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catastrophe collapse: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"

writing collapse: the activity of putting something in written form; "she did the thinking while he did the writing"; the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"; letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"; the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"; (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"

solicitation collapse: the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money); request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children"; an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief"

snail collapse: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell; gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"

hem and haw collapse: utter `hems' and `haws'; indicated hesitation; "He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd"

refrain collapse: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers; resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"

hysteron proteron collapse: the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved; reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')

playbook collapse: a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign; "they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition"; a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays; "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene"; a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)

expressly collapse: with_specific_intentions; for the express purpose; "she needs the money expressly for her patients"; in an explicit manner; "he stated expressly that the needed the money by tomorrow"

adoring collapse: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"; showing adoration

space capsule collapse: a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space

dumb collapse: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness; lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"

mucky collapse: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

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