Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of falling together or collapsing; the state resulting from collapse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Collapse.
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- noun archaic
collapse
Etymologies
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Latin collapsio.
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Examples
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Mr. ENGLUND: And if we end up with a positive number, an even stronger number than the .6 they reported, that really takes the wind out of the sails for the collapsion theory and we might be seeing perhaps a bounce later in the year.
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It has beside been proved by the experiments of Bichat, that the collapsion of the lungs does not obstruct the circulation of blood through the pulmonary vessels.
Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart John Collins Warren 1817
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