Collapse

Definition: Collapse

Collapse

Noun

1. An abrupt failure of function or health.

2. A mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in.

3. The act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop".

4. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

Verb

1. Break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice".

2. Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack.

3. Fold or close up, as of an umbrella or a music stand.

4. Fall apart; also used metaphorically: "Negociations broke down".

5. Cause to burst; "The ice broke the pipe".

6. Suffer a nervous breakdown.

7. Lose significance, effectiveness, or value; "The school system is collapsing"; "The stock market collapsed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "collapse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Health

Industry

Literature

Mining

Physics

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Collapse

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Noun: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease; of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; Verb: compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.

Descent

Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; stumble; fate of Icarus.

Deterioration

Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.

Failure

Mishap; (misfortune); split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.

Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).

Fatigue

Anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy; goneness.

Impotence

Helplessness; Adjective: prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy.

Collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke; (fail).

Noncompletion

Fall short of; do things by halves, parboil, scotch the snake not lull it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse.

Shortcoming

Break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out, come to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.

Crosswords: Collapse

I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger)

The collapse of character begins with compromise. (references; author: unknown)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (1940)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (reference)

• Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Rule (reference)

• The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Why the Towers Fell - An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center (reference)

• World Trade Center - Anatomy of a Collapse (reference)

• Gundam Wing - The Collapse of Peace (V.12 Cartoon Network Version) (reference)

• NOVA - Why the Towers Fell - An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Contradictions Collapse (reference)

• Do the Collapse (reference)

• Full Collapse (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Super Collapse! [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bioerosion of coral reefs makes them brittle and susceptible to collapse. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Ridge Collapse on WapiCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds.

[A collapse at Military Mobile Hospital No. 75, Gungalin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

England in danger of economic collapse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rescue workers searching for at least two men, who were reported missing after collapse of a huge section of the New York Coliseum, under construction in New York's Columbus Circle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pennsylvania--Lieutenant Emory H. Taunt, United States consul to the Congo State / / photo. by Thomson, London. Michigan--building of the Ladies' Literary Club at Grand Rapids. The collapse of the Panama Canal--a view of the cut through the Culebra Mount. Credit: Library of Congress.

Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton in California, 1921. Nyland, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are inter-mingled, and if they have "faith in each other's purpose, hope in each other's future and charity towards each other's shortcomings" - to quote some good words I read here the other day - why cannot they work together at the common task as friends and partners? Why cannot they share their tools and thus increase each other's working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we shall all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war, incomparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, circulatory collapse and shock. (references)

If, however, these tiny air sacs become stretched or swollen, the risk of lung collapse may increase. (references)

Other changes include loss of the cells that line the upper and lower airways, extensive scar formation, and collapse of the airways. (references)

Business

In fact Rafo is teetering on the brink of collapse, having stopped production in March. (references)

The first was the collapse of the Warsaw Pact market, which accounted for 80-90 percent of defense sector output. (references)

In addition, Daewoo Heavy Industries is now undergoing workout procedures as a result of the collapse of the Daewoo Group. (references)

Children

Russia

The status of many children has deteriorated since the collapse of communism because of falling living standards, an increase in the number of broken homes, and domestic violence. (references)

Russia

According to a UNICEF survey, children of IDP's from the Chechen conflict suffer disproportionately from chronic anemia and have a low rate of vaccinations due to the collapse of local health and education systems as a result of the conflict. (references)

Civil Liberties

Croatia

The case against former Tisak chief Miroslav Kutle for forgery and abuse of power in the firm's collapse was ongoing at year's end. (references)

Economic History

Oman

The Rial was devalued in 1986 due to the collapse in oil prices. (references)

Pakistan

The reason for the collapse of this highly developed culture is unknown. (references)

Poland

Since the collapse of communism in 1989, potential expropriation in Poland has not been an issue. (references)

Human Rights

Algeria

Security forces then used explosives to collapse the mine, killing 70 persons. (references)

Tajikistan

The general collapse of governmental programs and of the economy led to the virtual disappearance of such programs. (references)

Korea

The necessity for the intensification of such indoctrination repeatedly is stressed in the writings of Kim Jong Il, who attributes the collapse of the Soviet Union largely to insufficient ideological indoctrination, compounded by the entry of foreign influences. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

The cost of Russia's 1998 financial collapse was significant. (references)

Solomon Islands

With the breakdown of law and order, the formal sector of the economy is on the brink of collapse. (references)

INDONESIA

More than four years after the Asian financial crisis, Indonesia continues to struggle with the wreckage of its 1998 economic collapse. (references)

Political Rights

India

Similarly, President's Rule may be declared in the event of a collapse of a state's constitutional machinery. (references)

United Kingdom

Although none of the main parties formally accepted the blueprint, and during the following months the devolved government was near collapse several times, significant progress continued on many fronts. (references)

Trade

Korea

This attitude has changed, particularly since the spectacular mid-1999 collapse of Daewoo Group, at that time Korea's second-largest chaebol. (references)

Worker Rights

India

In February the collapse of a mine wall led to the death of more than 30 miners. (references)

Kuwait

At the Ahmadi Port refinery, work continued in intense heat despite the collapse of three workers. (references)

Sierra Leone

There are no reliable statistics on union membership, but membership numbers have declined as a percentage of all workers because of the virtual collapse of the small manufacturing sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "collapse": cause to collapse ♦ causing a collapse or landslide ♦ collapse check ♦ collapse depth ♦ collapse heap ♦ collapse like a house of cards ♦ collapse of prices ♦ collapse of the market ♦ collapse sinkhole ♦ Collapse Therapy ♦ financial collapse ♦ gravitational collapse ♦ hull collapse ♦ local collapse ♦ of a collapse ♦ volume deficiency collapse. Additional references.

Ending with "collapse": near-collapse.

Albanian

shkatërrim (breakdown, breakup, decay, decimation, demolition, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, dissolution, downfall, havoc, mess, ravage, ruin, wrack, wreck, wrecking), shembje (bump, cave in, contusion, crash, demolition), shemb (contuse, demolish, pull down, tear down), rrëzim (canting, crash, decay, demolition, deposition, destruction, dethronement, eradiation, failure, fall, plough, plow, plump, prostration), rrënoj (beggar, depredate, destroy, do for, exhaust, ravage, ruin, vandalize, waste), rënie (abatement, bathos, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), gërmadhë (demolition, destruction, devastation, pillaging, ravaging, ruin, wrack), dobësim i forcave, dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقد (forfeit, lose, perish, squander, wastage), ‏كان قابلا للطي, ‏تهدم (crumbling, falling, molder, moulder, ruin), ‏تساقط (breakdown, drop out, fall, molt, moult, shake, shake off), ‏تدهور الصحة, ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏إنهيار (avalanche, breakdown, fall, plunge, ruin, shower, slump, smash, split up), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), ‏إنطوى (double up), ‏أصاب بضعف شديد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

срутване (crash, demolition, dilapidation, fall), срутвам се (break in, calve, crash, fall down, fall in, topple, tumble down), сплесквам се, рухване (frustration, smash up), рухвам (crumble, fall, go to pieces, go to ruin, topple, tumble down, wreck), рязко спадане (slump), разпадане (breakup, decay, disintegration, disruption, dissociation, dissolution), колапс, грохвам (become decrepit), провалям се (break down, come to grief, fail, fall through, fizzle out, fold, go awry, go phut, go to pot, go wrong, misfire, slump, sour, tumble down), провал (bankruptcy, downfall, failure, mucker, ruin, sucks, unsuccess), пропадам (abyss, fail, fall through, go, go to the dogs, go under, go wrong, lose), изкривяване (contortion, curvature, curve, deformation, sag, twist). (various references)

Chinese 

垮 , �'塌 (topple), 崩溃 (Collapsed, Collapsing, crash), 崩潰 (crumble, fall apart), 崩塌 (crumble), 崩 (fall into ruins), 塌下 , 塌 , 坍 . (various references)

Czech

ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cast away, cave in, come to grief, fail, fall through, founder, go by the board, ground, miscarry, shipwreck, wreck), ztroskotání (wreck), zhroutit se (cave in, crack up, founder, go to pieces), zhroucení (break down, breakdown), zbořit se, zřítit se (crash, fall, fall down, fall in, have a crash, plummet), svalit se (drop to the ground, topple, tumble), spadnutí, spadnout (crash, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall over, go down, topple), sklapnout (spring), pád (case, crash, downfall, drop, fall, plump, plunge, ruin, spill, tumble), krach (bust, failure, smash), kolaps. (various references)

Danish

kollaps (break down, breakdown, crimp, washboarding). (various references)

Dutch

uiteenvallen (break-up, disintegrate), instorten (to collapse), ineenstorten, collaps (breakdown, crimp, washboarding). (various references)

Esperanto

disfali. (various references)

Farsi 

فروریختن (Breakdown, Cave, Crumble, Disintegrate, Fall), متلاشی شدن (Crackup, Decompose), غش کردن (Swoon), اوار (Debris), دچارسقوطواضمحلال شدن . (various references)

Finnish

sortuminen (sinking, sloughing), sortua (crash to the ground, fall, fall in, give way, succumb, tumble down), romahtaa maahan, romahdus (breakdown, crash, failure), pyörtyminen, painua (droop, drop, settle, sink, submerge), lysähtää (flop down), luhistuminen (crimp, washboarding), luhistua (be shattered, come to nothing, fall in, fall through, tumble down), litistyminen, kollapsoituminen (crimp, washboarding), kollapsi, kaatua (be overturned, be upset, capsize, fall, fall down, overturn). (various references)

French

effondrer, effondrement (collapse sinkhole, hull collapse), collapsus. (various references)

German

einsturz (cave in, caving-in), kollaps (crimp, washboarding), zusammenbruch (breakdown, crackup, crash, crashes), zusammenbrechen (break down, cave in, come to a standstill, crash, crumble, fail, fall apart, give way, to break down, to collapse), einbruch (break in, burglary, fall, housebreaking, incursion, inrush, irruption, onset, penetration, raid, robbery). (various references)

Greek 

κατάρρευση (break down, debacle), καταρρέω (cave in, crumble, fall in, molder, moulder, slump), σωριάζομαι (fall in, slump, slumped in a chair). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפולת (debris, fall, ruin), מטוט (infirmity), למוטט (knock down, overthrow, shake), למוט (decline, fall, quake, shake, totter), לקרוס (buckle, kneel, topple, writhe), לכרוע (bow, crouch, knee, sink), ל�"תמוטט (break down, come down, founder, go to pieces, topple), תמוט�" (fall), תבוס�" (beating, checkmate, defeat, downfall, drubbing, licking, overthrow, rout, setback, thrashing), שבר (break, breakage, breaking, crisis, failure, fracture, mishap, rupture, splinter), �"תמוטטות (breakdown, fall, overthrow, slump, tottering), � פיל�" (defeat, degradation, downfall, fall, falling, pitch, slip, spilling, tumble). (various references)

Hungarian

összeomlás (breakdown, bust up, cataclysm, débâcle, debacle, mouldering, ruin, smash, wreckage), ájulás (coma, faint, fainting, faintness, swoon, syncope). (various references)

Indonesian

runtuh (decay), kebobrokan (evil), keambrukan, ambruk, ambleg (give way). (various references)

Irish

cliseadh. (various references)

Italian

collasso (breakdown, shock), crollo (breakdown, cave in, crash, dash, downfall, drop, fall, ruin, shock, slump, smash, smasher, tumbling down), crollare (buckle, crack, crash, crumble, decay, fall down, flop down, keel over, slump, topple). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

没落 (fall, ruin), 滅亡 (destruction, downfall, ruin), �'壊 (destruction), 崩落 (break, cave-in, crash, market decline), 崩壊 (breaking down, caving in, crumbling, decay physics). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すいぼう (downfall, flood prevention, ruin), がべい (failure, fiasco, rice-cake painting, something of little value), がへい (failure, fiasco, rice-cake painting, something of little value), くずれ (crumbling, ruin), まるつぶれ (complete ruin), ぼつらく (fall, ruin), ほうかい (breaking down, caving in, cherishing, crumbling, decay, entertaining, harboring), ほうらく (break, cave-in, crash, decline, pleasures of a pious life), か�"にゅう (dovetailing, fallingin, inlaying, insight, penetration, setting in, subsiding), めつぼう (destruction, downfall, ruin), けっかい (blood clot, breakdown, rupture), とうかい (crumbling, destruction, eastern sea, hidden, region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan). (various references)

Korean 

붕괴 (Disruption). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), filley (braid, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap). (various references)

Norwegian

sammenbrudd. (various references)

Pig Latin

ollapsecay.(various references)

Portuguese

colapso (cracker, debacle, drop, fit), ruir (fall in, topple), desmaio (faint, fit, insensibility, swoon). (various references)

Romanian

colaps (crack up), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, rot, spill, Turkey), cãdea (appear, arrive, climb down, come down, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, founder, go under, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, ruin, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip, vote down), se descuraja (flatten), prãvãlire (downfall, falling down), prãbuşire (break, break down, break up, burst up, crack up, crash, debacle, decay, downfall, drop, fall, labefaction), dezumfla (deflate, let down, subside), dãrâmare (dilapidation), îşi pierde curajul. (various references)

Russian 

упасть духом, упадок сил (break-down), рушиться крах, рушиться (come down, fall flat on the ground, fall flat on your face), разрушение (abolishment, breakdown, breakup, cracking, decay, demolition, desolation, destruction, wrecking), крушение (burst up, crash, derailment, smashups, wreck, wreckage), коллапс, обвал (avalanche, cave-in, landslide), продольный изгиб, изнемочь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stropoštati se (fall, throw down, tumble), srušiti se (fall down, fall over, founder, keel over), slom (break, breakdown, debacle, fracture, labefaction, ruin, wreck), skljokati se (flop), rušenje (demolition, destruction, overturn, pulling down, ruination), pasti (fall, fall down, fall to, graze, lapse, occur, pasture, redound, sink), pad (come down, decline, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, spill, tumble), kolaps, doživeti slom. (various references)

Spanish

colapso (jam), derrumbamiento (landslide, overthrow). (various references)

Swedish

sammanbrott (breakdown, debacle), kollapsa (crack, founder, snap), kollaps (crimp, failure, rock failure, sinking, subsidence, washboarding). (various references)

Thai

พับไ�"้ (fold away), พับ (fold, shut), พังทลาย (buckle), ทำให้พังทลาย, การพังทลาย, การล้มป่วย, ความล้มเหลว (catastrophe, failing, failure, falling, flop, naught). (various references)

Turkish

ciğerlerine hava gitmemek, cesaretini yitirmek, yıkılma (crack up, decay, downfall, fall, shipwreck, subversion, wreck), çöküntü (breakdown, depression, sag), çökme (crack up, decline, depression, dip, downfall, sag, slump, subsidence), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside), başarısız olmak (come unstuck, fail, fall by the wayside, fall flat, fall through, flunk, make sorry show), başarısızlık (abortion, balk, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, bust, cropper, defeat, dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout), düşüş (comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble), çöküş (breakup, decadence, decay, decline, descent, downfall, fall, ruins, smash up, sunset, twilight), yığılma (build up), yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, come down, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall over, fall to pieces, founder, go to pieces, go to ruin, shipwreck, tumble, tumble down, wither away), düşmek (behoove, behove, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), kolaps, portatif olmak, suya düşme (flop, miscarriage, petering, wreck), suya düşmek (come to grief, come to naught, come to nought, come unstuck, fail, fall through, fizzle, fizzle out, flop, go by the board, go phut, go to pot, miscarry, peter out), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset). (various references)

Turkmen 

lagюamak (fall inpieces). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильно ослабнути, руйнуватися (decay), руйнування (bad, breaking, caries, demolition, destruction, the sword, upset, wrack, wrecking), крах (bankruptcy, burst up, come down, crash, defeat, destruction, disruption, frustration, ruin, ruination, wreckage), колапс, катастрофа (accident, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, crash, debacle, smash, wreck), виснажуватися (atrophy, emaciate, peter out, run low), обвалюватися (calve, cave), обвал (landslide, rockfall), звалитися від хвороби, знесилення (cachexy, enervation, fag), загибель (bad, bane, blasting, catastrophe, death, destruction, doom, ending, fate, overthrow, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreck, wreckage), занепасти духом (lose heart, sing small), зазнати краху (burst, go phut), банкрутство (bankruptcy, crash, smash). (various references)

Welsh

ymollyngdod (relaxation), ymollwng (drop, give way, sink). (various references)

concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, procidamus, procidebant, procidens, procident, procidentes, procidi, procidit, procidunt, prolapsi, ruina, ruinae, ruinam, ruinas, ruinis. (various references)

gedreosan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "collapse": collapsed, collapses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Collapse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callaps, clapse, Coillabus, collams, collaps, collapser, collaspe, Collessie, collopse, Polglase. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: escallop.

-1 letter: callose, escalop, locales, scallop, scalpel.

-2 letters: aslope, cellos, copals, lapels, locale, locals, places, solace.

-3 letters: alecs, aloes, calls, calos, capes, capos, cella, cello, cells, claps, clasp, clops, close, coals, colas, coles, copal, copes, copse, laces, lapel, lapse, leaps, local, lopes, losel, ollas, opals, paces, pales, palls, paseo, peals, place, pleas, poles, polls, psoae.

+1 letter: calliopes, collapsed, collapses, escallops, scalloped, scalloper.

+2 letters: escalloped, leucoplast, pillowcase, scallopers.

+3 letters: cellophanes, collapsible, episcopally, escalloping, eucalyptols, leucoplasts, nucleoplasm, peccadillos, pillowcases, plagioclase.

+4 letters: cupellations, despotically, episodically, eucalyptoles, nucleoplasms, opalescently, peccadilloes, phylloclades, placeholders, plagioclases, plainclothes, polyvalences.

+5 letters: ceruloplasmin, colleagueship, compellations, electroplates, geophysically, leptocephalus, nucleoplasmic, politicalizes, polydactylies, porcellaneous, psephological, semipolitical, speleological, supercolossal, valpolicellas.