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flour collapse: fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain; convert grain into flour; cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it"

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

elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

slow up collapse

set in collapse: become established; "winter has set in"; enter a particular state; "Laziness set in"; "After a few moments, the effects of the drug kicked in"; blow toward the shore; "That gale could set in on us with the next high tide"

relieve collapse: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"; alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"; take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"; free from a burden, evil, or distress

ease off collapse

dampen collapse: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"; check; keep in check (a fire); make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"; reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)

harry collapse: make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

tame collapse: flat and uninspiring; brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"; very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"; correct by punishment or discipline

undertake collapse: promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners"; enter upon an activity or enterprise; accept as a charge; accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task"

retard collapse: cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"; be delayed

soothe collapse: cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"

sum up collapse: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

mitigate collapse: make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"

quench collapse: cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"; reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance; satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"; electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device

leaven collapse: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"; a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

vitiate collapse

recapitulate collapse: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"; repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

conquer collapse: overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"

impede collapse: be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"

run into collapse: collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole"; be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"

backwater collapse: any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress; a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"

set back collapse: slow down the progress of; hinder; "His late start set him back"; cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"

run in collapse

enervate collapse: weaken mentally or morally

overwhelm collapse: charge someone with too many tasks; overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

abbreviate collapse: shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

weather collapse: the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"; change under the action or influence of the weather; "A weathered old hut"; sail to the windward of; cause to slope; face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

unify collapse: become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "Will the two Koreas unify?"

get to collapse: arrive at the point of; "She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long"

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

telescope collapse: a magnifier of images of distant objects; make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"; crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

leisurely collapse

summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

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