collapsing

Meaning

of Collapse

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

falling unstable failing melting sinking folding merging uniting crashing sagging relapsing wilting lapsing subsidence foundering
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Antonyms

successful increasing rising spending paying spreading
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Phrases with the word

collapsing hole disorder of heart rhythm causing collapsing collapsing glomerulopathy magnetospheric eternally collapsing object

Anagrams

scalloping

Examples

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. Emil Cioran

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. Carl Sagan

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added. Robert H. Jackson

And indeed, if VSL is correct, black holes may have very different properties than we thought. Collapsing stars could have a totally different demise and die a rather eccentric death. João Magueijo

People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! Greta Thunberg

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. Paul Hawken