to prevent someone or something from doing something:

to get something from something else:

to stop someone doing or wanting something bad:

to buy a part of a company or building from someone else so that you own all of it:

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

If you throw off your clothes, you take them off quickly and carelessly:

to treat someone so badly for such a long time that they are no longer able to fight back:

to force someone to keep a promise:

to shoot someone and kill or seriously injure them, often when that person cannot defend himself or herself:

to force someone to keep a promise:

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

to move or do things more quickly than normal or to make someone do this:

to force or persuade someone to give you something:

If something or somewhere is peopled by/with a particular type of person, it is filled with them:

If you do not know what has got into someone, you do not understand why they are behaving strangely:

If you whip someone into a particular state, you quickly and effectively cause them to be in that state:

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

to take a criminal to the police or other authority:

to produce large amounts of something quickly, usually something of low quality:

to give/not give someone or something your public support: