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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"

scribble collapse: an aimless drawing; poor handwriting; write down quickly without much attention to detail; write carelessly

rhomboid collapse: any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade; a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal; shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid; "rhomboidal shapes"

goffer collapse: an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats; an iron used to press pleats and ridges; a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

wipe out collapse: eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

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

in order collapse: in a state of proper readiness or preparation or arrangement; "everything is in order for their arrival"

sprain collapse: a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments

crosshatch collapse: shade with multiple crossing lines; "the draftsman crosshatched the area"

strike out collapse: set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own"; put out or be put out by a strikeout; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning"; make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body; be unsuccessful in an endeavor; "The candidate struck out with his health care plan"

lithograph collapse: duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern; a print produced by lithography; make by lithography

crackle collapse: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface; the sharp sound of snapping noises; having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"; to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"

corrugation collapse: the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves; a ridge on a corrugated surface

bear down collapse: exert a force or cause a strain upon; "This tax bears down on the lower middle class"; pay special attention to; "The lectures bore down on the political background"; exert full strength; "The pitcher bore down"; contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery

corn collapse: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"; ears of corn grown for human food; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times; (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland); the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal; a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes; preserve with salt; "corned beef"; feed (cattle) with corn

belch collapse: a reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth

caw collapse: the sound made by corvine birds; utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens

watermark collapse: a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light

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