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| NOUN: | A line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another: crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, pleat, plica, plication, pucker, rimple, ruck2, rumple, wrinkle. See SMOOTH. | | VERB: | 1. Informal. To give way mentally and emotionally: break (down), collapse, crack, snap. Informal : crack up. See EXPLOSION. 2. Informal. To undergo sudden financial failure: break, bust, collapse, crash, fail, go under. Idioms: go belly up, go bust, go on the rocks, go to the wall. See MONEY. 3. To bend together or make a crease in so that one part lies over another: crease, double, pleat, ply1, ruck2. See ORDER, SMOOTH. 4. Informal. To give in from or as if from a gradual loss of strength: bow1, buckle, capitulate, submit, succumb, surrender, yield. See RESIST.
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