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digressive collapse: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"; of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark"

zigzag collapse: an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions; having short sharp turns or angles; in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path; "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"; travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside"

swerve collapse: the act of turning aside suddenly; turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

aberration collapse: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image; a disorder in one's mental state

insecure collapse: lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"; lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"; not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"; not safe from attack

diversion collapse: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"; an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"; an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

itinerant collapse: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders"; working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"; traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge"

circuitous collapse: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

sheer collapse: directly; "he fell sheer into the water"; straight up or down without a break; cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"

faithless collapse: having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"

light show collapse: a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns

pomp collapse: ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"

bias collapse: a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation; slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold"; cause to be biased; influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"

exhibition collapse: the act of exhibiting; "a remarkable exhibition of musicianship"; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display

sublimation collapse: (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable; (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid

panorama collapse: a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene

mercury collapse: temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly"; the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun; (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes; a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

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