Collapse

What do we mean by collapse?

To fall down or inward suddenly; cave in. intransitive verb

To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function. intransitive verb

To fold compactly. intransitive verb

To cause to fold, break down, or fall down or inward. intransitive verb

The act of falling down or inward, as from loss of supports. noun

An abrupt failure of function, strength, or health; a breakdown. noun

An abrupt loss of perceived value or of effect. noun

To fall together, or into an irregular mass or flattened form, through loss of firm connection or rigidity and support of the parts or loss of the contents, as a building through the falling in of its sides, or an inflated bladder from escape of the air contained in it.

Figuratively— To break down; go to pieces; come to nothing; fail; become ruined: as, the project collapsed.

In pathology, to sink into extreme weakness or physical depression in the course of a disease.

To appear as if collapsing; lose strength, courage, etc.; subside; cease to assert one's self or push one's self forward: as, after that rebuke he collapsed.

A falling in or together, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. noun

Figuratively, a sudden and complete failure of any kind; a breakdown. noun

In medicine, an extreme sinking or depression; a more or less sudden failure of the vital powers: as, the stage of collapse in cholera. noun

A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. noun

A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. noun

Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. noun

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. intransitive verb

To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse. intransitive verb

To fall down suddenly; to cave in verb

The act of collapsing.

Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

Words that are spelled similarly to collapse:
collapse, collate, collage, collapsed, collars, illapse, collapses, collapsar, collops, collare, colapso, kollaps.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word collapse:
communism, bubble, ussr, soviet, collapsed, civilization, regime, debris, empire, quantum, yugoslavia, dynasty, earthquake, union, crisis, economy, structural, communist, disorder, hole, banking, disaster.

Words that rhyme with collapse:
lapse, relapse, perhaps, elapse, apps, caps, taps, chaps, schnapps, scraps, craps, flaps, snaps, fraps, traps, maps, gaps, wraps, laps, mishaps, saps, straps, raps, naps, bootstraps, schnaps, claps, lapps, zaps, slaps, yaps, graps, overlaps, capps, hubcaps, knaps, handicaps, book of maps, japs, recaps, kneecaps, kaps, kidnaps, wiretaps, shoot craps, millsaps, crapps, kappes.

Adjectives that are often used to describe collapse:
economic, complete, total, sudden, circulatory, final, cardiovascular, financial, general, nervous, imminent, gravitational, partial, near, eventual, rapid, physical, mental, subsequent, moral, vascular, utter, ultimate, inevitable, impending, soviet, military, virtual, german, peripheral, structural, catastrophic, pulmonary, progressive, possible, internal, immediate, massive, vertebral, severe, fatal, dramatic, emotional, gradual, plastic, demographic, acute, russian, profound, temporary, ecological, apparent, segmental, disastrous, consequent, quick, speedy, global, unexpected, spectacular, maya, abrupt, hemodynamic, swift, slow, incremental, widespread, stellar, systemic, italian, cardiac, core, induced, respiratory.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective collapse:
therapy, time, breccia, verb, box, the, based, settlement, noun, stage, probabilities, fault, doline, loads.

Consonant match to collapse:
collops, cool lips.

Words that sound like collapse:
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