to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do:

to use someone or something to help you, especially in a difficult situation:

to believe strongly that something is effective or useful:

to continue to support or help someone who is in a difficult situation:

to avoid dealing completely with something or to fail to pay enough attention to it:

to continue to support something or someone, especially in a difficult situation:

to write something in a complete or final form using notes that you have made:

to manage to defeat someone who is attacking you:

to make yourself laugh about something unpleasant in order to make it seem less important or serious:

to meet someone you know when you are not expecting to:

If something gets you down, it makes you feel unhappy or depressed. :

to press or push, or to press or push an object, hard into someone or something:

If people jostle for something, they compete with each other in order to get what they want:

to falsely encourage someone to believe there is hope of a good result:

to have a negative effect on someone or something:

to leave a place, usually in order to start a journey:

to reduce the value of an investment, usually suddenly and by a large amount:

to hope that someone will do something for you:

to hope that someone will do something for you:

to force someone to accept an idea, opinion, or principle: