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galvanize collapse: stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock; cover with zinc; "galvanize steel"

impatient collapse: restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

electrify collapse: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance"; charge (a conductor) with electricity; excite suddenly and intensely; "The news electrified us"

truncate collapse: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"; make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"; replace a corner by a plane

reap collapse: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"; get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

bucket collapse: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top; the quantity contained in a bucket; carry in a bucket; put into a bucket

brake collapse: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle; an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant; any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants; cause to stop by applying the brakes; "brake the car before you go into a curve"; stop travelling by applying a brake; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"

embarrassed collapse: made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"

pittance collapse: an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"

abstracted collapse: taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead

elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

ambush collapse: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise; wait in hiding to attack

incompetence collapse: lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications; inability of a part or organ to function properly

scratch pad collapse: pad for preliminary or hasty writing or notes or sketches etc; "scribbling block" is a British term

ovation collapse: enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause)

sum up collapse: give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

surly collapse: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

recapitulate collapse: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"; repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

traditionalism collapse: adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters); strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings; the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

gruff collapse: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

mind collapse: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"; knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"; attention; "don't pay him any mind"; recall or remembrance; "it came to mind"; your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"; keep in mind; be concerned with or about something or somebody; be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by; "I don't mind your behavior"

impromptu collapse: an extemporaneous speech or remark; "a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated"; a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation

telescope collapse: a magnifier of images of distant objects; make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"; crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

novel collapse: a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"; a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story; pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

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