Usually means: Falling down due to failure.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. collapsing: Merriam-Webster
  2. collapsing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. collapsing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Collapsing, collapsing: Wordnik
  5. collapsing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. collapsing: Wiktionary
  7. Collapsing, collapsing: Dictionary.com
  8. collapsing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Collapsing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Collapsing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. collapsing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. collapsing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. collapsing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collapsing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collapsing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. collapsing: Medical dictionary

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  1. collapsing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (collapse)

verb:  (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
verb:  (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
verb:  (intransitive) To fold compactly.
verb:  (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
verb:  (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
verb:  (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
noun:  The act of collapsing.
noun:  Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
noun:  (cricket) Short for batting collapse. [(cricket) A succession of batsmen or batswomen getting out without adding many runs to the team's score.]
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