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ask someone out

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(S) invite on a date

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ask around

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(S) ask many people the same thing
syns: inquire (ask for inf), consult (ask “experts” for information)

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back somebody up over

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(S) support with concrete information
syns: advocate (publically suggest ideas), affirm (state something is true)

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blow up

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(S) explode/storm
syns: blast, burst in on someone/something, erupt (large scale), explode

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blow something up

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(S) fill it with air

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break down

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(SW) broken, stop functioning, get upset (informal one)
syns: burn out (for human), shut down (computer parts), seize up, run into dysfunction/malfunction

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break something down

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(S) divide into parts
syns: disintegrate, separate dissociate from (a group of people)=disunite=unjoin, polarize (2 opposing parties)

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break in

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(S) force entry to a building

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break into something

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(S) suddenly begin to do something or force your way into something (emergency)
syns: strike out

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break something in

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(S) wear/use something long enough that you get used to it
syns: derust

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break up

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(SW) end relationship/start laughing (informal)

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break out

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(S) escape (from a prison)
syns: abscond from (escape in secret), jailbreak

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bring someone down

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(S) to cause someone in a position of power to lose their job
syns: insurrection (political)

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bring someone up

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(SW) raise a child
syns: take care of, adopt (an orphan, not your child in blood), rear the child (or child-rearing), mothering (the way a mother take care of their child)

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bring something up

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(SW) start a topic/idea
syns: talk it over (it should be determined before), talk about, discuss, debate

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through up

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(S) vomit basically

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call around

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(S) phone many people (non-directional)

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call someone back

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(S) call in return

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call on somebody

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(S) ask for an answer/opinion
syns: importunity (similar meaning but in an annoying way)

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call someone up

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(S) phone someone

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calm down

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(S) relaxed after being so angry
syns: relax, chill out (informal), self-soothe (calm down themselves from crying)

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care for somebody/something

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(S) like or protect and provide someone with amenities
syns: look after

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catch up with

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(SW) get to the same point as someone else
syns: bloviate (talk annoyingly like you are important)

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check in

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(S) register at a hotel

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check out

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(S) leave a hotel

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check someone/something out

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(S) investigate carefully
(personally I would also use “check it out” for looking at casual things)
syns: (re)inspect (for information), examine (for research, survey), peruse (for document), assay (examine to make sure it’s pure), calibrate (measure carefully)

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cheer someone up

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(S) make happier

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clean up

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(S) tidy (formal form), clean

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come across something

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(S) find unexpectedly
syns: find/discover incidentally, by chance, inadvertently, unintentionally

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come apart

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(S) separate (usually an object)
Syns: fall apart, tear apart/down

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come down with something

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(S) become sick
syns: catch your death of cold (due to not wearing properly)

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come forward

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(S) volunteer for a task or to give evidence
syns: volunteer

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come from/originated in/root or stem from

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(self explanatory)
syns: hail from (born), genesis (of a terminology, some phenomenon and such significant things), emanate from

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count on something/someone

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rely on (alt: bet on me)

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cross something out

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(S) draw a line through

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cut back on something

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(S) consume less
syns: reduce in, defund (money), save something up

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cut something down

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(SW) do/use less of/reduce something/cut down trees
syns: deforestation, arborist (the one who take care of the trees), afforestation (grow forest), agroforestry (grow+care trees), foreshorten (make something sorter), shave off, tumble down (to fall quickly)

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cut something off

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(S) remove with something sharp/stop providing
syns: butcher, chop, abrasion (rubbed surface, geographically), incise (cut the surface carefully with sharp tool), lacerate (cut/tear, usually flesh), shear (tear down the wool), slice, snip (quick cuts using scissors)

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cut somebody off

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(S) cause someone to be isolated
syns: isolate, separate, insulation (avoidance material), resegregation (separate/treat people differently, formal form of racism), seclude (keep something away from other things)

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cut something out

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(S) remove part of something (usually with scissors and paper)
syns: this is a more popular form of cut off

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do away with something

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(S) discard
syns: get rid of=ban(ish), discard, abandon, neglect, erasure (pencil mark), expunge (remove inf from a piece of writing), scrape (removing the unwanted top cover)

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do something up

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(S) fasten (note this one) , close
syns: fasten belt, fastener, buckle (the metal piece used to fasten belt), snap, zip, velcro (that hooky surfaces that make them stick together)

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dress up

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(SW) wear nice clothing
syns: doll yourself up (girl), bundle someone up (warm clothes), array in (requires specific style)

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drop back to

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(S) move back in a position/group

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drop in/by

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(S) come without an appointment
syns: come by, stop by, call by , pop (+into, in, up/downstairs)

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drop out

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(S) quit a class, school etc
syns: quit, neglect, absent from, chuck in something (that you do on daily basis), retire from (career)

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come over/by

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(S) visit for a bit

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drop someone/something off at

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(S) take somebody/ something somewhere and leave them/it there

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eat out

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(S) eat at a restaurant

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end up

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(S) eventually reach/do/decide
syns: result in, cause sb to, make somebody doing, come off, turn out

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fall down

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(S) collapse to the ground
syns: collapse/fall in a heap, plunge (fall heavily and deeply), faceplant (your face touch the ground)

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fall out

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(S) become loose and unattached (hair, teeth usually)
syns: unattach, disconnect, loose out, take a nosedive (fast and sudden),

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figure something out

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(S) understand, find the answer

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fill something in

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(S) to write information in blanks, as on a form
syns: finish, annotation (brief note/description to an image,…), adumbrate (give the main fact)

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fill something out

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fill something up

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(S) fill to the top (container)

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find out

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(S) discover
syns: discover, explore, achieve, uncover, unearth

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get something across/ over

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(S) communicate, make understandable
syns: convince, justify (concrete facts), explain, adumbrate, clarify

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get along

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(S) like each other (or friendly at least)
syns: bond, get in with (be popular+friendly with someone), hang around with (=spend time with)

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get around

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(S) have mobility
syns: circulate (system), libration (sligh for/backward movements), motion

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get away with

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(S) do without being noticed or punished
syns: absolve (to be free from guilt, blame, responsibility, related to law & religion), amnesty (government’s decision that allows political prisoners to be free), clemency (kindness when giving a punishment), impunity (freedom from punishment or bad results), privilege (advantage only a group of people has)

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get away from

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(S) go on a vacation (better alternative imo)
syns: have an off day from , go on a vacation

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get back

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(S) return
syns: comeback, return, back on track, rejoin

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get something back

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(S) receive something you had before
syns: acquisition (acquiring noun form), seize (take and keep it quickly, ex: seize an opportunity with both hands), grant (money given for a specific purpose), grantsmanship (to persuade an organization to give a grant to yours), snap it up (get something quickly and enthusiastically cuz that’s exactly what you want and it’s cheap), screw something out of someone (get something from someone using force/threat)

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get back at somebody

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(S) take revenge on
syns: take revenge on (or in revenge of) counter-retaliation, tit for tat (retaliate but it’s more of an action), take vengeance on

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get back to something

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(S) continue something, or restart something over
syns: back to square one (or restart), reboot (a project)=reset, continue, reinitiate (cause something to continue)

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get on something

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(S) step onto a vehicle

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get over something

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(S) recover from an illness, loss, difficulty/overcome a problem
syns: suffer from, endure, cure (a disease, other forms: curative, curability), rehabilitation (back to a healthy life after something wrong, other forms: rehabilitate), remedy/remedial (relate to disease, but usually tiny ones), in remission (a period when illness is no longer severe), rehydrate, therapeutic (similar to curative)

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get around to something

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(S) finally find time to do
syns: start something out, exploit (use something in the helpful way), take a step forward, execute

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get together

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(S) meet up basically
syns: regather, (class) reunion, reassemble, cluster (a group of similar things)

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get up

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(S) get out of bed, or stand

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give somebody/something away

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(S) reveal hidden information about somebody/ruin a secret/give something to somebody for free
syns: revelatory (to describe the moment when something that was formerly secret is revealed), declassify (an action that political/military inf are no longer a secret), transpire (an action that an unknown/secret fact becomes known, use at the moment when it’s uncovered)

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give something back

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(S) return a borrowed item
syns: return it back

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give in

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(S) reluctantly stop fighting or arguing

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give something out

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(S) give to many people (usually for free)
syns: hand something out (to a group of people), accommodate someone with something (=provide with but on larger scale)

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give something up

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(S) quit something

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go after somebody

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(S) follow somebody
syns: shadow (follow and copy someone action)=track and trace

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go after something

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(S) try to achieve something
syns: assault (violent attack), go the extra mile (make more effort than personal expectation)

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go against somebody

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(S) go against somebody
syns: flunk out (to drop out but that was because your work is shit), mess with someone

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go ahead (with)

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(S) start, proceed
syns: start off, start out, begin, proceed, inaugurate (put something into use officially after tons of consideration), get the ball rolling (do something to encourage people to do the same/start the activity), here you go (informal)

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go back

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(S) return to a place
syns: return, call back (return to see someone/collect something), get back, reshore (a business back to its original country), revenant (back to alive after being dead), rejoin, return, come back

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go out for

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(S) leave home, especially for entertainment

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go over something

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(S) review (carefully)
syns: examine, review, inspect, dive into (informal), investigate, interpretation (give an extra-detailed explanation), analyse, inquiry (asking for inf or official attempt to discover a fact, usually something bad), research

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go without something

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(S) to not have something or to manage to live despite not having something
syns: lack of deprivation (things that are essential for a pleasant life), need something like you need a hole in the head (basically you don’t need it), bankruptcy (state of out of money), bereft (of) (feeling great loss or not having something) skimpily (about clothes, when the one you are wearing shows a lot of your body)

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grow apart

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(S) stop being friends over time
syns: give someone a push (in a rude way, end a relationship), give someone the elbow (end a romantic relationship)

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grow into something

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(S) develop into a particular characteristic
syns: evolve, ripen (fruit), flourish, formatively (If students are tested formatively, the teacher judges their progress while they are being taught, rather than at the end of a unit or course of work), regenerate

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grow out of something

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(S)get too big for something
syns: accrete (grow due to the addition of layers or parts), enlarge, puff up (bigger due to injury or infection), scalable (can be made smaller or larger in size), accrue (increase in amount), billow out from/billow in (to be filled with gases and appear to be larger), expansion (object), elongate (make something longer and thinner), stretch

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grow up

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(S) become an adult
syns: mature, become an adult

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hand something down

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(S) to give something to someone younger than you in the family because you want them to have it or because you no longer need it
syns: pass down, hand over (not in this condition), regift

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hand something in

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(S) give something to someone in a position of authority
syns: submit (to), offer, provide (with), supply (with), donate (to), give (to), contribute (to), pass to/on (on when you ask someone else to help you pass it), award, confer/bestow on (give an official title, honour), lend (to)

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hand something out

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(S) to distribute to a group of people

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hand something over

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(S) give to someone else

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hang in

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(S) stay positive in tough condition (informal)
syns: it’s business as usual (informal, saying that it’s what they always do, despite difficult situation), push ahead (continue enthusiastically even if you are tired), insist on doing something, protraction (last for longer than expect, in a negative way)

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hang on

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(S) wait a short time (informal)

95
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Hang out

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(S) spend time relaxing (informal)

96
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Hang up

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(S) end a phone call

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hold somebody/something back

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(S) prevent from doing/going
syns: prevent, avoid, abrogate (end a law, a custom formally), evasion (act of avoiding something, verb: evade), insure (protect from risk, using an insurance), protect, shy away from (avoid things that you fear, dislike, not confident about), fight shy of (idiom, show that you always avoid something)

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hold something back

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(S) stop something from processing/move forward or deliberately keep something in secret, usually emotion (deliberately=intentionally)
syns: anonymize (someone’s name is not given), dissimulate (hide feeling), private, pseudonym (their pronouns as an alternative for their real name), entre nous (used when telling someone that it’s ultimately secret and better not to tell anyone else) , dead man tell no tales (tiếng việt: người chết thì không biết nói, nó sẽ vĩnh viễn bí mật), whitewashing, anti-jamming, derail (a train come off its track), prevention is better than cure (medical), bottleneck (something that slow traffic/process down), hinder (limit the ability of someone, or a development, phrase: hinder someone in their effort), scuttle (move quickly, in short steps, in order to escape)

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hold on

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(S) wait a minute

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hold onto somebody/something

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(S) hold firmly using your hands or arms
syns: chokehold (hold their neck so that they can’t breath ezly, hand in hand (hold each other hand, romantically), hold on like grim death (hold very tightly, despite great difficulty), seize (take it quick, and hold it), clasp (hold it firmly) dandle (to hold a baby or child on your knee and move it up and down in a playful way), cling (stick on tightly), pinion (hold by arms, so that they can’t move)

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hold somebody/something up

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(S) an occasion when someone steals from someone else using violence or the threat of violence
syns: abscond (go away suddenly and secretly to escape), aggravated burglary (using a weapon or commit another crime while illegally entering a property to steal), housebreaking, piratically (like a pirate, in term of looking and action), poach, joyride (ride fast for pleasure, especially in stolen vehicles), rustling (stealing farm animals), snaffle (take something quickly for yourself, prevent someone else from having/using it), plunder (steal goods violently, especially during a war)

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keep on doing something

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(S) continue doing
syns: it’s business as usual, carry something on, insist on doing something, push ahead, run on (an event that keep being longer than expected), protraction, without cease (non-stop), time+in the making (it takes about that amount of time to make)

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keep something from somebody

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(S) not tell or prevent someone from something
syns: avoid, prevent, head something off (avoid an unpleasant situation to happen), hinder, hold back, scuttle

104
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keep somebody/something out of

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(S) to avoid becoming involved in something, or to stop someone or something becoming involved in something
syns: avoid, prevent, head off, hinder, hold back

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keep something up

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(S) continue at the same rate or prevent someone from going to sleep
syns: insomnia (state of keeping awake), conserve (keep and protect something from any outer interaction), conscious (highly serious), astir (with) (in an excited state), sustain, reprieve (official order that stops/delays any punishment of a prisoner), white night (a night that you don’t sleep)

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let somebody down

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(S) fail to support or help, disappoint
syns: be one in the eye for someone (to be a disappointment or defeat for someone), abjectly (in an extremely bad way), dishearten (make someone lose their positivities), disenchant with (no longer believe in the value of something that you’ve known for long), let the side down (to behave in a way that embarrasses or disappoints a group of people that you are part of)

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let somebody in

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(S) allow to enter
syns: show up, intrude, invade, set foot in somewhere, trespass (to go onto someone’s land or enter their building without permission), interlope(r) (someone who becomes involved in an activity or a social group without being asked, or enters a place without permission), penetrate, absorb, digest, break through

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log in

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(S) sign in ( to web, database)

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log out

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(S) sign out (website, database)

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look after somebody/something

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(S) take care of
syns: take care of, keep an eye on, nurse, care for, tend, nurture (for a kid), babysit/childmind, pet-sit

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look down on somebody

A

(S) think less of, consider inferior
syns: shrug away (to move away from someone or something by turning your shoulders away from them or it), sniff at (show disapproval or a low opinion of something), denigrate (saying that someone/something is not good or important), laugh something off (it shows disrespect, sometimes), on the back burner (on the front burner means the opposite), sweep/put/brush something aside

112
Q

look for somebody/something

A

(S) try to find
syns: search for, glare (angry look), see something with your own eyes (to actually inspect it), behold (to see an fabulous event), scope (the range of subject that something covers), gaze at/out of (look at something for a long time due to surprise or admiration, sometimes when you are daydreaming)

113
Q

look forward to something

A

(S) be excited about the future
syns: appealing, interesting, intriguing, boosterish (feeling really enthusiastic about how good something is), hopeful, cautious about, pipe dream (an almost impossible plan/dream)

114
Q

look into something

A

(S) investigate
syns: examine, analyse, adjudicate (the act of judging a case, competition, or argument, or of making a formal decision about something), inspect, interprete, probe into/for (to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly), inquiry

115
Q

look out

A

(S) be careful, vigilant, take notice
syns: vigilant, be careful, take notice, revolve around something, be on your guard (careful to avoid being tricked or getting into dangerous situation), prudently (in a way that is careful or avoids risks)

116
Q

look out for somebody/something

A

(S) be especially vigilant for
syns: scope, glare, all eyes are on someone/something

117
Q

look something over

A

(S) check, examine
syns: quickly examine, interprete, investigate, inspace, analyse, adjudicate, inquiry, gauge (make a judgement about feeling)

118
Q

look something up

A

(S) search and find information in a reference book or database
syns: search/find for, refer, scan, wade through something (spend a lot of time reading information), riffle (to look quickly through the pages or collections), read something over/through, pore over something (look at and study something carefully), tsundoku (the practice of buying a lot of books and keeping them in a pile because you intend to read them but have not done so yet; also used to refer to the pile itself)

119
Q

look up to somebody

A

(S) have a lot of respect for
syns: admire, respect, hold sb in high esteem/regard, revere/venerate, adulate (admire, almost praise, this is more than is deserved), lionize (make someone/something famous, or treat as if they were famous), fete (an achievement that’s praised/welcomed publicly)

120
Q

make something up

A

(S) invent, lie about something
syns: tell a lie, lie through someone’s teeth, mislead, delude, concoct, fabricate (in more legal settings, describe a false story, testimony: something that’s spoken/written and stated that’s true), distort (change in vision), twist, stretch the truth (overblowing what should be), produce, invent, create, establish

120
Q

make up

A

(S) forgive each other
syns: forgive, amend (to do something good to show your regresion), apologize, atonement = amend, let bygones be bygones (things in the past should be in the past, they forgave it), be crawling with something (informal, meaning completely covered with full of a particular type of thing), crawl back to someone (admit that you were wrong and ask for forgiveness for what you refused), conciliatory (showing willingness to end a disagreement or trying to calm sb down), penance (feel sorry about something you’ve done, religiously), solatium (money, give to someone to make them feel better after their suffers)

121
Q

make somebody up

A

(S) apply cosmetics to
syns: cosmetic, aesthetic (usually for a structure), exfoliation (removing dead skin cells), fake tan (a substance that you put on your skin to make it look darker as if you have been in the sun, or the appearance this causes), microneedling (a medical or beauty treatment that involves putting a very small needle into the skin many times, which is thought to help the skin to repair itself), rasul (a type of beauty treatment in which your body is covered with special mud (= earth mixed with water), you go into a room full of steam, and then the mud is washed off; the room in which this is done), french manicure (the act of putting a clear liquid onto the pink part of your nails and a white liquid onto the white part, as decoration), sunbed, eye mask, filler (a substance that is injected (= put with a needle) into the skin as a beauty treatment, to hide wrinkles (= lines or folds in the skin caused by age)), french tip (a style for nails in which white polish (= paint) is painted on to the tips (= ends) of the nails; the tip of a nail that has been painted like this), nail art, sunbathe, waxing (a beauty treatment in which hair is removed from someone’s body by covering it in a thin layer of warm wax that is then pulled off), sauna

122
Q

mix something up

A

(S) confuse two or more things
syns: addled (confused, unable to think clearly), discombobulation (being made to feel confused or uncomfortable by something), muddle-headed = muddle something up (not thinking clearly or organized), turmoil (state of confusion, uncertainty or disorder), turn to mush (cannot think clearly, informal), disarray (state of being confused and having no organization or of being untidy), disorder (confused in term of sight), dazedly (in a very confused way, when you aren’t able to think clearly), topsy-turvy (a state of being confused, messed up, giving importance to unexpected things), unaccountable to something = unexplained (to not be expected to explain or provide a reason to a particular person or organization for your actions)

123
Q

pass away

A

(S) die
syns: die a natural/violent death, succumb to (accept to be defeated, usually describe someone who is about to die from disease),

124
Q

pass out

A

(S) faint
syns: faint (weak that you become unconscious), concussion (temporary brain damage cause by violent shaking or hit on the head), hypnotically (in a way that makes you feel as if you want to sleep or are in a trance (= a state of not being completely conscious or in control of yourself)), stun (stop to think and move for a sec), non-responsive = senseless

125
Q

pass something out

A

(S) give the same thing to many people
syns: accommodate with, arm someone with something (provide them with a couple of equipments in term to perform a particular task), hand something over (pass it to someone else), hand something down (=pass down, for latter generation), hand off (pass or give something to someone)

126
Q

pass something up

A

(S) decline (usually something good)
syns: reject, decline, deny, bat something/someone away (to refuse to deal with someone or with something such as a question, criticism, or request), resist, quit, abnegate (not allow urself to have something, especially something you like or want), miss a chance/opportunity, punt on something (informal, decide not to do or include it), quit on someone (stop being friends with someone when they need your helps), repudiate (to refuse to accept something or someone as true, good, or reasonable), spurn (to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that thing or person is not worth having)

127
Q

pay somebody back

A

(S) return owed money
syns: debt, borrow, leveraged buyout (a situation when a small company buy a bigger one using borrowed money), overpay (paying too much), pay off (successfully paid), foreclose ((especially of banks) to take back property that was bought with borrowed money because the money was not being paid back as formally agreed), liquidate (to cause a business to close, so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts), asset (a useful or valuable quality, skill, or person), pay down something (to pay part of an amount that you owe, so that the debt is reduced), loan (amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank and have to be paid back with extra charge), amortization (the process of reducing a cost or total in regular small amounts)

128
Q

pay for something

A

(S) be punished for doing something wrong
syns: punish, afflict (make you suffer, a problem or an illness), see life (experience many different and often unexpected things), be a martyr to something (often suffer because of an illness or problem)

129
Q

pick something out

A

(S) choose
syns: make a choice, recognize, find, identify, distinguish

130
Q

point somebody/something out

A

(S) indicate with your finger
syns: indicate, demonstrative (If you are demonstrative, you show your feelings or behave in a way that shows your love), ostensive (showing what a word or thing is or means by giving an example of it), point towards something, define, probatory (used for proving, showing, or deciding something), attest (prove that something exists/ is true), bespeak (suggest or show), bring something forward (introduce something to be discussed)

131
Q

put something down

A

(S) put what you are holding on a surface or floor
syns: collapse/fall in a heap, faceplant, drop, plunge, thump on (hit something and cause a sound)

132
Q

put something off

A

(S) postpone
syns: postpone, delay, laid-back (chill), buy time (do something to be allowed more time), sit on something (delay taking action about something), retard (verb form, make something slower)

133
Q

put something out

A

(S) extinguish
syns: extinguish (make fire stop burning), arsonist (the one who intentionally start a fire), ignite (start burning or explode), combust (start to burn), spontaneously (suddenly), incendiary (to describe something is describe to cause fire), torch

134
Q

put something together

A

(S) assemble
syns: assemble, craft, put up something = build, erect, fabricate, manufacture, produce

135
Q

put up with somebody/something

A

(S) to be willing to accept someone or something that is unpleasant or not desirable
syns: tolerate, struggle, bear with someone (to be patient and wait while someone does something), bearable, sit something out = wait something out (wait for an unpleasant situation to be blown away and do nothing about it), resign from/as (give up a job by telling you are leaving)

136
Q

put something on

A

(S) put clothing/accessories on your body
syns: dress up, bundle up, doll up, glam yourself up (to dress yourself attractively and put on make-up), make yourself respectable

137
Q

run into somebody/something

A

(S) meet unexpectedly
syns: acquaintance with (knowing people that you are meeting or a subject), reconvene (to come together again or to bring a group of people together again for a meeting). come across, rendezvous (an arrangement to meet someone, especially secretly, at a particular place and time, or the place itself)

138
Q

run over somebody/something

A

(S) drive a vehicle over a person or thing
syns: run into something someone (crash), overshoot (go further than what you intended), rear-end (informal, to hit the back of one car with another in an accident)

139
Q

run over/through something

A

(S) to quickly say or practise something/to examine a document or subject with someone in order to explain it or to get their help or opinion on it
syns: din something into someone (say something forcefully and repeatedly to someone so that they remember it), reiteration (act of saying something again, multiple times), repetitive, rephrase, restate, reaffirm, rehash (do it again without any new ideas)

140
Q

run away

A

(S) leave unexpectedly, escape
syns: escape, absquatulate, vanish, vamoose (to go away or disappear), walk out (leave an event due to anger or disapprovance)

141
Q

run out

A

(S) have none left
syns: lack, extinct, over (time), shortage, exhaust (waste gas, or extremely tired), be/go heavy on something (use a lot of something), gobble something up (use a lot of money)

142
Q

send something back

A

(S) return (usually by mail)
syns: chargeback, syndication (the selling of television programmes, newspaper articles, etc. to companies around the world so that they can be shown or published in several different places), take/bring something back, turn something in (to return something to an organization or a person in authority)

143
Q

set something up

A

(S) arrange, organize
syns: arrange, organize, administrate, manage, control, start something up (for a company)

144
Q

set somebody up

A

(S) to trick someone in order to make them do something, or in order to make someone seem guilty of something that they have not don
syns: trick, trap, bad faith (dishonest behaviour), bilk (to get money from someone unfairly or dishonestly), blackmail, fraud (the crime of getting money or other advantages by deceiving people), hoax (a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick), racket (informal, a dishonest or illegal activity that makes money, or an unpleasant loud continuous sound)

145
Q

shop around

A

(S) compare prices
syns: acquirable-acquisition, bidding war (the situation in which two or more companies or people compete against each other in order to buy something), bargain, money-off (used to describe an agreement between a business and customer in which the customer can buy something for less than the usual price), discount

146
Q

show off

A

(S) act extra special for people watching (usually boastfully)
syns: brag (informal), boast

147
Q

sleep over

A

(S) stay somewhere for the nigh (informal)

148
Q

sort something out

A

(S) organize, resolve a problem
syns: categorize, organize, reorient, label, classify (to divide things or people into groups according to their type, or to say which group or type something or someone belongs to)

149
Q

stick to something

A

(S) continue doing something, limit yourself to one particular thing
syns: insist on, carry on, protract, without cease, isochronous (last for the same amount of time, or happening repeatedly after same amount of time)

150
Q

switch something off

A

(S) stop the energy flow, turn off
syns: turn off, shut down

151
Q

switch something on

A

(S) start the energy flow, turn on
syns: turn on, start, launch

152
Q

take after somebody

A

(S) resemble a family member
syns: resemble, identical, similar, doppelganger, match, be cast in the same mould, soulmate

153
Q

take something apart

A

(S) purposely break into pieces
syns: tear down/apart, bifurcate ((of roads, rivers, branches, etc.) to divide into two parts), bisect (divide into 2 equal parts), split, divide, dissociate, disunite, periodize (to divide a period of time into shorter periods), partible (Partible land or other property can be divided between two or more people when it is passed from someone after they die, opposition: impartible), polarize, parcel something out (to divide something and give the separate parts to different people)

154
Q

take something back

A

(S) return an item that you bought or to admit that you said something wrong
syns: send it back, chargeback, admission of guilt, avowedly (state publicly), confess, retraction (the act of taking back an offer or statement, or admitting that a statement was false), come clean (to tell the truth about something that you have been keeping secret), self-admit, self-confession

155
Q

take off

A

(S) start to fly

156
Q

take something off

A

(S) remove something (usually clothing)
syns: take away, take out, withdraw (taking money out of a bank account), relocate (move it from one place to another where it’s more comfy)

157
Q

take something out

A

(S) remove from a place or thing
syns: remove, relocate, extract, take away

158
Q

take someone out

A

(S) pay for somebody to go somewhere with you
syns: shepherd, show someone around something, convoy

159
Q

tear something up

A

(S) rip into pieces
syns: rip into, tear apart, fall into pieces, fragmentation, splinter (small, sharp, broken piece of wood, glass, plastic, …), shard, shred, snap, fragment (verb form), asunder = apart, dismantle (take a machine apart or to come apart into separate pieces)

160
Q

think back

A

(S) remember (often + to, sometimes + on)
syns: cast someone’s mind back, awaken someone to something (If you awaken someone to something, you make them notice it or make them remember it), if my memory serves me right, be etched in someone’s memory (immortalized, will always be remembered), resonant making you think of a similar experience or memory), reminisce (to talk or write about past experiences that you remember with pleasure), remind someone of

161
Q

think something over

A

(S) to consider an idea or plan carefully before making a decision
syns: agonize over/about something (If you agonize over/about something, you spend time worrying and trying to make a decision about it), introspection(examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings), lateral thinking (a way of solving a problem by thinking about it in a different and original way and not using traditional or expected methods), reckon (to think, believe), ruminate (the act of thinking carefully and for a long period about something), scratch your head (think hard about something)

162
Q

throw something away

A

(S) waste a skill/opportunity, get rid of something
syns: dissipation (the process of gradually disappearing), piss something away, profligacy (the act of spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise), squander (to waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage), uneconomic, wastage (the amount that’s wasted, collocation: natural wastage), spendthrift (someone who spends a lot of money in a way that wastes it)

163
Q

turn something down

A

(S) refuse an offer/request
syns: abjuration, abnegation, bat someone/something away, opt out, miss a chance/opportunity, quit, repudiate

164
Q

turn something off

A

(S) switch off

165
Q

turn something on

A

(S) start the energy, switch on

166
Q

turn something up

A

(S) to arrive or appear somewhere, usually unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned
syns: arrive, reach, made it to, get there, arrive/get in, show up

167
Q

try something on

A

(S) sample clothing
syns: array (dressed in a particular way, especially in beautiful clothes), doll up, bundle up, dress up, make yourself respectable, glam yourself up

168
Q

try something out

A

(S) test
syns: have a stab at, inoculate (to introduce something such as bacteria, a virus, or a fungus into an animal or plant as part of an experiment or to encourage it to grow there), put something to the test

169
Q

use something up

A

(S) finish the supply
syns: exhaust, go heavy on something, avail (use, purpose, advantage, or profit), avail yourself of something (to make use of something), over use

170
Q

wake up

A

(S) stop sleeping

171
Q

warm somebody/something up

A

(S) increase the temperature
syns: bake, heat up, preheat

172
Q

warm up

A

(S) prepare body for exercise

173
Q

wear off

A

(S) fade away
syns: fade, bubble up, dissolve, melt away, vanish, disintegrate, disappear, deliquesce (melt or turn into a liquid)

174
Q

work out

A

(S) exercise

175
Q

work out

A

(S) If a problem or difficult situation works out, it gradually becomes better or satisfactory, and if you work it out, you make it better or satisfactory
syns: blossom, bloom, in leaps and bounds (If someone or something gets better by/in leaps and bounds, he, she, or it improves very quickly), consolidate (to become, or cause something to become, stronger, and more certain)

176
Q

work something out

A

(S) make a calculation
syns: resolve, solve, untangle, surmountable (sovable), figure out, clear something up, band-aid solution = temporary solution

177
Q

pack something in

A

(S) stop doing something
syns: abandon, neglect, quit, put off, give up

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