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callous collapse: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"; make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

ear collapse: the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium; good hearing; "he had a keen ear"; "a good ear for pitch"; attention to what is said; "he tried to get her ear"; fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

sturdy collapse: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"

detection collapse: the act of detecting something; catching sight of something; a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet"; the perception that something has occurred or some state exists; "early detection can often lead to a cure"

near collapse: not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call"; closely resembling the genuine article; "near beer"; "a dress of near satin"; near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the fire"

complicated collapse: difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

hardened collapse: converted to solid form (as concrete); protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos"

candy collapse: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

burdensome collapse: not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"

trial collapse: (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"; (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"; trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"; an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"; (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"

callus collapse: (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid; bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone; form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused"; cause a callus to form on; "The long march had callused his feet"

vicissitude collapse: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another); a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"

bouncing collapse: marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance"; vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"

flinty collapse: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"; containing flint

tooth and nail collapse: with force and ferocity; "she fought tooth and nail"

abstruse collapse: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

scrambled collapse: thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled plan of action"

investigation collapse: the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

robust collapse: rough and crude; "a robust tale"; physically strong; strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity; "the experiment yielded robust results"; "a robust faith"

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