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

to make something such as an activity or story last longer than usual or necessary, or as long as possible:

to open the lock on the door of a building:

something that you say to a horse to make it move faster:

to start a machine or computer program:

to hit and injure a person or animal with a vehicle, especially intentionally:

to change the story of a regular television or radio programme so that a particular character is not in it any more

to persuade a person or group to do something:

to prevent someone from going to bed or sleeping:

to persuade someone to do what you want, often by deceiving them in a clever way:

to prevent a person or organization from ending or changing an agreement or financial arrangement:

to become interested in an activity or subject, or start being involved in an activity:

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

to persuade someone to do something:

If you take words, information, or ideas from another person or piece of work, you use or develop them in some way:

to take something away from someone or something, especially something that is considered to be important:

to love someone or something:

to persuade someone not to do something:

to be something or someone that a particular place or group of people is very proud of:

to be punished for doing something bad to someone else, or to suffer because of a mistake that you made: