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

to make someone gradually stop using something that is bad for them:

to force someone to stop taking part in an activity :

used to tell someone to go away in a rude way:

to influence a person illegally, usually by offering them money or threatening them:

to direct all your attention towards a particular thing:

If a feeling or idea runs away with you, you cannot control it and it makes you behave stupidly:

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

to write something, especially something that someone has said:

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

to write something, especially something that someone has said:

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

to find out what someone thinks about something:

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 treat someone badly because you are upset or angry, even if they have done nothing wrong:

to make something dirty or untidy:

to try to make others believe that someone or something is something other than what the person or thing is:

to make a new product, service, or system available for the first time:

to give an animal or a thin person a lot of food so that they become fatter:

to not accept someone because checks show that they are not suitable to do a job: