to make the price of something increase:

a full-size model of something large that has not yet been built, showing how it will look or operate:

to land an aircraft

to control the size or number of something and prevent it from increasing:

to hit someone with a vehicle and injure or kill them:

In basketball , if a team clears out, the players run to different parts of the court (= playing area) after one player on the team gets the ball in order for that player to have room to move. :

If someone or something is weighed down with something, they are carrying a lot of or too much of it:

to be part of a group that opposes/supports a particular idea, plan, or group:

to cause one person to argue or fight with another person:

to defeat or kill someone, or to stop someone from causing harm:

to copy something that someone else does because it will bring you advantages:

to leave someone you are having a relationship with or something you are responsible for, without warning and usually causing problems:

Someone you report to at work is the person in authority over you who gives you tasks and checks that you do them:

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

shows that a particular thing always happened or was true in the past, especially if it no longer happens or is no longer true:

To attach a particular quality to something is to consider it to have that quality:

to deal with a person or task that needs to be dealt with or is waiting to be dealt with:

If a situation descends into a particular state, it becomes worse:

to have a strong wish or hope to do or have something:

to avoid doing something that you do not want to do, especially by giving an excuse: