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单词 collapse
释义 col·lapse
I. \kəˈlaps\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Latin collapsus, past participle of collabi to collapse, from com- + labi to fall, slide — more at sleep
intransitive verb
1. : to break down completely : fall apart in confused disorganization : crumble into insignificance or nothingness : disintegrate
 < his case had collapsed in a mass of legal wreckage — Erle Stanley Gardner >
 < a flimsy banking enterprise which collapsed — R.A.Billington >
2. : to fall or shrink together abruptly and completely : fall into a jumbled or flattened mass through the force of external pressure : fall in
 < the sides of a limp empty boat collapse >
 < our interest collapses like a pricked balloon — G.M.Trevelyan >
 < a blood vessel that collapsed >
3. : to cave in, fall in, or give way : undergo ruin or destruction by or as if by falling down : become dispersed
 < its passage ripped away the crown of the arch and immediately the whole bridge collapsed — O.S.Nock >
 < a magnetic field collapsing >
4. : to suddenly lose force, significance, effectiveness, or worth
 < all his annoyance collapsed in a heap — Hamilton Basso >
 < collapsing currencies of unstable countries >
5. : to break down in vital energy, stamina, or self-control through exhaustion or disease : lose ability to perform accustomed activities : fall helpless or unconscious
 < a fireman collapsing from the fumes >
 < several oarsmen collapsing after the hard race >
 < collapsed into tears >
6. : to fold down into a more compact shape : close together
 < a collapsing opera hat >
 < a telescope that collapses >
transitive verb
: to cause to collapse
 < collapse the movement >
 < collapsing an infected lung >
 < the explosion collapsed several buildings >
 < collapse an opera hat >
II. noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : a breakdown in vital energy, strength, or stamina : complete sudden enervation : sudden loss of accustomed abilities
  < the daughter's mental collapse through mounting frustration — Leslie Rees >
 b. : a state of extreme prostration and physical depression resulting from circulatory failure, great loss of body fluids, or heart disease and occurring terminally in diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, pneumonia — compare shock
 c. : an airless state of a lung in whole or in part of spontaneous origin or induced surgically — see atelectasis
 d. : an abnormal falling together of the walls of an organ
  < collapse of blood vessels >
2. : the action of collapsing : the act or action of drawing together or permitting or causing a falling together
 < the cutting of many tent ropes, the collapse of the canvas — Rudyard Kipling >
3.
 a. : breakdown : sudden failure : disintegration, ruin, destruction
  < the speedy disruption and eventual collapse of our entire society — Lewis Mumford >
  < the panic … with its attendant collapse of grandiose dreams — American Guide Series: Minnesota >
 b. : sudden loss of force, value, effect, or significance
  < the collapse of respect for ancient law and custom — L.S.B.Leakey >
  < to save the pound sterling from collapse — Leon Halden >
4. : a defect in wood due to abnormal and irregular shrinkage and resulting in a wrinkled or corrugated appearance of the surface and sometimes also an internal honeycombing
5. : the sum of postbreeding regressive changes in the testes of a seasonal breeding male animal
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