Synonyms of collapsing

collapsing 1 of 2

adjective

as in failing

Related Words

• failing
• folding
• flopping
• slipping
• washing-out
• declining
• slumping
• flunking
• waning
• futureless
• bankrupt
• inauspicious
• destroyed
• no-good
• unpromising
• unsuccessful
• hopeless
• ruined
• failed
• wrecked
• kerflooey
• kaput

Dissimilar Words

• successful
• going
• thriving
• flourishing
• triumphant
• prosperous
• coming
• promising
• growing
• booming
• palmy
• robust
• roaring

collapsing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of collapse

1

as in crumpling

to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure

the motel balcony collapsed under the weight of so many people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crumpling
• tumbling
• going
• buckling
• crumbling
• dying
• melting
• shattering
• imploding
• giving
• yielding
• crashing
• foundering
• going out
• giving way
• bursting
• breaking
• failing
• flattening
• caving (in)
• snapping
• cracking
• smashing
• popping
• deflating
• splitting
• stalling
• splintering
• giving out
• melting down
• breaking down
• conking (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rising
• swelling
• inflating

2

as in flopping

to be unsuccessful

the legal case collapsed in the face of the opposition's evidence

Synonyms & Similar Words

• failing
• flopping
• folding
• struggling
• missing
• bombing
• foundering
• striking out
• cratering
• flunking
• tanking
• declining
• crashing
• falling short
• falling flat
• coming up empty
• dying on the vine
• flaming out
• crumbling
• laying an egg
• coming to grief
• slipping
• washing out
• slumping
• floundering
• falling on one's face
• skidding
• coming a cropper
• sinking
• imploding
• waning
• misfiring
• miscarrying
• going under
• self-destructing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• succeeding
• going
• delivering
• clicking
• working out
• coming off
• going over
• thriving
• flourishing
• prospering
• cooking
• prevailing
• winning
• panning out
• triumphing

3

as in compressing

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• compressing
• squeezing
• condensing
• consolidating
• packing
• contracting
• constricting
• compacting
• telescoping
• narrowing (down)
• cramming
• simplifying
• constringing
• capsulizing
• capsuling
• shrinking
• crowding
• shortening
• decreasing
• downsizing
• jamming
• curtailing
• diminishing
• abridging
• jam-packing
• concentrating
• streamlining
• abbreviating
• boiling down
• lessening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• expanding
• opening
• dissipating
• dispersing
• scattering
• decompressing
• dilating
• swelling
• outspreading
• outstretching
• inflating
• distending

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of collapsing

Verb

The possibility -- even likelihood -- of some rickety old thing collapsing under me never occurred to me. — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026

Whether Merz can stabilize his chancellorship and prevent his reform program from collapsing midstream is a question whose outcome may soon become clear. — CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

This is how the already fragile health system in the Arab world’s poorest nation is collapsing, caught in a new front of the Iran war. — Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Both pipelines had spare capacity, and the UAE's state oil company ADNOC and Saudi Aramco used it to keep exports from collapsing completely during the first weeks of the war. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

The two heard a gunshot and watched as a wounded deer ran down the clearing before collapsing. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Yet the Iranian regime shows no signs of collapsing or capitulating. — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026

Artificial intelligence is extraordinarily good at collapsing that space. — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026

Portland took an early lead, but the Pride showed fight and kept it close before collapsing in the last 20 minutes. — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026