COLLAPSED Synonyms: 213 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

past tense of collapse

as in crumpled

to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure the motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people

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as in failed

to be unsuccessful the legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence

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as in compressed

to reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members together the novel collapses events from four separate trips into one long odyssey

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Recent Examples of collapsed

Adjective

Researchers have developed cyborg cockroaches that could help deliver emergency medical care to people trapped in collapsed buildings, caves, and other dangerous locations. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026 Henry County Coroner Brian Clark said the man, James Briar, appears to have gone around a barricade and fallen into the collapsed road. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 Thursday morning marked 72 hours since the quake, a period when survivors are considered most likely to be found alive beneath collapsed buildings. — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Nearly all cited the number of people killed, while large majorities pointed to orphaned children, mothers who lost children, grieving families and victims whose bodies remained trapped beneath collapsed buildings. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026 Aside from rubble and collapsed buildings, the earthquake left behind people, who hope they won’t be forgotten. — Julimar Valentina Rivas Perez, NBC news, 24 July 2026 Clips recorded just after the storm came through showed trees covering cars and a collapsed tent. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026 Animals could also be seen trapped beneath collapsed buildings. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 In a later post, TxDOT shared an on-the-ground look at the collapsed bridge, showing floodwaters still rushing across the collapsed portion. — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 17 July 2026

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The only difference is that, after this race, some of the competitors collapsed to the floor with sparks flying from their insides while safety officials charged over to attend to them with fire extinguishers. — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026 And since then, the government collapsed, and gang warfare has spread. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 The condition was made worse when the carport collapsed during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2026 That ratio has collapsed steadily since—not because boomers didn’t pay in, but because Americans are having far fewer children. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 The town’s prosperity ended during the Great Depression, when the cotton industry collapsed, and Gruene soon became a ghost town. — Gabi De La Rosa, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2026 Scientists who studied satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026 Barnett’s death comes less than two weeks after a Kansas high school football player in tiny Rozel, Kansas, about 300 miles from Kansas City, collapsed during an evening practice on the first day of school. — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026 The dispute centers on a series that collapsed at an advanced stage of production earlier this year. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for collapsed

Adjective

So it’s supposed to be the narration of a fallen soldier, like the guy who’s actually dying.

— Charles Moss, SPIN, 1 Sep. 2026
Compost Fallen Leaves Instead of mowing, consider raking the fallen leaves into a compost pile.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of fallen

Adjective

Today, with an imploded refi business and rates closing in on 7%, the AI mortgage company’s market value stands at just $300 million.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Surely this scheme would go the way of his failed casinos, airlines, and other imploded ventures.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 20 May 2026

Definition of imploded

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Inflation is part of the show, as across the valley floor, enormous envelopes lie crumpled in fields before fans slowly give them shape—then the burners start, sending pulses of orange through the fabric.

— Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
According to National Geographic, as the Arabian plate began to move further under the Eurasian plate, the two plates crumpled together, creating the Zagros Mountains — an impressive stretch of peaks that still exist in Iran.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of crumpled

Verb

Critically, the owner of the footage failed to show any impact on the market for the footage and in fact had never licensed the footage for compensation.

— Schuyler Moore, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Congress legalized home brewing in 1978 Occasional efforts in recent years to change the law failed to gain traction.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of failed

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The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
The core issue is that this gas is normally compressed when injected at depth underground.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of compressed

Adjective

The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio galaxies found in a region of the sky over Earth, studied intensely by the XMM-Newton X-ray spacecraft, called the XMM–Newton Large-Scale Structure (XMM–LSS) field.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
How to Deadhead Coneflowers Deadheading coneflowers is as simple as removing the faded flower heads.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of faded

Adjective

Mayer’s three professional defeats have now all come in England, following split-decision losses to Alycia Baumgardner in London in 2022 and Natasha Jonas in Liverpool in 2024.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Their statements arrived within hours of each other, echoing the same split-screen convergence playing out in Arizona.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

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