to become interested in an activity or subject, or start being involved in an activity:

to prevent something or someone from entering a place:

to put an object that you are holding onto the floor or onto another surface, or to stop carrying someone:

to aim a weapon directly at something or someone:

to get rid of something or stop using something:

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 stop something touching or harming someone or something:

If someone harks back to something in the past, they talk about it again and again, often in a way that annoys other people:

to start a relationship again with a person you had a romantic relationship with in the past:

to change and become someone or something different, or to make someone or something do this:

to cause someone or something to be free of an unpleasant or harmful thing or person:

to persuade someone to accept something that is of a low quality or different from what they really wanted:

to make someone else suffer or be responsible for your own mistakes, anger, sadness, etc.:

to make someone else suffer or be responsible for your own mistakes, anger, sadness, etc.:

to tell secret and damaging information about someone:

to talk to someone as if they are less intelligent than you or not important:

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

to refuse to talk about something that angers or worries you:

to criticize someone who has criticized you:

to write something, especially something that someone has said: