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escalate collapse: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

frogman collapse

seaward collapse: the direction toward the sea; directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast; "from the hill he took a seaward course"; "on the seaward side of the road"; in the direction of the sea; "the sailor looked seaward"

dumps collapse: an informal expression for a mildly depressed state; "in the dumps"; "have the mopes"

liquor collapse: the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked; an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented; a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors"

soporific collapse: a drug that induces sleep; sleep inducing

lift collapse: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"; a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"; the act of giving temporary assistance; one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot; a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg; a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground; remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"; take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"; remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"; remove (hair) by scalping; put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"; rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"; raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"; call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs; make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"; take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"; take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"; move upwards; "lift one's eyes"; pay off (a mortgage)

deletion collapse: the act of deleting something written or printed; the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"; (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

downer collapse

tar collapse: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

hoist collapse: lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects; raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"; raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"; move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"

gazelle collapse: small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes

ribaldry collapse: ribald humor

electricity collapse: keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"; a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons; energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"

well-bred collapse: of good upbringing

undercut collapse: a cut made underneath to remove material; a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall; the material removed by a cut made underneath; cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall; strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot; cut away the underpart of; "undercut a vein of ore"; cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief

tortoise shell collapse

loft collapse: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage; a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept; floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space; lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull; kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball"; propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air"; store in a loft

oral collapse: an examination conducted by word of mouth; a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression; of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located; "the oral cavity"; "the oral mucous membrane"; "the oral surface of a starfish"; using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement"; of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth; "oral hygiene"; "an oral thermometer"; "an oral vaccine"

ocelot collapse: nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat

jaguar collapse: a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis

leopard collapse: large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots; the pelt of a leopard

pigment collapse: dry coloring matter (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint etc); color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph"; acquire pigment; become colored or imbued

padre collapse

levitate collapse: be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"; cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman"

plunger collapse: hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains

colors collapse: a flag that shows its nationality; a distinguishing emblem; "his tie proclaimed his school colors"

diving collapse: an athletic competition that involves diving into water

disprove collapse: prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"

invalidate collapse: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"; show to be invalid; declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"

wavelength collapse: the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave; a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding; "they are on the same wavelength"

radio wave collapse: an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m

scull collapse: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls; each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman; a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward; propel with sculls; "scull the boat"

moire collapse: silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern; (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern

number one collapse: a reference to yourself or myself etc.; `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first

punt collapse: (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the game"; an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole; propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"; kick the ball

overcast collapse: a cast that falls beyond the intended spot; a long whip stitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling; sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books"; sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches; make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"

high noon collapse

upraise collapse

aspiring collapse

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