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steely collapse: resembling steel in hardness; resembling steel as in hardness; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack"

foothold collapse: a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing

busy collapse: crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"; actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"; (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"; overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"; keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"

hands collapse: (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children"

irreconcilable collapse: impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences"

repeater collapse: (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again; "repeaters can be used in computer networks to extend cabling distances"; a person who repeats; "the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times"

mangle collapse: clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers; alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"; press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

distraught collapse: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"

aborigine collapse: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived; the earliest known inhabitants of a region

revisionism collapse: a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism; any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx

treadle collapse: operate (machinery) by a treadle; tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"

missing link collapse: hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings

frantic collapse: excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"

rigid collapse: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"; designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure; incapable of compromise or flexibility

spatula collapse: a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances; a turner with a narrow flexible blade

clench collapse: squeeze together tightly; "clench one's jaw"; hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"

flowery collapse: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton; of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine"

toehold collapse: a wrestling hold in which the toe is held and the leg is twisted against the joints; a small foothold used in climbing; a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made; "American diplomacy provided a toehold on which to proceed toward peace talks"; "his father gave him a toehold in the oil business"

respiration collapse: the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs; a single complete act of breathing in and out; "thirty respirations per minute"

offal collapse: viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

iron lung collapse: respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration

ironclad collapse: a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor; inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"; sheathed in iron plates for protection

dialectical materialism collapse: the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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