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shackle collapse: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner); a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar

niggardly collapse

close collapse: marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts"; rigorously attentive; strict and thorough; "close supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept a close watch on expenditures"; at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other; "close to noon"; "how close are we to town?"; "a close formation of ships"; close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close resemblance"; inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"; crowded; "close quarters"; (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game"; used of hair or haircuts; "a close military haircut"; fitting closely but comfortably; "a close fit"; confined to specific persons; "a close secret"; strictly confined or guarded; "kept under close custody"; of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave"; in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard"; finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"; complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building"; move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window"; become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang"; fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?"; bar access to; "Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours"; bring together all the elements or parts of; "Management closed ranks"; draw near; "The probe closed with the space station"; come together, as if in an embrace; "Her arms closed around her long lost relative"; change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact; cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop; engage at close quarters; "close with the enemy"; finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.); "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board"; be priced or listed when trading stops; "The stock market closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59 last night"

crunch collapse: the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"; a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources); "an end-of-the year crunch"; "a financial crunch"; make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"; chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"; press or grind with a crunching noise

mark time collapse

clear away collapse

ascertained collapse: discovered or determined by scientific observation; "variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors"; "the discovered behavior norms"; "discovered differences in achievement"; "no explanation for the observed phenomena"

observable collapse

dyspeptic collapse: a person suffering from indigestion; suffering from dyspepsia

to the point collapse

impervious collapse: not admitting of passage or capable of being affected; "a material impervious to water"; "someone impervious to argument"

axiomatic collapse: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"; of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens; containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom"

chintzy collapse

sure thing collapse

parochialism collapse: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish

truncated collapse

spruce collapse: any coniferous tree of the genus Picea; light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

hold down collapse: restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"; keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"

predicament collapse: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"

disengaged collapse

stingy collapse: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

crack down on collapse

hardship collapse: something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"

shroud collapse: a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute; wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses"; cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"; form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle"

unconquerable collapse: not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome; "a tribute to his courage...and his unconquerable will"- R.E.Danielson; "faced unconquerable difficulties"

stultify collapse: cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"; prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"

soused collapse

whelm collapse

disunite collapse

relegate collapse: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"; refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

picket collapse: a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake; a wooden strip forming part of a fence; a vehicle performing sentinel duty; a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack; a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work; fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"; serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"

go up collapse: be erected, built, or constructed; "New buildings are going up everywhere"

visible collapse: obvious to the eye; "a visible change of expression"; capable of being seen; or open to easy view; "a visible object"; "visible stars"; "mountains visible in the distance"; "a visible change of expression"; "visible files"

embarrassment collapse: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"; the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public; the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"

sequester collapse: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"; undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"; requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

confinement collapse: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them; the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"

bang collapse: a fringe of hair that is cut short squarely across the forehead; a sudden very loud noise; the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"; directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"; move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged around the house"; to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed"

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