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collapsenoun a complete depletion of energy or strengthsuffered a mental collapse under the strain of studying for his bar exam burnout, exhaustion, fatigue, frazzle, lassitude, prostration, tiredness, weariness debilitation, debility, disablement, enervation, enfeeblement, faintness, feebleness, frailness, frailty, impotence, infirmity, weaknessoverfatiguelanguor, lethargy, listlessnesssluggishness, slumber, stupor, torpidity, torporapathy, inertia, passiveness, passivity refreshment, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, revitalization bounce, dash, drive, energy, ginger, go, liveliness, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, zing, zipmight, muscle, potency, power, puissance, strengthbriskness, jauntiness, spiritedness, sprightliness, vivaciousness, vivacity a falling short of one's goalsthe complete collapse of the invasion set off a round of finger-pointing and recrimination crash, cropper, defeat, failure, fizzle, nonachievement, nonsuccess futility, uselessnessineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacydeficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiencydisappointment, letdown, setback accomplishment, achievement, success victory, win collapseverbto fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people buckle, cave (in), crumple, founder, give, go, go out, implode, tumble, yield deflate, flatten, melt, melt downbreak, break down, conk (out), crash, die, fail, give out, stallburst, shatter, smash, splinter, splitcrack, crumble, pop, snap give way inflate, rise, swell to be unsuccessfulthe legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence bomb, crater, fail, flame out, flop, flunk, fold, founder, miss, strike out, tank, wash out flounder, struggledecline, sink, skid, slip, slump, wanecrash, crumble, miscarry, misfirego underimplode, self-destruct come a cropper, come to grief, come up empty, die on the vine, fall flat, fall on one's face, fall short, lay an egg click, come off, deliver, go, go over, pan out, succeed, work out cook, flourish, prosper, thriveprevail, triumph, win to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togetherthe novel collapses events from four separate trips into one long odyssey capsule, capsulize, compact, compress, condense, constrict, constringe, contract, narrow (down), squeeze, telescope cram, crowd, jam, jam-pack, packabbreviate, abridge, curtail, shortenboil down, downsize, shrinkconcentrate, consolidatesimplify, streamlinedecrease, diminish, lessen decompress, expand, open, outspread, outstretch dilate, disperse, dissipate, scatterdistend, inflate, swell in 1732 |