| apocalypse | (noun) a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil | - |
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| apse | (noun) a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar | Synonyms: apsis |
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| collapse | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: flop |
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| (noun) a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in | - |
| (noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion | Synonyms: prostration |
| (verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) lose significance, effectiveness, or value | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, crack, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) fold or close up | - |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, crumble, crumple, tumble |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: burst |
| copse | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, coppice, thicket |
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| corpse | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, remains, stiff |
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| eclipse | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: occultation |
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| (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
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| glimpse | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glance |
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| (noun) a brief or incomplete view | - |
| (noun) a vague indication | - |
| (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
| hydroisohypse | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of equal level on the piezometric surface. | - |
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| lapse | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: oversight |
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| (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
| (noun) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something | - |
| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
| (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: backslide |
| (verb) end, at least for a long time | - |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: pass, sink |
| (verb) let slip | - |
| prolapse | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapsus |
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| (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
| relapse | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| synapse | (noun) the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle | - |
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| traipse | (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: shlep |
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