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together
     1. adv. At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
           We went to school together.
     2. adv. Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
           He put all the parts together.
     3. adv. In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
           Bob and Andy went into business together.  Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico.
     4. adj. (colloquial) Coherent; well organized.
           He's really together.
they
     1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned.
           Fred and Jane? They just arrived.   Dogs may bark if they want to be fed.   Plants wilt if they are not watered.
           I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken.
     2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female.
     3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
           They say it’s a good place to live.
           They didn’t have computers in the old days.
           They should do something about this.
           They have a lot of snow in winter.
     4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those.
     5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their.
     6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be).
slowly
     1. adv. (manner) At a slow pace.
collapse
     1. v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
     2. v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
           Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.
     3. v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
     4. v. (Computing) To hide additional directory (folder) levels below the selected directory (folder) levels. When a folder contains no additional folders, a minus sign (-) appears next to the f
     5. v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
     6. v. To cause something to collapse.
           Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
     7. v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
           The exhausted singer collapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital.
     8. n. The act of collapsing.
wither
     1. adv. (obsolete, or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
     2. v. (obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose.
     3. v. (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
     4. v. To cause to shrivel or dry up.
     5. v. (intransitive, figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
     6. v. (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
     7. v. To make helpless due to emotion.
     8. n. singular of withers, , part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades
and
     1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
     2. conj.          Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
     3. conj.          Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
     4. conj.          Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
     5. conj.          (obsolete) Yet; but.
     6. conj.          Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
     7. conj.          (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
     8. conj.          Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
     9. conj.          Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
     10. conj.          Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
     11. conj.          (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
     12. conj.          Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
     13. conj.          Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
     14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
     15. conj.          (now US dialect) If; provided that.
     16. conj.          (obsolete) As if, as though.
     17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
     18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
     19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
     20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
die
     1. v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
     2. v.          followed by of; general use:
                    He died of embarrassment.
     3. v.          followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine(topics, en, Medicine) or the sciencestopics, en, Sciences:
                    He died from heart failure.
     4. v.          followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
                    He died for the one he loved.
     5. v.          (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
     6. v.          (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
                    She died with dignity.
     7. v. To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
           He died a hero's death.
           They died a thousand deaths.
     8. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
           I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
           I'm dying for a piss.
     9. v. (intransitive) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
           The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
     10. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
           He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
     11. v. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
           If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
     12. v. (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
           When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
     13. v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
           My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
     14. v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
     15. v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
     16. v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
     17. v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
           to die to pleasure or to sin
     18. v. (intransitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
           I can't believe I just died to a squirrel!
     19. v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
     20. v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
     21. v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
           Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
     22. n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
     23. n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
     24. n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
     25. n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
     26. n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
     27. n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
     28. n. Any small cubical or square body.
     29. n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
     30. n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
     31. n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
     32. v. topics, en, Death, Dice games
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