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collapse
Overview of noun collapse
The noun collapse has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (3) collapse -- (an abrupt failure of function or health)
2. (2) collapse -- (a mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in)
3. (1) flop, collapse -- (the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop")
4. crash, collapse -- (a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures))
Overview of verb collapse
The verb collapse has 7 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (8) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder -- (break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice")
2. (7) break down, collapse -- (collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack)
3. collapse -- (fold or close up; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand")
4. crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse -- (fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down")
5. collapse, burst -- (cause to burst; "The ice broke the pipe")
6. crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse -- (suffer a nervous breakdown)
7. collapse -- (lose significance, effectiveness, or value; "The school system is collapsing"; "The stock market collapsed")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun collapse
4 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse
=> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
=> ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
=> pathological state
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
collapse
=> mishap, misadventure, mischance
=> misfortune, bad luck
=> trouble
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
flop, collapse
=> descent
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
crash, collapse
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun collapse
2 of 4 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse
=> breakdown, crack-up
=> shock
Sense 2
collapse
=> cave in, subsidence
=> debacle, fiasco
=> implosion
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun collapse
4 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse
=> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
Sense 2
collapse
=> mishap, misadventure, mischance
Sense 3
flop, collapse
=> descent
Sense 4
crash, collapse
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Antonyms of noun collapse
Member Holonyms of noun collapse
Substance Holonyms of noun collapse
Part Holonyms of noun collapse
Member Meronyms of noun collapse
Substance Meronyms of noun collapse
Part Meronyms of noun collapse
Meronyms of noun collapse
Holonyms of noun collapse
Attributes of noun collapse
Derived Forms of noun collapse
3 of 4 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse
RELATED TO>(verb) collapse#6
=> crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
RELATED TO>(verb) collapse#2
=> break down, collapse
Sense 2
collapse
RELATED TO>(verb) collapse#1
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
Sense 4
crash, collapse
RELATED TO>(verb) collapse#1
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
RELATED TO>(verb) collapse#7
=> collapse
Domain of noun collapse
Domain Terms of noun collapse
Familiarity of noun collapse
collapse used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun collapse
4 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse
> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
=> ague
=> amyloidosis
=> anuresis, anuria
=> catastrophic illness
=> collapse
=> decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bends
=> food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder
=> lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism
=> disease
=> hypermotility
=> indisposition
=> ozone sickness
=> toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia
=> growth
Sense 2
collapse
> mishap, misadventure, mischance
=> accident
=> near miss
=> derailment
=> ground loop
=> puncture
=> slip, trip
=> collapse
=> crash
Sense 3
flop, collapse
> descent
=> abseil
=> jump, parachuting
=> dive, nose dive, nosedive
=> rappel
=> swoop
=> crash dive
=> drop
=> flop, collapse
Sense 4
crash, collapse
> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> accompaniment, concomitant, attendant, co-occurrence
=> avalanche
=> experience
=> trouble
=> treat
=> miracle
=> wonder, marvel
=> thing
=> episode
=> eventuality, contingency, contingence
=> beginning
=> ending, conclusion, finish
=> one-off
=> periodic event, recurrent event
=> change, alteration, modification
=> error, computer error
=> accident, fortuity, chance event
=> fire
=> incident
=> discharge
=> case, instance, example
=> movement, motion
=> failure
=> success
=> appearance
=> destiny, fate
=> disappearance
=> disappearance
=> contact, impinging, striking
=> finish
=> interruption, break
=> sound
=> union
=> news event
=> flash
=> convergence
=> juncture, occasion
=> outburst, burst, flare-up
=> outbreak, eruption, irruption
=> reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye
=> boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce
=> crash, collapse
=> supervention
Meronyms of noun collapse
4 senses of collapse
Holonyms of noun collapse
Grep of noun collapse
collapse
gravitational collapse
Antonyms of verb collapse
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb collapse
7 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> change
Sense 2
break down, collapse
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
Sense 3
collapse
=> fold, fold up, turn up
=> change surface
=> change
Sense 4
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> change integrity
=> change
Sense 5
collapse, burst
Sense 6
crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
Sense 7
collapse
=> weaken
=> decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
=> change magnitude
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb collapse
4 of 7 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> implode, go off
=> buckle, crumple
=> flop
=> break
=> slump, slide down, sink
Sense 2
break down, collapse
=> fall over, go over
Sense 3
collapse
=> deflate
=> concertina
Sense 5
collapse, burst
=> pop
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb collapse
7 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> change
Sense 2
break down, collapse
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
Sense 3
collapse
=> fold, fold up, turn up
Sense 4
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> change integrity
Sense 5
collapse, burst
Sense 6
crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
Sense 7
collapse
=> weaken
'Cause To' of verb collapse
1 of 7 senses of collapse
Sense 5
collapse, burst
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
Derived Forms of verb collapse
5 of 7 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
RELATED TO>(noun) collapse#4
=> crash, collapse
RELATED TO>(noun) collapse#2
=> collapse
Sense 2
break down, collapse
RELATED TO>(noun) collapse#1
=> collapse
Sense 3
collapse
RELATED TO>(adj) collapsible#1
=> collapsible, collapsable
Sense 6
crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
RELATED TO>(noun) collapse#1
=> collapse
Sense 7
collapse
RELATED TO>(noun) collapse#4
=> crash, collapse
Domain of verb collapse
Domain Terms of verb collapse
Familiarity of verb collapse
collapse used as a verb is common (polysemy count =7)
Sample Sentences of verb collapse
7 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
EX: The business is going to collapse
Sense 2
break down, collapse
EX: Sam and Sue collapse
Sense 3
collapse
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
*> Something ----s
Sense 5
collapse, burst
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 6
crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 7
collapse
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb collapse
6 of 7 senses of collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 2
break down, collapse
> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> break down, collapse
=> crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
Sense 3
collapse
> fold, fold up, turn up
=> pleat, plicate
=> furrow, wrinkle, crease
=> wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
=> corrugate
=> ruffle, pleat
=> tuck
=> crimp, pinch
=> cross
=> collapse
Sense 4
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
> change integrity
=> reform
=> polymerize, polymerise
=> polymerize, polymerise
=> explode, burst
=> explode, detonate, blow up, set off
=> cook
=> break up, disperse, scatter
=> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
=> pasteurize, pasteurise
=> condense
=> evaporate, vaporize, vaporise
=> burn, incinerate
=> blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
=> disintegrate
=> disintegrate, decay, decompose
=> thicken, inspissate
=> gasify, vaporize, vaporise, aerify
=> liquefy, flux, liquify
=> solidify
=> solidify
=> crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise
=> dissolve, resolve, break up
=> demulsify
=> jellify, jelly
=> jellify
=> separate
=> crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Sense 6
crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> break down, collapse
=> crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
Sense 7
collapse
> weaken
=> attenuate
=> melt, disappear
=> die down
=> collapse
=> fade, melt
=> subside, lessen
=> blur, dim, slur
=> pine away, waste, languish
=> dull
=> pall
=> loosen, relax, loose
=> slacken
=> slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken
=> wilt
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb collapse
Sense 1
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> change
Sense 5
collapse, burst
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Sense 2
break down, collapse
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
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Sense 3
collapse
=> fold, fold up, turn up
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Sense 4
crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
=> change integrity
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Sense 6
crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
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Sense 7
collapse
=> weaken
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Grep of verb collapse
collapse
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