Sekirov Dictionary

collapse

/kəˈlæps/

verb 8
noun 3
forms 4

verb8

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to suddenly come down, as a roof, a wall or a bridge does when it is no longer strong enough to stay up
- The wall collapsed when it was hit by the wrecking ball.
•
To cause something to collapse.
- Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
•
To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.
•
To suffer a batting collapse.
- Immediately after his wicket the team collapsed for 69.
•
To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- The exhausted singer collapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital.
To fold compactly.
In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
(figurative) To conflate, to ignore the distinctions between.

noun3

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The act of collapsing.
- She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.
Ellipsis of batting collapse.
Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

forms

collapsed · collapsing · collapses · collapseth

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