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turn a somersault

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keel over collapse: turn over and fall; "the man had a heart attack and keeled over"

capsize collapse: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"

overset collapse

somersault collapse: an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return; do a somersault

turn upside down collapse

upturn collapse: an upward movement or trend as in business activity

turn over collapse: do business worth a certain amount of money; "The company turns over ten million dollars a year"

turn inside out collapse

introvert collapse: (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts; turn inside; "He introverted his feelings"

keel collapse: one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability; the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly

overturn collapse: an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"; turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"; cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"

careen collapse: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

turn in collapse: make an entrance by turning from a road; "Turn in after you see the gate"

subvert collapse: destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis"

topple collapse: cause to topple or tumble by pushing

invert collapse: make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"

turn around collapse: get better; "Her performance in school picked up"; cause to get better; "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"

turn down collapse: make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio"; take a downward direction; "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"

disincline collapse

supinate collapse: turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg)

go down collapse: be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"; be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"; be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

turn about collapse

bottom out collapse: hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road"; reach the low point; "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"

apostatize collapse: abandon one's beliefs or allegiances

indispose collapse: cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed"; make unwilling

founder collapse: a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country"; a worker who makes metal castings; stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered"; sink below the surface

wean collapse: gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; "The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"; detach the affections of

turn the tables collapse: cause a complete reversal of the circumstances; "The tables are turned now that the Republicans are in power!"

turn the corner collapse

mutate collapse: undergo mutation; "cells mutate"

rotate collapse: plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"; perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"; cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"; exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

turn into collapse

pirouette collapse: (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet); do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance

swivel collapse: a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin

revolve collapse: turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

turnover collapse: a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling

gyrate collapse: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

transpose collapse: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix; change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"; put (a piece of music) into another key; transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality

head off collapse

turn tail collapse

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