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attend collapse: give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"; take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business"; be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?"; to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result; "Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation"

invariably collapse: in an invariable manner; "invariably, he would forget his keys"

discount collapse: the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise; give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"

reel collapse: a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps; winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod; a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector; music composed for dancing a reel; wind onto or off a reel

throb collapse: an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); "he felt a throbbing in his head"; a deep pulsating type of pain; pulsate or pound with abnormal force; "my head is throbbing"; "Her heart was throbbing"

damp collapse: a slight wetness; slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears"; restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere"

hap collapse: an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"

manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

reappear collapse: appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago"

pattern collapse: a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"; form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

bleach collapse: the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent); the whiteness that results from removing the color from something; "a complete bleach usually requires several applications"; make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry"; remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

diminutive collapse: a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness

run into collapse: collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole"; be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"

chronology collapse: the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events; a record of events in the order of their occurrence; an arrangement of events in time

funk collapse: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar; United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967); a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk"

diffuse collapse: spread out; not concentrated in one place; "a large diffuse organization"; lacking conciseness; "a diffuse historical novel"; move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"

retail collapse: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale; selling or related to selling direct to the consumer; "retail trade"; "retail business"; "retail price"; at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only"; sell on the retail market; be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"

hand over collapse: to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"

bring round collapse: cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"

spoke collapse: support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

arise collapse: result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"; rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"; originate or come into being; "a question arose"

hinge collapse: a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other; a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"; attach with a hinge

twitch collapse: a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition; make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion; "his face is twitching"; move or pull with a sudden motion

annals collapse: a chronological account of events in successive years; reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

get to collapse: arrive at the point of; "She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long"

like clockwork collapse: with regularity and precision; "the rocket launch went off like clockwork"

gnarl collapse: twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

halftone collapse: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration; a print obtained from photoengraving

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