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adulterate collapse: mixed with impurities; corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

tenuous collapse: very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"; having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"

envelope collapse: any wrapper or covering; a flat rectangular paper container for papers; the bag containing the gas in a balloon; the maximum operating capability of a system; "test pilots try to push the envelope"; a natural covering (as by a fluid); "the spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet"; a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves

prickly heat collapse: obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity

wear away collapse: diminish, as by friction; "Erosion wore away the surface"

bony collapse: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"; very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

outrun collapse: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"

attenuated collapse: of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion

shoal collapse: a stretch of shallow water; a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

shallow collapse: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"; not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"; lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"; become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"; make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

gawky collapse: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

erode collapse: remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces"; become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"

trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

scraggy collapse: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

flimsy collapse: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"; resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"; very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

surface collapse: the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"; a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something; "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"; the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"; the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"; on the surface; "surface materials of the moon"; come to the surface

microcosmic collapse: relating to or characteristic of a microcosm; "the microcosmic world of business"

molecular collapse: relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules; "molecular structure"; "molecular oxygen"; "molecular weight is the sum of all the atoms in a molecule"

infinitesimal collapse: (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit; infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"

weed out collapse: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"

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