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Collapse
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
(2):
(v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
(3):
(v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
(4):
(n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
(5):
(n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Collapse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/collapse.html. 1828.
