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blind alley collapse: (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"; a street with only one way in or out

cleaning collapse: the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"

obtuse collapse: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin; of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees; of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex

apparition collapse: an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"; something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"; the appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter"; a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"

insentient collapse: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"

stiff collapse: an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"; not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"; powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"

roadblock collapse: a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

leave no stone unturned collapse: search thoroughly and exhaustively; "The police left no stone unturned in looking for the President's murderer"

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

jog trot collapse: an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot

gray collapse: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black; United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888); American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806); English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

boomerang collapse: a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower; return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang

sedentary collapse: requiring sitting or little activity; "forced by illness to lead a sedentary life"

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

closed collapse: not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"; used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"; blocked against entry; "a closed porch"; (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints; not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"; not open to the general public; "a closed meeting"; with shutters closed

sonar collapse: a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return; "sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging"; "asdic is an acronym for antisubmarine detection investigation committee"

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