to help someone to start an activity, especially a piece of work:

If behaviour, a quality, or a feeling borders on something more extreme, it is almost that thing:

to discover more about something or to take further action connected with it:

to choose something or someone after careful thought:

to put furniture in a room or building:

to try to get information from someone or from a situation without asking direct questions:

to get or find something or someone with difficulty:

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

If an event is rained out, it cannot start or continue because it is raining:

to turn around quickly, or to turn something or someone around quickly:

to help or make life better for someone by taking something unpleasant away from them:

to build something:

to encourage someone to show more effort or enthusiasm

to shoot and kill or badly injure someone

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 arrange people or things in a row or to stand in a row:

to behave in a way that makes someone you are with feel ashamed or embarrassed:

to make someone feel very nervous and worried:

to go to the door of the building with someone who does not live or work there, when they are leaving:

to make someone leave a place: