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adulterate collapse: mixed with impurities; corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

tenuous collapse: very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"; having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"

bony collapse: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"; very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

squandered collapse: not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

belittled collapse: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"

minimized collapse: reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

decrepit collapse: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

disruptive collapse: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"

faint collapse: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain; lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"; indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"; deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "weak colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"; "a weak pulse"; lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"; weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"; pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

bare collapse: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"; having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"; providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"; lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"; lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"; lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"

gawky collapse: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

scraggy collapse: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

familiar collapse: a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard; a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support; having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"; well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"; within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"

careworn collapse: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

relinquished collapse: given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of relinquished or abandoned land"; that has been withdrawn or retreated from

flimsy collapse: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"; resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"; very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

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