Posts made by Greta

To attach a particular quality to something is to consider it to have that quality:

to stop, or to stop doing something:

to stop, or to stop doing something:

to be prevented from moving by something:

to avoid doing something that you do not want to do, especially by giving an excuse:

to unfairly prevent someone from getting or achieving something which should belong to them:

used to say that a name is used as a shorter form of another name:

If someone with a responsible job such as a doctor or lawyer is struck off, they are officially not allowed to continue in that work because of having done something seriously wrong:

to be likely to do something or to often do something:

to support an idea, or to agree with someones opinion:

the outer or furthest point of something:

to have an advantage over someone

to encourage someone to do something, usually something wrong:

to introduce a person to something or someone that could bring them an advantage:

to tell something to someone again and again until the person knows it:

to make someone go away from somewhere:

to compete for a position in a sports team or a part in a play:

If an animal or machine that you are riding runs away with you, you lose control of it and it carries you away:

If a married man or woman messes around with someone, they have a sexual relationship with someone who is not their wife or husband:

to stop something touching or harming someone or something: