She was clearly on the verge of physical collapse.

He had been sent home on the relief ship Morning in 1903, after a physical collapse during the expedition's main southern journey.

"Everyone felt paralyzed precisely at the moment when the physical collapse of the museum became our most pressing problem."

The severe neglect that they bring on themselves usually results in physical collapse or mental breakdown.

A sister released him two weeks later, but a month after that, he was in the hospital, suffering from a general physical collapse.

He couldn't remember when he'd seen any man so near the edge of physical collapse.

She had been on the verge of complete mental and physical collapse.

He was discharged in 1862 due to physical and nervous collapse.

The strain of this period took its toll, and in 1979 he suffered a physical collapse.

There was another physical collapse, followed by a return to school.