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intolerance collapse: impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"; unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs

oyster collapse: marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters; a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl; gather oysters, dig oysters

kneel collapse: supporting yourself on your knees; rest one's weight on one's knees; "In church you have to kneel during parts of the service"

lynch collapse: kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

askew collapse: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"; turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"

kneel to collapse

stare down collapse: overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring; "He simply stared down his opponent"

wrest collapse: obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"

systole collapse: the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery

guywire collapse

strengthener collapse: a device designed to provide additional strength; "the cardboard backing was just a strengthener"; "he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook"

make love collapse

snarl collapse: an angry vicious expression; a vicious angry growl; make more complicated or confused through entanglements; make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us"

wrist collapse: a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

genuflect collapse: bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image

foundation garment collapse: a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

corset collapse: a woman's close-fitting foundation garment; dress with a corset

dogmatism collapse

stare collapse: a fixed look with eyes open wide; fixate one's eyes; "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"

wishbone collapse: the furcula of a domestic fowl

brassiere collapse: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts

bra collapse

all over collapse: over the entire area; "the wallpaper was covered all over with flowers"; "she ached all over"; "everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot"

through and through collapse

gaze collapse: a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"; look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"

salaam collapse: a deep bow; a Muslim form of salutation; greet with a salaam

giblets collapse

cape collapse: a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter; a strip of land projecting into a body of water

in all respects collapse

compression collapse: applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required; the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

goggle collapse: look with amazement; look stupidly

overall collapse: (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps); a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work; involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"; including everything; "the overall cost"; "the total amount owed"

crouch collapse: the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body; bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

ad infinitum collapse: to infinity; without or seemingly without limit; "talked on and on ad infinitum"

crane collapse: large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world; lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis; United States poet (1899-1932); United States writer (1871-1900); stretch (the neck) so as to see better; "The women craned their necks to see the President drive by"

ankle collapse: a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus

walking stick collapse: any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies; a stick carried in the hand for support in walking

suture collapse: thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together; a seam used in surgery; an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull); join with a suture; "suture the wound after surgery"

drumstick collapse: a stick used for playing a drum; the lower joint of the leg of a fowl

constriction collapse: the action or process of compressing; a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"; tight or narrow compression; a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

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