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ending collapse: the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"; event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"

stabilize collapse: make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices"; become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized"

appealing collapse: able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing"; expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"

prolong collapse: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"; lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"

stimulating collapse: rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion"

attraction collapse: the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"; a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees"; an entertainment that is offered to the public; the force by which one object attracts another

exterminate collapse: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

starve collapse: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"; deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"; deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"; be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

lay over collapse: interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

chloroform collapse: a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"; anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"

vegetate collapse: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along"; grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed"; grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously"; produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously"; establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house"; lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind

tantalizing collapse: very pleasantly inviting; "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"; arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; "a tantalizing taste of success"

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

pacify collapse: fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

exotic collapse: strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"

tent collapse: a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek"

soothe collapse: cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"

teasing collapse: playful vexation; "the parody was just a form of teasing"; arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile"

wink collapse: closing one eye quickly as a signal; signal by winking; "She winked at him"; force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears"

dissolution collapse: the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations); separation into component parts

dying collapse: in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization"

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