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See also:collapséandcol·lapse

English

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Etymology

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FromLatincollāpsus (past participle ofcollābor).

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Verb

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collapse (third-person singular simple presentcollapses,present participlecollapsing,simple past and past participlecollapsed)

  1. (intransitive) Tobreakapart andfalldownsuddenly; tocave in.
    • 1843, Samuel Maunder,The Scientific and Literary Treasury:
      A ballooncollapses when the gas escapes from it.
  2. (intransitive) Tocease tofunction due to a suddenbreakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
    Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and thencollapse.
  3. (intransitive) Tofoldcompactly.
  4. (transitive, computing) In ahierarchicallist (such as adirectory tree ortable of contents), tohide the subentries of (anentry).
    Antonym:expand
  5. (intransitive, cricket) To suffer abatting collapse.
  6. (transitive) Tocause something to collapse.
    Hurry up andcollapse the tent so we can get moving.
    • 2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, inRAIL, number989, page26:
      Thomas added: "We presented our experiences of frantically trying tocollapse a pram, surrounded by loads of grumpy commuters.
  7. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; tofaint.
    The exhausted singercollapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital.

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Translations

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to fall down suddenly; to cave in
to cease to function due to a sudden breakdown
to fold compactly
computing: to hide additional directory (folder) levels
cricket: for several batsmen to get out in quick succession
to cause to collapse
to pass out and fall to the floor or ground
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Noun

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collapse (countable anduncountable,pluralcollapses)

  1. The act ofcollapsing.
    She suffered a terriblecollapse after slipping on the wet floor.
    • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      The top six are assured of continental competition and after making a statement of intent against Stoke, it would take a dramaticcollapse for Newcastle to surrender their place.
    • 2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, inRAIL, number930, page26:
      However thecollapse in demand for rail and air travel caused by the pandemic has had a knock-on effect for the project's funding.
  2. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing areset).(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
  3. (cricket)Short forbatting collapse.

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Translations

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act of collapsing
one-valued function

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Verb

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collapse

  1. inflection ofcollapser:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Latin

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Participle

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collāpse

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofcollāpsus
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