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strop collapse: a leather strap used to sharpen razors; sharpen on a strop; "strop razors"

evict collapse: expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"; expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."

drag collapse: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"; clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"; something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"; something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"; the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid; proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"; persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"; pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"; to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"; move slowly and as if with great effort; use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"

superannuate collapse: retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity; become obsolete; declare to be obsolete; retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability

fingering collapse: touching something with the fingers; the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument

unfasten collapse: become undone or untied; "The shoelaces unfastened"; cause to become undone; "unfasten your belt"

hysteresis collapse: the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field

liquidate collapse: settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company"; convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"; eliminate by paying off (debts)

backlash collapse: an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"

fascia collapse: a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc

grease collapse: a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery); lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"

quicken collapse: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"; give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"

unclasp collapse: release from a clasp; "She clasped and unclasped her hands"

fillet collapse: fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members; a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish; a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef; cut into filets; "filet the fish"; decorate with a lace of geometric designs

dislocate collapse: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"; move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"

supplant collapse: take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"

clutch collapse: a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism; "this year's model has an improved clutch"; a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism; "he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other"; a number of birds hatched at the same time; a tense critical situation; "he is a good man in the clutch"

handling collapse: the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means; manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something

cashier collapse: a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant); discharge with dishonor, as in the army; discard or do away with; "cashier the literal sense of this word"

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