Noun: collapse
| Singular | collapse |
| Plural | collapses |
Sample Sentences
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She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.
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in a state of nervous collapse
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The top six are assured of continental competition and after making a statement of intent against Stoke, it would take a dramatic collapse for Newcastle to surrender their place. [2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:]
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However the collapse in demand for rail and air travel caused by the pandemic has had a knock-on effect for the project's funding. [2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26:]
Nouns inflected like collapse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin collāpsus (past participle of collābor). See: Latin Nouns '
collāpsus'.
Verbs referencing "collapse"
Finnish Nouns
kollapsi.