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to hold or continue holding onto something:

to get information to show on a computer screen:

to make something bigger or more powerful by adding to it:

If you prick up your ears, or if your ears prick up, you suddenly begin to listen very carefully because you have heard something interesting:

to ask someone to come in order to do a job, especially when it is an emergency:

to stop doing or being involved with something:

to do someone elses work for them because they cannot or will not do it themselves:

If a bank calls in money, it demands that you pay back the money it has lent to you:

to entertain people while they are waiting for a performance to start, for example by telling jokes:

to give someone information that is necessary or new: