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collapse English

Meaning collapse meaning

What does collapse mean?
Definitions in simple English

collapse Verb

— Something collapses when all its parts fall down loosely. A building or a bridge collapses when it breaks and all its parts fall down. A person collapses when they are tired and they fall into a chair or onto a bed and are too tired to get up. He was so tired, he just collapsed onto that chair. The bridge collapsed, but no one was hurt.

collapse Noun

— The act of collapsing. The collapse of the bridge means we can't go over the river any longer.

collapse

— verb (= give, break) break down, literally or metaphorically The wall collapsed The business collapsed The dam broke The roof collapsed The wall gave in The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice — verb collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack — noun (= prostration) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion the commander's prostration demoralized his men — noun a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in the roof is in danger of collapse the collapse of the old star under its own gravity — noun (= flop) the act of throwing yourself down he landed on the bed with a great flop — verb lose significance, effectiveness, or value The school system is collapsing The stock market collapsed — verb (= burst) cause to burst The ice broke the pipe — verb fold or close up fold up your umbrella collapse the music stand — noun (= crash) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) — verb (= crumble, break down) fall apart the building crumbled after the explosion Negotiations broke down — verb (= crack up) suffer a nervous breakdown

Synonyms collapse synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as collapse?

collapse English » English

fall cave in ruin fall down break down fall in crash crumble drop downfall breakdown slump failure tumble down fail break tumble give way destruction fall apart faint wreck sink flop destroy decay crumple crack subside founder fall through fall over die damage come to nothing be ruined subsidence sag give topple swoon ruination prostration overthrow fold fall to the ground fall to pieces droop disintegration disintegrate

Topics collapse topics

What do people use collapse to talk about?
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
States Quantity More

Decrease
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Lose consciousness
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building materials

Building equipment and maintenance
Physical actions Break, wear out

Destroy
Universe, creation World Land

Earthquake

Conjugation collapse conjugation

How do you conjugate collapse?

collapse · verb

Examples collapse examples

How do I use collapse in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If you don't take a vacation, you'll collapse.
The engineers blew up the bridge because it was about to collapse.
The tower is going to collapse.
The house seemed about to collapse at any moment.
The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The pylon was about to collapse.
Nobody else can enter the building, as it could collapse at any moment.
We can't stay here. The roof is about to collapse!
It's going to collapse.
Will the entire financial system collapse soon?
Our fossil-fuel based industrial civilization will eventually collapse.
The old bridge is in danger of collapse.
The obsolete regime is about to collapse.
If there's a big earthquake, the house could really collapse!
The country's economy is about to collapse.
This building is about to collapse.
In physics, the Jeans instability causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation.

Movie subtitles

But then, often quite suddenly, they can collapse.
That's the way the farms grow poorer and collapse.
Yes,And Thanks To His Inconvenient Collapse, Now My Future Is In Limbo.
You must learn sacrifice. and also never to collapse.
Telling me I'm perfectly well when I know I'm on the verge of a nervous collapse. Goodbye, Judy, dear.
The whole structure had to collapse before we could learn the truth.
That calls for the building to collapse, I suppose?
For Kane, in four short years, collapse.
Did you grease the saw? Sister Marie-Josephe, your woodpile will collapse.
I read your broadcast up to the point where you described the collapse of France.
You may collapse at any time.
You mustn't collapse now.
He's in collapse. - He's ill.
I thought his collapse due to mental strain.
If I don't get something to eat pretty soon, I'm gonna collapse.
Some day you'll collapse.
He's in collapse.
No. I thought his collapse due to mental strain.
I was shocked to see him collapse and didn't think beyond that.
Banks will collapse everywhere.
Just one hit of the Queen's fan and your whole construction will collapse.
A complete collapse.
My dog is outside in a state of complete collapse.
I'm ready to collapse from anxiety.
But we don't want them to collapse before the signal.
By the way, that's too bad about your collapse at the station yesterday.
She's on the edge of a nervous collapse.
Didn't I collapse on the couch?
It will probably end in final collapse and coma.
There will be no collapse!
You cannot tolerate a faith in humanity, because if you do, all this, the structure of your very existence, which you built on hate and vengeance, all this will collapse around the naked lie of your life.
It would collapse under the first train.
I'm in a state of complete financial collapse.
His mind is in total collapse.
Carter, I warn you, if this contraption should collapse, if the barrister should fall off the bannister.

News and current affairs

One answer, of course, is a complete collapse of the US dollar.
Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.
First, and perhaps above all, the revolutions of 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union put an end to global bipolarity.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
The extraordinary reception of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how keenly the consequences of the collapse of the left have been felt.
One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter-century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.
Above all, however, the permanent public provision of cheap credit would ultimately lead to a lingering infirmity, if not to Europe's economic collapse, because the eurozone would become a central management system with state control over investment.
Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia's budget, and lack of investment in the country's energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.
By late spring, those expectations had disintegrated alongside the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Andersen.
If that happened, the euro would eventually collapse.
What a distance Poland has travelled since communism's collapse in 1989!
Wholesale disintegration of reef ecosystems has occurred in some places, and collapse on a worldwide scale is a real risk.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that, if the latest peace talks collapse, he will press for UN recognition of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
The catastrophic collapse of fish stocks around the world--on coral reefs and elsewhere--has provided hard lessons about managing fisheries.
More importantly, they provide a refuge for fish populations, a kind of insurance policy against stock collapse.
Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey proposed the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
NEW YORK - Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some analysts described the resulting world as unipolar and saw few constraints on American power.
It was during Yitzhak Rabin's government in the early 1990's that Israel and Iran entered into open conflict, owing to the changing strategic environment after America's victory in the first Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 1992, the sirens of Somalia's political collapse lured the US into another civil war to save a country from itself.
Others did so because the banks, shocked by the collapse of the securitization business, stopped giving them home-equity loans for consumption purposes.
Markets had factored into share prices the belief that the US government would not allow any more banks to collapse.
Just as the collapse of the real estate bubble was predictable, so are its consequences: housing starts and sales of existing homes are down and housing inventories are up.
America today presents the paradox of a rich country falling apart because of the collapse of its core values.

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