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verb
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
intj
noun
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
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noun
verb
noun
- The act of collapsing.
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
verb
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- fall apart
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
noun
- a sudden and violent collapse
- flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
- a sound defeat
- (figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
- (geology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
noun
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
- the act of killing
- the absence of life or state of being dead
- the event of dying or departure from life
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a final state
- the time when something ends
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
verb
- (transitive) To cause to collapse.
- fall apart
- fold or collapse
- (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
- (intransitive, figurative) To collapse; to surrender.
- (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
noun
verb
- cause to fall or collapse
- fall apart
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- make ineffective
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- stop operating or functioning
- lose control of one's emotions
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- (ergative) To digest.
- (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
- (informal) Bust down or bust a move; the act of performing energetic, often freestyle or hip-hop moves, frequently during a song’s instrumental break where only drums or bass are playing.
- To separate into a number of parts.
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- (ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To give in or give up: relent, concede, surrender.
- (intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.
- (intransitive) To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- (intransitive) To unexpectedly collapse, physically or in structure.
- (ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
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noun
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- (uncountable) Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- (countable) Anything very thin and flat.
- (countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- (countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- (countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
noun
- the destruction or collapse of something
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- the destruction or collapse of something
- growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
- dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
- A high, flying cloud; a rack.
- Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
- The remains of something; a wreck.
- Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
noun
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- An interval of time between events.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- A falling off, decay or descent.
- (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
- a downward slope or bend
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noun
verb
- fall apart
- fall down, as if collapsing
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fall suddenly and sharply
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
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adj
verb
noun
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
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verb
noun
- Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
- A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- (historical) A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.
- A commentary or annotation of a text.
- (rhetoric) A quotation followed by a commentary.
verb
noun
- (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
- fold or collapse
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- fasten with a buckle or buckles
- To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.
- (figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.
- (obsolete except British, dialectal) To participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.
- To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun etymology 1 sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.
- To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.
- Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.
- (reflexive) To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.
noun
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
- A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
- (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (etymology 1 sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
- (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.
- (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
- (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
- A great conflict or struggle.
- (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- diminish in size or intensity
- come off
- (nautical) To change the direction of the sail so as to point in a direction that is more down wind; to bring the bow leeward.
- (transitive and intransitive) To become detached or to drop from.
- (intransitive) To diminish in size, value, etc. To get worse (in quality).
- (intransitive) To fall into sin; stray.
noun
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
noun
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- fall or sink heavily
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
verb
- fall into decay or ruin
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- undergo decay or decomposition
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
noun
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
- (physics) Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
- (programming) Array decay.
- Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- Continuous decrease of a quantity.
- (biology) Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- (physics) Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
verb
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
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noun
- (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.
- (slang, in the plural) A person's teeth.
- The mask itself.
- (dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
- (music, colloquial) A mistake in performing.
- (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.
- The person wearing the costume.
- A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
- a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes
- a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots
- a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume
verb
- (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
- (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
- (computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
- (politics, by extension) To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
- burst inward
noun
- state of being torn or burst open
- A burst, split, or break.
- the act of making a sudden noisy break
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
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verb
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noun
- The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
- (nuclear physics) The process of radioactive decay.
- The radioactive decay of a single atom.
- A process by which anything disintegrates.
- (geology) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
- in a decomposed state
- a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
- separation into component parts
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- total destruction
noun
- The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
- An act of falling down.
- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
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noun
- The act of collapsing.
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
verb
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- fall apart
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
noun
- a sudden and violent collapse
- flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
- a sound defeat
- (figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
- (geology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
noun
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
- the act of killing
- the absence of life or state of being dead
- the event of dying or departure from life
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a final state
- the time when something ends
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
noun
- the destruction or collapse of something
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- the destruction or collapse of something
- growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
- dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
- A high, flying cloud; a rack.
- Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
- The remains of something; a wreck.
- Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
verb
noun
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- An interval of time between events.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- A falling off, decay or descent.
- (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
- a downward slope or bend
noun
- The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
- The hitting of something extremely hard.
- The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- (informal, idiomatic) An overwhelming victory or success.
- The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- the act of breaking something into small pieces
adj
verb
noun
- Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
- A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- (historical) A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.
- A commentary or annotation of a text.
- (rhetoric) A quotation followed by a commentary.
noun
- state of being torn or burst open
- A burst, split, or break.
- the act of making a sudden noisy break
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
verb
noun
- The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
- (nuclear physics) The process of radioactive decay.
- The radioactive decay of a single atom.
- A process by which anything disintegrates.
- (geology) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
- in a decomposed state
- a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
- separation into component parts
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- total destruction
noun
- The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
- An act of falling down.
- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
verb
noun
verb
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
intj
noun
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
verb
- (transitive) To cause to collapse.
- fall apart
- fold or collapse
- (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
- (intransitive, figurative) To collapse; to surrender.
- (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
noun
verb
- cause to fall or collapse
- fall apart
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- make ineffective
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- stop operating or functioning
- lose control of one's emotions
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- (ergative) To digest.
- (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
- (informal) Bust down or bust a move; the act of performing energetic, often freestyle or hip-hop moves, frequently during a song’s instrumental break where only drums or bass are playing.
- To separate into a number of parts.
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- (ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To give in or give up: relent, concede, surrender.
- (intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.
- (intransitive) To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- (intransitive) To unexpectedly collapse, physically or in structure.
- (ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
noun
verb
noun
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- (uncountable) Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- (countable) Anything very thin and flat.
- (countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- (countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- (countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
noun
- The act of collapsing.
- a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in
- (cricket) Ellipsis of batting collapse.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
- an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
verb
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- fall apart
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- fold or close up
- cause to burst
- lose significance, effectiveness, or value
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- suffer a nervous breakdown
verb
noun
verb
- fall apart
- fall down, as if collapsing
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fall suddenly and sharply
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
noun
verb
noun
- (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
- The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
- fold or collapse
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- fasten with a buckle or buckles
- To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.
- (figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.
- (obsolete except British, dialectal) To participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.
- To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun etymology 1 sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.
- To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.
- Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.
- (reflexive) To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.
noun
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
- A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
- (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (etymology 1 sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
- (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.
- (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
- (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
- A great conflict or struggle.
- (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- diminish in size or intensity
- come off
- (nautical) To change the direction of the sail so as to point in a direction that is more down wind; to bring the bow leeward.
- (transitive and intransitive) To become detached or to drop from.
- (intransitive) To diminish in size, value, etc. To get worse (in quality).
- (intransitive) To fall into sin; stray.
noun
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
noun
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- fall or sink heavily
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
verb
- fall into decay or ruin
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- undergo decay or decomposition
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
noun
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
- (physics) Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
- (programming) Array decay.
- Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- Continuous decrease of a quantity.
- (biology) Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- (physics) Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
verb
- fall into ruin
- deprive of virginity
- reduce to ruins
- destroy or cause to fail
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- reduce to bankruptcy
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- (BDSM) To make (someone) have a ruined orgasm.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- (transitive) To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- (transitive, historical) To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To destroy (e.g. a city) so as to leave ruins.
noun
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
- an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- an event that results in destruction
- destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- a ruined building
- (uncountable) Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- (BDSM) Clipping of ruined orgasm
- The act of ruining something.
- (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
verb
noun
- (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.
- (slang, in the plural) A person's teeth.
- The mask itself.
- (dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
- (music, colloquial) A mistake in performing.
- (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.
- The person wearing the costume.
- A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
- a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes
- a small rectangular block used in playing the game of dominoes; the face of each block has two equal areas that can bear 0 to 6 dots
- a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume
verb
- (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
- (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
- (computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
- (politics, by extension) To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
- burst inward