to make someone or something more energetic or interesting:

to increase interest in something or support for something:

to become familiar with somewhere new, such as a new house, job, or school, and to feel comfortable and happy there:

to allow someone or something to leave a place, especially by opening a closed or locked door:

to make something more interesting or attractive:

a rude phrase meaning to annoy or upset someone very much:

to treat something or someone as if that thing or person were not important:

to look closely at something that you are interested in:

to say what the punishment of someone who has committed a serious crime will be:

to make small changes to something, or to move it to a different place, especially not carefully:

to try very hard to deal with a problem or to make a difficult decision:

to consider the effect something or someone will have:

If someone or something lands you with something, he, she, or it causes problems for you:

to make a piece of clothing wider by removing the sewing from the sides and sewing closer to the edge of the material:

to not go somewhere or near something, or to prevent someone from going somewhere or near something:

to give something to someone without asking for payment:

to remove something:

If a quality or characteristic sets someone or something apart, it shows him, her, or it to be different from, and usually better than, others of the same type:

to tell people something secret, often without intending to:

to not allow someone to enter a place: