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slip away collapse: leave furtively and stealthily; "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"

slip of the tongue collapse: an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking

bow out collapse: retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship"

miscalculate collapse: calculate incorrectly; "I miscalculated the number of guests at the wedding"; judge incorrectly; "I had misestimated his determination"

afghan collapse: a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl; a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan

quilt collapse: bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together; create by stitching together; stitch or sew together; "quilt the skirt"

don collapse: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto"; a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov; Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu; a Spanish gentleman or nobleman; the head of an organized crime family

lose collapse: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"; suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"; allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"; fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"; fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"; fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

eiderdown collapse: down of the eider duck; a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider

skulk collapse: move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day"

disappear collapse: get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"

negotiable instrument collapse: an unconditional order or promise to pay an amount of money

anachronism collapse: an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

evade collapse: use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"; practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"

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