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🏚️ To collapse again 🏚️ A second collapse
to recollapse

to recollapse

1 8.6
To fall in again after being fixed or made safe
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkəˈlæps/
: recolapsar
  • After a brief period of stability, the bridge began to recollapse due to the excessive weight of the traffic.

Examples

  • The structure was poorly reinforced, causing it to recollapse after the repairs were completed.

  • I didn't dare recollapse the staff; there was no saying when we might need it.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • This first engagement between gravity and entropy is over long before the universe is even a nanosecond old, but this initial one-sided outcome ensures that gravity cannot recollapse the universe for at least billions of years, and most likely, not ever.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Despite the initial restoration efforts, the building seemed destined to recollapse in the next storm.

Antonyms

to stabilize
  • US
44 4.3

To become steady and stop changing

Surface Forms

recollapse infinitive
recollapsed past
recollapsed past participle
recollapsing present participle
recollapses third person singular

Morphology

recollapse = collapse (transparent) = re + collapse

Here 're-' has its ordinary meaning 'again', so 'recollapse' straightforwardly means 'collapse again'.

Etymology

Recollapse comes from re- 'again' plus collapse 'to fall down', just like replay or redo show doing something again. So to recollapse is to 'fall down again' or to collapse again.