Definitions for collapse

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collapse col·lapse

Spelling: [kuh-laps]

IPA: /kəˈlæps/

Collapse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in collapse (acellops).

Definitions for collapse

noun

1. a falling in or together:
2. a sudden, complete failure; breakdown:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to collapse:

verb (used without object)

1. to fall or cave in; crumble suddenly:
2. to be made so that sections or parts can be folded up, as for convenient storage:
3. to break down; come to nothing; fail:
4. to fall unconscious or as if unconscious or physically depleted, as from a stroke, heart attack, disease, or exhaustion.
5. Pathology. to sink into extreme weakness. (of lungs) to come into an airless state.

Origin of collapse

1725-35; Latin collāpsus (past participle of collābī to fall, fall in ruins), equivalent to col- col-¹ + lāp-, variant stem of lābī to fall + -sus, variant

Examples for collapse

He was 65 feet up in the air when the collapse occurred, resulting in his death.

When she reached the corner she stopped, and seemed about to collapse.

But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading.

She closed her eyes and swayed slightly, but she did not collapse or give way.

In 1997, an earthquake in Assisi caused the collapse of the main cathedral and killed ten people.

The music is lost, but the libretto survives, and that is enough to account for the collapse.

This crack races across the walls of her apartment as if the very building itself is about to collapse.

You would rather witness the collapse of everything, you said.

A hard look at campus rape statistics, the collapse of The New Republic and the day John Lennon died.

No precautions have been taken to reinforce the ceilings, which could collapse onto the statues.