to prevent something from working effectively or from developing successfully:

to take hold of something, especially something that is moving through the air:

Food that sits on your stomach makes you feel uncomfortably full.

to jump out of an aircraft with a parachute because the aircraft is going to have an accident:

to discover someone or something, esp. information, after searching:

to decide that a planned event, especially a sports event, will not happen, or to end an activity because it is no longer useful or possible:

to force someone or something to change direction:

If a power or quality resides in someone or something, the person or thing has that power or quality:

to become friendly or start a relationship with someone, especially someone who might have a bad influence on you:

to work hard to win support for a plan so that it will succeed:

to consider doing something, but not seriously, or to be interested in something for a short time:

to consider the effect something or someone will have:

to consider something or doing something, but not in a very serious way, and without making a decision:

to cause a person, place, or period of time to have a lot of something:

to accept and support a plan or suggestion:

to criticize someone or something, often unfairly:

If you let down a piece of clothing, you make it longer:

to defeat or kill someone, or to stop someone from causing harm:

to melt fat in order to make it purer

to deal with a difficult or powerful person or thing: