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stead collapse: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"

marked collapse: singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate; "a marked man"; strongly marked; easily noticeable; "walked with a marked limp"; "a pronounced flavor of cinnamon"; having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination; "played with marked cards"; "a scar-marked face"; "well-marked roads"

thence collapse: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"; "roads that lead therefrom"; from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom"

sermonize collapse: speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements; "This man always sermonizes"

whereabouts collapse: the general location where something is; "I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime"

specimen collapse: a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"; an example regarded as typical of its class

canton collapse: a small administrative division of a country; divide into cantons, of a country

perspective collapse: the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

sharpener collapse: any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper; "a knife sharpener"

bring round collapse: cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"

vanishing collapse: suddenly disappearing from sight; a sudden or mysterious disappearance; quickly going away and passing out of sight; "all I saw was his vanishing back"

short shrift collapse: brief and unsympathetic treatment; a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"

boundary collapse: the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something; a line determining the limits of an area

tor collapse: a high rocky hill; a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill

heading collapse: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"

bellyful collapse: an undesirable overabundance; "a bellyful of your complaints"

skinful collapse: a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk; "someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful"

sable collapse: marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur; a scarf (or trimming) made of sable; an artist's brush made of sable hairs; the expensive dark brown fur of the marten; of a dark somewhat brownish black

ell collapse: an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building

theme collapse: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"; provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"

bloat collapse: swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas; become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated"; make bloated or swollen; "Hunger bloated the child's belly"

minim collapse: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram; a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters

here collapse: the present location; this place; "where do we go from here?"; in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on Earth"; to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please"; in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail; "what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree"; at this time; now; "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon"

fleur-de-lis collapse: (heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris

signify collapse: convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"; make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"

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