collapsing
倒塌的,倒塌,崩溃的,崩溃
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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.
- : to fall unconscious or as if unconscious or physically depleted, as from a stroke, heart attack, disease, or exhaustion.
- : Pathology. to sink into extreme weakness. to come into an airless state.
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col·lapsed, col·laps·ing.
- : to cause to collapse: He collapsed the table easily.
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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.