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close out collapse: terminate; "We closed out our account"; terminate by selling off or disposing of; "He closed out his line of sports cars"

comeback collapse: return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity

get rid of collapse: dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

unlucky collapse: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

breathless collapse: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"; not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest"; tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure"

decline collapse: change toward something smaller or lower; a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"; inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"; go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"; go down; "The roof declines here"

unpremeditated collapse: not prepared or planned in advance; "asked an unpremeditated question"; not premeditated

brittle collapse: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets; having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"; (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured; lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"

writer collapse: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay); a person who is able to write and has written something

shy collapse: a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"; wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"; easily startled or frightened; throw quickly; start suddenly, as from fight

temporal collapse: of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"; not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt; concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"; of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"; of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"; of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"

Western collapse: a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development; a sandwich made from a western omelet; lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"; relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire"; of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch"

journalism collapse: the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media; newspapers and magazines collectively

meal collapse: coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse; the food served and eaten at one time; any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

collaborator collapse: an associate who works with others toward a common goal; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force

shallow collapse: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"; not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"; lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"; become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"; make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

pyramid collapse: a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt; (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases; a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex; increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base; arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid; use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal; enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

brash collapse: offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

debased collapse: lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

imperfect collapse: not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"

inaccurate collapse: not accurate; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer is inaccurate"

trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

retail collapse: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale; selling or related to selling direct to the consumer; "retail trade"; "retail business"; "retail price"; at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only"; sell on the retail market; be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"

crusty collapse: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

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