Synonyms of the word

collapse

• v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
• v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
• v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
• v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
• n. The act of collapsing.
• n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

burst

• n. An instance of, or the act of bursting.
• n. A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
• n. A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
• v. (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
• v. (transitive) To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
• v. (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
• v. (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

crack

• v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
• v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
• v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
• v. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
• v. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
• v. (transitive) To open slightly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative).
• v. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.).
• v. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
• v. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
• v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application…
• v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
• v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
• v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
• v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
• n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• n. A narrow opening.
• n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
• n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
• n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
• n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
• n. (informal) An attempt at something.
• n. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
• n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous…
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news.
• n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
• n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
• n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
• n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
• n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
• n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
• n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
• n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
• n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
• adj. Highly trained and competent.
• adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

crash

• n. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
• n. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally…
• n. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
• n. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
• n. A comedown of a drug.
• n. A group of rhinoceroses.
• n. dysphoria.
• adj. quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
• v. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
• v. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
• v. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable…
• v. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
• v. (slang) To give, as a favor.
• v. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
• v. (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after…
• v. (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
• n. (fibre) Plain linen.

crumble

• v. To fall apart; to disintegrate.
• v. To render into crumbs.
• n. A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

crumple

• n. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
• v. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
• v. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

flop

• v. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
• v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
• v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer).
• v. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise…
• v. (poker, transitive) To participate in the flop, thus building one's hand with the first community cards.
• v. (slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
• n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
• n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
• n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
• n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
• adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
• adv. With a flopping sound.
• n. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

founder

• n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
• n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
• n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
• n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
• v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
• v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
• v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
• v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

happening

• v. present participle of happen.
• adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
• adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
• n. Something that happens.
• n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

illness

• n. (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
• n. (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.

malady

• n. Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
• n. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

misadventure

• n. An accidental mishap or misfortune.

mischance

• n. Bad luck, misfortune.
• n. A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
• v. (transitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).

mishap

• n. An accident, mistake, or problem.
• n. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
• v. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.

occurrence

• n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

• adj. Current, actual, occurring.
• n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

sickness

• n. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
• n. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
• n. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common…

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

sustain

• n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
• v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
• v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
• v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
• v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
• v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
• v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

tumble

• n. A fall.
• n. An act of sexual intercourse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.
• v. To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
• v. To roll over and over.
• v. (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
• v. To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

unwellness

• n. The state or characteristic of being unwell; a feeling of slight to moderate sickliness.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.