collapse

collapse
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OD, Waterloo, amiable weakness, bankruptcy, be brought down, be felled, be found wanting, be ruined, be struck down, be traumatized, beating, become insolvent, bend, blow, bouncing check, break, break down, break out, break up, breakability, breakage, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brittleness, burn out, bust, cascade, catabasis, cataclysm, cataract, catastrophe, catch, catch cold, cave, cave in, cave-in, changeableness, chute, circulatory collapse, collapse, come apart, come down, come down with, come short, come to naught, come to nothing, come unstuck, comedown, conk out, conquering, conquest, contract, crack, crack up, crack-up, crackup, crash, crippling, cropper, crumble, crumple, daintiness, damage, deathblow, debacle, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, decrescendo, defeat, deflate, deflation, defluxion, delicacy, descend, descending, descension, descent, destructibility, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, diminish, diminuendo, dip down, disablement, disappear, disappearance, disaster, disintegrate, disintegration, disorganization, disrepair, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, dive, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, draining, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, drubbing, dwindling, ebb, effeminacy, encroachment, erupt, evaporate, exhaust, exhaustedness, exhaustion, fade, fag, fail, failure, faint, fall, fall away, fall dead, fall down, fall flat, fall in, fall off, fall short, fall stillborn, fall through, fall to pieces, falling, fatigue, fever, fizzle out, flag, flimsiness, fold, fold up, founder, fragility, frailty, frangibility, gasp, get, get bogged down, get hung up, get mired, get tired, give out, give way, go, go bankrupt, go broke, go down, go downhill, go into receivership, go into shock, go soft, go to pieces, go to pot, go to ruin, go to smash, go under, go up, gravitate, gravitation, grow weary, harm, hiding, hit the skids, hobbling, human frailty, hurt, hurting, impairment, implode, implosion, incapacitation, inclination, indecisiveness, infirmity of will, infringement, inherent vice, injury, inroad, insolvency, insufficient funds, irresolution, jade, keel over, kited check, lack, lag, lambasting, languish, lapse, lathering, licking, lightness, lose altitude, lose ground, loss, maiming, mastery, mayhem, mischief, moral weakness, mutilation, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, nose dive, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not stretch, not suffice, overcoming, overdose, overdraft, overdrawn account, overthrow, overturn, pant, parachute, pass out, peg out, peter out, pine, pitch, play out, plummet, plummeting, plunge, poop out, pounce, pour down, pratfall, precipitate, prostration, puff, puff and blow, puncture, quietus, rain, rapids, receivership, remission, retreat, ruin, ruination, ruining, ruinousness, run a temperature, run down, run out, run short, sabotage, scathe, shatter, shipwreck, shut down, sicken, sickening, sink, sleaziness, slightness, slowdown, slump, smash, smashup, spoiling, stoop, stop short, stumble, subdual, subduing, subjugation, subsidence, succumb, sway, swoon, swoop, tailspin, take, take ill, thrashing, tire, topple, topple down, topple over, total loss, totter, trend downward, trimming, trouncing, tumble, undoing, unsubstantiality, vanquishment, velleity, wane, want, washout, waterfall, weaken, weakening, wear away, wear thin, weary, wheeze, whipping, wilt, wispiness, womanishness, wrack, wreck, yield

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