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pastiche collapse: a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

a la mode collapse: with ice cream on top or on the side; "we served the apple pie a la mode"

bout collapse: a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers); a period of illness; "a bout of fever"; "a bout of depression"

sabbatical collapse: a leave usually taken every seventh year; of or relating to sabbatical leave; "sabbatical research project"; of or relating to the Sabbath; "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims"

welfare state collapse: a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

bygone collapse: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"; well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

contemporaneous collapse: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"

stagnate collapse: cease to flow; stand without moving; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries"; cause to stagnate; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters"; stand still; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy"

new collapse: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"; having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"; (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"; in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"; not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"; unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"

goldbrick collapse: anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless; a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not; an idle worthless person; a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort

vintage collapse: the oldness of wines; a season's yield of wine from a vineyard

stand still collapse: remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile; "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"

whack collapse: the sound made by a sharp swift blow; hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy"

ground floor collapse: the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building; becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage); "he got in on the ground floor"

rationalize collapse: remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"; think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"; structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"

act as collapse: function as or act like; "This heap of stones will act as a barrier"

work out collapse: come up with; "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client"; be calculated; "The fees work out to less than $1,000"; happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well; "Things worked out in an interesting way"; "Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed"

era collapse: a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods; a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

epoch collapse: a unit of geological time; (astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred

valet collapse: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"; serve as a personal attendant to

brevity collapse: the attribute of being brief or fleeting; the use of brief expressions

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