Crossword-Solution: COLLAPSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Collapse | v. i. | To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. |
| Collapse | v. i. | To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance. |
| Collapse | n. | A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. |
| Collapse | n. | A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. |
| Collapse | n. | Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COLLAPSE | anagram | ESCALLOP |
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Sentences with COLLAPSE (5)
The collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in the summer of 1989, a troublesome rural insurgency, and drug-related violence dampen prospects for future growth.
Said, for example, of a program that generates large numbers of meaningless error messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent collapse.
These reform measures were crippled, however, by the widespread civil disorder that accompanied the collapse of the Communist state.
Where I hit him I do not know, nor if I killed him, for scarce had he started to collapse when I was through the window at my rear.
This is precisely what the Black Power advocates of the late sixties claimed had happened to the civil rights movement, and they gave the same reasons for its collapse.
Quotes with COLLAPSE (3)
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, the…
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing…
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).