Upper Intermediate Flashcards
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phrasal verb
1 if something unpleasant such as a fire, fight, or war breaks out, it starts to happen
I was still living in London when the war broke out.
Does everyone know what to do if a fire breaks out?
Fighting broke out between demonstrators and the police.
→ outbreak
2 to escape from a prison
of
Three men have broken out of a top-security jail.
→ breakout
3 to change the way you live because you feel bored
of
She felt the need to break out of her daily routine.
4 break out in spots/a rash/a sweat etc if you break out in spots etc, they appear on your skin
I broke out in a painful rash.
My whole body broke out in a sweat.
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Break out
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کمر
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Hip
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عفونی شدن عفونت کردن
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Got infected
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1 [transitive] to say that you will cause someone harm or trouble if they do not do what you want
Postal workers are threatening a strike if they don’t receive a pay increase.
threaten to do something
He threatened to take them to court.
threaten somebody with something
Doctors are sometimes threatened with violence if they don’t do what patients want.
threaten (that)
Then he became angry and threatened that he would go to the police.
2 [transitive] to be likely to harm or destroy something
Poaching threatens the survival of the rhino.
threaten to do something
The incident threatens to ruin his chances in the election.
be threatened with something
Large areas of the jungle are now threatened with destruction.
3 [intransitive, transitive] to be likely to happen or be in a bad situation
Britain’s fishing industry remains threatened.
Dark clouds threatened rain.
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Threaten
Felt threatened
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adjective
1 extremely angry SYN furious
She was absolutely livid that he had lied.
► see thesaurus at angry
2 formal a mark on your skin that is livid is dark blue and grey
livid bruises
3 literary a face that is livid is very pale
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Livid
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verb [transitive] to hate someone or something very much SYN detest He loathes their politics. loathe doing something I absolutely loathe shopping.
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Loathe
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شکایت کردن
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Sue
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قبرستان
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Cemetery
Graveyard
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adjective
1 not good, or not as good as someone or something else OPP superior
I felt very inferior among all those academics.
wine of inferior quality
inferior goods
inferior to
I always felt slightly inferior to her.
Their performance was inferior to that of other teams.
2 formal lower in rank OPP superior
an inferior court of law
He refused to accept a job of inferior status.
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Inferior OPP superior
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Very angry
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Violent towards s.b
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متعهد بود وفادار بودن
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Loyal to s.b
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نسبت به کسی ساپورت بودن
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To be supportive of s.b
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اونا پشت سرت غیبت میکنن
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The gossip about you behind your back
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phrasal verb
to tell someone about something very private or secret, especially a personal problem, because you feel you can trust them
I’ve never felt able to confide in my sister.
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Confide in s.b
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Not wanting to be with people pr to go to social events
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Unsociable
Antisocial
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Very nervous and anxious
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Panicky
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Not feeling at all confident about yourself, your abilities, or your relationship with people
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Insecure
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Feeling annoyed, upset and impatient because you can not control or change a situation or achieve something
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Frustrated
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verb 1 [intransitive] to regularly travel a long distance to get to work commute to/from/between Jim commutes to Manhattan every day. ► see thesaurus at travel 2 → commute a sentence (to something) 3 → commute something for/into something → See Verb table
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Commute
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approval or support of someone or something:
In applying for this job, Tiffany has a lot in her favor (= to her advantage).
The city council voted in favor of (= in support of) the proposed housing development.
بهنفع
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In favor of=pro
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1 extremely unhappy, for example because you feel lonely, cold, or badly treated
I’ve been so miserable since Pat left me.
I spent the weekend feeling miserable.
Jan looks really miserable.
Why do you make yourself miserable by taking on too much work?
as miserable as sin British English (=very miserable)
► see thesaurus at sad
2 especially British English always bad-tempered, dissatisfied, or complaining
He’s a miserable old devil.
3 [usually before noun] making you feel very unhappy, uncomfortable etc
They endured hours of backbreaking work in miserable conditions.
Mosquito bites can make life miserable.
4 miserable weather is cold and dull, with no sun shining
It was a miserable grey day.
two weeks of miserable weather
5 [only before noun] very small in amount, or very bad in quality
I can hardly afford the rent on my miserable income.
The team gave a miserable performance.
6 → miserable failure
—miserably adverb
I failed miserably in my duty to protect her.
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Miserable
Miserably
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enjoyable or attractive and making you feel happy SYN nice, → pleasure It had been a pleasant evening. the pleasant climate of Southern California The restaurant was large and pleasant. Kate! What a pleasant surprise! it is pleasant to do something It was pleasant to sit in a sidewalk cafe and watch people pass. 2 friendly, polite, and easy to talk to Nick seemed very pleasant on the phone. a pleasant-looking woman pleasant to He’s always been very pleasant to me.
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Pleasant (adj.)
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phrasal verb
1 to run in an area while you are playing
The children were running around in the garden.
2 informal to be very busy doing many small jobs
Maria was running around trying to get the house tidy.
We were all running around like headless chickens (=trying to do a lot of things, in an anxious or disorganized way).
→ runaround
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Run around
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1 to change someone’s appearance so that people cannot recognize them
disguise yourself as somebody/something
Maybe you could disguise yourself as a waiter and sneak in there.
He escaped across the border disguised as a priest.
► see thesaurus at hide
2 to change the appearance, sound, taste etc of something so that people do not recognize it
There’s no way you can disguise that southern accent.
disguise something as something
a letter bomb disguised as a musical greetings card
3 to hide a fact or feeling so that people will not notice it
Try as he might, Dan couldn’t disguise his feelings for Katie.
disguise the fact (that)
There’s no disguising the fact that business is bad.
The speech was seen by many as a thinly disguised attack on the president.
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Disguise
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خود انتقادی
| خود منتقد
Self-criticism
| Self-critical
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erb
1 FOLLOW [intransitive, transitive] to quickly follow someone or something in order to catch them
The dogs saw him running and chased him.
kids chasing around the house
chase somebody along/down/up something etc
The police chased the suspect along Severn Avenue.
chase after
A gang of boys chased after her, calling her names.
► see thesaurus at follow
2 MAKE SOMEBODY/SOMETHING LEAVE [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make someone or something leave, especially by following them for a short distance and threatening them
chase somebody away/off
The men were chased off by troops, who fired warning shots.
chase somebody out of something
Anne went to chase the dog out of the garden.
3 TRY TO GET SOMETHING [intransitive, transitive] to use a lot of time and effort trying to get something such as work or money
Top graduates from the university are chased by major companies.
chase after
reporters chasing after a story
4 HURRY [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] British English to rush or hurry somewhere
chase around/up/down etc
I was chasing around getting everything organized.
5 ROMANCE [transitive] to try hard to make someone notice you and pay attention to you, because you want to have a romantic relationship with them
‘Sometimes a girl wants to be chased, ’ Amelia said.
6 METAL [transitive] technical to decorate metal with a special tool
chased silver
Chase
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روان پزشک
Psychiatrist
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1 always behaving in the same way or having the same attitudes, standards etc – usually used to show approval OPP inconsistent
She’s the team’s most consistent player.
consistent in
We need to be consistent in our approach.
2 continuing to happen or develop in the same way
a consistent improvement in the country’s economy
3 a consistent argument or idea does not have any parts that do not match other parts OPP inconsistent
The evidence is not consistent.
4 → be consistent with something
—consistently adverb
consistently high performance
همواره
Consistent
Consistently
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To try doing something
Give it a go
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verb [transitive]
1 to experience something, especially problems or opposition
encounter problems/difficulties
They encountered serious problems when two members of the expedition were injured.
encounter opposition/resistance
The government has encountered strong opposition to its plans to raise income tax.
The doctor had encountered several similar cases in the past.
برخورد مواجهه روبرو شدن مواجه شدن
Encounter
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1 [uncountable] when someone is unfriendly and full of anger towards another person
hostility towards/between
hostility towards foreigners
hostility toward American English
hostility toward religious minorities
open/outright hostility (=hostility that is clearly shown)
They eyed each other with open hostility.
2 [uncountable] strong or angry opposition to something
The reform program was greeted with hostility by conservatives.
hostility to/towards
There is a lot of public hostility to the tax.
Pictures of refugees aroused popular hostility (=felt by a lot of people) towards the war.
hostility toward American English
Republican hostility toward slavery
3 → hostilities
Examples from the Corpus
خصومت
Hostility
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ظن
Suspicion
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رفاه
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noun [uncountable]
when people have money and everything that is needed for a good life
a time of economic prosperity
prosperity of
the future prosperity of the country
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Prosperity
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To be Quite thin on top
| He is quite thin on top!
Sیه کم موهات ریخته باشه
| همسر من کوهاش یه کم ریخته
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I’m the second of 4 children
من بچه ی دوم از چهار تا بچه ام
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used to say that something happens or is true even though something else might have prevented it
Despite
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also hatch out) [intransitive, transitive] if an egg hatches, or if it is hatched, it breaks, letting the young bird, insect etc come out
The eggs take three days to hatch.
2 (also hatch out) [intransitive, transitive] if a young bird, insect etc hatches, or if it is hatched, it comes out of its egg
All the chicks have hatched out.
Hatch
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verb
1 [intransitive, transitive] informal to complain in an annoying way, especially in an unhappy voice and without good reason
‘I feel seasick already, ’ she moaned.
moan about
A lot of people moaned about the parking problems.
moan at British English
My mum never stops moaning at me.
moan that
He’s always moaning that we use too much electricity.
He moaned and groaned all the way there.
► see thesaurus at complain
2 [intransitive] to make a long low sound expressing pain, unhappiness, or sexual pleasure SYN groan
She moaned and cried out in pain.
3 [intransitive] literary if the wind moans, it makes a long low sound
They could hear the wind moaning in the trees.
—moaner noun [countable] British English
Dad’s a gloomy old moaner.
→ See Verb table
Maon
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بحران
noun (plural crises /-siːz/) [countable, uncountable]
1 a situation in which there are a lot of problems that must be dealt with quickly so that the situation does not get worse or more dangerous → emergency
The country now faces an economic crisis.
The prime minister was criticized for the way in which he handled the crisis.
the current debt crisis
a major political crisis
I was relieved that we had averted yet another financial crisis.
Oil companies were heavily criticized when they made large profits during the oil crisis of the 1970s.
The car industry is now in crisis.
He doesn’t seem to be very good at crisis management.
2 a time when a personal emotional problem or situation has reached its worst point
an emotional crisis
In times of crisis, you find out who your real friends are.
He seems to be going through a crisis.
She has reached a crisis point in her career.
Both parties experienced an identity crisis (=feeling of uncertainty about their purpose) at the end of the '90s.
3 → crisis of confidence
4 → crisis of conscience
Crisis
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1 to become less sad, or to make someone feel less sad
Cheer up! The worst is over.
They cheered up when they saw us coming along.
cheer somebody ↔ up
Here’s a bit of news that will cheer you up.
You both need cheering up, I think.
2 cheer something ↔ up to make a place look more attractive
I bought some posters to cheer the place up a bit.
Cheer up
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```
adjective
so surprising that it is almost impossible to believe SYN astonishing
The concert was an astounding success.
► see thesaurus at surprising
—astoundingly adverb
astoundingly beautiful scenery
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Astounding
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adjective
1 making you feel embarrassed so that you are not sure what to do or say SYN difficult
I hoped he would stop asking awkward questions.
There was an awkward moment when she didn’t know whether to shake his hand or kiss his cheek.
an awkward silence
A laugh can help people over an awkward situation.
Philip’s remarks put her in an awkward position (=made it difficult for her to know what to do).
► see thesaurus at embarrassed
2 not relaxed or comfortable
She liked to dance but felt awkward if someone was watching her.
Geoff looked uneasy and awkward.
Make sure that the baby is not sleeping in an awkward position.
3 difficult to do, use, or deal with
It’ll be awkward getting cars in and out.
The new financial arrangements were awkward to manage.
A good carpenter can make a cupboard to fit the most awkward space.
She was afraid he was going to ask an awkward question.
► see thesaurus at difficult
4 not convenient
I’m sorry to call at such an awkward time but I won’t keep you a minute.
5 an awkward person is deliberately unhelpful SYN difficult
awkward about
The staff wanted to go home and they were getting awkward about a meeting starting so late.
an awkward customer (=person who is difficult and unhelpful)
—awkwardly adverb
‘I’m very sorry about your sister, ’ he said awkwardly.
Vera smiled awkwardly.
—awkwardness noun [uncountable]
He tried to smooth over the awkwardness of the situation.
Examples from the Corpus
awkward
• She may appear stiff and perhaps awkward.
• Do you have to be so awkward about everything?
• I didn't know anyone at the party, and I felt really awkward at first.
• The Department can be very awkward at times.
• It was really awkward, because she and Rachel don't get along.
• She felt awkward in her high-heeled shoes.
• This, with his stupid loyalty and his awkward maleness, she found touching.
• For one awkward moment I thought I had said something terribly wrong.
• Seals are awkward on land, but graceful in the water.
• He's at an age when kids start asking awkward questions - like 'Where do babies come from?'
• Whilst the others joked, drank and flirted, they would sit in awkward seriousness.
• If Jack had been at all concerned that his impulsive gesture would result in an awkward silence he need not have worried.
• an awkward silence
• Carrie laughed out loud, and there was an awkward silence.
• an awkward teenager
• I'm sorry, have I called at an awkward time?
• The camera is awkward to use.
• Bud turned round and gave an awkward wave out of the car window.
• Getting in and out of the water is awkward when you're wearing flippers.
• the awkward wording of the letter
awkward silence
• Spider said after an awkward silence.
• When we got to the restaurant, there was an awkward silence as I took out my tape recorder.
• There was another awkward silence, broken by the laughter from the bar.
• An awkward silence fell between them.
• If Jack had been at all concerned that his impulsive gesture would result in an awkward silence he need not have worried.
• She figured the awkward silence was partly the result of people believing that only big topics were worthy of being discussed.
• There was an awkward silence which Maidstone might have broken with some amiable
Awkward
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```
1. adjective formal
annoyed or not satisfied OPP pleased
He looked extremely displeased.
displeased with
City officials are displeased with the lack of progress.
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2. verb
1 [intransitive, transitive] to make someone happy or satisfied
a business that wants to please its customers
She did everything she could to please him.
Most children are eager to please.
be hard/easy/impossible etc to please
She’s hard to please. Everything has to be perfect.
Displeased (adj.)
Please (verb)
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adjective
1 someone who is illiterate has not learned to read or write
2 badly written, in an uneducated way
It was an illiterate letter, full of mistakes.
3 → economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate
—illiteracy
Illiterate
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Verb
1 IMAGE [transitive] if a person or a thing is reflected in a mirror, glass, or water, you can see an image of the person or thing on the surface of the mirror, glass, or water
be reflected in something
She could see her face reflected in the car’s windshield.
Grammar
Reflect is usually passive in this meaning.
2 BE A SIGN OF SOMETHING [transitive] to show or be a sign of a particular situation or feeling
The drop in consumer spending reflects concern about the economy.
be reflected in something
The increasing racial diversity of the US is reflected in the latest census statistics.
reflect who/what/how etc
How much you’re paid reflects how important you are to the company you work for.
3 LIGHT/HEAT/SOUND
a) [transitive] if a surface reflects light, heat, or sound, it sends back the light etc that reaches it
Wear something white – it reflects the heat.
b) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if light, heat, or sound reflects off something it reaches, it comes back from it
4 THINK ABOUT SOMETHING [intransitive, transitive] to think carefully about something, or to say something that you have been thinking about
reflect on
He had time to reflect on his successes and failures.
reflect that
Moe reflected that he had never seen Sherry so happy.
Reflect
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```
not liked by most people
an unpopular choice
an unpopular teacher
unpopular with/among
a decision that was deeply unpopular with students
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Unpopular
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adjective
extremely good, enjoyable, impressive etc SYN wonderful
‘How was your holiday?’ ‘Marvellous!’
We had a marvellous time.
I can’t stand him, but my wife thinks he’s marvellous.
It’s marvellous what they can do these days.
—marvellously adverb
Marvelous
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someone who is penniless has no money → broke
| Uncle Charlie was jobless and penniless.
Penniless
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noun [uncountable]
the state of being happy and satisfied OPP discontent
He gave a sigh of contentment, and fell asleep.
a feeling of deep contentment
► see thesaurus at pleasure
Contentment
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verb [transitive]
1 EMOTION if someone is overwhelmed by an emotion, they feel it so strongly that they cannot think clearly
be overwhelmed by something
Harriet was overwhelmed by a feeling of homesickness.
be overwhelmed with something
The children were overwhelmed with excitement.
Grief overwhelmed me.
Grammar
Overwhelm is often passive in this meaning.
2 TOO MUCH if work or a problem overwhelms someone, it is too much or too difficult to deal with
be overwhelmed by something
We were overwhelmed by the number of applications.
be overwhelmed with something
They would be overwhelmed with paperwork.
Grammar
Overwhelm is usually passive in this meaning.
3 SURPRISE SOMEBODY to surprise someone very much, so that they do not know how to react
be overwhelmed by something
I was completely overwhelmed by his generosity.
We were overwhelmed by the sheer size of the place.
Grammar
Overwhelm is usually passive in this meaning.
4 DEFEAT SOMEBODY to defeat an army completely
In 1532 the Spaniards finally overwhelmed the armies of Peru.
5 WATER literary if water overwhelms an area of land, it covers it completely and suddenly
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
Overwhelm v.
overwherming adj.
Overwhermingly adv.
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to try doing something
| She's been thinking about learning to fly for many years, and she's finally decided to give it a go.
Give it a go
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Prosperity
رفاه
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often capitalized : a person who does not conform to an established church
especially : one who does not conform to the Church of England
2 : a person who does not conform to a generally accepted pattern of thought or action
Non-conformist
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عدم اعتماد به نفس منو عقب نگه میداره
Hold me back
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to be more important or valuable than something else
| The benefits of the scheme outweigh the disadvantages.
Outweight
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noun
1 [uncountable] the situation or experience of being poor → poor, impoverished
Millions of elderly people live in poverty.
We need an effective strategy to fight poverty.
continued efforts to alleviate poverty and raise living standards
scenes of abject poverty
the causes of urban poverty
2 → the poverty line
3 → the poverty trap
4 [singular, uncountable] formal a lack of a particular quality
poverty of
The novel shows a surprising poverty of imagination.
Poverty
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noun [uncountable]
hard boring work
Examples from the Corpus
drudgery
• What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and drudgery.
• A powerful enough vision can transform what would otherwise be loss and drudgery into sacrifice.
• Practicing the saline song week after week can be drudgery.
• The chance to escape from the daily drudgery in the pits must have been more than attractive.
• Women are rebelling against domestic drudgery.
• the endless drudgery of housework
• He made it more than meaningless drudgery.
• There was nothing for girls, only drudgery and breeding, specially paupers like herself.
• The data management system has eliminated much of the drudgery of filing.
• Technological advances have taken much of the drudgery out of the assembly line and car plant.
• Calculators were introduced to relieve students of the drudgery of pencil-and-paper number-crunching.
• Do they conjure up the impression that children are
Drudgery
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oun [countable, uncountable]
| an imaginary perfect world where everyone is happy
Utopia
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a small accident or mistake that does not have very serious results
I had a slight mishap with one of the glasses.
a series of mishaps
without mishap
Only one horse finished the course without mishap.
mishap /ˈmɪshæp/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable]
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keep someone out of a room or building by locking the door.
"she had locked him out of his own house"
exclude someone from.
"officers combined previously separate contracts into larger deals, locking out the smaller players"
Lock out
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لیز خوردن لغزیدن
Slip
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1 to fall onto the ground or to fall from an upright position
Tommy fell over and cut his knee badly.
Her bike fell over.
2 fall over something to hit your foot against something by mistake and fall to the ground SYN trip over
She fell over the dog and broke her front teeth.
3 fall over yourself to do something to be very eager to do something, especially something you do not usually do
People were falling over themselves to help her.
Fall over
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خراب شدن ماشین
Break down
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verb (past tense and past participle spilt /spɪlt/ especially British English or spilled especially American English)
1 spill.jpg [intransitive, transitive] if you spill a liquid, or if it spills, it accidentally flows over the edge of a container → pour
Katie almost spilled her milk.
spill something down/on/over something
Oh no! I’ve spilt coffee all down my shirt!
spill on/over etc
He slipped and the wine spilled all over the carpet.
2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if people or things spill out of somewhere, they move or fall out in large numbers SYN pour
spill out/into/onto etc
Crowds from the theatre were spilling onto the street.
3 → spill the beans
4 → spill your guts
5 → spill blood
→ cry over spilt milk at cry1(3)
→ spill into/onto something
→ spill over
→ See Verb table
Spill
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verb (dropped, dropping)
1 LET SOMETHING FALL [transitive]
a) to stop holding or carrying something so that it falls
He dropped his briefcase on a chair.
She screamed and dropped the torch.
b) to make something such as a bomb fall from a plane
U.S. planes began dropping bombs on the city.
Supplies are being dropped for the refugees.
2 FALL [intransitive] to fall suddenly onto the ground or into something
drop from/off
The apples are beginning to drop from the trees.
Your button has dropped off.
3 MOVE YOUR BODY DOWN [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] to lower yourself or part of your body suddenly
drop down/onto/into
He dropped down onto the floor and hid under the table.
She dropped her head back against the cushion.
4 BECOME LESS [intransitive] to fall to a lower level or amount, especially a much lower level or amount
drop suddenly/sharply/dramatically
The number of deaths on the roads has dropped sharply.
Temperatures drop quite dramatically at night, so bring some warm clothing.
drop to
Their share of the market dropped to 50 percent this year.
► see thesaurus at decrease
5 REDUCE [transitive] to reduce the level or amount of something
You might be able to get them to drop the price.
As soon as she saw the police car she dropped her speed.
6 NOT INCLUDE [transitive] to decide not to include someone or something
His name was dropped from the list.
drop somebody from a team/side
Taylor was bitterly disappointed to be dropped from the England side.
7 STOP DOING SOMETHING [transitive] to stop doing something, discussing something, or continuing with something
The proposal was dropped after opposition from civil liberties groups.
drop charges/drop a case
New evidence was presented to the court and the case was dropped.
drop a subject at school/university (=stop studying it)
Students are allowed to drop history in Year 9.
You can’t expect me to drop everything (=completely stop doing whatever I am doing) whenever you’re in town.
Oh, drop the ‘Senator’ (=stop calling me ‘Senator’) – just call me Gordon.
Some time later, the matter was quietly dropped.
8 STOP TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING [intransitive, transitive] to stop talking about something
drop the subject
To her relief, Julius dropped the subject.
drop it (=stop talking about a subject)
Just drop it, will you? I don’t want to talk about it anymore.
‘What about the money?’ ‘We’ve agreed to let it drop (=we have agreed not to talk about it anymore).’
9 TAKE SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE (also drop off) [transitive] to take someone by car to a place and leave them there, especially on your way to another place
Just drop me here – I can walk the rest of the way.
drop somebody at something
She dropped Johnny at the school gates at about 8:30.
10 TAKE SOMETHING SOMEWHERE [transitive] to take something to a place and leave it there
drop something round/in
I’ve got your books – I’ll drop them round to your place later.
11 VISIT [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to visit someone you know, usually without arranging a particular time
drop by/round
I just dropped by to see how you were getting on.
The kids drop round and see her from time to time.
drop into
Jan dropped into the office this morning to tell me her news.
drop in (on somebody)
Why don’t you drop in for a drink one evening?
12 SLOPE DOWNWARDS [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if a path, land etc drops, it goes down suddenly, forming a steep slope
drop down
The cliff dropped down over a hundred feet to the sea below.
drop away
On the left the ground drops away, giving a view over the rooftops.
13 END A RELATIONSHIP [transitive] informal to suddenly stop having a relationship with someone, especially a romantic relationship
She dropped him as soon as she found out he had been seeing another woman.
Drop off
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هرچند که
Even though
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اقرار کردن 1 ACCEPT TRUTH [intransitive, transitive] to agree unwillingly that something is true or that someone else is right
‘Okay, so maybe I was a little bit scared, ’ Jenny admitted.
admit (that)
You may not like her, but you have to admit that she’s good at her job.
admit to somebody (that)
Paul admitted to me that he sometimes feels jealous of my friendship with Stanley.
I must admit, I didn’t actually do anything to help her.
Admit it! I’m right, aren’t I?
admit (to) doing something
Dana admitted feeling hurt by what I had said.
freely/openly/frankly etc admit (=admit without being ashamed)
Phillips openly admits to having an alcohol problem.
2 ACCEPT BLAME [intransitive, transitive] to say that you have done something wrong, especially something criminal SYN confess OPP deny
admit doing something
Greene admitted causing death by reckless driving.
admit to (doing) something
A quarter of all workers admit to taking time off when they are not ill.
After questioning, he admitted to the murder.
No organization has admitted responsibility for the bombing.
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3 ALLOW TO ENTER [transitive] to allow someone to enter a public place to watch a game, performance etc → admittance, admission
admit somebody to/into something
Only ticket-holders will be admitted into the stadium.
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1 a road, hill etc that is steep slopes at a high angle
The road became rocky and steep.
a steep climb to the top
2 steep prices, charges etc are unusually expensive OPP low
steep rents
3 involving a big increase or decrease SYN sharp
steep cuts in benefits
steep increase/rise
a steep increase in house prices
steep decrease/drop
a steep drop in orders
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Steep
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to laugh a lot, loudly:
| You laughed your head off when I fel
Laugh your heads off
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if a vehicle draws up, it arrives somewhere and stops
| A taxi drew up at the gate.
Draw up
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extremely unpleasant SYN terrible
Dreadful
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move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backward and forward or from side to side
Oscilate
Sway
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زننده (صفت)
Nasty
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not as severe or strong in punishment or judgment as would be expected:
They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects.
In view of the quantity of drugs involved, 16 years was the most lenient sentence (= punishment) the judge could impose.
Lenient
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Severe
Harsh
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سرقت ادبی
Plagiarism
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1 to officially force someone to leave a school or organization → expulsion
expel somebody from something
Two girls were expelled from school for taking drugs.
The main opposition leader was expelled from her party.
expel somebody for doing something
He was expelled for making racist remarks.
2 to force a foreigner to leave a country, especially because they have broken the law or for political reasons
expel somebody from something
Foreign priests were expelled from the country.
expel somebody for something
Three diplomats were expelled for spying.
3 to force air, water, or gas etc out of your body or out of a container → expulsion
Expel
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تحت پیگرد قانونی قرار گرفتن
Prosecute
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از مدرسه فرار کردن یا غیبت کردن بدون اجازه
Play truant
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expel (someone) from a property, especially with the support of the law.
"a single mother and her children have been evicted from their home"
Evict
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verb [intransitive]
1 to succeed in dealing with a difficult problem or situation
Sometimes I find it hard to cope.
He coped quite well as manager while still captaining the team.
cope with
She feared she wouldn’t be able to cope with two new babies.
Local authorities have to cope with the problems of homelessness.
2 if a system or machine copes with a particular type or amount of work, it does it
cope with
No system is designed to cope with the floods we have had this year.
My computer can cope with huge amounts of data. از عهده مشکل برآمدن
Cope
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بازپرداخت (فعل رسمی)
Reimburse
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بدهی
Debt
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باز پرداخت (phrasal verb)
Pay off
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همدردی کردن
Sympathize
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1 [intransitive, transitive] to give part of your power or work to someone in a lower position than you
A good manager knows when to delegate.
It takes experience to judge correctly how much power should be delegated.
delegate something to somebody
Minor tasks should be delegated to your assistant.
2 [transitive] to choose someone to do a particular job, or to be a representative of a group, organization etc
noun [countable]
someone who has been elected or chosen to speak, vote, or take decisions for a group → representative
Around 350 delegates attended the conference.
Examples from the Corpus
delegate
• Mississippi will choose 33 delegates, Oklahoma and Tennessee, 38 each.
• Arizona has 39 delegates in a winner-take-all primary.
• Delegates from 50 colleges met to discuss the issue of financial aid.
• What was not predictable, however, was the extreme stand taken by delegates from the University Reform Front.
• I sat next to the Canadian delegate.
• On July 7 the congress heard replies by politburo members to questions from delegates.
• He conceded that the size of the holding was still modest by the standards of most Oxford delegates.
• Some local branches have refused to send delegates to the national conference.
• Southern delegates to the Continental Congress expressed unwillingness to use their militias outside their own borders.
• On Aug. 9 over 90 percent of the delegates voted in favour of recognizing the right of Quebec to self-determination.
• The US delegate to the committee announced a grant of $75 million to help third world countries.
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جبران کردن خسارت
| بازپرداخت کردن غرامت یا پول
Reimburse
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مشکوک شدن/ مشکوک بودن
Suspect
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رابطه داشتن
Have an affair
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نقض کردن
Violate
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خشونت
Violence
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مدعی بودن
| نکهداری کردن
Maintain
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نقض کردن حریم شخصی کسی
Violate someone’s privacy
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مصادره کردن
قبض کردن
ضبط کردن
Confiscated
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اعتراف کردن
Confess
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استعلام
| استعلام کردن
Inquiry
| Make an inquiry
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از اول
At the start
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پارکبان
Traffic warden
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بیرون کشیدن
Draw out
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حواس کسی رو پرت کردم
Distract
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قدرت دادن یا کار دادن به مقام پایین تر
کسی رو به عنوان نماینده انتخاب کردن
نماینده (برای سخنرانی یا رای دادن)
Delegate
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آشنا
Acquaintance
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اجلاس همایش
Summit
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اخراج کردن
| در بازی فوتبال
Send off
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1 used when talking about a choice you have to make or about something that is not certain
Maurice asked me whether I needed any help.
There were times when I wondered whether or not we would get there.
whether to do something
She was uncertain whether to stay or leave.
I didn’t know whether to believe him or not.
The question arose as to whether this behaviour was unlawful.
2 used to say that something definitely will or will not happen whatever the situation is
It seemed to me that she was in trouble whether Mahoney lived or died.
Look, Kate, I’m calling the doctor, whether you like it or not.
Poor farmers, whether owners or tenants, will be worst affected.
wheth‧er
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make someone very irritated or angry
Make someone up the wall!
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the capital or chief city of a country or region
a very large and busy city
Metropolis
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ترافیک خیلی زیاد میشه
| کیلومتر ها یا مایل ها ترافیک بود
Traffic backs, backed up miles, kilometers, 10 miles
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نتیجه منفی
Negative outcome
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ترافیک خیلی شدید
Bumper to bumper traffic
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Extremely slowly
The roads were full of traffic and we were travelling at a snail's pace for two hours.
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ساعت هایی که ترافیک خیلی زیاده
ساعت هایی که ترافیک زیاد نیست
Rush hour
Off-peak hours
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a passenger in a car who keeps giving the driver advice that he or she has not asked for:
Back-seat driver
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adjective
1 likely to do something or suffer from something, especially something bad or harmful
prone to
Some plants are very prone to disease.
prone to do something
Kids are all prone to eat junk food.
accident-prone/injury-prone etc
He’s always been accident-prone.
I have always been prone to headaches
My husband has always been prone to road range
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Prone to
| To be prone to
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noun [countable] American English informal
| a car accident in which little damage is done
Fender-bender
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Present simple adverb of times
* On a regular basis
* On day-to-day basis
* Frequency adverbs: never, hardly ever/rarely/seldom, sometimes, often, usually, always
* Every day
* Every once in a while
* Every now and then/again
* Once / twice / three times a ...
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Present continues
* At the moment • Now
* These days
* Currently
* This week / year / month • Today
* During this season • At the present
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Road rage
noun [uncountable]
violence and angry behaviour by car drivers towards other car drivers
My husband is prone to road rage when it come to traffic
In February, he was dismissed from a truck driver's job for road rage.
• If they are correct, his demise has to be the ultimate consequence of road rage.
• Consider the vogue of road rage.
• I hate to admit it, hut it's probably road rage.
• A driving game which not only reduces road rage, it plays like a dream.
• You can respond to injustice with a tantrum and to road rage with a two-finger salute.
