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syndicate collapse: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities; a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication; sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations; organize into or form a syndicate; join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated"

career collapse: the general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law"; the particular occupation for which you are trained; move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets"

bunch collapse: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle"; a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"; gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

island collapse: a zone or area resembling an island; a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

program collapse: a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation; "the program lasted more than two hours"; a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program"; (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"; an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; "you can't tell the players without a program"; arrange a program of or for; "program the 80th birthday party"; write a computer program

zero collapse: the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale; a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number; indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"; indicating an initial point or origin; of or relating to the null set (a set with no members); adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"; adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

filibuster collapse: a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches; a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes; obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation

millstone collapse: one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain; any load that is difficult to carry

basement collapse: the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage; the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture

whirling collapse: moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion; "a tornado's whirling winds"; "swirling currents"

subgroup collapse: (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group; a distinct and often subordinate group within a group

psychoanalysis collapse: a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

defender collapse: a person who cares for persons or property; a fighter who holds out against attack

hush collapse: (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"; run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals; wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"; become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"; cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"

construction collapse: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"; the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"; the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"; the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

cluck collapse: the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks); make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

obituary collapse: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

shrubbery collapse: a collection of shrubs growing together; an area where a number of shrubs are planted

pestle collapse: a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar; a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone; grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic"

stumble collapse: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"; miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"; walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"; encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

society collapse: an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization; the fashionable elite

gauntlet collapse: a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim; a glove with long sleeve; a glove of armored leather; protects the hand; to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet"

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