to write or print something, especially to record it in a formal document:

If a business or a large piece of equipment shuts down or someone shuts it down, it stops operating:

If an illness or a difficult situation or experience pulls you down, it makes you feel unhappy or physically weak:

to look quickly at someone or something, or to look quickly somewhere:

to touch someone as a threat:

to be searching for someone or something by examining information you find about where they went:

to look carefully at something or someone:

to stick or hold firmly onto something:

to want something very much:

to stop something touching or harming someone or something:

to start to direct your efforts and attention towards something:

to talk or write about someone or something, especially in only a few words:

to provide someone with a particular thing or with what is needed to get it:

If you say that a particular quality attaches to someone or something, you mean that they have that quality:

to treat someone badly because you are upset or angry, even if they have done nothing wrong:

to make someone say things they do not want to by hitting them:

to be prevented from moving by something:

to get something from someone, by being kind and patient, or by appearing to be:

to prevent something or someone from entering a place:

to move in a threatening way towards someone or something: