601.
|
pivot on
|
To depend on something such as an event,
idea, etc.
|
602.
|
plan ahead
plan for
plan on
plan ... out
|
To decide on or arrange something in
advance, e.g. She has planned aheadso that if she falls ill,
there’ll be someone to do her work.
To make preparation for something, e.g.
He planned for a big turnout at the evening’s outdoor
performance but it was a total disaster due to heavy rain.
To expect something as planned, e.g.
She plans on achieving grade A in all her subjects in the
final examination.
To intend to do something as planned,
e.g. We plan on going to Niagara Falls this Summer and take
at least one hundred photographs there.
To make a careful plan after considering
all relevant factors.
|
603.
|
plant … out
|
To place a young plant to grow outdoors.
|
604.
|
plaster … over
|
To apply plaster to a hole, an old
surface, etc.
|
605.
|
play about/around
play along
play … along
play at
play ... back
play ... down
play off
play ... off
play on
play up
play ... up
play up to
play with
|
To behave in an irresponsible manner; to
have a casual relationship with someone.
To pretend to cooperate for a selfish
reason.
To deceive or mislead someone in order to
gain an advantage.
To assume a role playfully.
To listen to one’s own recording of
something.
To make something appear less important
or serious than it really is.
To compete between two rivals in an extra
match to determine their final positioning or decide an outcome.
To involve another person in a dispute
for a selfish purpose.
To exploit someone’s weak and vulnerable
point so as to gain selfishly.
To fail to work or operate properly or to
cause problems.
To devote all of one’s physical and
mental powers in a particular activity.
To exaggerate the importance of someone
or something.
To behave in a way that brings benefit to
oneself.
To tamper with something.
To treat someone inconsiderately for
one’s own amusement.
|
606.
|
plough … back
plough into
plough on
plough through
plough ... up
|
To use profit made in a business for
business purposes, usually to expand it.
(Vehicle, etc) to be driven violently
into something or someone such as a crowd, etc., especially by a driver who
loses control of the vehicle.
To continue doing something that requires
considerable time and effort.
To persist in something such as studying
a textbook, etc. despite the considerable time and effort required.
To break up the surface of the ground by
repeated walking on it.
|
607.
|
pluck at
|
To pull something quickly and repeatedly
with the fingers.
|
608.
|
plug away
plug … in/into
plug up
|
To keep working hard at something.
To connect a piece of electrical
equipment to another or into a socket, e.g. Why do you turn on the new
television? I haven’t plugged it into the
socket.
To block or become blocked with
something, e.g. Someone threw potato peelings down the drain, and they plugged
up the pipe.
|
609.
|
plump for
plump … up
|
To make a selection after proper
consideration.
To make something such as pillows,
cushions, etc. bigger and softer by shaking them.
|
610.
|
plunge in
plunge into
|
To act quickly and rashly on a course of
action.
To act suddenly without a careful
thought.
To push something forcibly and deeply
into something else, e.g. plunging a dagger into the
victim’s chest.
To experience an unpleasant situation,
e.g. the whole building was plunged into darkness.
|
611.
|
ply … with
|
To keep providing someone food and drink.
To direct numerous questions at someone.
|
612.
|
point … out
point to
point ... up
|
To make someone aware of a fact, e.g. A
witness pointed out to the police the scene where the
incident took place.
To indicate to someone a particular
direction, e.g. Someone in response pointed out to me the
road that leads to the hotel.
To draw one’s attention to something,
e.g. He pointed out a spelling mistake on the signboard to me.
To use a finger, usually the forefinger,
to indicate a particular direction, e.g. The child pointed to the
woman on the photo as her mother.
To cite something as evidence, e.g. All
the evidence pointed to him as the culprit.
To make known the truth or importance of
something, e.g. the high drug abuse figures point up the
need for more vigorous enforcement of the existing laws on drugs.
|
613.
|
poke around/about
poke at
|
To look or search around a place for
something or information about someone’s life, etc., e.g. poking
about in the warehouse looking for something to steal.
To jab repeatedly with something sharp or
pointed, e.g. to poke at a fire with a poker to make it burn
better.
|
614.
|
polish … off
polish … up
|
To finish something such as food, work,
etc. quickly.
To kill or defeat someone.
To improve a skill or an ability by
practising it.
|
615.
|
ponce about/around
|
To move or behave in an idle, weak or
effeminate manner.
|
616.
|
poop out
|
To stop functioning.
To discontinue or not participate in an
activity.
|
617.
|
pop off
pop in/out
pop … on
pop up
|
To die suddenly.
To come/go briefly without advance
warning.
To quickly put on a piece of clothing.
To appear suddenly and unexpectedly.
|
618.
|
pore over
|
To be absorbed in the reading or study of
something.
|
619.
|
portion out
|
To divide something into parts for
distribution.
|
620.
|
pot … on
pot … up
|
To transplant a growing plant from a
small pot to a large one.
To transplant a seedling into a
flowerpot.
|
621.
|
pounce on
|
To spring or seize something suddenly.
To notice a mistake and take swift
advantage of it by expressing a critical assessment of it.
|
622.
|
pour … out
|
To express one’s feelings to someone in
an unrestrained way.
|
623.
|
preside over
|
To be in charge of a situation.
|
624.
|
press … for
press on/ahead
press … on/upon
|
To persist in asking for something.
To strive hard to achieve something.
To continue doing something in a
determined way.
To insist on someone accepting an offer
or gift.
|
625.
|
presume on/upon
|
To unjustifiably regard something such as
a good relationship with someone, etc. as entitling one to privileges, e.g.
presuming on the relationship to borrow a large sum of money.
|
626.
|
prevail on/upon
|
To persuade someone to do something.
|
627.
|
prey on
|
(Animals and birds) to hunt and kill
other animals and birds for food.
To exploit, influence or deceive weaker
people.
To cause constant worry or distress to
someone, e.g. the problem has been preying on my mind.
|
628.
|
prick … out
|
To place a young plant in a specially
prepared hole in the earth.
|
629.
|
print … out
|
To produce a printed paper copy of
information or document stored on a computer, e.g. I can’t print this
document out now because my printer has no ink.
|
630.
|
prize … out
|
To get or by using force to get
information from someone.
|
631.
|
proceed against
proceed from
|
To take legal action against someone.
To originate from something.
|
632.
|
profit by/from
|
To learn from something that happens or
to benefit from a situation.
|
633.
|
prop … up
|
To support or assist someone or something
that would otherwise fail or decline.
To lean against something.
|
634.
|
provide against
provide for
|
To make plans in order to forestall a bad
situation happening.
To prepare or arrange for the needs of
someone.
|
635.
|
psych … out
psych ... up
|
To intimidate an opponent by appearing
overly confident or say things that will make him feel worried, nervous and
less confident.
To get mentally prepared in order to
build up one’s confidence for something challenging.
|
636.
|
puff … out
puff up
|
To make something such as one’s cheeks,
etc. swollen by filling them with air.
(Arm, leg, etc.) to swell due to injury
or infection.
To make something swell by filling them
with air.
|
637.
|
pull ahead
pull apart
pull at
pull away
pull back
pull ... down
pull ... in
pull ... off
pull ... out
pull over
pull through
pull together
pull up
|
(Vehicle) to get in front of another,
especially by moving faster.
To separate people or animals when they
are fighting, e.g. Their argument suddenly developed into a fight and the
others had to pull them apart.
To hold something and pull more than
once; e.g. The wife pulled at the husband’s shirt as he was
walking faster.
To draw in smoke while smoking by
inhaling deeply.
To start a car, etc. and drive away; e.g.
I waved to the driver as the car waspulling away.
To overtake another vehicle and leave it
behind by driving faster, e.g. the ambulance is pulling away from
the other vehicles on the highway.
To withdraw from an undertaking, e.g.
to pull back from a joint venture due to an unsettled
dispute.
To demolish a building, e.g. had to pull that
pre-war building down as it had fallen into disuse.
(Vehicle) to stop at the side of the
road, e.g. The driver pulled in as directed by a traffic
policeman
(Train) to arrive at a station, e.g. As
the train pulled in, more people move onto the platform.
(Show) attracts a lot of people, e.g. the
circus has been pulling in big audiences daily.
To earn money, e.g. His new business has
been pulling in a lot of money.
To succeed in doing something or winning
something difficult, e.g. his sculpturepulled off the highest bid
in the auction.
To drive to the side of the road or a
side road, e.g. We pulled off the road for a bite before
resuming our journey.
(Train) to depart from a station, e.g.
There was much waving among the people as the train started to pull
out of the station.
To retreat from an area, e.g. Most of the
troops have been pulled out as the situation has improved
considerably.
To withdraw from an undertaking, e.g. One
of the partners has decided to pull out of the venture as it
is no longer profitable to carry on.
To be ordered to drive a vehicle to the
side of the road, e.g. The policeman waved to the driver to pull over.
To drive a vehicle to the side of the
road, e.g. I pulled over and waited for them in the car.
To get through an illness or a difficult
situation, e.g. He has managed to pull through from a recent
bout of depression.
To work hard together in a task or
undertaking, e.g. If they all pull together, they could easily
finish the work ahead of schedule.
To bring a vehicle to a halt, e.g. The
driver pulled up when signaled to do so by the policeman.
|
638.
|
pump … into
pump out
pump … up
|
To shoot someone several times, e.g. A
motorcyclist rode aside his car, pumped bullets into the
driver and sped off.
To produce or emit something in large
quantities or amounts, e.g. In a supermarket, prices after prices of the
products on sale are pumped out of a speaker for the benefit
of shoppers.
To fill something with air, liquid, gas,
etc.
To play a piece of music louder.
To increase someone’s enthusiasm or
excitement.
|
639.
|
punch in
punch out
|
To record the time of arrival at the
workplace on a card by making use of a special machine, e.g. As I’m late most
of the time, I asked my closest trustworthy mate to punch in for
me without anyone noticing it.
To record the time of departure from the
workplace on a card, e.g. Some of my colleagues leave early and when the
day’s work ends I punch out for them carefully without
anyone noticing it.
To strike someone so hard with the fist
that they fall over.
|
640.
|
push ahead
push along
push around/about
push aside
push for
push forward
push in
push off
push on
push ... over
push ... through
push ... up
|
To carry on persistently with what one is
doing.
To go from a place.
To order someone around without due
respect for his feeling.
To cease thinking about an upsetting
event.
To insist on making a request for
something, or for something to be done which is felt to be necessary.
To advance or make progress constantly
despite difficulties.
To dispense unasked for advice or join in
a conversation, etc. which does not concern one.
To jump queue.
To leave or to tell someone rudely to
leave.
To carry on with what one is doing.
To cause someone or something to fall to
the ground by pushing them.
To get a bill accepted for discussion in
parliament by an opposition member.
To cause an increase in something such as
demand, prices, investment.
|
641.
|
put about
put … aside
put … away
put back
put ... down
put in
put ... off
put ... on
put out/put ... out
put ... through
put ... to
put ... together
put ... up
put ... up to
put up with
|
To spread false information or unfounded
rumours.
To save money regularly for a future
purpose.
To keep someone in a prison or mental
hospital, e.g. He was put away for good for a series of
murders he committed.
To eat or drink large quantities of food
or drink, e.g. Every day the child puts away twice the
amount of his father.
To save money, e.g. Every month he puts
away a moderate sum of money as saving for the future.
To return things to their storage space,
e.g. The father nearly fell when he stepped on a toy that should have
been put away.
To return something to its original
place, e.g. The children have been taught to put back their
toys when they have finished playing with them.
To postpone something, e.g. The football
matches have to be put back due to adverse weather
conditions.
To delay something, e.g. Heavy rains and
flooding for the past weeks have put the construction
work back by at least a month.
To lay something or someone on a surface,
e.g. She put the baby gently downin the cot.
To criticize or belittle someone, e.g.
Nobody wants to be around him as all he does is putting others down.
To put an end to an insurgency, revolt,
etc., e.g. Reinforcements were called in to put down a
regional rebellion.
To kill an animal in order to end its
suffering, e.g. His dad’s job is to put downseverely diseased
animals.
To pay a specified sum as a deposit, e.g.
The sales agent asked if I could put$10,000 down on
the house.
To reason out, e.g. Her friends put her
sudden depression down to the passing of her husband.
To stop doing something, e.g. Her father
interrupted Jill by asking when she would put the
phone down after she had talked for nearly an hour.
To find something interesting and
absorbing, e.g. What a book it was; once I started reading it I
couldn’t put it down until I completed it.
To put something in something else, e.g.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
To put someone somewhere, e.g. The
children decided to put their old motherin an
old folks’ home.
To invest time, money, effort, etc. into
something, e.g. To date we have put $100,000 in the
business.
To add permanent equipment to something
such as a home, e.g. They are putting in an additional
bedroom.
To request for something, e.g. The stolen
wallet was handed over to the police, but the owner has not put in a
claim for it.
To postpone something, e.g. They intend
to put off having a baby until they can afford it.
To delay meeting someone, e.g. He’s been
calling me day and night to meet him over a matter, but I keep putting it off.
To lose interest in doing something, e.g.
The new assignment is challenging, but the distance he has to travel every
day really puts him off.
To make someone feel offended, e.g.
Everyone who knows her is put off by her excessively
critical point of view.
To become fatter and heavier.
To wear a piece of clothing.
To press the brake when the driver wants
the vehicle to stop.
To apply make-up, creams, etc.
To pretend to have a particular way of
speaking.
To extinguish a fire, cigarette, etc.,
e.g. One of the men helping to put out the forest fire could
be the arsonist responsible for it.
To agree to have sex with someone.
To upset or annoy someone, e.g. Jack
borrowed my car and promised to return it the next day, but now three days
later I’m really put out by not having got my car back.
To make extra work for or cause problems
to someone, e.g. My neighbour really put me out when
he called in the middle of the night to help push his car as it couldn’t
start.
To put something outside the house, e.g.
Every night before the elderly lady goes to bed, she puts her
cat out.
To extend one’ arm, hand, leg or foot,
e.g. He put out his arms and legs when he lay down; I
tripped over one of his limbs and landed on top of him.
To produce something, e.g. The publisher
is putting out a paperback edition of the book at the end of
the month.
To connect someone by telephone to
another; to finance one’s child’s education; to be made to undergo a bad
experience.
To ask at a discussion, etc., e.g.
Members of the audience were allowed to putquestions to the
individual panelists.
To affix one’s signature to a document,
letter, etc.
To cause difficulty, inconvenience, etc,
to someone, e.g. I would like to ask my friends to help me paint my house but
hesitate to put them to such trouble.
To fit together the component parts of
something, e.g. Putting the jigsaw puzzle pieces together is
going to take a long time.
To provide accommodation temporarily to
someone, e.g. While I was in the city for a week, I put up with
my cousin.
To suggest a topic for discussion, etc.
To offer something for sale or auction,
e.g. He is putting up his set of antique furniture for
auction.
To finance an enterprise, etc., e.g. An
unknown donor put up most of the money to build a public
library.
To put something, e.g. Huge tents
were put up to house the evacuees.
He intends to put up a
real fight all the way despite being regarded as the underdog in the match.
To incite someone to do something stupid,
illegal or dangerous, e.g. When Jack was arrested for injuring Jill’s
ex-husband, he accused Jill of putting him up toit
by threatening to leave him for good.
To endure an unpleasant situation or
tolerate a nasty person, e.g. She’s been thinking how long she is going
to put up with her husband coming home blind drunk.
|
642.
|
puzzle out
|
To consider a difficult problem carefully
with a view to solving it.
|
643.
|
quarrel with
|
To disagree with someone or complain
about something.
|
644.
|
rack … up
|
To accumulate or increase something.
|
645.
|
rain down
|
To fall in large quantities.
|
646.
|
rake … in
rake … up
|
To make a lot of money.
To recall a past event that is best
forgotten.
To gather someone or something together
for a purpose such as forming a sport team, volunteering for a campaign, etc.
|
647.
|
rally round
|
To bring or come together for a worthy
cause.
|
648.
|
ram … home
|
To forcibly inculcate through the process
of study and comprehension.
|
649.
|
ramble on
|
To talk or write at length in a tedious
manner.
|
650.
|
ration out
|
To distribute something in small
controlled amounts.
|
651.
|
rattle around
rattle … off
rattle on
rattle through
|
To be in a space that is in excess of
what is needed.
To say or produce something quickly and
easily.
To talk quickly and at length.
To do something very quickly.
|
652.
|
react against
|
To respond with an extremely unfriendly attitude
or a contrary course of action.
|
653.
|
read into
read … out
read ... through
read ... up
|
To regard something as having a meaning
or importance when this is not the case.
To say out what is written on something
such as a list, etc. for people to hear.
To check for mistakes by careful reading
of the whole thing.
To acquire information or knowledge by
reading a lot about a subject.
|
654.
|
reason … out
reason with
|
To find a solution to a problem by
considering all the possibilities.
To persuade someone to be more sensible
with rational argument.
|
655.
|
rebound on/upon
|
To have an unexpected bad effect on
someone.
|
656.
|
reckon … in
reckon on
reckon with
|
To include all relevant data in one’s
calculation.
To expect anything unforeseen to happen
while plans are being made.
To take into account all that may happen
|
657.
|
reconcile … to
|
To make someone able to accept an
unpleasant or disagreeable thing or situation.
|
658.
|
reduce … to
|
To change something into a shorter
simpler form, e.g. the passage can be reduced to four paragraphs.
To lower the ranks of an army officer,
e.g. to reduce an officer’s ranks to an ordinary soldier.
To destroy a building by burning or
demolition, e.g. to reduce to ashes or rubble.
To degrade someone’s existence, e.g. to
reduce one to squat on public land.
|
659.
|
reel … in
reel ... off
|
To turn the reel of a fishing rod to draw
in the line, e.g. to reel in a fish.
To say something quickly and easily, e.g.
to reel off lists of team members.
|
660.
|
refer to
|
To arrange someone to see a medical
specialist, e.g. His doctor refers him to an ophthalmologist.
To mention or allude to someone, e.g. She
was warned not to refer to him again.
To consult a source of information, e.g.
He often refers to an encyclopedia for factual information.
|
661.
|
reflect on/upon
|
To think deeply or carefully about, e.g.
Sooner or later, one has to reflect on one’s future wellbeing.
To expose the good or bad side of
someone, e.g. His behaviour reflects on his level of education.
|
662.
|
regale … with
|
To entertain someone with conversation or
story-telling, e.g. He often regaleshis friends with stories
of his romantic involvements.
|
663.
|
rein … in
|
To have strict control of something, or
keep it within limits.
To control the movement of a horse by
pulling on its reins.
|
664.
|
rejoice in
|
To feel great joy, e.g. he rejoices
in his examination success.
To have an extraordinary or
strange-sounding name.
|
665.
|
relate to
|
To show a direct connection between two
things, e.g. Low wages are directlyrelated to low level of education.
To be able to have a good relationship
with others, e.g. He has difficultyrelating to older people.
To feel sympathy for or identify with
someone or something.
To be concerned with someone or
something, e.g. It does not relate to what we are talking
about.
|
666.
|
relieve … of
|
To remove the post, duties,
responsibility, command, etc. of someone.
|
667.
|
rely on/upon
|
To trust someone or something fully to do
what they have to do.
To be dependent on something to survive,
e.g. They have to rely on the handicraft for their income.
|
668.
|
remark on/upon
|
To pass comment on someone or something.
|
669.
|
remind … of
|
To make someone remember about something
because of a resemblance, e.g. the area reminds her of her
early childhood days.
|
670.
|
render … down
render … up
|
To purify fat by melting down.
To hand something to someone such as a
ruler, enemy, etc.
|
671.
|
repair to
|
To go to a place, e.g. to repair to the
sitting room.
|
672.
|
report back
|
To send or bring something back to
someone, e.g. to investigate an incident and report back to
one’s superiors.
|
673.
|
reside in
|
(Power, right, etc.) to be present in
someone or something.
|
674.
|
resolve … into
|
To become or make something into separate
parts.
|
675.
|
resonate with
|
To be full of something such as meaning,
feeling, sound, etc., e.g. a householdresonating with incessant
shouting.
|
676.
|
resort to
|
To choose and use a, especially bad,
course of action to succeed in something or resolve a problem.
|
677.
|
rest on/upon
rest with
|
To depend or be based on something, e.g.
the success of the club rests on the number of members it has.
To direct one’s look on someone or
something, e.g. to rest one’s eyes on the
scenery.
To be answerable for something, e.g. the
responsibility for day-to-day operationrests with the manager.
|
678.
|
result in
|
To have a specified end or outcome, e.g.
the accident resulted in the death of some passengers.
|
679.
|
revel in
|
To take great pleasure in something, such
as attention, praise, etc.
|
680.
|
revert to
|
To return to a former state, condition,
etc.
|
681.
|
revolve around
|
To treat something as the most important
purpose, e.g. her life revolves around her children.
To move in a circular orbit around
something.
|
682.
|
rid … of
|
To remove someone or something bad from a
place such as one’s body, working place, etc.
|
683.
|
ride … down
ride on
ride … out
ride up
|
To knock someone down when riding a
horse.
To travel in or on a vehicle or horse.
To depend on someone or something.
To come safely through, especially a bad
situation.
(Skirt, etc.) to move upwards exposing
the body.
|
684.
|
rig … out
rig … up
|
To provide someone with special clothes
to wear.
To make something in a makeshift way.
|
685.
|
ring back
ring in
ring off
ring out
ring round
ring ... up
|
To make a return call by telephone.
To telephone a place, especially one’s
working place.
To end a telephone call.
To have something loud and clear come
from something else.
To make telephone calls to a group of
people for a specific purpose.
To make a telephone call to someone.
|
686.
|
rinse out
|
To wash something, especially to get rid
of soap from it.
|
687.
|
rip off
rip through
rip ... up
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To overcharge, cheat, or steal from
someone, e.g. The souvenir shopkeeper really ripped us off.
To move somewhere at high speed and in a
really violent way.
To tear something into pieces, e.g.
Jill ripped up Jack’s photos when she found out he is dating
other girls.
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688.
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rise above
rise against
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To deal with any unpleasant situations
without being adversely affected by it.
To be sensible and refrain from immoral
acts.
To attempt to seize power and replace the
government.
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689.
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roll around/round
roll away
roll ... back
roll … down
roll in
roll ... out
roll over
roll up
roll ... up
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(Something that happens regularly) to
happen again.
To stretch up to the horizon, e.g. green
pastures rolling away into the distance.
To reduce the influence, importance, etc.
of something.
To reverse the progress of something.
To open in specific cases, e.g. to roll
down car’s window to open it.
To come in large numbers or quantities;
To arrive later than usual or expected
without being concerned.
To lay out something flat and thin, e.g.
to roll out the red carpet.
To officially launch a new product.
To change bodily position while lying
down, e.g. to roll over to the left.
To arrive, e.g. to roll up late
or unexpectedly.
To fold or shorten something, e.g. to
roll one’s sleeves up.
To close a car’s window, e.g. to roll the
window up.
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690.
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romp through
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To succeed in doing or finishing
something quickly and easily.
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691.
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roof … in/over
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To put a roof over something, e.g. to
roof in an area.
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692.
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root for
root … out
root … up
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To support a sport team by shouting and
cheering.
To find and get rid of someone and
something.
To dig and pull something such as weeds,
etc. up with its roots.
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693.
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rope … in
rope … off
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To persuade someone despite their
reluctance to participate in something, e.g. to rope in the neighbours to be
vigilantes.
To isolate an area with ropes to prevent
access, e.g. police roped off the area where the dead body was found.
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694.
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rot away
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To decay or cause something to decay
completely, or break into pieces.
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695.
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rough … in
rough … out
rough … up
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To live in discomfort with only basic
necessities.
To draw out a preliminary sketch without
the details.
To attack someone and beat them up.
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696.
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round … down
round … off
round … up
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To reduce an exact figure to the nearest
whole number.
To end something such as an
entertainment, discussion, etc. in a satisfying or suitable way.
To smoothen the edges of something.
To reduce an exact figure to the nearest
whole number.
To gather up a group of people or things
for a specific purpose, e.g. to round up the illegal
immigrants for detention.
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697.
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rub along
rub down
rub off
rub ... out
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To cope or get along with a situation or
someone without difficulty.
To make something dry, smooth, or clean
by rubbing with something else such as a cloth, sandpaper, etc.
To remove something such as rust,
impurities, etc. from a surface by rubbing.
To transfer a feeling, quality, or habit
onto someone else, e.g. one’s cheerfulness, enthusiasm, etc. seem to rub
off on everyone else.
To erase something such as writing,
stain, mark, etc. from a surface by rubbing it with something else such as
eraser, cloth, sandpaper, etc.
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698.
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ruck … up
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To make or form folds, creases, etc. on
something such as cloth, coat, etc., e.g. shirt is all rucked up after
washing.
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699.
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rule … out
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To conclude that something is not
possible, e.g. The unstable political situation rules out any increase in
foreign investments.
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700.
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run across
run after
run along
run around
run away
run away with
run down
run ... down
run into
run off
run off with
run on
run out
run over
run through
run to
run ... up
run up against
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To meet or find someone or something by
chance, e.g. I ran across my former classmate this morning.
To chase someone or something, e.g. His
dog is very fond of running aftercats.
To leave some place, e.g. He has to run
along for an appointment.
To run within a particular area, e.g. He
likes to run around in the park.
To spend considerable amount of time with
someone whom one likes, e.g. Jack has been running around with
his neighbour’s daughter.
To leave or escape from a place, e.g. the
child ran away from home because of the abusive parents.
To avoid facing a problem or difficult
situation, e.g. He has now learned to face his problem instead of running
away from it.
To go away secretly or illegally with
someone, e.g. He ran away with his neighbour’s daughter.
To win something such as a competition,
match, etc. easily, e.g. Liverpool ran away with the
European soccer championship again.
To steal something, e.g. the cashier
has run away with the whole week’s takings.
To get knocked, and injured or killed by
a vehicle, e.g. His dog was run down by a speeding car.
To reduce or become reduced, e.g. Our
joint savings is running down.
To criticize or belittle someone or
something, e.g. He has a habit of runningothers down.
To find someone or something after a long
search, e.g. He finally ran me downat my new
house in the same neighbourhood.
To lose or cause to lose power and stops
or cause to stop functioning, e.g. The clock has stopped functioning as its
batteries have run down.
To kill someone or something with a
vehicle, e.g. He was run down by a speeding motorcycle while
crossing a street.
To move quickly to another area for
something, e.g. I’ll run down to the store for a couple of
bottles of beer.
To knock someone or something with a
vehicle, e.g. The brake of his car failed and the car ran into the
van in front.
To meet someone by chance, e.g. I ran
into my former classmate at the library yesterday.
To encounter problem, etc., e.g.
They ran into difficulties midway in their climb up the
mountain.
To leave hurriedly and secretly, e.g.
He ran off from the detention centre without anyone’s
notice.
To produce copies of something, e.g. We
have to run off some more of this copy to meet additional
demand.
To write something such as speech, poem,
piece of music, etc. quickly and easily, e.g. He could run off a
long speech in a couple of hours.
To go away with someone for a specific
reason, e.g. He runs off with his girlfriend’s sister.
To steal, e.g. The villagers know he ran
off with one of the horses.
To carry on longer than is expected, e.g.
The meeting ran on well past midnight.
To cause none left, e.g. A sudden
blackout has caused all shops in the area torun out of candles.
To become no longer valid, e.g. The
agreement ran out last month.
To use up or be used up, e.g. The bakery
sometimes runs out of sugar before new supply arrives.
To quickly leave a place, building, etc.,
e.g. He opened the door of the house and ran out
To knock and drive over someone or
something with a vehicle, e.g. Our cat wasrun over by a car and
died instantly.
To overflow, e.g. Someone fills a tank
with so much oil that some runs over.
To exceed the expected time, e.g. The
show ran over, and I missed the last bus.
To move from where one is to where
someone is, e.g. When I saw my mother-in-law, I decided instantly not
to run over to greet her.
To revise one’s lessons, e.g. The
students run through the question-and–answer part again.
To push something through someone, e.g.
It is not easy to run a sword completely through someone.
To go over something quickly, e.g. The
shopkeeper runs through the list of items with the customer.
To cost a certain amount, e.g. The cost
of the damage is estimated to run tofive million pounds.
To make something quickly, e.g.
They ran this project up well ahead of
schedule.
To accumulate something such as bill,
etc., e.g. Her parents bar her from using the telephone as she
habitually ran up an enormous phone bill.
To move quickly to a higher level, e.g.
They had a fun race to see who would be the first one to run up and
reach the peak of the hill.
To move quickly to someone or something,
e.g. When Santa Claus arrived, all the children ran up to
him.
To raise a flag.
To experience or meet an unexpected
problem, e.g. We ran up against some unforeseen difficulties
when we built that patio.
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