to stop or limit an activity or the people doing it, esp. a bad or illegal activity:

to send someone a message asking them to come to see you:

to win a prize or competition very easily:

to tell someone that you cannot see them or do something for them, or to stop someone from doing something, until a later time:

If someone with a responsible job such as a doctor or lawyer is struck off, they are officially not allowed to continue in that work because of having done something seriously wrong:

to praise a person or an achievement by comparing them to someone or something very good:

to praise a person or an achievement by comparing them to someone or something very good:

to come together closely in a crowd around someone or something:

to punish someone because that person has done something wrong to you:

to get rid of something that limits you or causes you problems:

to speak severely to and criticize someone who has done something wrong:

If a quality is knocked out of someone, they lose that quality because the situation they are in does not allow it to exist:

to make someone go away from somewhere:

to aim a weapon directly at something or someone:

If you do not know what has got into someone, you do not understand why they are behaving strangely:

to prevent something or someone from entering a place:

to encourage someone to do something, usually something wrong:

to not go onto an area, or to stop someone or something going onto an area:

to start to suffer from an illness, especially one that is not serious:

to finish something: