collapse

Forms

1.To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
2.To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.
- However much we like to think of ourselves as something special in world history, in fact industrial societies are subject to the same principles that caused earlier societies to collapse.
3.To fold compactly.
4.To conflate, to ignore the distinctions between.

1.The act of collapsing.
- She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.
- 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.
- 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.
2.Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
3.Ellipsis of batting collapse.