motion Flashcards
bust
1) When the police bust a person, they arrest them, or when they bust a building or a place, they arrest people in it who they believe are breaking the law:
The police busted him because they think he’s involved with a terrorist group.
2) to break something:
Oh no! I bust his MP3 player.
scrawl
to write something quickly, without trying to make your writing tidy or easy to read:
Bright blue crayon markings were scrawled (乱涂) across the face, arms and torso of the 230-year-old Sabrina statue in Worcester, UK.
I scrawled a quick note to Judith and put it under her door.
Someone had scrawled graffiti across the wall.
yank
to pull sth forcefully with a quick movement:
He tripped over the cord and yanked the plug out.
She yanked open the cupboard door and everything fell out.
To suddenly remove someone or sth:
I was yanked out of school and forced to go to work.
A quick forceful pull of sth:
Give the door a yank and it should open.
A single yank of the lever opened the trapdoors.
hog
to take or use more than necessary of something:
He’s always hogging the newspaper (= using it so that no one else can read it).
Don’t be a hog – take only as much as you can eat.
hog the blanket
snap
to cause something that is thin to break suddenly and quickly with a cracking sound:
You’ll snap that ruler if you bend it too far.
Some vandal’s snapped off my car aerial again.
gesticulate
to make movements with your hands or arms, to express something or to emphasize what you are saying:
There was a man outside the window gesticulating wildly.
tread
to put your foot on something or to press something down with your foot:
I kept treading on his toes when we were dancing.
Yuck! Look what I’ve just trodden in!
A load of food had been trodden into the carpet.
Before the days of automation, they used to tread grapes to make wine.
swat
to hit something, especially an insect, with a flat object or your hand:
I swatted the fly with a rolled-up newspaper.
He tried to swat the ball too hard, and missed it entirely.
swipe
to hit or try to hit something, especially with a sideways movement:
She opened the window and swiped at the flies with a rolled-up newspaper to make them go out.
UK She swiped him round the head.
mainly US The car swiped the side of the garage as he pulled out.
Okay, who swiped my keys? (to steal, informal)
graze
to break the surface of the skin by rubbing against something rough:
He fell down and grazed his knee.
He was lucky, the bullet just grazed his leg.
[ T ] If an object grazes something, it touches its surface lightly when it passes it:
The aircraft’s landing gear grazed the treetops as it landed.
snorting with laughter
to make an explosive sound by forcing air quickly up or down the nose:
He did an impression of a horse snorting.
Camille snorts when she laughs.
informal By this time I was snorting with laughter (= laughing a lot and loudly).
barge
to force your way rudely or suddenly and quickly:
You ought to knock instead of just barging into my office.
They barged through the crowds.
When the doors opened she barged her way to the front of the queue.
The man barged (= pushed) into her and ran on without stopping.
leering
looking or behaving in a way that shows sexual interest, especially when this is not wanted:
Young actresses were subjected to leering “lunches” with studio executives.
Their latest comedy is raucous, leering, crude and, to my mind, largely misjudged.
stomp
to walk with intentionally heavy steps, especially as a way of showing that you are annoyed:
She stomped up the stairs and slammed her bedroom door.
He woke up in a bad mood and stomped off to the bathroom.
hoover
to use a vacuum cleaner (= a machine that sucks up dust and dirt) to clean floors and other surfaces:
He was busy hoovering the bedroom carpet when I got home.
I hoovered this morning.
