Definitions

to stop feeling angry or to stop someone else feeling angry after an argument:

to support the truth of something or the good character of someone, based on your knowledge or experience:

to support something or someone enthusiastically:

to be much bigger and more successful than another thing of the same type:

to use or take away a large part of something valuable:

If you dam up your feelings, especially anger or sadness, you do not allow yourself to express or show your feelings in a healthy way.

to spoil or damage something, or to do something wrong or badly:

to hit someone repeatedly so that they are badly injured

to fill something with air using a pump:

When a car or someone driving a car pulls up, the driver stops the car, often for a short time: