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collapse
noun as in downfall, breakdown
verb as in fall apart, break down
Example Sentences
Last week, one of Britain’s oldest tea firms, Typhoo Tea, collapsed after a drop in sales.
Um, who was a child refugee, said the U.S. hasn’t acknowledged its role in Cambodia’s collapse during the Vietnam War, and that has contributed to her community’s historical trauma.
As Reuters notes, “Trump's overall tariff plans… would push U.S. import duties back up to 1930s levels, stoke inflation, collapse U.S.-China trade, draw retaliation, and drastically reorder supply chains.”
By contrast, India collapsed as the top-order failings from their recent series whitewash against New Zealand resurfaced.
For example, archaeologist Cédric Moulis of the University of Lorraine painstakingly reassembled dozens of wedge-shaped stones called voussoirs recovered from the collapsed vaulted ceiling over the nave to glean insights into their mechanical properties.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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