to hope that someone will provide something for you:

to lead someone around a place that they are visiting in a formal or official way, while telling them about it:

If a flame blows out or you blow it out, it stops burning when a person or the wind blows on it:

If a group of people descend on a place or person, they arrive, usually without warning or without being invited:

to help someone to work or operate normally through a difficult period, usually by lending them money:

to change to a different television station:

to search and find something or someone that is difficult to find:

to make someone angry:

to produce a new idea or plan:

to criticize someone who has criticized you:

to sell an asset, a business, etc. that belongs to you:

to persuade or force someone to give you money or information:

to use information or your knowledge of something to help you do something:

If you play on/upon someones feelings, you encourage and make unfair use of these feelings in order to give yourself an advantage:

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

to remove a doctor, lawyer, etc. from an official list so that they are no longer allowed to work in that job, usually because they have done something dishonest or illegal:

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

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

to stop someone doing or wanting something bad:

to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do: