Definitions

If a better situation or an opportunity to do something turns up, it happens or becomes available unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned:

to bring a player onto the field to play during a game:

to praise something or someone in a way that will influence peoples opinions; to make a person feel more confident:

to steal from a place or person, using a gun as a threat:

to improve or become more exciting:

to make yourself or another person feel upset or feel strong emotions:

to take a particular amount away from a price:

to understand something or to find the answer to something by thinking about it:

If a drug or alcohol knocks you out, it makes you go to sleep:

to encourage someone to do something, esp. something unwise or bad:

to begin to have a particular quality: