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destroy collapse: put to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"; do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"

menace collapse: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"; something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"; act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"; express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"

prejudice collapse: influence (somebody's) opinion in advance; disadvantage by prejudice

harass collapse: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"; annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

consume collapse: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"; use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"; spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"; destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

blight collapse: any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting; a state or condition being blighted; cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"

violate collapse: destroy; "Don't violate my garden"; "violate my privacy"; fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax"

dissolve collapse: (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out; declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"; come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"; bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"; become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"; pass into a solution; "The sugar quickly dissolved in the coffee"; cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"; become weaker; "The sound faded out"; cause to fade away; "dissolve a shot or a picture"; lose control emotionally; "She dissolved into tears when she heard that she had lost all her savings in the pyramid scheme"; cause to lose control emotionally; "The news dissolved her into tears"

outrage collapse: a wantonly cruel act

ravage collapse: (usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease"

wreak collapse

desolate collapse: crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"

perpetrate collapse: perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"

torture collapse: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"; unbearable physical pain; subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

visit upon collapse

damn collapse: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"; used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!"

curse collapse: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"; a severe affliction; utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"; wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"; heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"

wound collapse: the act of inflicting a wound; a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat; a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound"; "deep in her breast lives the silent wound"; "The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it"--Robert Frost; any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision; put in a coil

gut collapse: a narrow channel or strait; remove the guts of; "gut the sheep"; empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building"

pull off collapse: cause to withdraw; "We pulled this firm off the project because they overcharged"; be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

poison collapse: anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism"; any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism; administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"; add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her"; kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband"; kill by its poison; "This mushrooms can poison"; spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office"

wrack and ruin collapse

confound collapse

devastation collapse: an event that results in total destruction; the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; "her departure left him in utter devastation"; the state of being decayed or destroyed

bumble collapse: speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

mayhem collapse: the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person

defile collapse: a narrow pass (especially one between mountains); place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"

abuse collapse: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"; use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"; use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"

bring off collapse

cry havoc collapse

torment collapse: torment emotionally or mentally; treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

doom collapse: an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"; make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

blunder upon collapse

bring to pass collapse

inflict collapse: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"

taint collapse

bloodbath collapse: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"

carnage collapse

deflower collapse: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village"

corrupt collapse: lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"; touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"; containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"; alter from the original; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

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