Synonym: break down, crash, fail, topple. Similar words: collar, collaboration, collect, college, colleague, collector, collection, collective. Meaning: [kə'læps] 
n. 1. an abrupt failure of function or health 2. a mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in 3. the act of throwing yourself down 4. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). v. 1. break down, literally or metaphorically 2. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack 3. fold or close up 4. fall apart 5. cause to burst 6. suffer a nervous breakdown 7. lose significance, effectiveness, or value.
n. 1. an abrupt failure of function or health 2. a mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in 3. the act of throwing yourself down 4. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). v. 1. break down, literally or metaphorically 2. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack 3. fold or close up 4. fall apart 5. cause to burst 6. suffer a nervous breakdown 7. lose significance, effectiveness, or value. 
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151 Mr Karimov knows that he will stand or fall on his ability to stave off economic collapse.
152 That comparison is made even more potent given that the large company tends to collapse the distinction between private and public power.
153 In the United States in the 1930s, a financial collapse led to an economic collapse.
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154 In the Wash oystercatchers are innocent victims of the collapse of the estuary's cockle fishery.
155 I collapse over my lamb chops and have to be put to bed.
156 It modifies the scenario of gravitational collapse in the following way.
157 However, combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders' Party, the other government coalition partner.
158 I thought the blacklist would have lost its sting with the collapse of the price of oil.
159 The protests in Quebec are not going to bring about the collapse of global capitalism.
160 Of course he had some other assets, but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy.
161 It was the ordinary police who prevented a complete collapse of law and order in the loyalist urban districts of Belfast.
162 Gravitational collapse releases energy; and collapse to a single, dimensionless point releases an infinite amount of it.
163 But many Nashville residents are unconvinced, leaving government and civic leaders worried that the once-done Oilers deal actually could collapse.
164 Repeated scientific warnings about the imminent collapse of cod stocks were ignored and the vast shoals vanished.
165 Death occurs when a quickened beat pushes the heart muscle to complete collapse.
166 When exposed to direct light the leaves collapse and touch the ground and the plant dies.
167 The shift that Kepler represents was not merely the collapse of a traditional boundary between two academic disciplines.
168 Then war intervened, Oppenheimer became involved in the atom bomb project, and he lost interest in gravitational collapse.
169 Eventually the water weakens the structure, and the walls and floors collapse.
170 But its collapse had served to focus attention upon many of the tensions within the school system.
171 However, Chandrasekhar showed that for a sufficiently massive star the gravitational collapse continues until the star shrinks to a point.
172 When the pyramids began to collapse, crowds rioted throughout the small country and opposition activists demanded that the government step down.
173 Before the car could be moved, rescue workers had to shore up the building, which was in danger of collapse.
174 It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be.
175 The reported death of Polonius causes Dycarbas's final collapse, and brings Terentia to the verge of suicide.
176 The kind of case lawyers love is exemplified by the one that arose out of the collapse of the Franklin National Bank.
177 From the shambles of the aldermanic elections and the final collapse of the Kelly-Nash leadership, Daley walked out even stronger.
178 Food shortages would probably galvanise public anger into action, as would a complete collapse of the economy.
179 The building was badly damaged in the explosion, and rescue workers are worried that it may collapse.
180 The tree, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, was in imminent danger of collapse.
More similar words: collar, collaboration, collect, college, colleague, collector, collection, collective, colloquial, perhaps, lap, slap, upset, glimpse, all along, all at once, as well as, all around, installation, surveillance, Color., color, doll, toll, poll, roll, column, colony, follow, roll in.