Activate
Activate verb - To cause to function.
Collapse
Collapse verb - To fall down or in as a result of physical pressure.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The pandemic and societal collapse sweeping New York City in the game convinces the government to activate and reveal them for their first operation.
Source: No Such Agency -
In the final level, on Liberty Island, which has frozen over due to The Collapse one can activate a portal to an extradimensional nightclub, complete with penguins on fire!
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The Doctor tells the head of Torchwood, Yvonne Hartman, that the void ship's entry into the Earth dimension damaged the barrier between universes, and that each time they activate a ghost shift, they are damaging it further, which will eventually cause the barrier to collapse.
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Collapse and Activate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/activate/collapse
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