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intend collapse: have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"; design or destine; "She was intended to become the director"

parse collapse: analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

straighten collapse: make straight or straighter; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair"; make straight; get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered"; straighten up or out; make straight

abort collapse: the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed; "I wasted a year of my life working on an abort"; "he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area"; terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion; cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"; terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer"

perorate collapse: deliver an oration in grandiloquent style; conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

enumerate collapse: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"

debug collapse: locate and correct errors in a computer program code; "debug this program"

decompose collapse: separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts; break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

destine collapse: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist"

mediate collapse: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"; occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new"

choose collapse: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"; select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"; see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"

block out collapse: plan where and when songs should be inserted into a theatrical production, or plan a theatrical production in general; indicate roughly; "We sketched out our plan"

naturalize collapse: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year"; make more natural or lifelike; adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting"; explain with reference to nature

sake collapse: a reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"; the purpose of achieving or obtaining; "for the sake of argument"; Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot

anatomize collapse: analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior"; dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease"

desideratum collapse: something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"

become collapse: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"; come into existence; "What becomes has duration"; undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor"; enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

transform collapse: change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"; increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage); change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species; convert (one form of energy) to another; "transform energy to light"; change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"; subject to a mathematical transformation

persevere collapse: be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"

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