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

quake collapse

ray collapse: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins; any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish; a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence; (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point; emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"

frequency collapse: the number of observations in a given statistical category; the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations; the number of occurrences within a given time period; "the frequency of modulation was 40 cycles per second"; "the frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older"

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"

sump collapse: a well or other hole in which water has collected; an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine

grub collapse: a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects; search about busily

lance collapse: open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"; pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight; move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"

dredge collapse: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed; remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water; search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost; cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it"

rise collapse: the act of changing location in an upward direction; an increase in cost; "they asked for a 10% rise in rates"; a growth in strength or number or importance; a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"; increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"; rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"; exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"; become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"; move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"; come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"; increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"; rise up; "The building rose before them"

tunnel collapse: a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); "the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection"; force a way through

affluent collapse: an affluent person; a person who is financially well off; "the so-called emerging affluents"; having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"

shelf collapse: a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects

streaming collapse: exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts; "his streaming face"; "her streaming eyes"

discontent collapse: make dissatisfied

penetration collapse: the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women"; the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman; an attack that penetrates into enemy territory; the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target); the ability to make way into or through something; "the greater penetration of the new projectiles will result in greater injuries"; clear or deep perception of a situation

flow collapse: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression; the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases); any uninterrupted stream or discharge; the amount of fluid that flows in a given time; cover or swamp with water; move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"; cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"; be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"

drill collapse: (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms; similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored; a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows); train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons; undergo military training or do military exercises; learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"; teach by repetition

fluent collapse: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"

returns collapse

flowing collapse: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the concert hall"

honeycomb collapse: a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees; a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae; make full of cavities, like a honeycomb; penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization"; carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed"

reservoir collapse: tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil); lake used to store water for community use; anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"; a large or extra supply of something; "a reservoir of talent"

gore collapse: a triangular piece of cloth; coagulated blood from a wound; Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948); wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument; cut into gores; "gore a skirt"

quarry collapse: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble"

reef collapse: a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water; reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef; roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area; lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"

dike collapse: enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water"

upheaval collapse: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

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"

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