Collapsing Synonyms and Antonyms

To give way mentally and emotionally
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. folding
  2. snapping
  3. cracking
  4. breaking
Cause to burst
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. failing
  2. crumpling
  3. folding
  4. deflating
  5. crashing
  6. falling
  7. cracking
  8. bursting
  9. wrecking
  10. wilting
  11. toppling
  12. subsiding
  13. ruining
  14. foundering
  15. breaking
  16. disintegrating
  17. busting
  18. buckling
  19. dropping
To undergo capture, defeat, or ruin
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. toppling
  2. surrendering
  3. falling
To suddenly lose all health or strength
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. succumbing
  2. dropping
  3. cracking
  4. breaking

Words Related to Collapsing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Collapsing Sentence Examples

  • It'll keep you from collapsing for about twelve hours.

  • The desert and time's collapsing a wooden shack and cross but leaving erect a flimsy wood windmill, is poetic license.

  • Trevor Steeples, 46, from West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, was brought to the surface after collapsing underground, but was pronounced dead.

  • These were in decaying and over-crowded tenements without running water or adequate sanitation, buildings actually collapsing because of neglect from rack-renting landlords.

  • Josef Strauss died young - in 1870, aged 42, after collapsing on the conductor 's rostrum.

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