Collapse Synonyms and Antonyms

kə-lăps
To suddenly lose all health or strength
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. crack
  2. crack up
  3. break
  4. cave in
  5. drop
  6. burst
  7. give out
  8. succumb
  9. conk out
  10. crock up
  11. break up
To undergo sudden financial failure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fail
  2. break
  3. crumple
  4. deflate
  5. crash
  6. cave in
  7. fall
  8. give-way
  9. give
  10. break down
  11. fold
  12. founder
  13. drop
  14. bust
  15. breakdown
  16. buckle
  17. cave
  18. concertina
  19. fall-in
  20. crumble
  21. debacle
  22. disintegrate
  23. downfall
  24. go under
  25. failure
  26. implode
  27. prostration
  28. ruin
  29. ruination
  30. subside
  31. telescope
  32. topple
  33. tumble
  34. wilt
  35. wreck
Antonyms:
  1. build
  2. rise
  3. increase
To give way mentally and emotionally
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. crack
  3. snap
  4. crack up
  5. fold
To fall in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. buckle
  2. cave in
  3. crumple
  4. give
  5. go
An abrupt disastrous failure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. breakdown
  2. failure
  3. crash
  4. prostration
  5. wreck
  6. downfall
  7. cataclysm
  8. debacle
  9. dissolution
  10. destruction
  11. smash
  12. smashup
  13. cave in
  14. holocaust
To undergo capture, defeat, or ruin
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fall
  2. go down
  3. go under
  4. surrender
  5. topple
A sudden sharp decline in mental, emotional, or physical health
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. breakdown
  2. crackup
A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. downfall
  2. fall
  3. flop
  4. waterloo
  5. breakability
  6. catabasis
  7. destructibility
  8. sleaziness
Antonyms:
  1. success
  2. rise
  3. increase
  4. triumph
  5. build up
Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break down

Words Related to Collapse

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Collapse Sentence Examples

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

  • The town now remained faithful to the Taborite cause till its collapse in 1434.

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

  • Elise needed no other motivation than her friend was in trouble, and Brady hadn't yet digested how such tiny devices could collapse the countries of the world.

  • The collapse of the political power of the Arabs was singularly complete.

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