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inflate collapse: fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"; exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"; increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"; cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"

overdraw collapse: draw more money from than is available; "She overdrew her account"

turn on collapse: become hostile towards; "The dog suddenly turned on the mailman"; produce suddenly or automatically; "Turn on the charm"; "turn on the waterworks"

proliferate collapse: cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms"; grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"

choir collapse: the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave; a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony; a family of similar musical instrument playing together; sing in a choir

thrill collapse: something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation; "the thrills of space travel"; feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine"; cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input; "The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow"

time-honored collapse: acceptable for a long time; "time-honored customs"; honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored institutions"

duration collapse: continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required"; the property of enduring or continuing in time; the period of time during which something continues

big collapse: conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"; given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"; generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"; marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"; significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"; loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"; feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"; in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"; on a grand scale; "think big"; extremely well; "his performance went over big"

fossilized collapse: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"

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"

antique collapse: any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity; out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"; made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"; give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture"; shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"

trough collapse: a long narrow shallow receptacle; a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

contemporary collapse: a person of nearly the same age as another; belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"; characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

go up collapse: be erected, built, or constructed; "New buildings are going up everywhere"

shrivel collapse: wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

intumescence collapse: the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water); swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)

mellow collapse: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"; having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"; having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit"; make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"; become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed"; soften, make mellow; "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"

comprehension collapse: an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"

heave collapse: throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"; an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves"; the act of lifting something with great effort; (geology) a horizontal dislocation; an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"; bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"; utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"; lift or elevate; throw with great effort; move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

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)

pension collapse: a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working; grant a pension to

augment collapse: enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"; grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"

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