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Crack up. InFormal |
You'll crack up if you carry on working like this. |
To become ill, either physically or mentally because of pressure. |
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Crack up. |
Gill's so funny she crackrd me up. |
To make somebody laugh a lot. |
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Pressure. Noun. Punish l |
He put too much pressure on the door handle it snapped. |
To force you produce when you press something. |
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Pressure. Verb. |
Don't let yourself be pressured into making a hasty decision |
To strongly persuade someone to do something they don't want to do. |
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Barrel. Verb. |
We were barreling along 80 miles an hour. He came barreling down the hill and smashed into parked car. |
To move very fast in a particular direction, especially in a way that you cannot control. Or to travel or move very fast. |
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Barrel. |
They filled the barrels with hard cider. |
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Go up |
The price of cigarettes is going up |
If the price of something, the temperature, etc goes up, it became higher. |
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Back off. |
2. Back off! There's no need to tell at me. 3. The government backed off from confrontation. |
To move backwards in order to get away from somebody/something frightening or unpleasant. 2. To stop threatening criticizing, annoying somebody. 3 to choose not to take action, inorder to avoid a difficult situation. |
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Demand. Verb. |
I demand to see the manager. You should demand an apology in writing. |
To make a very strong request for something. |
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Implied. Adjective. |
I disliked implied criticism in his voice. |
Suggested without being directly expressed. |
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Stabilize. Verb. |
The patient's condition stabilize. |
To become or to make something become and unlikely to change, to make something stable. |
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All-time. Adjective |
Used when you are comparing or saying how good or bad something is of any time all time high, low, best, etc is high |
After three years of drought, the water in the lake had reached an all-time low. |
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Steady. Adjective |
We've had five years of steady economic growth. |
Growing or developing, etc gradually and in an even and regular way. |
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Track. Verb. |
The suspect was tracking of the apartment by undercover from police from Scotland yard |
Follow, to find somebody something by following the marks, signs, information, etc l, that they have left behind them. |
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Rally. Verb. |
The president must rally the country around a clear and credible goal. |
To come together or bring people together in order to help or support something or someone. |
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Technical. Adj. |
We offer free technical support for those buying our software. |
Connected with the practical use of machine, methods etc in science industry |
