If something bad that you have done or that has been happening to you catches up with you, it begins to cause problems for you:

involved with something or someone in a way that makes it difficult to escape:

to refuse an offer or request:

to give something to someone younger than you in the family because you want them to have it or because you no longer need it:

the unpleasant results that you must accept or experience for getting or doing something:

to shoot and usually kill someone, showing no sympathy:

If a business or organization winds down, or if someone winds it down, the amount of work it does is gradually reduced until it closes completely:

to put someone in a prison or a hospital for people who are mentally ill:

If a business or organization closes down or someone closes it down, it stops operating:

to kill people, usually in large numbers, by shooting them or driving a vehicle into them:

to find someone after searching hard:

the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to peoples houses or places of work:

If you say that a particular quality attaches to someone or something, you mean that they have that quality:

to leave work with permission, usually at the end of the day:

to return to doing, using, being, or referring to something, usually something bad or less satisfactory:

to talk or write about someone or something, especially in only a few words:

to please other people by doing or saying what you think they want you to do or say:

to avoid becoming involved in something, or to stop someone or something becoming involved in something:

to believe that someone or something has a particular quality:

to remove or throw away something unwanted: