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victimize collapse: punish unjustly; deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"; make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"

rout collapse: an overwhelming defeat; cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"; make a groove in; dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"

drab collapse: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"; lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"

incendiary collapse: capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily; "an incendiary agent"; "incendiary bombs"; arousing to action or rebellion; involving deliberate burning of property; "an incendiary fire"

hellion collapse: a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard"

mugger collapse: a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)

persecute collapse: cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

spy collapse: (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors; a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people; "my spies tell me that you had a good time last night"; secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage; "spy for the Russians"; watch, observe, or inquire secretly

monstrosity collapse: something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"

gun collapse: the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "two runners started before the gun"; "a twenty gun salute"; a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel); shoot with a gun

wand collapse: a rod used by a magician or water diviner; a thin supple twig or rod; "stems bearing slender wands of flowers"

killer collapse: a difficulty that is hard to deal with; "that exam was a real killer"; someone who causes the death of a person or animal

pry collapse: be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"; to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"; make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"

fascinate collapse: to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"

smell collapse: the act of perceiving the odor of something; the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents; the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"; emit an odor; "The soup smells good"; smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"; inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense

possess collapse: have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill; "he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East"; enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas; "What possessed you to buy this house?"; "A terrible rage possessed her"

start collapse: a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning); "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen"; advantage gained by an beginning early (as in a race); "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch"; the beginning of anything; "it was off to a good start"; a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game; play in the starting lineup; get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"; get going or set in motion; "We simply could not start the engine"; "start up the computer"; begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!"; bulge outward; "His eyes popped"; begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job"

tiger collapse: large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered; a fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"

hex collapse: an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"; cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

backfire collapse: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker; a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path; a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine; set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire; emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My old car backfires all the time"; come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"

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