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ignore collapse: be ignorant of or in the dark about; refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"; fail to notice

violate collapse: destroy; "Don't violate my garden"; "violate my privacy"; fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax"

look down upon collapse

nullity collapse: something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity)

trample collapse: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet"; injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"

abolish collapse: do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

despise collapse

deride collapse: treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"

invalidate collapse: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"; show to be invalid; declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

dump on collapse

nothing collapse: a nonexistent thing; a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"; in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

scorn collapse

nix collapse

contemn collapse: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

NG collapse

hang fire collapse

set about collapse: begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project"

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!"

launch into collapse

fall through collapse: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"

hold in contempt collapse

move into collapse

begin collapse: Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992); set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"; begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began; begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"; achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"; begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"; have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"; have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"; have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"; be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"