Collapsing
[kə'læpsiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse
Checker: Valerie
Examples
- Mr Dolls, collapsing in the drowsiest manner after his late intellectual triumph, replied: 'Threepenn'orth Rum. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But everywhere now the Hohenzollern and Habsburg forces were collapsing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You do not know the South, Mr. Thornton,' she concluded, collapsing into a determined silence, and angry with herself for having said so much. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Checker: Valerie