Posts made by Zipporah Schumaker

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 say what the punishment of someone who has committed a serious crime will be:

to not include someone or something:

to prevent something, or prevent someone from doing something, esp. until a later time:

If you smoke out an animal or person that is hiding, you force them to leave the place where they are by filling it with smoke:

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 time talking with someone you know:

to touch an object or move it around with your hand, without any purpose but while thinking about something else:

to accept something:

to force someone to leave a place or organization:

to put a person in a place that they are not allowed or able to leave:

to consider or imagine an idea, subject, or plan, but not in a serious way:

the fact that two or more things are different, or the amount or number by which they are different:

a game in which two people throw a ball to each other over the head of a person who stands between them and tries to catch it:

a game in which two people throw a ball to each other over the head of a person who stands between them and tries to catch it:

to refuse to deal with someone or with something such as a question, criticism, or request:

to cause someone to become very excited and to lose control:

to put something in the place or container where it is usually kept:

to become so excited about something that you do not control what you say or do:

to have an effect that changes someone or something, usually in a bad way: