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Definition of Collapsed
1. collapse [v] - See also: collapse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collapsed
Literary usage of Collapsed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"Lung hard and collapsed. Slight haemoptysis after operation. General improvement
in child's condition. Temperature, rarely above 99". ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1905)
"The leaves of the electroscope were charged with negative electricity in the
usual manner, and collapsed very slowly ; in fact only ..."
3. Transactions of the American Pediatric Society by American Pediatric Society (1890)
"THE reinflation of a collapsed lung while the surface of that lung is freely
exposed to the pressure of the atmosphere through an opening in the pleural ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"Steam valves should never be opened or closed very suddenly at any time; it should
be done very gradually in times of overpressure. Collapsed ..."
5. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"Reinhardt killed, Kurve, Ger.; collapsed wing. Lieut. .... EWC Perry and EG
Parfitt, killed, war Eng.; machine collapsed. Ag 12 Corp. ..."
6. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White (1906)
"San Jose, the Prettiest Place in the State, Wrecked by Quake— State Insane Asylum
Collapsed and Buried Many Patients Beneath the Crumbled Walls—Enormous ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... во far as Warner was connected with it, collapsed by his executing a general
assignment of his property for the benefit of his creditors. ..."
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