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limber up collapse: make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity

unready collapse: not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond; "she cursed her unready tongue"

aroused collapse: (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"; aroused to action; "the aroused opposition"; feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny"; brought to a state of great tension; "all wound up for a fight"

prepare collapse: to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech"; lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord; "prepare the discord in bar 139"; prepare (someone) for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior"

handy collapse: United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958); skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"; easy to use; "a handy gadget"

brutal collapse: (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

roughly collapse: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"; with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"

drawing collapse: act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well"; the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned drawing from his father"; a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"; an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"

susceptible collapse: (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"; easily impressed emotionally

clairvoyant collapse: someone who has the power of clairvoyance; foreseeing the future; perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses

instantaneous collapse: occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"

black humor collapse: the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect

slavish collapse: abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"; blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

filled collapse: (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with; "theirs was a house filled with laughter"; "a large hall filled with rows of desks"; "fog-filled air"; (of time) taken up; "well-filled hours"; of purchase orders that have been filled

tearful collapse: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"

sculpt collapse: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"; create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice"

coordinated collapse: being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements; "she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy; operating as a unit; "a unified utility system"; "a coordinated program"; intentionally matched; "curtains and walls were color coordinated"

instant collapse: in or of the present month; "your letter of the 10th inst"

ore collapse: a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona; a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

refined collapse: (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"; freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare

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