collapse
81collapse — reduction of a stock abundance by fishing and/or other causes to levels at which the production is negligible compared to historical levels. Normally used when the reduction is sudden. May be wrongly used to describe overfishing …
82collapse — escallop …
83collapse — verb 1》 (of a structure) suddenly fall down or give way. ↘[usu. as adjective collapsed] (of a lung or blood vessel) fall inwards and become flat and empty. 2》 fall down as a result of illness or injury. 3》 fail suddenly and completely. noun… …
84collapse — I. n. 1. Falling together, falling in (as the sides of a flue). 2. (Med.) Prostration, exhaustion, sinking, extreme depression. 3. Break down, downfall, utter failure, dead failure, abortion, brutum fulmen, lame and impotent conclusion, flash in… …
85collapse — v 1. cave in, tumble down, founder, give way, crumple, crumple up, fall down, fall inward or outward, come apart; crumble, fall into pieces, break into fragments, break apart, fall into ruin; be demolished, be torn down, be felled, be pulled down …
86collapse — col·lapse …
87collapse — Hāne e, hiolo; ananu u (as a balloon); malana opi (rare) …
88collapse — Falling in or falling together; shrinking so that sides meet; the antithesis of explosion. Louisville Underwriters v Durland, 123 Ind 544, 24 NE 221 …
89collapse of the lung — an airless or fetal state of all or a part of a lung, as seen in atelectasis from bronchial obstruction and in pneumothorax …
90collapse of a bridge — falling down of a bridge, giving way of a bridge, crumbling of a bridge …
