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wander collapse: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

unmerited collapse: not merited or deserved; "received an unmerited honorary degree"; not merited; "unmerited treatment of a potentially fine subject"

undeserved collapse: not deserved or earned; "has an undeserved reputation as a coward"

inverted collapse: being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"

mistake collapse: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"; an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"; identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"

notate collapse: put into notation, as of music or choreography; "Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps had to be memorized"

menace collapse: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"; something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"; act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"; express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"

untruthful collapse: not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

unacceptable collapse: not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"; not adequate to give satisfaction; "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable"; not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'"

transgression collapse: the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit; the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"; the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

errant collapse: uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"; straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

askew collapse: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"; turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"

nose collapse: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry"; the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he ducked under the nose of the gun"; the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose"; a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals"; the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a good nose"; a symbol of inquisitiveness; "keep your nose out of it"; a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose"; defeat by a narrow margin; push or move with the nose; advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car into the left lane"

operate on collapse: perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"

villainy collapse: a treacherous or vicious act; the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior

osculate collapse: have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"; be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"

falsely collapse: in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely"; in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened"

deceptive collapse: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"; causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

destroy collapse: put to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"; do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

crossroads collapse: a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"

torment collapse: torment emotionally or mentally; treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

slip of the tongue collapse: an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking

baseless collapse: without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

sand collapse: French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876); a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

touch up collapse: alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!"

trespass collapse: entry to another's property without right or permission; a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages; break the law; make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"; enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!"

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