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antithesis collapse: the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance; exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"

ivory collapse: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

steely collapse: resembling steel in hardness; resembling steel as in hardness; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack"

discountenance collapse: show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"; look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

mousy collapse: quiet and timid and ineffectual; of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"; infested with mice

membrane collapse: a thin pliable sheet of material; a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals

upstage collapse: the rear part of the stage; of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience"; at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were directed to move upstage"; steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"; move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience; treat snobbishly, put in one's place

chalky collapse: of something having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"

gold collapse: something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.; "the child was as good as gold"; "she has a heart of gold"; great wealth; "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson; coins made of gold; a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia; made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"

bicentennial collapse: the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it); of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years; "bicentennial celebration"

ashen collapse: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"; made of wood of the ash tree

mime collapse: a performance using gestures and body movements without words; an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression; act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"

outwit collapse: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

avert collapse: turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered"

buffalo collapse: meat from an American bison; a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls); intimidate or overawe

oratory collapse: addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"

bilk collapse: evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"; cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

guinea collapse: a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958; a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings

plate collapse: dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten; a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners); a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic; a shallow receptacle for collection in church; structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage; a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper); a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded; the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube; any flat platelike body structure or part; a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"; the thin under portion of the forequarter; a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly; the quantity contained in a plate; coat with a layer of metal; "plate spoons with silver"

inverse collapse: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"; reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect; opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ; "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

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