collapsing 的 3 个定义
col·lapsed, col·laps·ing.
- to fall or cave in; crumble suddenly: The roof collapsed and buried the crowd.
- to be made so that sections or parts can be folded up, as for convenient storage: This bridge table collapses.
- to break down; come to nothing; fail: Despite all their efforts the peace talks collapsed.
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col·lapsed, col·laps·ing.
- to cause to collapse: He collapsed the table easily.
- a falling in or together: Three miners were trapped by the collapse of the tunnel roof.
- a sudden, complete failure; breakdown: The bribery scandal brought about the complete collapse of his industrial empire.
collapsing 近义词
fall apart, break down
更多collapsing例句
- Our analysis so far indicates that the answer is yes, provided the spontaneous collapse rate increases with the curvature of spacetime.
- The country was already teetering on the edge of economic collapse before the blast.
- There also was the collapse of a fuel tank in the mining city of Norilsk.
- No matter how bizarre and twisted the universe looked before it contracted, the collapse would efficiently erase a wide range of primordial wrinkles.
- The wave of evictions caused by the coronavirus could swamp even the massive dislocation caused by the collapse of the US housing bubble more than a decade ago.
- Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.
- No precautions have been taken to reinforce the ceilings, which could collapse onto the statues.
- In 1997, an earthquake in Assisi caused the collapse of the main cathedral and killed ten people.
- A hard look at campus rape statistics, the collapse of The New Republic and the day John Lennon died.
- But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading.
- At any moment, if he cared to collapse, he could make ten thousand pounds in a single day.
- The danger of collapse was past for the present, but the deep sleep of utter intoxication still clung to the ruler of Asturia.
- In a big armchair a white-haired man in evening dress was lying back in a state of collapse.
- Beyond doubt here was the ruler of Asturia, whom Jessie had left not so long before in a state of collapse.
- Collapse ensues and death takes place on the second to the fourth day of the affection.