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to hit someone hard and repeatedly with a heavy weapon: start learning
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The two boys had been mercilessly bludgeoned to death.
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to force someone to do something start learning
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The managers bludgeoned us into agreeing to the changes.
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to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster start learning
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Rising consumer sales have the effect of spurring the economy to faster growth.
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to make someone feel happy or satisfied, or to give someone pleasure: start learning
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I only got married to please my parents.
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to keep or continue to have something: start learning
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She has lost her battle to retain control of the company.
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to repeatedly demand something from someone, often causing them to feel worried or angry: start learning
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She harried the authorities, writing letters and gathering petitions.
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to make something certain to happen: start learning
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The airline is taking steps to ensure safety on its aircraft.
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to care for something or someone: start learning
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to put a group of soldiers in a place in order to live there and defend it: start learning
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Troops are garrisoned in the area.
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to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected: start learning
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Heavy snow disrupted travel into the city this morning.
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to cover a place or thing with a large amount of water: start learning
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High tides have swamped the coast.
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to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally: start learning
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Companies deliberately obfuscate figures in complicated annual reports.
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to stop work on an idea, plan, or job, but leaving it in such a way that you can start on it again at some point in the future: start learning
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Six coal mines were mothballed in the hope that they could be reopened in a time of better economic conditions.
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to keep someone closed in a place, often by force: start learning
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The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.
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to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way: start learning
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By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas).
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to put a product in a new container, etc., or to sell a product or service in a new package or market it in a new way: start learning
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Permission must be sought if a regulated product is to be imported and then labelled or repackaged in Canada.
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to put yourself or someone else onto the official list of members of a course, college, or group: start learning
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I enrolled for/in/on the modern art course. / Is it too late to enroll at the college?
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to join three or more pieces of hair or string-like material by putting them over each other in a special pattern: start learning
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She braided the horse's tail.
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to put seeds in or on the ground so that plants will grow: start learning
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We'll sow this field with barley.
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to cause a bad emotion or condition to begin somewhere so that it will grow or continue: start learning
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Now that you've sown doubts in my mind, I'll never be sure I can trust him.
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If something ... a need, requirement, or condition, it is good enough to do what is required. start learning
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We haven't yet been able to find a house that meets our needs/requirements.
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to give something valuable to a person or organization that has lent you money, which they can keep if you fail to pay back the loan: start learning
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Shares are frequently pledged as collateral for loans.
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to replace something, especially something older or more old-fashioned: start learning
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Most of the old road has been superseded by the great interstate highways.
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to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do: start learning
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They were intimidated into accepting a pay cut by the threat of losing their jobs.
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to spread things in an untidy way over a surface, or to be spread in an untidy way over a surface: start learning
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- strewed - strewn Wine bottles and dirty dishes were strewn across the lawn.
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If something ........ a person, system, or place, more of it arrives than can be easily dealt with: start learning
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Don't let feelings of depression swamp you./ Foreign cars have swamped the UK market.
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If clothes ........ you, they are much too big for you. start learning
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to refuse to give something or to keep back something: start learning
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Police are withholding the dead woman's name until her relatives have been informed.
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to give a new appearance to a person or thing, especially in order to hide its true form: start learning
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He disguised himself by wearing a false beard.
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to hide an opinion, a feeling, etc.: start learning
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I couldn't disguise my disappointment./ Strenuous efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties.
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to have something inside or include something as a part: start learning
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Try to avoid foods which contain a lot of fat.
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to control or hide a strong emotion, such as excitement or anger: start learning
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She could no longer contain her anger and started yelling at him./
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to attach a length of string or something similar by the ends, so that the middle hangs: start learning
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They strung ribbons of bright paper around the room in preparation for the party.
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If you are... by something, you are unable to respond to it because you are so surprised by it. start learning
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I didn't know what to say - I was completely floored.
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to worry someone or make someone nervous: start learning
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The creaking upstairs was starting to rattle me.
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to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period: start learning
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She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels.
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to cause something or someone to change direction: start learning
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Our flight had to be diverted to Newark because of the storm.
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To ... money or resources means to cause them to be used for a different purpose. start learning
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Should more funds/money/resources be diverted from roads into railways?
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to get a large number of votes or prizes: start learning
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The party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.
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to open the mouth wide and take a lot of air into the lungs and slowly send it out, usually when tired or bored: start learning
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także: zionąć (np. smok) I was so tired, I couldn't help yawning.
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to criticize someone cruelly: start learning
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The performance was savaged by the media.
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to criticize someone severely start learning
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He kept bashing local government officials.
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to criticize someone, especially officially: start learning
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The headline read "Judge raps police".
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to formally choose someone to do a special piece of work, or to formally ask for a special piece of work from someone: start learning
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The newspaper commissioned a series of articles on the worst excesses of the fashion industry.
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If you... (at) something you take it or pull it away quickly start learning
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He snatched the photos out of my hand before I had a chance to look at them./ Running the best race of his career, Fletcher snatched (= only just won) the gold medal from the Canadian champion.
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to visit a person or place, usually for a short time: start learning
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I think I'll pay a visit to the library while I'm in town.
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to make a building look new again by doing work such as painting, repairing, and cleaning: start learning
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The developers refurbished the house inside and out.
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make (meat) more tender by beating or slow cooking. start learning
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to force something to happen or force someone to do something, especially quickly or unfairly: start learning
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We were railroaded into signing the agreement.
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to write and publish something that contains bad and false things about a person: start learning
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She claims the newspaper libelled her in editorials and news articles.
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to describe someone in a negative way, or to make them be considered in a negative way, especially unfairly: start learning
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His reputation as a Vietnam War hero means he cannot easily be tarred with that old label of being "soft on defence".
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to move or make progress so slowly that you are behind other people or things: start learning
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He's lagging behind - I think we'd better wait for him to catch us up.
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to mention someone or something in a brief or indirect way: start learning
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He alluded to problems with the new computers.
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to take something or someone away by force: start learning
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She had her purse snatched (= stolen) while she was shopping.
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to tell something secret or personal to someone who you trust not to tell anyone else: start learning
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"My husband doesn't know yet, but I'm going to leave him," she confided.
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to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage: start learning
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The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones.
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to refuse to accept the truth: start learning
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She thinks he'll come back, but she's deceiving herself.
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to persuade, attract, or interest someone, sometimes in order to deceive them: start learning
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He was completely beguiled by her beauty.
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to defeat an enemy or opponent, especially in war: start learning
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Napoleon was vanquished at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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If one side in a battle, contest, or dispute..., it wins start learning
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He appears to have the votes he needs to prevail.
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to be a sign of bad things in the future: start learning
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This weather bodes ill for the garden party tonight.
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to say something as a joke, often making someone believe something that is not true: start learning
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Oh no, I forgot your birthday! Hey, just/only kidding!
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to ask strangers (= people that you do not know) for money, especially in a public place: start learning
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He was arrested for panhandling.
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to reduce the speed that a vehicle is travelling at: start learning
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The car decelerated at the sight of the police car.
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a right to have or get something from someone, or to use something: start learning
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to become pink in the face, usually from embarrassment: start learning
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I always blush when I speak in public.
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a piece of new information given in a film, television series, etc. that changes, or gives a different way of understanding, what has gone before. start learning
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to officially approve a decision or plan without thinking about it: start learning
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The boss makes the decisions and the committee just rubber-stamps them.
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to include something, often as one of a number of things: start learning
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Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics.
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to understand something completely: start learning
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I fail to comprehend their attitude.
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to try to get something, especially attention or support from other people: start learning
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She courts publicity by inviting journalists to extravagant parties.
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to risk something unpleasant, especially by behaving stupidly or carelessly: start learning
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Drinking and driving is simply courting disaster.
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to try to please someone because you want them to join you: start learning
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Adams is being courted by a number of football clubs.
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to change a plan completely 🇺🇸 start learning
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to take equipment or weapons out of use: start learning
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The government has decided to decommission two battleships.
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to (cause to) become, change into, or come to be something: start learning
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When I refused to pay, he turned nasty.
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to mean something, or be a sign of: start learning
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In this picture, red represents sulfur and green signifies hydrogen.
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to make something known; to show: start learning
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All those in favor, please signify by raising your hands.
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to put something in a bag: start learning
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Shall I bag (up) those tomatoes for you?
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to get something before other people have a chance to take it: 🇬🇧 start learning
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Bag us some decent seats.
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to win sth, especially a prize 🇬🇧 start learning
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He's the bookies' favourite to bag an Oscar.
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to not use something that you have, and use something else instead: 🇺🇸 start learning
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Bag that old gray sweater, and wear something more colorful.
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to hunt and capture or kill an animal or bird: start learning
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Only 15 percent of last year’s hunters actually bagged a deer.
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to put things or people next to each other, esp. in order to compare them: start learning
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The exhibition juxtaposes Picasso's early drawings with some of his later works.
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to cause a person or group to experience bad luck: start learning
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I thought we would win, but I didn't say so – I didn't want to jinx it.
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to have a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial: start learning
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The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday.
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to bring back swallowed food into the mouth: start learning
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to reach or succeed in getting something: start learning
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We need to identify the best ways of attaining our objectives/goals.
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to bring together a group of people for a meeting, or to meet for a meeting: start learning
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The prime minister convened (a meeting of) his cabinet to discuss the matter.
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to cause a person or animal to suffer or worry: start learning
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The camera focused on a group of women whose faces were tormented by/with (= showed that they were suffering) grief.
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to provide, and sometimes serve, food for an occasion or event: start learning
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to praise something very much: start learning
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She raved about/over the clothes she had seen at the Paris fashion shows.
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to try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefully and unfairly: start learning
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He objected that McDonald was browbeating the witness.
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to throw several objects up into the air, and then catch and throw them up repeatedly so that one or more stays in the air, usually in order to entertain people: start learning
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We all watched in amazement as he juggled with three flaming torches.
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to make a bad situation worse: start learning
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Attempts to restrict parking in the city centre have further aggravated the problem of traffic congestion.
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to argue about things that are not important: start learning
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Will you two stop bickering!
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When the grass in the yard caught fire, I thought the whole house was going to burn down.
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Although the reviewers slammed the play, the audience loved it.
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assign to a category, especially inaccurately or restrictively. start learning
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If you spend any time in prison, you're labelled as a criminal for the rest of your life.
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to be too much to deal with: start learning
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The number of refugees overwhelmed the relief agencies in the area.
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If you ... something such as a defeat, loss, or injury, it happens to you. start learning
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Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage.
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If something ... you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement. start learning
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The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season
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If you ....... something, you continue it or maintain it for a period of time start learning
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But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age
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When someone ......, their eyebrows become drawn together, because they are annoyed, worried, or puzzled, or because they are concentrating. start learning
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He frowned at her anxiously.
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If you ... a hole, you block it with something. start learning
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Crews are working to plug a major oil leak.
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If one event ... with another, they happen at the same time. start learning
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The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of his death
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If you ...... a question, you ask it start learning
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If something ...... a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger. start learning
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This could pose a threat to jobs in the coal industry.
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If you give your ... to something, you give someone permission to do it. start learning
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Pollard finally gave his consent to the search.
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If a place is ... by someone or something, they make it dirty. start learning
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Two oil-related accidents have fouled the ocean and the skies there
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If you... /... something, you imagine that it is true, real, or likely to happen. start learning
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He envisages the possibility of establishing direct diplomatic relations in the future.
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If something such as hair ... from a person or animal, or if they... it, it grows on them. start learning
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również brode Kevin is sprouting a few grey hairs.
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If you ... with a problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it. start learning
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The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
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If someone is... from a position of power, job, or place, they are forced to leave it. start learning
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... the ousted government
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If you... clothes, you iron them in order to get rid of the creases. start learning
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... clean, neatly pressed, conservative clothes
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If you... someone somewhere, you tell them how to get there. start learning
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Could you direct them to Dr Lamont's office, please?
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If someone...... a particular place, they regularly go there. start learning
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I hear he frequents the Cajun restaurant in Hampstead
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