchbeck collapse: an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold; serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"

idiosyncratic collapse: peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"

character collapse: (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes; the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer; an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"; a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively"; a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"; a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"; good repute; "he is a man of character"; engrave or inscribe characters on

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"

nonintervention collapse: a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

dinosaur collapse: any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era

dud collapse: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"

erratic collapse: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"; likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster; having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

bilk collapse: evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"; cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

dark horse collapse: a racehorse about which little is known; a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly

flinch collapse: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

immersion collapse: a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

submerge collapse: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"; put under water; "submerge your head completely"; sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

meerschaum collapse: a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum; a white clayey mineral

unbalanced collapse: debits and credits are not equal; being or thrown out of equilibrium

baptize collapse: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized"

groundling collapse: in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section

assumed collapse: accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted"; adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"; taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states"

gum collapse: any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying; exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"; become sticky; cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; "if you gum the tape it is stronger"

case collapse: a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"; a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home; bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"; the actual state of things; "that was not the case"; nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence; a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly"; a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"; an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"; a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"; the quantity contained in a case; a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters"; look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed"

artificial collapse: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"; contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"; not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

quiz collapse: an examination consisting of a few short questions; examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

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