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collapsing

adjective as in breaking

adjective as in crumbling

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Analyzing the ebb and flow of the race, Howie said Weiland has positive momentum but Rounds is collapsing.

The new paper models the Hawking radiation for a collapsing star before it makes a black hole.

People sense the entire country collapsing, even vanishing around them, becoming, as one friend put it, an ‘anti-country.’

Pennsylvania is purple personified, and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is collapsing in the Keystone State.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe were collapsing in flames.

When she read a fatal telegram to her saying that all was lost, she had had that empty, collapsing feeling.

The only thing that kept him from collapsing altogether was the blood of some animal which Yamba might succeed in killing.

He had to scheme for each scant breath he drew, spreading the dress and collapsing it at short intervals to renew the foul air.

But everywhere now the Hohenzollern and Habsburg forces were collapsing.

Uncle Tom came near collapsing on the stage, and the other actors were so disturbed that they got tangled in their lines.

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On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to collapsing, such as: cracking, crumbling, fracturing, shattering, smashing, and splintering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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