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join battle collapse: engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined"

saturation point collapse: (chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor

roller collapse: a grounder that rolls along the infield; pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground; Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers; a cylinder that revolves; a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate); a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

trough collapse: a long narrow shallow receptacle; a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

cold wave collapse: a wave of unusually cold weather

plethora collapse

compete collapse: compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

militate against collapse

strive against collapse

wave collapse: a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"; a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair; the act of signaling by a movement of the hand; (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth; one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water); something that rises rapidly; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right"; a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch; a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures); "a heat wave"; an undulating curve; set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"

waving collapse

vie collapse

antagonize collapse: provoke the hostility of; "Don't antagonize your boss"; act in opposition to

bore collapse: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes; diameter of a tube or gun barrel; a person who evokes boredom; make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; cause to be bored

ebb collapse: the outward flow of the tide; a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number); fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away"; hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb; flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon"

dog days collapse: the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

congestion collapse: excessive crowding; "traffic congestion"; excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part

reluct collapse

surfeit collapse: the state of being more than full; indulge (one's appetite) to satiety; supply or feed to surfeit

saturation collapse: the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid; chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue; a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence

rip collapse: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current; an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"; criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"; cut (wood) along the grain; move precipitously or violently; "The tornado ripped along the coast"

repletion collapse: eating until excessively full; the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more

flood collapse: a large flow; the act of flooding; filling to overflowing; light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography; the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"; an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"; cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"; become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"; supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

carrier collapse: (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring; a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like; a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something; "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"; a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages; (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others; a boy who delivers newspapers; someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"; an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

crest collapse: a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal; (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet; the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave; reach a high point; "The river crested last night"

reinforcement collapse: information that makes more forcible or convincing; "his gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints"

grapple with collapse

surge collapse: a sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime"; see one's performance improve; "He levelled the score and then surged ahead"

signalize collapse: make conspicuous or noteworthy; point out carefully and clearly; provide with traffic signals; "signalize a busy intersection"

chop collapse: a grounder that bounces high in the air; a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball; a jaw; "I'll hit him on the chops"; a small cut of meat including part of a rib; the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide); "the boat headed into the chop"; hit sharply; cut with a hacking tool; cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat"; strike sharply, as in some sports; move suddenly

summer collapse: the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore"; spend the summer; "We summered in Kashmir"

barber collapse: a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade; United States composer (1910-1981); perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of

period collapse: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"; the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"; a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"; one of three periods of play in hockey games; the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon; a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"

fair weather collapse: moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities

beat the drum collapse

peak collapse: the top point of a mountain or hill; "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the summit of Monadnock"; of a period of maximal use or demand or activity; "at peak hours the streets traffic is unbelievable"; to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929"

temblor collapse

hand clasp collapse

hello collapse: an expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos"

earthquake collapse: shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity; a disturbance that is extremely disruptive; "selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees"

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