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cast out collapse

gamble collapse: a risky act or venture; money that is risked for possible monetary gain; play games for money; take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"

gawk collapse

outstrip collapse

team up collapse

profess collapse: state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"; confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"; practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"; take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun"; receive into a religious order or congregation; state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"

pull back collapse: pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows"; move to a rearward position; pull towards the back; "Pull back your arms!"

stand collapse: a defensive effort; "the army made a final stand at the Rhone"; a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance; "a one-night stand"; tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade); a small table for holding articles of various kinds; "a bedside stand"; an interruption of normal activity; a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area; "they cut down a stand of trees"; the position where a thing or person stands; have or maintain a position or stand on an issue; "Where do you stand on the War?"; be available for stud services; "male domestic animals such as stallions serve selected females"; be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!"; put into an upright position; "Can you stand the bookshelf up?"; be in some specified state or condition; "I stand corrected"; hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright; "I am standing my ground and won't give in!"; be tall; have a height of; copula; "She stands 6 feet tall"; be in effect; be or remain in force; "The law stands!"; remain inactive or immobile; "standing water"; occupy a place or location, also metaphorically; "We stand on common ground"

avow collapse: admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

insist collapse: assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"; be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"

back out collapse: move out of a space backwards; "He backed out of the driveway"

predicate collapse: one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements; (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"; affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"; make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"

stalemate collapse: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check; subject to a stalemate

isolate collapse: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"; obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"; separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

bear up collapse: endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain"

planting collapse: putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"; the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"; a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"

protagonist collapse: the principal character in a work of fiction

avoid collapse: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"; refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"

upholder collapse: someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy"

oversee collapse: watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?"

retire collapse: cause to retire; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base"; lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died"; dispose of; as of old clothes; "She finally retired that old coat"; go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68"; withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"; make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal"; withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds

stand for collapse: tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"

enunciate collapse

pension off collapse: let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile"

wed collapse: having been taken in marriage

be collapse: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"; work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"; have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"; have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"; be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"; occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"; to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be"; happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"

federate collapse: united under a central government; unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war"; enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"

canteen collapse: a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers; restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat; a recreation room in an institution; a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen; sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.

contend collapse: maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"; be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"

maintain collapse: state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"

pay collapse: bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later"; give money, usually in exchange for goods or services; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please"; discharge or settle; "pay a debt"; "pay an obligation"; do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"; make a compensation for; "a favor that cannot be paid back"; render; "pay a visit"; "pay a call"; be worth it; "It pays to go through the trouble"

do nothing collapse

drive in collapse: cause a run or runner to be scored; "His line double drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run"; arrive by motorcar; "The star and her manager drive in today from their motor tour across the country"

go with collapse

brook collapse: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"

sustainer collapse

segregate collapse: someone who is or has been segregated; separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"; divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"; separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"

hold together collapse

warrant collapse: a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts; a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities"

provide for collapse

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