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plunge collapse: a steep and rapid fall; begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"; cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text"; dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity; "She plunged at it eagerly"; fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

inkling collapse: a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen"

alacrity collapse: liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

coke collapse: street names for cocaine; carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal; become coke; "petroleum oils coke after distillation"

flight collapse: a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; "I took the noon flight to Chicago"; an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"; a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next; passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"; an air force unit smaller than a squadron; a formation of aircraft in flight; a flock of flying birds; fly in a flock; "flighting wild geese"; shoot a bird in flight

phase collapse: (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"; (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"; a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle; any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"; adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"; arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"

mange collapse: a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)

evil eye collapse: a look that is believed to have the power of inflicting harm

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

wheeze collapse: breathing with a husky or whistling sound; (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"; breathe with difficulty

ventilator collapse: a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air

mouthpiece collapse: the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly; the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth; an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks; (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth; a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person; "the mouthpiece of a respirator"; a spokesperson (as a lawyer)

whip collapse: a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object; "the whip raised a red welt"; an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping; (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club; a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit; a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline; strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face"; thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash; "The tall grass whipped in the wind"

exposure collapse: the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"; abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open); presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"; the act of exposing film to light; vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";; aspect re light or wind; "the studio had a northern exposure"; the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"; the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"

encourage collapse: spur on; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"; inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

curl collapse: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933); form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"; play the Scottish game of curling; twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"

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"

roughness collapse: harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"; a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

torrent collapse: a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid); "the houses were swept away in the torrent"

on the spot collapse: without delay or immediately; "we hired her on the spot"; "thought they were going to shoot us down on the spot"; at the place in question; there; "they were on the spot when it happened"; "it had to be decided by the man on the spot"; in a difficult situation; "that question really put him on the spot"

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