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collapsingverbpresent participle of collapse to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people buckling, caving (in), crumpling, foundering, giving, going, going out, imploding, tumbling, yielding deflating, flattening, melting, melting downbreaking, breaking down, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, giving out, stallingbursting, shattering, smashing, splintering, splittingcracking, crumbling, popping, snapping giving way inflating, rising, swelling to be unsuccessfulthe legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence bombing, cratering, failing, flaming out, flopping, flunking, folding, foundering, missing, striking out, tanking, washing out floundering, strugglingdeclining, sinking, skidding, slipping, slumping, waningcrashing, crumbling, miscarrying, misfiringgoing underimploding, self-destructing coming a cropper, coming to grief, coming up empty, dying on the vine, falling flat, falling on one's face, falling short, laying an egg clicking, coming off, delivering, going, going over, panning out, succeeding, working out cooking, flourishing, prospering, thrivingprevailing, triumphing, winning 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 capsuling, capsulizing, compacting, compressing, condensing, constricting, constringing, contracting, narrowing (down), squeezing, telescoping cramming, crowding, jamming, jam-packing, packingabbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningboiling down, downsizing, shrinkingconcentrating, consolidatingsimplifying, streamliningdecreasing, diminishing, lessening decompressing, expanding, opening, outspreading, outstretching dilating, dispersing, dissipating, scatteringdistending, inflating, swelling |