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evacuate collapse: excrete or discharge from the body; empty completely; "evacuate the bottle"; create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel); move out of an unsafe location into safety; "After the earthquake, residents were evacuated"; move people from their homes or country

dissuade collapse: turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

federate collapse: united under a central government; unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war"; enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"

tracery collapse: decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs

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

curl collapse: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933); form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"; play the Scottish game of curling; twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"

dash off collapse: write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess"

interpose collapse: introduce; "God interposed death"; be or come between; "An interposing thicket blocked their way"

heave collapse: throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"; an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves"; the act of lifting something with great effort; (geology) a horizontal dislocation; an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"; bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"; utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"; lift or elevate; throw with great effort; move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

hook up collapse: connect or link; "hook up the houses to the gas supply line"; "Hook up the components of the new sound system"

dispose of collapse: deal with or settle; "He disposed of these cases quickly"

divorce collapse: the legal dissolution of a marriage; get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months"

evict collapse: expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"; expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."

hew collapse: strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"; make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"

dogleg collapse: a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway; angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog

blaspheme collapse: speak of in an irreverent or impious manner; "blaspheme God"

delete collapse: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

spook collapse: frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"

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