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modeling collapse: a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied

potshot collapse: a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter); criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration; "reporters took potshots at the mayor"

stone collapse: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"; a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"; United States architect (1902-1978); United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946); United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989); United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893); United States filmmaker (born in 1946); United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946); the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"; an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"; of any of various dull tannish or grey colors; kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"

run off collapse: decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff; leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

lob collapse: the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc; an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc; propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball"

pyramid collapse: a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt; (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases; a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex; increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base; arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid; use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal; enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

garrote collapse: an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation; strangle with an iron collar; "people were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"

holystone collapse: a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship; scrub with a holystone; "holystone the ship's deck"

sheathe collapse: plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh; enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword"; cover with a protective sheathing; "sheathe her face"

flyover collapse: a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground

undulate collapse: having a wavy margin and rippled surface; increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated"

shunt collapse: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body; a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current; a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"; transfer to another track, of trains; provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

brumal collapse: characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep"

wintry collapse: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"

catwalk collapse: narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge); narrow platform; "models displayed clothes on a catwalk at the fashion show"

algid collapse: chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure"

cathartic collapse: strongly laxative; emotionally purging (of e.g. art); emotionally purging

altarpiece collapse: a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table

glaucoma collapse: increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor; damages the optic disc and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness)

trachoma collapse: a chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue

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"

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