Collapse
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| simple | simple collapse | simple scare |
| nasty | nasty collapse | nasty scare |
| actual | actual collapse | actual scare |
| real | real collapse | real scare |
| Other adjectives: massive, great, quick, ultimate, major, final, temporary, later, so-called, literal, said, recent, sudden, nuclear, environmental. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Brick Joke: Kevin climbs up his brother Buzz's storage shelves, which collapse under his weight, thereby destroying his brother's room and releasing his pet tarantula, which turns up later at an opportune moment to scare Marv during the climax.
Source: Film / Home Alone - Red Scare: Until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the events in The Sum of All Fears, Cold War tensions between the US and its allies and the Soviet Union are a significant part of the overall plot.
Source: Literature / Jack Ryan -
Red Scare: you'd never guess that the Soviet Union was teetering on the verge of collapse while this film was in production The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Unarmed prisoners and enemy wounded are shot by the Wolverines.
Source: Film / Red Dawn (1984)
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Scare and Collapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/scare
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