Collapse
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- If someone is particularly good at hiding the wound, their friends might not notice until they collapse, or maybe not even until after that.
Source: Secret Stab Wound -
Shutaro Mendo from Urusei Yatsura, though it's not so much his pride hiding insecurity as his pride being so central to his character that he tends to collapse when it's topped.
Source: Inferiority Superiority Complex - The last known Forest Brother was Latvian Jānis Pīnups, who came out of hiding only after the collapse of USSR in 1995, having fought guerrilla war against the Communists for fifty years.
Source: Determinator / Real Life
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Hiding and Collapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/hiding
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Hiding or Collapse. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/hiding.
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