Crossword clues for collapsing
collapsing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collapse \Col*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Collapsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Collapsing] [L. collapsus, p. p. of collabi to collapse; col- + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.]
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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
--Maunder. To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of collapse English)
Usage examples of "collapsing".
In one corner a slum collapsing, in another a new train with pistons shining, in another a gaudy painted lady below a drab and ancient airship .
Outside vodyanoi hands, untouched, such works would last perhaps an hour before slowly collapsing back into their elemental form.
Isaac passed a group squatting at the end of a corridor, practising what they had just learned, laughing delightedly as the tiny homunculus they had made from ground liver stumbled four steps before collapsing in a pile of twitching mulch.
There was a violent, cracking jolt and Derkhan flew backwards against the wall, collapsing to the floor.
He hauled himself through the exit, collapsing across the floor in the dark room where Yagharek waited.
In the dump’s smell of oil and chymical mould and warming metal, the organic stink of the avatar’s slowly collapsing body was shocking.
Like shambling city vagrants in clothes ill-suited to the sweltering air, they trudged a path through the skyline of New Crobuzon, back to their collapsing hideout by the railway line.
She was making for the charity hospital of Syriac Well, through four or more miles of intricately twisting slum and collapsing architecture.
He wagged his gun, indicating that Andrej should sit, which the old man did, collapsing slowly and precipitously into the far corner.
Halfway up the slope, Isaac saw a militiaman bow away from the roof, collapsing in an ugly organic cascade down the length of the clay.
He was slowing down, his body collapsing under the extraordinary strain.
He was an old man whose body was collapsing under the oppressive weight of a rotting, wasting disease, whose mind was stiff with coagulated dream-emissions.
The reality of the network was collapsing in some way I still cannot define, literally coming to pieces.
For the first time, Paul could hear the terror subdued beneath collapsing control.
The homunculus was becoming loose and flabby, collapsing in on itself in dreadful, high-speed putrefaction.