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keeling over
| Main Entry: |
keel over
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall, faint |
| Synonyms: | black out, capsize, collapse, drop, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | capsize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overturn |
| Synonyms: | invert, keel over, roll, tip over, turn over, turn turtle, upset |
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall apart, break down |
| Synonyms: | belly up, bend, break, cave in, conk out, crack up, crumple, deflate, disintegrate, droop, drop, exhaust, fail, faint, fall down, flag, flake out, fold, founder, give, give in, give out, give way, go to pieces, go*, keel over, languish, shatter, subside, succumb, tire, topple, weaken, weary, wilt, yield |
| Antonyms: | build, increase, rise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | let go of; fall |
| Synonyms: | abandon, bring down, cave in, collapse, decline, depress, descend, dive, duck, dump, fell, floor, flop, give up, go down, ground, keel over, knock, loosen, lower, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plump, plunge, release, relinquish, shed, shoot, sink, slide, slip, slump, topple, tumble, unload |
| Antonyms: | ascend, mount, rise, take up |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose consciousness |
| Synonyms: | be overcome, become unconscious, black out, collapse, drop, fade, fail, fall, flicker, go out like light, keel over, languish, pass out, succumb, swoon, weaken |
| Notes: | faint (verb) means to pass out from weakness or to lose consciousness - faint (adjective) means barely perceptible or lacking clarity or distinctness; feint (noun) means any distracting or deceptive maneuver - feint (verb) means to deceive by a mock action |
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend; become lower |
| Synonyms: | abate, backslide, be precipitated, break down, buckle, cascade, cave in, collapse, crash, decline, decrease, depreciate, diminish, dip, dive, drag, droop, drop down, dwindle, ease, ebb, flag, flop, fold up, go down, gravitate, hit the dirt, keel over, land, lapse, lessen, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, recede, regress, relapse, settle, sink, slip, slope, slump, spin, stumble, subside, take a header, tip over, topple, totter, trail, trip, tumble, wane |
| Antonyms: | ascend, climb, go up, rise, scale |
| Main Entry: | overturn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flip over |
| Synonyms: | annul, bring down, capsize, countermand, down, invalidate, invert, keel over, knock down, knock over, nullify, overbalance, prostrate, repeal, rescind, reverse, roll, set aside, spill, tip over, topple, tumble, turn over, turn upside down, upend, upset, upturn, void |
| Main Entry: | pass out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become unconscious, usually |
| Synonyms: | drop, faint, from abusing a substance black out, keel over, lose consciousness, swoon |
| Main Entry: | slump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decline, sink |
| Synonyms: | bend, blight, cave in, collapse, crash, decay, deteriorate, droop, drop, fall, fall off, go down, go downhill, go to ruin, hunch, keel over, loll, pitch, plummet, plunge, reach new low, sag, slide, slip, slouch, topple, tumble |
| Antonyms: | ascend, increase, rise |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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