How to pronounce“collapse”in English
verbMaybe it's me. It's just me. So when I started writing it, the idea I had was that Lehman brothers and the big banks would
collapse and the auto industry would collapse. By 2008, all those things had happened. So I had to make things worse and worse and in Super Sad it gets bad enough that
basically the whole country gets bought out by a Norwegian hedge-fund in China. So.
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Definitions of “collapse”
To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
“A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.”
To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
“Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.”
The act of collapsing.
“She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.”
Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
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