Collapse
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fall down suddenly; to cave in To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown To fold compactly For several batsmen to get out in quick succession To cause something to collapse.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of collapsing Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset)
Example sentence: I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Flop
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fall heavily, because lacking energy.To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Right, squarely, flat-out.With a flopping sound.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouseA ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
Example sentence: I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.