to receive news about someone:

If you pin hopes or expectations on something, you want that thing to bring success:

to express a strong opinion by making many remarks about someone or something:

to make plans in order to deal with a possible event in the future:

to wait or spend time somewhere, usually for no particular reason:

to not behave according to the rules of an agreement, acceptable behaviour , etc.

to come out of or be produced by something or someone:

to make something seem less good or important

to not have something, especially when it is needed:

to fail to think about something when you are making plans and therefore not be prepared to deal with it:

to do something in order to discover people who have been dishonest:

to tell someone the truth about something:

to cause a loud noise or explosion, such as that made by a bomb or an alarm (= a warning sound) to begin or happen:

to cause an activity or event, often a series of events, to begin or happen:

to remove the best part of something or the best people in a group and use them for your own advantage:

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If property, diseases, or biological conditions pass down, they go from parents to children:

to use or treat something in a careless or harmful way:

to give someone an untrue or unsatisfactory answer, or to give someone something that has no value in order to try to satisfy them and make them go away:

to prepare, organize, or arrange something: