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go all out collapse: perform a task as well as possible; "The cast gives full measure every night"

beam collapse: long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction; (nautical) breadth amidships; a column of light (as from a beacon); a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation; smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression; express with a beaming face or smile; "he beamed his approval"

cannonade collapse: intense and continuous artillery fire; attack with canons or artillery

luxuriate collapse: thrive profusely or flourish extensively; become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

vegetate collapse: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"; grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"; grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"; produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"; establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house"; lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind

blaze collapse: a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"; a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly"; indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"; move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space"; burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"; shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"

mortar collapse: a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range; a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle; used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall; plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"

cathode ray collapse: a beam of electrons emitted by the cathode of an electrical discharge tube

stick out collapse: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

summer collapse: the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore"; spend the summer; "We summered in Kashmir"

bring down collapse: cause to be enthusiastic; "Her playing brought down the house"

stand out collapse: be stubborn in resolution or resistance; steer away from shore, of ships

pullulate collapse: breed freely and abundantly; become abundant; increase rapidly

blossom collapse: develop or come to a promising stage; "Youth blossomed into maturity"

overgrow collapse: grow beyond or across; "The ivy overgrew the patio"; become overgrown; "The patio overgrew with ivy"

shoot collapse: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"; a new branch; produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"; measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"; utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"; score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"; fire a shot; hit with a missile from a weapon; throw dice, as in a crap game; variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth"; throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"; send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"; cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"; kill by firing a missile; emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"

burgeon collapse: grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

extrude collapse: form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel"

soar collapse: the act of rising upward into the air; go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced"; fly upwards or high in the sky; rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen"

decapitate collapse: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"

fulminate collapse: a salt or ester of fulminic acid; cause to explode violently and with loud noise; come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"; criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"

chew the fat collapse: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

outgrow collapse: grow too large or too mature for; "I have outgrown these clothes"; "She outgrew her childish habits"; grow faster than

torpedo collapse: armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target; a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead; a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface; an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas); attack or hit with torpedoes

blind collapse: something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"; a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"; people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind"; unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"; not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"; unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan; make dim by comparison or conceal; make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"; render unable to see

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