to move your hands higher up something such as a bat or club (= a stick used in sports) in order to be able to swing it more quickly:

to take something off or away from someone or yourself:

to harm somebody who is weaker than you are:

to remove someone or something, such as a name, from a list by drawing a line through it:

If an idea or emotion comes across in writing, film, music, or when someone is speaking, it is expressed clearly and people notice it:

to remove someone from their job or position because they have done something wrong:

to take from a person something that they are carrying, in a helpful or polite way:

to get or obtain something from someone with difficulty, or to cause something to happen by a continuous and difficult effort:

to give someone money so that you own the part of a business that previously belonged to that person:

to finally understand something or someone, or find the solution to a problem after a lot of thought:

to prevent someone or something from doing something:

to take someone or something with you:

to leave somewhere or someone suddenly:

to change the story of a regular television or radio programme so that a particular character is not in it any more

to leave the road you are travelling on and travel along another one:

to pay someone so that they do not cause you any trouble:

to finish a relationship with someone and start one with another person:

to stop someone from getting or keeping something, especially in a dishonest or unfair way:

to make someone feel safe in order to trick them:

to persuade someone to do what you want, often by deceiving them in a clever way: