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A highly informal or slang expression meaning to leave abruptly or to dismiss someone.
An archaic or rare phrasal verb meaning to lessen or decrease in some quality or degree.
To accept and act in accordance with a rule, decision, or agreement.
To give all your attention and energy to an activity so that you forget about everything else.
To mentally ignore specific details in order to focus on the general or essential aspects of something.
To be next to or touching something at a boundary, used of land or buildings.
To explain something, to be responsible for it, or to represent a particular proportion of a total.
Used in fixed expressions such as 'on account of' (because of) or 'take account of' (to consider), rather than as a standalone phrasal verb.
To be responsible or answerable to a person or authority for your actions.
To officially recognize or attribute a quality, achievement, or belief to a person.
To gain entry to a school, competition, or position by performing outstandingly well.
To defeat or outperform someone decisively, or to manoeuvre someone out of a position.
To feel a strong, often painful, desire or longing for someone or something.
To take an action that opposes, contradicts, or works contrary to something.
To take action based on information, advice, or instructions received.
To perform or dramatise a situation, or to express emotions through behaviour rather than words.
To behave badly or in a difficult way, or (of a machine or body part) to stop working properly.
A formal variant of 'act on': to take action based on information, advice, or a recommendation.
To include an extra feature, charge, or element to something that already exists.
To calculate a total, or figuratively, to seem logical or consistent.
To result in a particular total or to represent a particular meaning or significance.
To place a child (or sometimes an animal) with adoptive parents; to arrange for someone to be adopted by another family.
To become too old to qualify for or participate in a particular programme, benefit, or system.
To advance to an older age category, or (in fiction/games) to represent a character as older.
To share the same opinion as someone, or (of food/climate) to suit someone's health.
To direct a weapon, camera, or effort toward a target, or to design something for a specific group.
A rare or regional expression meaning to allow air to cool or dry something, or to ventilate briefly.
To allow fresh air into a room or onto an object to remove stale smells or dampness, or figuratively to openly discuss a problem.
To inflate a tyre, ball, or other object by adding air to it.
An archaic or rare variant of 'allot to', meaning to assign or distribute a portion of something to a person or group.
To include extra time, money, or space in a plan to deal with something that might happen.
To adopt a more dominant, assertive, or confident manner, especially in social or competitive situations.
To stock up on ammunition, or figuratively to gather arguments, facts, or resources in preparation for a confrontation.
To reduce intensity, energy, or volume; the opposite of 'amp up'.
To increase the intensity, energy, volume, or strength of something.
To try to get something you want indirectly, often through hints or clever maneuvering.
To reply rudely or cheekily to someone in authority, especially a parent or teacher.
To be responsible for something and accept the consequences, or to speak on behalf of someone else.
To be accountable to someone, or to respond to a particular name or description.
To respond promptly and honestly when questioned or challenged, especially in a direct or assertive way.
To place your initial stake in a card game (especially poker) to enter the round, or figuratively to commit resources to something.
To put in your initial stake in a gambling game, or to pay or contribute money, especially when required to participate in something.
To invest in a cryptocurrency, stock, or financial asset impulsively and without proper research, often following hype.
To flatter or try to impress someone in authority, especially a teacher or boss, in order to gain favour.
To formally request something such as a job, course, grant, or permit by completing a process or form
To suddenly become angry or agitated, or to cause someone to become angry.
To defeat someone in an argument or to convince someone to accept a lower price through negotiation.
To settle a disagreement or find a solution by discussing it thoroughly, even if it involves debate.
To supply or distribute weapons or equipment outward to others, especially to external groups or allies.
To equip oneself or others with weapons, or to build up military or defensive capability.
To reach a place or, figuratively, to come to a conclusion or decision after thought or discussion.
To waste time doing silly or unproductive things; to behave foolishly or irresponsibly.
To waste time, behave foolishly, or deal with something in an unhelpfully indirect or incompetent way.
To ruin or make a mess of something through incompetence or carelessness.
To make something look more artistic or decorative, often by adding visual design elements.
To ask about someone's health, wellbeing, or news, usually as a polite social gesture.
To ask multiple people the same question, typically to gather information or find something.
To invite someone to come back to your home or a place after they have left, or to invite someone in return after they have invited you.
To request something, or to request to speak to a specific person.
To behave in a way that makes something bad or negative very likely to happen to you.
To invite someone to come inside your home or a building.
To invite someone on a date or to a social outing, typically in a romantic context.
To invite someone to come to your home or current location.
To invite someone to come to your home; chiefly British English.
Vulgar slang meaning to abandon someone or withdraw from a commitment at the last moment.
To give care, attention, or service to someone or something.
To sell something by holding an auction, where buyers bid and the highest bidder wins.
Aviation slang for an aircraft crashing nose-first into the ground in a spiraling motion.
An investing strategy where you buy more of an asset as its price falls, reducing your overall average purchase cost.
To result in a middle or balanced figure when all values are considered together.
An investing strategy of buying more of an asset as its price rises, increasing the average purchase price.
To treat someone or something with excessive care, gentleness, or pampering.
To move backwards away from someone or something, or to withdraw from a position or commitment.
To withdraw from a position, argument, or confrontation; to stop insisting on something.
To move a vehicle in reverse into a space, or to return to a previous position or situation.
To reverse a vehicle into something, to collide with something while moving backwards, or to enter a situation indirectly or by chance.
To stop pressuring someone, to move away from something, or to reduce an aggressive or intense approach.
Of a building or property: to have its back (rear) facing or adjacent to something.
To reverse a vehicle out of a space, typically a garage or tight parking spot.
Of a building or property: to have its back (rear) directly adjacent to or facing something.
To withdraw from a commitment, agreement, or plan, especially after promising to take part.
To reverse a vehicle; to support or confirm someone's statement; to create a copy of data; or to form a blockage.
Caribbean English slang meaning to damage, harm, or ruin something or someone, or to make something worse.
To gain entry to a building or secure area by scanning or presenting an electronic access badge.
To exit a building or secure area by scanning or presenting an electronic access badge, or to record departure in an access control system.
To provide someone with or put on an identification badge, typically before an event or on starting a new role.
To put bags or heavy items down on the ground or floor, especially after carrying them.
British slang meaning to successfully attract a sexual or romantic partner, especially at a party or bar.
Australian slang meaning to criticize or speak negatively about someone.
To put things into bags, especially for storage, transport, or sale.
To abandon a person, plan, or commitment, often suddenly and without adequate notice.
To rescue someone from trouble, or to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation.
To abandon or desert someone, especially at a critical or difficult moment.
To stop and detain someone by force or threat, or to corner someone for a conversation.
To put bait on a hook, trap, or area in preparation for fishing or hunting.
To incorporate something so deeply into a process, system, or plan that it becomes a permanent and inseparable part of it.
A competition in which participants bake and judges decide a winner; also used figuratively for competitive product or vendor comparisons.
To use sustained heat to remove moisture, gases, or contaminants from a material or enclosed space.
To bake a batch or supply of something, or to prepare baked goods for a specific occasion.
When two opposing things or forces become equal, or when something compensates for something else.
British English spelling variant of 'bail out': to escape by parachute from an aircraft, or to rescue someone from difficulty.
To compress and tie material such as hay, cotton, or waste into a compact bale using a machine or by hand.
To roll or press something into a ball shape; or to curl the body tightly into a ball position.
To deflect or bounce something off a surface, especially in a ball sport.
To roll or cause something to roll away from a surface or area in a ball-like motion.
To reprimand or scold someone angrily and loudly.
To roll or scrunch something into a tight ball; or to confuse or confound a person or situation.
To add ballast (heavy material) to a ship, aircraft, or vehicle to improve its stability or balance.
(British, vulgar slang) To waste time or behave in a foolish, unproductive manner.
(British, vulgar slang) To behave irresponsibly, waste time, or fail to take things seriously.
(British, vulgar slang) To continue doing something with determination or persistence, often despite difficulties.
(British, vulgar slang) To make a serious mess of something; to ruin or mismanage a task.
(Dated British slang) To waste time or behave in a foolish, aimless manner.
To come together as a group in order to achieve a common goal or oppose something.
To mention or use a word, name, or idea repeatedly and carelessly, often without full understanding.
To pass around or use a word, name, or idea repeatedly and often carelessly.
To move around noisily, making loud banging or crashing sounds.
To move around a place making loud banging or crashing sounds; also used to mean knocking something repeatedly.
To continue doing something persistently, noisily, or energetically, especially shooting, typing, or working.
To collide or knock hard against a person or object accidentally.
To produce or complete something very quickly, often without much care; or for something to detonate or fire with a bang.
To talk at length about something in a tedious or repetitive way; also used informally to mean exactly correct.
To produce something quickly, often without much care; to play something loudly on an instrument.
To damage something or someone through impact; in British slang, to imprison; used as an adjective meaning excellent.
To rely confidently on something happening or someone doing something.
To heap up into a mound or ridge; to cover a fire with fuel to keep it burning slowly; to accumulate.
To secure or block something by placing a bar across it; in ice hockey slang, a shot that hits the crossbar and goes down into the net.
To block access to an area or prevent entry using a bar or barrier.
To prevent someone from entering a place; to exclude someone.
To secure a door, window, or building by placing bars across it.
To prepare and cook food on a barbecue, often for a group.
To vomit; also used as a slang exclamation of disgust (chiefly 1980s American slang).
To lose or surrender something valuable through negotiation, usually carelessly or unwisely.
To expect or anticipate something; to negotiate in order to obtain something.
To expect or plan for something as part of one's calculations.
To enter or interrupt suddenly and rudely, without being invited.
To enter a place or collide with someone forcefully and without care; to interrupt something intrusively.
To use something as the foundation or source of something else (informal/non-standard variant of 'base on').
To use something as the foundation or model for something else (informal/non-standard, American English).
To use something as the foundation, source, or model for something else.
To use something as the foundation or grounds for something else (formal variant of 'base on').
To treat someone or something roughly, hitting or knocking them in various directions.
To break or dent something by hitting it hard; to smash inward.
Primarily British vulgar slang for masturbation; secondarily, to produce something quickly.
To produce something quickly and without great care; to play music loudly and energetically.
To assemble or make something quickly and roughly; to knock things against each other.
To attack and injure someone physically; to damage something through hitting.
To temporarily sew fabric with long, loose stitches in preparation for permanent sewing.
To discuss ideas informally and casually; to knock or hit something in various directions.
To discuss ideas casually and informally; to knock something back and forth.
To deflect, dismiss, or push something aside with a batting movement; to ward off questions or criticism.
To score a run or point by batting in a sport, or (informally) to contribute to a discussion or score.
To produce or complete something quickly, often without great care.
To discuss or consider an idea casually among a group of people.
To collect or organize items into groups or batches for processing or handling together.
To secure or fasten something firmly, or to prepare carefully for a difficult situation.
A baseball call announcing that the next batter should come to the plate; broadly, a call to get ready for action.
To compete or struggle intensely against an opponent until one side wins.
To resolve or settle something through intense struggle, competition, or argument.
To scold or reprimand someone loudly and angrily. (Rare, chiefly dialectal variant of 'bawl out')
To scold or reprimand someone loudly and angrily; or to shout or cry very loudly.
To concern or relate to a particular topic; or to be present and active nearby.
To arrive or come to a place soon.
To be present in a place or available; to exist or remain in use over a period of time.
To be ill with a particular sickness; or in informal slang, to approve of or be enthusiastic about something.
To be about to experience something, usually something unpleasant or surprising and unavoidable.
To have a strong enthusiasm for or active interest in something.
To be happening, functioning, available, scheduled, or (of a person) behaving unusually.
To repeatedly pester or nag someone about something.
British slang: to be in a highly energised, excited, or intoxicated state, often at a party or after taking drugs.
To have discovered something important, to suspect someone, or to be in contact with someone.
To have recognised or discovered something, or to have realised what someone is doing.
To be determined to get or achieve something, often for selfish or personal gain.
To be in a relationship with someone, to understand someone, or to support someone's position.
To speak impudently, insolently, or cheekily; to talk back. (Rare, chiefly British dialectal)
To transport someone or something instantaneously using a fictional energy beam; also used humorously to mean to remove someone from an unpl
To exert pressure or force against something; or to hold a grudge or animosity toward someone.
To carry or take something away, especially as a prize or reward; in sailing, to steer away from the wind.
To press downward with force; to make a stronger effort; or (during childbirth) to push.
To move toward someone or something in a threatening or forceful manner; to put pressure on someone or something.
In sailing, to steer the vessel toward the shore, a target, or another vessel; to move inward.
For a fact, feeling, or reality to become increasingly and overwhelmingly clear or pressing to someone.
In sailing, to steer the vessel so as to approach the shore or another object closely.
In sailing, to steer away from the wind or another vessel; to push a boat away from a dock or shore.
In sailing, to steer the vessel away from a specific point, shore, or object.
To be relevant to or have an effect on something; to apply pressure to something.
To confirm, support, or prove that something is true.
To remain strong, cheerful, or resilient in the face of difficulty, suffering, or grief.
To be relevant to something; to exert pressure or influence on a person or situation. (Formal variant of 'bear on')
To be patient with someone or something; to tolerate a temporary inconvenience while waiting.
To subject someone to extremely hard and exhausting physical training or exercise, often as discipline. (British military slang)
To avoid getting to the main point of something; to talk around a subject.
To pulse or throb in perfect unison, used especially of hearts to express shared emotion or unity.
To force someone or something to retreat by fighting or resisting strongly.
To shine or fall intensely (of sun or rain); to defeat or suppress someone forcefully; or to negotiate a lower price.
To force someone to learn or accept something through harsh, repeated pressure or punishment.
To successfully repel an attack, challenge, or competitor.
To hit someone or something repeatedly; to bully or target someone physically.
To defeat a competitor or rival; to extinguish fire by hitting it; to produce a rhythm by tapping.
To do or reach something before someone else does.
To attack and injure someone by hitting them repeatedly.
To physically attack or harshly criticize someone, especially a weaker or easier target.
To work hard and industriously at something for a long period of time.
To happen to someone or something, especially over time; used to ask about a person's fate or outcome.
To settle somewhere to sleep, especially in a temporary or improvised place; or for a process or system to become established.
To go through an adjustment period to allow something new — a system, mechanism, or person — to settle and function properly.
To transfer young plants from a greenhouse or indoor setting into outdoor flower beds.
To become more muscular or physically larger; sometimes used informally to mean to back down from a confrontation.
To make something stronger, larger, or more substantial.
To replace an offensive or inappropriate word in a broadcast with a beeping sound.
To drink a lot of beer, especially before an event; to supply someone with beer.
To ask to be excused from an obligation, meeting, or engagement; to politely withdraw from something you had agreed to do.
A softened exclamation telling someone to go away; an old-fashioned euphemism for a stronger phrase.
A non-standard spelling variant of 'beggar off': a rude dismissal telling someone to go away.
To start or commence working on something; a formal or archaic way of saying 'begin on'.
To produce a loud, resonant sound like a bell; occasionally used for singing or playing music loudly.
British informal: to telephone someone.
To shout or say something very loudly in a deep, powerful voice.
To swell outward in a rounded, bulging shape, like a sail filled with wind.
To fail completely, especially of a business, or to move up close to something.
To be the property of someone, or to be a member of a group or organization
To drink alcohol or another liquid quickly and all at once.
To sing or play music very loudly and with great energy and enthusiasm.
Chiefly British: to stop talking and be quiet, or to fasten one's seatbelt.
To move your body downward by bending at the waist or knees.
A crude slang expression meaning to break wind; to pass gas.
To lean the upper body forward and downward from the waist.
In poker and card games: to make the first bet in a betting round, especially when acting from an early position.
To place a bet on behalf of a group of people, collecting their stake and placing it as one.
To increase the amount of a bet, or to encourage or pressure others to place higher bets.
To cause a price or value to fall by offering competing bids that are progressively lower.
In an auction: for the seller or their agent to place a bid on their own item in order to prevent it from being sold below a desired price.
To acquire something at an auction by having the highest bid.
To cause the price of something to increase by placing or encouraging progressively higher bids at an auction or in competition.
To praise, promote, or show respect and admiration for someone or something.
Slang: to roll a cannabis cigarette.
British informal: to end a romantic relationship with someone, or to discard or cancel something.
In knitting: to complete a piece of knitting by working the final row of stitches in a way that locks them so they do not unravel.
Legal: for a court to order someone to keep the peace or appear in court at a future date, usually under threat of penalty.
To wrap and secure something tightly, especially a wound, or to be deeply involved or connected with something.
British slang: to make an obscene gesture at someone by raising the middle finger.
Vulgar slang: to speak angrily or complain aggressively, often at or about someone.
To harshly scold or berate someone; or (reflexive/intransitive) to back down from a challenge in a cowardly way.
To ruin or spoil something through incompetence or carelessness.
To retaliate sharply against criticism or an attack; or to stop yourself from saying or showing something.
To press the teeth or jaws together firmly, often on something.
To begin to have a painful, sharp, or corrosive effect on something; to cut into a surface.
To sever something with the teeth; or figuratively, to take on more than one can handle.
To reveal a secret or private information carelessly and without thinking.
To fill in an area or section with solid black colour, typically in drawing, design, or marking.
To lose consciousness or memory; to extinguish all lights; to censor by covering with black; or to suffer a total power failure.
To darken one's face or skin with makeup or paint, historically associated with racist minstrel performance; considered deeply offensive.
To become suddenly pale, especially from shock or fear; a non-standard intensified variant of 'blanch.'
To suddenly be unable to remember or think of something specific.
To erase or cover something so nothing remains visible; or to suddenly lose the ability to think or remember; or to deliberately suppress a
To make a loud, harsh, or strident noise, especially from speakers, horns, or radios.
To fire weapons continuously; to attack or demolish something with great force; or to proceed energetically at a task.
Of a rocket or spacecraft: to leave the ground with explosive propulsion; figuratively, to start something with great energy.
To send out sound, music, or an announcement at very high volume; or to expel or remove something with explosive force.
To increase volume dramatically; or to rise or move rapidly upward with great force.
To fire weapons rapidly and continuously; or to burn intensely with bright flames; or to work or speak with great energy.
Of the sun or a source of intense heat or fire: to shine or burn fiercely downward.
Of a fire or strong emotion: to continue burning or shining intensely; to persist with great energy.
Of a fire: to suddenly burn more intensely; figuratively, of anger or trouble: to burst out suddenly.
To feel great compassion or deep sorrow for someone; to suffer emotionally on someone else's behalf.
To lose so much blood from a wound that one dies or is in critical danger; also used for liquids or resources draining away completely.
To replace offensive or inappropriate words in a broadcast with a bleep sound so that the audience cannot hear them.
To become part of a surrounding environment without being noticed; or, in cooking, to mix an ingredient smoothly into a mixture.
To process food or drink ingredients in a blender until they form a smooth, uniform mixture.
To scold or reprimand someone severely; a regional American expression, chiefly Southern U.S.
To give or provide someone with a desirable quality, ability, or gift, often suggesting divine favour or good fortune.
To gain a large amount of weight, becoming noticeably overweight; considered offensive or unkind.
To gain a large amount of weight, becoming noticeably bigger.
To decorate or adorn something or someone with expensive, flashy jewellery or accessories.
To adorn or decorate something or someone with showy, expensive jewellery or glittering accessories.
To disappear or stop briefly, like a signal blipping off a screen.
To enter a state of extreme happiness, relaxation, or pleasure.
To eliminate, overwhelm, or exhaust something or someone with sudden, intense force.
To avoid or skip a responsibility or task, especially by being lazy.
To spend time doing nothing, lying around lazily with no energy or purpose.
To close or reserve an area, route, or period of time so it cannot be used by others.
To prevent light, sound, or thoughts from entering or being noticed; or to mark time as unavailable.
To obstruct or fill a passage, hole, or opening so nothing can get through.
To initiate someone into a gang or criminal group through a violent act.
To leave a gang or criminal group, typically through an act of violence or at the cost of one's life.
To make something or someone covered in blood, usually through injury.
To emerge and develop fully, like a flower opening up; to show one's full potential.
To develop and flourish, revealing one's full potential or beauty.
To cover or obscure something completely, or to deliberately suppress a memory.
To absorb a liquid by pressing an absorbent material against it.
To destroy something by an explosion or violent force, or to thoroughly disprove an argument.
To impress someone greatly; to defeat someone decisively; or for wind to carry something away.
For the wind to knock something over or topple it to the ground.
To arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, or for wind to carry something into a place.
To arrive at a place suddenly and unexpectedly; or to force air into an object.
To ignore or cancel an obligation or person; for something to be removed by wind; or to release pressure.
To direct a stream of air from the mouth onto something.
To extinguish a flame with breath or wind; to fail suddenly; or to defeat someone easily.
For a problem, argument, or scandal to come to an end without serious consequences; or for wind to knock something over.
To move past something very quickly; or to exceed a target or limit suddenly.
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