an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion

an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion

an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion

a sudden and violent collapse

an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen

a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field

The act or process of failing to function or continue, A typically sudden collapse in physical or mental health, A falling apart, as of a carriage; a downfall; a crash; hence, a failure; a collapse

An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects, A telescope with its tube completely filled with water. Such an instrument was used by Airy at Greenwich, about 1870, as part of a zenith-sector, in order to settle by observation certain questions relating to the aberration of light, a telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations, verb _To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope, crush together or collapse, make smaller or shorter, transitive verb_ to shorten or abridge significantly, Recent To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope, intransitive verb_ To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do, To make more compact or concise; condense, To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections, adjective_ Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic

stumble and nearly fall, break down, literally or metaphorically, fail utterly; collapse, intransitive To fail; to miscarry, To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse, transitive To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him, noun_ a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding, One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster

The process of digging under an enemy emplacement or fortification to destroy it by explosives, cause it to collapse, or gain access to it for an attack, laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment, verb_ Present participle of mine, adjective_ Of or pertaining to mines