the best or only way to achieve something:

to formally approve or agree to something:

to accept something that is less than you hoped for:

to make people forget that you made a big mistake or did something very embarrassing in the past:

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

to touch, change, or treat something in a careless or harmful way:

If you quarrel with facts or judgments, you do not accept them as true:

to obtain or win something only with difficulty or great effort:

to tell someone the truth about something:

When something important, such as your reputation or money, rides on a particular person or thing, it will be won or achieved if that person or thing is successful:

to keep giving a person something, usually food or drink:

to decide that you support a particular opinion or belief in an argument:

to force someone to have or do something that is not very good:

to share a home with someone and have a sexual relationship with them although you are not married

to become friendly with someone:

to make a driver stop their vehicle by waving your arms up and down:

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

to be a particular amount or number after a mathematical calculation:

to win something easily:

to become worse or less, or to make something worse or less, so that it is the same as something else: