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collapsedverbpast tense of collapse to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people buckled, caved (in), crumpled, foundered, gave, imploded, tumbled, went, went out, yielded deflated, flattened, melted, melted downbroke, broke down, conked (out), crashed, died, failed, gave out, stalledburst(also bursted), shattered, smashed, splintered, splitcracked, crumbled, popped, snapped gave way inflated, rose, swelled to be unsuccessfulthe legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence bombed, cratered, failed, flamed out, flopped, flunked, folded, foundered, missed, struck out, tanked, washed out floundered, struggleddeclined, sank(or sunk), skidded, slipped, slumped, wanedcrashed, crumbled, miscarried, misfiredwent underimploded, self-destructed came a cropper, came to grief, came up empty, died on the vine, fell flat, fell on one's face, fell short, laid an egg came off, clicked, delivered, panned out, succeeded, went, went over, worked out cooked, flourished, prospered, thrived(or throve)prevailed, triumphed, won 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 capsuled, capsulized, compacted, compressed, condensed, constricted, constringed, contracted, narrowed (down), squeezed, telescoped crammed, crowded, jammed, jam-packed, packedabbreviated, abridged, curtailed, shortenedboiled down, downsized, shrank(or shrunk)concentrated, consolidatedsimplified, streamlineddecreased, diminished, lessened decompressed, expanded, opened, outspread, outstretched dilated, dispersed, dissipated, scattereddistended, inflated, swelled |