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answer collapse: a nonverbal reaction; "his answer to any problem was to get drunk"; "their answer was to sue me"; the principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims; a statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"; the speech act of replying to a question; understand the meaning of; "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"; give the correct answer or solution to; "answer a question"; "answer the riddle"; react to a stimulus or command; "The steering of my new car answers to the slightest touch"; respond to a signal; "answer the door"; "answer the telephone"; give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument); "The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution"; reply or respond to; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"; be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of; "This may answer her needs"; match or correspond; "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave"; be liable or accountable; "She must answer for her actions"

soften collapse: become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"; make soft or softer; "This liquid will soften your laundry"; make (images or sounds) soft or softer

shrine collapse: a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person

impanel collapse

truncate collapse: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"; make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"; replace a corner by a plane

cheapen collapse

slake collapse: make less active or intense

tomb collapse

reap collapse: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"; get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

serenity collapse

humiliate collapse: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

deplete collapse

diet collapse: the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods); the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal); a prescribed selection of foods; a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan); eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight; follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

hugger mugger collapse: act stealthily or secretively

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"

curtains collapse

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

quietism collapse: a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

suffocate collapse: feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"; be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"; suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"; become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"; impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"

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

ataraxy collapse

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

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)

reliquary collapse: a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

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

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"

nirvana collapse: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

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

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

burial collapse: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

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"

rest collapse: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"; a support on which things can be put; "the gun was steadied on a special rest"; a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration; euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"; a state of inaction; "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon"; be at rest; take a short break from one's activities in order to relax; give a rest to; "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for a moment"; not move; be in a resting position; put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying; "Rest your head on my shoulder"; be inactive, refrain from acting; "The committee is resting over the summer"; be inherent or innate in;

enervate collapse: weaken mentally or morally

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

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

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"

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