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minus collapse: involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"; on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"

nonexistent collapse: not having existence or being or actuality; "chimeras are nonexistent"

stream of consciousness collapse: the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience; a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy

digital collapse: of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits; "digital computer"; relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital examination"; displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital clock"; "digital readout"

competitive collapse: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"; subscribing to capitalistic competition; involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position"

negation collapse: (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false; the speech act of negating; a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement

unwilling collapse: in spite of contrary volition; not disposed or inclined toward; "an unwilling assistant"

pathogen collapse: any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

anaerobe collapse: an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live

bacillus collapse: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

streptococcus collapse: spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis

staphylococcus collapse: spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections

spirochete collapse: parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals

behavior collapse: manner of acting or controlling yourself; (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation; the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances; "the behavior of small particles can be studied in experiments"

jangling collapse: like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"

opponent collapse: characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies"

photocopy collapse: a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work; reproduce by xerography

disavow collapse: refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

repudiation collapse: the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"; refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"; rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"

abolish collapse: do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

declension collapse: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"; the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

aquatint collapse: a method of etching that imitates the broad washes of a water color; an etching made by a process that makes it resemble a water color; etch in aquatint

polarization collapse: the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration; the condition of having or giving polarity

pessimistic collapse: expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds

undercut collapse: a cut made underneath to remove material; a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall; the material removed by a cut made underneath; cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall; strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot; cut away the underpart of; "undercut a vein of ore"; cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief

lithograph collapse: duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern; a print produced by lithography; make by lithography

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