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fly-by-night collapse: a debtor who flees to avoid paying; ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"; of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty; "a fly-by-night operation"

unblessed collapse: not provided with something desirable; "a hovel unblessed with electricity or running water"

backstroke collapse: a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back; swim on one's back

shrug off collapse: minimize the importance of, brush aside; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"

snub collapse: a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"; unusually short; "a snub nose"

compress collapse: a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever); squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"; make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"

negligible collapse: so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"; not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

corruptible collapse: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

stall collapse: a tactic used to mislead or delay; a booth where articles are displayed for sale; a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed; seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater; a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"; deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"; come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"; cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"; cause an airplane to go into a stall; experience a stall in flight, of airplanes; put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"

depressed collapse: having the central portion lower than the margin; "a depressed pustule"; lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"; flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

admission collapse: the act of admitting someone to enter; "the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic"; an acknowledgment of the truth of something

sirloin collapse: the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump

speechless collapse: unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

unattractive collapse: lacking beauty or charm; "as unattractive as most mining regions"; lacking power to arouse interest; "being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect"; not appealing to the senses; "untempting food"

miss collapse: a form of address for an unmarried woman; a failure to hit (or meet or find etc); fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"; fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"; feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"; fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"; fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"; fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"; be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"; be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"

peppery collapse: having the piquant burning taste of peppers; "corn chips with peppery salsa"

speculate collapse: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"; talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"; invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"

mum collapse: secrecy; "mum's the word"; failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"

loin collapse: either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds; a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump

unsuitability collapse: the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

hair collapse: a filamentous projection or process on an organism; any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"; a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"; filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"

short collapse: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed; tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"; (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"; primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"; of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"; not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"; lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"; low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"; so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"; at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"; clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"; without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

concession collapse: a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"; the act of conceding or yielding; a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"

scarce collapse: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"; not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"

baker collapse: someone who bakes bread or cake; someone who bakes commercially

arrested collapse: having development checked or reversed; "arrested tuberculosis"

immature collapse: lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character"; not yet mature; characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior"

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