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Definition of Collapse

Collapse To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance. A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown. Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance. Related Definitions: After, All, An, And, Any, Army, As, Attaining, Be, Boiler, Breakdown, By, Close, Collapse, Collapsed, Complete, Completely, Crushed, Depression, Disease, Disturbance, Engine, Extreme, Fail, Failing, Failure, Fall, Falling, Financial, Flue, French, Government, Have, Hollow, Importance, In, Injury, Kind, Left, Like, Many, Maximilian, Much, Nervous, Of, Or, Pressure, Result, Shrinking, Some, Something, Sometimes, Soon, Steam, Subject, Success, Sudden, The, Thing, To, Together, Too, Undergo, Utter, Vessel, Vital, When

Collapse Quotations America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home. Mitt Romney The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. Christopher Lasch I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Mike Tyson The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. Henrik Ibsen

Collapse Translations collapse in Dutch is uiteenvallen, ineenstorten, instorten collapse in German is Einsturz, zusammenbrechen, zusammenbrechen collapse in Italian is crollare collapse in Norwegian is sammenbrudd collapse in Portuguese is colapso collapse in Spanish is colapso, derrumbamiento collapse in Swedish is sammanbrott, kollapsa

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