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finespun collapse: developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"; developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"

boyish collapse: befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish grin"; "schoolboyish pranks"

banal collapse: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

limbo collapse: (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals); an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

racking collapse: causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"

lacy collapse: made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"; having open interstices or resembling a web

killing collapse: the act of terminating a life; an event that causes someone to die; a very large profit; very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"

parsimonious collapse: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

prowler collapse: someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

poacher collapse: small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters; a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs); someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

scrawny collapse: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

queenly collapse: having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen; "queenly propriety"; "clad in her queenly raiment"; "Rosetti's queenly portraits of women"

choke collapse: a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine; a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current; breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"; constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing; reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"; be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"; wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"; check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"; fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"

girlish collapse: befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear"

kingly collapse: having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king; "symbolizing kingly power"; "the murder of his kingly guest"

stingy collapse: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

diaphanous collapse: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

beyond collapse: in addition; "agreed to provide essentials but nothing beyond"; farther along in space or time or degree; "through the valley and beyond"; "to the eighth grade but not beyond"; "will be influential in the 1990s and beyond"; on the farther side from the observer; "a pond with a hayfield beyond"

memorialize collapse: address in a memorial; "The President memorialized the heroes of the battle"

crosshatch collapse: shade with multiple crossing lines; "the draftsman crosshatched the area"

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