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(v)
(intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
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(n)
A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.
(transitive) To push or throw over.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.
(intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
To grasp firmly; to become attached to.
To understand something; to catch on; to fully appreciate its implications.
(Scotland, Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To understand; to begin to understand; to realize.
(intransitive) To realize; come to understand.
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
fly around
(N)
a real-time card game from James Ernest in which all players are falling from the sky for no apparent reason.
The act of declining or refusing something.
(adv)
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
(economics, etc.) A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
decline
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
(adj)
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, economic activity, etc.
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
hesitant, halting
The act, process, or result of reducing.
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
(intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
(transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
(intransitive) To swim under water.
Having no variations in height.
A waterfall.
An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
A lower section of a road or geological feature.
(cricket) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
A rich person who lives in luxury.
made less in size or amount or degree
(botany) Directed obliquely.
A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
(intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.
A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.
The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
A sudden or unsteady movement.
(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
Synonym of tumble turn.
(swimming) A turn used to reverse the direction in which the person is swimming.
(UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble.
(ballet) A movement in which a dancer falls from one leg to the other while flexing the knee.
A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
(US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
A precarious motion or situation, risking a fall or collapse.
A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.
A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
Alternative form of nosedive. [(intransitive, of aircraft) To dive down in a steep angle.]
The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.
The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
One who, or that which, snaps.
A change of direction or orientation.
A stray hair that is difficult to style.
One who teeters, who is about to fall physically or to give into temptation etc.
The action of ruffling or setting in disorder.
Alternative form of tousle. [To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.]