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

to take a particular amount away from a price:

to arrange for another person to take care of someone, especially your child:

When someone is tied up, they are busy or prevented from doing something, such as speaking to someone or going somewhere, because of being involved in another event or activity:

An action or object that sums something or someone up represents the most typical qualities of that person or thing:

to behave in a way that makes someone you are with feel ashamed or embarrassed:

to not include a person or organization in an activity:

to discover where something or someone is by smelling:

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

a place at the side of a road where vehicles can stop and where it is sometimes possible to buy food and drinks

If soldiers or military forces pull out or are pulled out, they move out of an area because they have been ordered to.

to decide that a planned event, especially a sports event, will not happen, or to end an activity because it is no longer useful or possible: