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header collapse: a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery"; (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head; a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon; a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters; brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall; horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

hark back collapse: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

turn around collapse: get better; "Her performance in school picked up"; cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

submerge collapse: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"; put under water; "submerge your head completely"; sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

come round collapse: change one's position or opinion; "He came around to our point of view"

go back collapse: belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"

switch over collapse: change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

plop collapse: the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash; with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"; drop with the sound of something falling into water; drop something with a plopping sound

go down collapse: be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"; be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"; be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

cave collapse: a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea; explore natural caves; hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks"

belly flop collapse: a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water

swan dive collapse: a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water

gainer collapse: a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board; a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange"; a person who gains weight

sprawl collapse: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about; sit or lie with one's limbs spread out; go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far"

turnaround collapse: act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip; an area sufficiently large for a vehicle to turn around; time need to prepare a vessel or ship for a return trip

feedback collapse: response to an inquiry or experiment; the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output

founder collapse: a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country"; a worker who makes metal castings; stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered"; sink below the surface

bottom out collapse: hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road"; reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"

subside collapse: wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"; sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"; sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"

turn in collapse: make an entrance by turning from a road; "Turn in after you see the gate"

misfire collapse: an explosion that fails to occur; fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"

loser collapse: a gambler who loses a bet; a contestant who loses the contest

degeneration collapse: passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form; the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

roll in collapse: pour or flow in a steady stream; "mist rolled in from the sea"; "tourists rolled in from the neighboring countryside"

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