collapse

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But a collapse is a collapse, and when you think back on all the leads the Mets blew, all the games they lost late, it's beyond belief.

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  1. intransitive verb To fall down or inward suddenly; cave in.
  2. intransitive verb To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function: a monarchy that collapsed.
  3. intransitive verb To fold compactly: chairs that collapse for storage.
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  • Predicting the collapse was a simple, elementary task. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • The attorney says that five of those killed in the collapse were his client's friends. —  NY1 - Top Stories
  • The 21st century world economy collapse is a collapse of a culture, of the 20th century technology culture, of its values and attitudes and ethics and morals. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
  • The Jets collapse can be blamed on Favre, and New York it's your turn to put up with his annual off-season soap opera. agreed, although the collapse is a lot more than just Favre. —  Latest Articles
  • It makes sense to me that if the root cause of the collapse was a bubble of credit instruments that were overvalued by 60 to 70 percent, then the whole stock market was probably overvalued by a similar amount. —  NewsOK.com RSS - home
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  1. Latin collābī, collāps-, to fall together : com-, com- + lābī, to fall.

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  1. from Latin collapsus, past participle of collabi, conlabi, fall together, fall in, from com-, together, + labi, fall: see lapse.
  2. from collapse, v.
 

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