Clues for the word "COLLAPSE"
We've had 37 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 59 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 04, 2026.
Definition of collapse
- v. i. - To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.
- v. i. - To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
- n. - A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
- n. - A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
- n. - Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
Referring Clues
- Breakdown
- Come crashing down
- Give way
- Implode
- Cave in
- Topple
- Tumble like a house of cards
- Fall down from illness
- Cave
- Crash down on
- Fold compactly
- Fall apart
- Blow a big lead
- Fall down unconscious
- Subside
- Founder
- Firm left to slip into bankruptcy?
- Officer's mistake leads to failure
- Break down everything that's sprung up in the wood
- Sudden breakdown
- Wood everyone must break up or break down?
- State of banks - all up in the trees?
- Failure of wood holding everyone back
- Close pal treated for breakdown
- Cave in wooded area accommodating everyone turning up
- Fall in
- In a terribly close round, break down
- Break down
- Break down everything that's sprung up in wood
- In the wood, climbing, all fall down
- Cave in wood holding everyone up
- Buckle
- Fall down
- The Point Ellis bridge ___
- Crack up and pass, by mistake
- Having piled all the wood outside, slump on the ground
- Deflate
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 22, 2024
- Daily American - July 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 14, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - August 22, 2022
- Daily American - July 03, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 25, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 12, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - September 15, 2016
- USA Today - September 06, 2016
- LA Times Sunday - April 03, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - February 04, 2016
- And in 29 more crossword puzzles...