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dehumidify collapse: make less humid; "The air conditioner dehumidifies the air in the summer"

towel collapse: a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping; wipe with a towel; "towel your hair dry"

sell short collapse: underestimate the real value or ability of; "Don't sell your students short--they are just shy and don't show off their knowledge"; sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit

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"

rooted collapse: having roots of a specified sort

rebuke collapse: an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"

grate collapse: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire; a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air; a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something; make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"; reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface; "grate carrots and onions"; "grate nutmeg"; furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace"

embark collapse: set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career"; go on board

bell collapse: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck; the flared opening of a tubular device; the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells"; United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922); English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961); a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905); the shape of a bell; (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.; attach a bell to; "bell cows"

leer collapse: a suggestive or sneering look or grin; look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression; "The men leered at the young women on the beach"

impugned collapse

ignited collapse: set afire; "the ignited paper"; "a kindled fire"

lay hands on collapse: manage with the hands

sorehead collapse: someone who is peevish or disgruntled

personalize collapse: make personal or more personal; "personalized service"

open up collapse: talk freely and without inhibition

activist collapse: advocating or engaged in activism

ball of fire collapse

doer collapse

man of action collapse: someone inclined to act first and think later

winnow collapse: the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"; blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"; separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"; blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass"

commemorate collapse: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"; be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"; mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the anniversary of his death"

thermal collapse: rising current of warm air; caused by or designed to retain heat; "a thermal burn"; "thermal underwear"; of or relating to a hot spring; "thermal water"; relating to or associated with heat; "thermal movements of molecules"; "thermal capacity"; "thermic energy"; "the caloric effect of sunlight"

sun worshiper collapse: someone who worships the sun

move collapse: the act of deciding to do something; "he didn't make a move to help"; "his first move was to hire a lawyer"; (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game; the act of changing your residence or place of business; "they say that three moves equal one fire"; go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"; progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting"; propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting; have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?"; arouse sympathy or compassion in; "Her fate moved us all"; move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"; cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"; change residence, affiliation, or place of employment; "We moved from Idaho to Nebraska"; "The basketball player moved from one team to another"; dispose of by selling; "The chairman of the company told the salesmen to move the computers"; live one's life in a specified environment; "she moves in certain circles only"

anatomize collapse: analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior"; dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease"

come down on collapse

water collapse: a fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"; binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent; once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles); secrete or form water, as tears or saliva; "My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner"; "His eyes watered"; supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields"; fill with tears; "His eyes were watering"; provide with water; "We watered the buffalo"

ginger collapse: pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery; dried ground gingerroot; perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems; (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten"; add ginger to in order to add flavor; "ginger the soup"

liven collapse

endeavor collapse: attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

delirium collapse: a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

sleigh bell collapse: bell attached to a sleigh, or to harness of horse pulling a sleigh

doorbell collapse: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

stamp out collapse: end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"

found collapse: food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked for $30 and found"; come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found department"

filibuster collapse: a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches; a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes; obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation

keynote collapse: a fundamental or central idea; the principal theme in a speech or literary work; set the keynote of; "Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection"; give the keynote address to (an audience)

epitomize collapse

sew up collapse

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