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Another word for collapse

Verb

  1. To fall in

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    explosion

  2. To suddenly lose all health or strength

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    health

  3. To give way mentally and emotionally

    4. See also:

    explosion

  4. To undergo sudden financial failure

    5. Idioms:
    See also:

    money

  5. To undergo capture, defeat, or ruin

    6. See also:

    win

    resist

Another word for collapse

Noun

  1. A sudden sharp decline in mental, emotional, or physical health

    2. See also:

    explosion

  2. An abrupt disastrous failure

    3. See also:

    money

  3. A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin

    4. See also:

    thrive

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for collapse

Noun
    2. See also:

    wreck

    illness

    fall

    failure

Another word for collapse

Verb
    2. See also:

    give

    fall

    faint

    fail

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Sentence Examples

  • Would the cabin collapse around them?

  • His fatal optimism rendered him largely responsible for the collapse of Egyptian credit which brought about the fall of Ismail.

  • This only precipitated the collapse, and while Count Tisza voiced Hungarian public opinion in declaring the basis of the Dual system to be shattered, the Yugoslav National Council was transplanted from Ljubljana to Zagreb and strengthened by the inclusion of representatives of all parties (Oct.

  • When the Turkish collapse came, he fled by way of Odessa to Germany.

  • It took every ounce of her willpower not to flee hysterically or give in to the desire to collapse and sob.

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