to stop working or operating:

to make someone give you exact details or a firm decision about something:

to remove something that is inside something else with a spoon:

to use something quickly and eagerly:

to add up numbers or amounts of something, or to have a particular number or amount as a total when added up:

to cause someone or something to fall to the ground by hitting him, her, or it

to avoid dealing with something that is unpleasant or difficult:

to make someone leave a place:

to hit someone repeatedly:

to support the truth of something:

to go out to different places, spend time with people, and enjoy yourself:

to begin to have a particular quality:

If you inform on/against someone, you give the police information, usually secretly, about that person, showing that he or she has done something wrong:

to be related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past:

to become, or to make someone, completely happy and relaxed:

to try to persuade someone to act in a wise way or to change their behaviour or a decision, by explaining why it is a good idea:

to spend a lot of time with someone:

to criticize someone who has criticized you:

to do whatever is necessary to stay level or equal with someone or something:

to be familiar with, and have knowledge or experience of the facts or rules of something: