These are Verbs. Flashcards
ABP- Boil
ABP - to cook something in boiling water.
- As water begins to boil, bubbles rise ever faster to the surface.*
- Just before the milk comes to the boil, turn down the heat.*
- The boil on my right arm rankled whenever I wrote.*
- You’re pathetic! Can’t you even boil an egg?*
- I always boil the cotton sheets.*
ABP- Cast
ABP- to choose which people will act particular parts in a play, film etc.
- Pfeiffer was expected to be cast alongside Douglas in ‘Basic Instinct’.*
- Coppola cast him as Sodapop in ‘The Outsiders’.*
- The producer finally cast Finch in the male lead.*
ABP- Cast
ABP- to choose which people will act particular parts in a play, film etc.
- Pfeiffer was expected to be cast alongside Douglas in ‘Basic Instinct’.*
- Coppola cast him as Sodapop in ‘The Outsiders’.*
- The producer finally cast Finch in the male lead.*
ABP- Compete
to fight for business: if one company or country competes with another, it tries to get people to buy its goods or services rather than those available from another company or country:
- Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.*
- He wants to compete at international level, but frankly I don’t think he’s up to it.*
- You will have to compete with others for this position.*
- Such companies must change if they are to compete in the modern world .*
- Their products compete directly with ours.*
ABP- Fry
ABP- to cook something in hot fat or oil, or to be cooked in hot fat or oil:
- 8) We shall fry in this hot sun.*
- 9) Fry the onions in butter.*
- 10) Slice up the mushrooms and fry them.*
ABP- Grill
ABP-if you grill something, or if it grills, you cook it by putting it on a flat metal frame with bars across it, above or below strong direct heat: SYN: Barbecue
- Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.*
- Grill the sausages for ten minutes.*
- For easy peeling, grill the peppers until the skin starts to char.*
- Prick the sausages before you grill them.*
- Cook under a hot grill for 7 minutes.*
- Place the omelette under a gentle grill until the top is set.*
- Just whack the bacon under the grill for a couple of minutes.*
-to ask someone a lot of questions about something:
She never grilled her husband about his work.
ABP- Roast
ABP - to cook something, such as meat, in an oven or over a fire, or to cook in this way:
- Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.*
- Just dig into the roast turkey. Wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving!*
- Great boast, small roast.*
- I personally would rather roast a chicken whole.*
- Are you going to roast the chicken?*
- Put the meat into the oven to roast.*
- People in England often have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for lunch on Sundays.*
ABP- Steam
ABP - to cook something in steam:
ABPC- Accomplish
to succeed in doing something, especially after trying very hard. SYN achieve
- accomplish a mission*
- We have accomplished all we set out to do.*
- Mission accomplished*
ABPC- Achieve
to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard:
- She eventually achieved her goal of becoming a professor.*
- Wilson has achieved considerable success as an artist.*
- Frances achieved very good exam results.*
ABPC- Adapt
to adjust to different conditions or uses, or to change to meet different situations:
- Many software companies have adapted popular programs to the new operatingsystem.*
- The recipe here is a pork roast adapted from Caroline O’Neill’s book “Louisiana Kitchen”.*
- [+ to infinitive] We had to adapt our plans to fit Jack’s timetable.*
- The play had been adapted for (= changed to make it suitable for) children.*
- Davies is busy adapting Brinkworth’s latest novel for television.*
ABPC- Adjust
to change something slightly to make it fit, work better, or be more suitable:
- [T] Adjust the angle of your monitor so you can easily read it.*
- [I] You need time to adjust to a new situation.*
ABPC- Alienate
to do something that makes someone unfriendly or unwilling to support you:
The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.
ABPC- Alter
to change a characteristic, often slightly, or to cause this to happen:
[T] The coat was too long, so I took it back to the store to have it altered.
ABPC- Argue
- to disagree with someone in words, often in an angry way.
- He continued to argue with the referee throughout the game.*
- They were* arguing about how to spend the money.
- The children were arguing over which TV programme to watch.*
EXAM: Let’s stop arguing. We are getting nowhere.
Why do you argue against me?
- to state, giving clear reasons, that something is true, should be done etc.
- He argued that a date should be set for the with drowal of troops.*
- Baker argued against cutting the military budget.*
- They argued the point (=discussed it) for hours without reaching a conclusion.*
ABPC- Be left out of
to be sad because other people are doing something without you:
EXAM: Everyone ignored Mike.He was left out of everything.
- The older children had gone upstairs to play and she felt left out.*
- His name is left out of the membership list.*
- He’s been sulking for days about being left out of the team.*
- He was unhappy at being left out of the team.*
- Kidd has been left out of the team.*
- She was resentful at having been left out of the team.*
- He expressed amazement at being left out of the match.*
ABPC- Become
(Suit) to cause someone to look attractive, or to be suitable for someone:
That color really becomes you.
ABPC- Become part of Sth
to be included or involved in something.
EXAM: He knows a lot of people now.He’s really become part of the community.
- Dead plants rot and become part of the soil again.*
- Television has become part of our quotidian existence.*
- The battle has become part of national myth.*
- The Internet has become part of everyday life.*
- The unit has become part of a larger department and no longer exists as a separate entity.*
ABPC- Build
- make sth develop or form.
- She had built a reputation as a criminal lawyer.*
- Successful businesses are built around good personel relationships.*
- Our relationship is built on thrust.*
Build a community
Community building is a field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area (such as a neighborhood) or with a common interest. It is sometimes encompassed under the field of community development.
Build relationships
Concept of Relationship-Building. The term ‘relationship’ is rooted from the word ‘relation’ and is defined as a a mutual affiliation or connection between individuals or groups of people or entities. Relationships
ABPC- Collaborate
o work together with a person or group in order to achieve something, especially in scienceor art → collaborator.
EXAM: He can’t do this alone.You need to collaborate to help him.
“The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects.”
ABPC- Commiserate
to express your sympathy for someone who is unhappy about something.
- When he failed his driving test, I called him up and commiserated with him.*
- 1) I commiserate with my friend after he got fired due to his frequent slips in the business.*
- 2) I just wanted to commiserate with you.*
- 3) I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening, in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in the Lobby.*
- 4) Some one went to commiserate with Harbury and Harbury went to lacerate Riley for announcing an appointment he had no intention of accepting.*
- 5) Because you hardly have commiserate and flesh!*
- 6) You’d better commiserate John on his recent misfortunes.*
- 7) I commiserate with you on the loss of your mother.*
ABPC- Decrease: Crash
- If something such as a business crashes, it suddenly fails or becomes unsuccessful.
- if a stock market or shares crash, they suddenly lose a lot of value.
Investors were seriously worried when the stock market began to crash.
ABPC- Decrease: Plummet
to fall suddenly and quickly from a very high place. SYN plunge:
- Profits plummeted from £49 million to £11 million.*
- House prices have plummeted down.*
- The plane plummeted towards the mountains.*
ABPC- Decrease: Plunge
- to move, fall, or be thrown suddenly forwards or downwards:
- Become lower in value or level very suddenly and quickly.
Her car swerved and plunged off the cliff.
Both the climbers had plunged to their deaths.
- A sudden and large fall in value or level.
We are expecting a plunge in profits this year.
ABPC- Decrease: Slip
to change to a worse state or condition:
- go down in value:
The dollar slipped againist the Japanese yen.
- Go into a worse state, often because of lack of control.
We’ve slipped even further behind schedule.
After slipping into a coma, he never woke up.
ABPC- Decrease: Slump
to suddenly go down in price, value, or number. OPP soar:
to fall suddenly.
- She slumped against the wall.*
- Carol slumped back in her chair, defeated.*
- Ben staggered and slumped onto the floor.*
ABPC- Decrease: Stumble
- to hit your foot against something while walking and almost fall, or to walk awkwardly as if you might fall:
- to hit your foot against something or put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running, so that you almost fall SYN trip
- In her hurry, she stumbled and spilled the milk all over the floor.*
- Vic stumbled over the step as he came in.(Vic içeri girdiği sırada tökezledi.)*
- He stumbled upstairs and into bed.*
ABPC- Exploit
to treat someone unfairly by asking them to do things for you, but giving them very little in return – used to show disapproval. Abuse.
Homeworkers can easily be exploited by employers.
ABPC- Flout
to deliberately disobey a law, rule etc, without trying to hide what you are doing.
Some companies flout the rules and employ children as young as seven.
deliberately/openly flout something
The union had openly flouted the law.
ABPC- Generate
to produce or cause something. SYN create:
- a useful technique for generating new ideas.*
- The program would generate a lot of new jobs.*
generate revenue/profits/income etc
Tourism generates income for local communities.
ABPC- Giggle
to laugh quickly, quietly, and in a high voice, because something is funny or because you are nervous or embarrassed:
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- “Age before beauty!” she said with a giggle.*
- Wouldn’t it be a giggle to tie his shoe - laces together while he isn’t looking!*
- She started to giggle, but Bob quelled her with a look.*
- We only did it for a giggle.*
- I caught Roz having a giggle over some of Janet’s awful poetry.*
- She gave a little girlish giggle.*
ABPC- Haunt
to often appear somewhere, or to appear to someone in the form of a ghost (= spirit of a dead person) Visit in a ghostly form. (Dadanmak)
- (1) The ghost of Lady Margaret is supposed to haunt this chapel.*
- (2) The area was a popular tourist haunt.*
- (3) A ghostly lady is said to haunt the stairway looking for her children.*
- (4) I’ll come back to haunt you!*
- (5) Fighting in Vietnam was an experience that would haunt him for the rest of his life.*
- (6) The area was a haunt of criminals.*
- (7) The Channel Islands are a favourite summer haunt for UK and French yachtsmen alike.*
ABPC- Increase: Bounce Back
to return to your usual state or activities after having a problem:
- The company’s had a lot of problems in the past, but it’s always managed to bounce back.*
- I bounced back pretty quickly after my operation.*
ABPC- Increase: Soar
to increase quickly to a high level. OPP plummet:
- Her temperature soared.*
- The price of petrol has soared in recent weeks.*
- The pollition levels are soaring all the time.*
- soaring unemployment*
- *- to fly, especially very high up in the sky, floating on air currents.(Hava akımlarıyla uçmak)**
- She watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees.*
ABPC- Increase: Surge
to suddenly move very quickly in a particular direction.
surge forward/through etc.
- The taxi surged forward.*
- The crowd surged through the gates.*
ABPC- Scold
to angrily criticize someone, especially a child, about something they have done.
EXAM: I scolded Paul. He was behaving very badly.
- If he finds out, he’ll scold me.*
- Don’t scold her, she’s nothing but a child.*
- I couldn’t bear that Mother should scold me in the face of my friends.*
- Don’t scold the child. It’s not his fault.*
- Don’t scold the boy; he’ll come round in time.*
- He scolds me for leaving the flat.*
ABPC- Show Affection
Şefkat Göstermek
EXAM: You never show any affection! You are so cold.
- He finds it difficult to show affection.*
- They love it when the pupils spontaneously show affection or appreciation.*
- Certainly, younger children show affection and have feelings of liking and disliking.*
- Leroy had forgotten how to love and show affection and wanted me to teach him.*
- All that toughness is just a cover for his inability to show affection.*
- In fact, lunette carrera, continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time, to show affection that words cannot express.*
ABPC- Soothe
to make someone feel calmer and less anxious, upset, or angry.
- Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.*
- Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.*
- Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.*
- A glass of whiskey will soothe you.*
- I’ve managed to soothe him down a bit.*
- Lucy soothed the baby by rocking it in her arms.*
- She made a cup of tea to soothe her nerves.*
ABPC- Spook
to frighten a person or animal:
- • The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.*
- • Brown has taken great care not to spook the City.*
- • Something must have spooked the horses.*
ABPC- Stare
Look at sb or sth steadily with wide-opened eyes.
I told my son to stop staring at the fat woman, it was not nice.
ABPC- Strengthen
[intransitive, transitive] to become stronger or make something stronger OPP weaken.
- Our friendship has steadily strengthened over the years.*
- Steve’s opposition only strengthened her resolve to go ahead.*
- Feeling/ belief relationship*
- Strengthen a relationship*
ABPC- Thrive
to grow, develop, or be successful:
Thrive / Throve / Thrived
Synonym: bloom, boom, develop, flourish, grow, increase, mushroom, prosper, sprout. Antonym: decline.
EXAM: Mark is thriving at school.He’s doing very well.
- 1 He that will thrive must rise at five.*
- 2 A man can never thrive who had a wasteful wife.*
- 3 Ill weeds are sure to thrive.*
- 4 A business cannot thrive without investment.*
- 5 I believe that your business will thrive more this year.*
ABPC- Titter
to laugh quietly in a high voice, especially because you are nervous:
- Mention sex therapy and most people will titter in embarrassment.*
- Mollie gave an uneasy little titter.*
- But it was a titter far from being mirthless.*
- His comments raised a titter.*
- Take laughing: I have only to titter and, in seconds,[sentencedict.com] the Monster also is rocking with pretend laughter.*
ABPC- Twitch
o make a short and sudden movement, or to cause part of your body to movesuddenly:(segirmek)
- His mouth gave a slight twitch.*
- He greeted us with a mere twitch of his head.*
- I felt a twitch at my sleeve.*
- You’ll feel something twitch the line when you get a fish.*
- He developed a nervous twitch and began to blink constantly.*
- She has a twitch in her left eye.*
ABPC- Reassure
to make someone feel calmer and less worried or frightened about a problem or situation.
- I tried to reassure her, “Don’t worry about it. We won’t let it happen again.”.*
- Banks are built to look solid to reassure their customers.*
- They sought to reassure the public.*
- He tried to reassure me that my mother would be okay.*
- The president hastened to reassure his people that he was in perfect health.*
Drive
to strongly influence someone to do something.
- drive somebody to do something*
- The detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her.*
- drive somebody to/into something*
- The noises in my head have nearly driven me to suicide.*
- Phil, driven by jealousy, started spying on his wife.*
Overwhelm
Synonym: amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, conquer, crush, defeat, dumbfound, flabbergast, overcome, startle, surmount, surprise, vanquish.
if someone is overwhelmed by an emotion, they feel it so strongly that they cannot think clearly.
“Harriet was overwhelmed by a feeling of homesickness.”
“The children were overwhelmed with excitement.”
“Grief overwhelmed me.”
if work or a problem overwhelms someone, it is too much or too difficult to deal with.
“We were overwhelmed by the number of applications.”
“They would be overwhelmed with paperwork.”
ABPC- Signify
1 [transitive] to represent, mean, or be a sign of something:
Some tribes use special facial markings to signify status.
The image of the lion signified power and strength.
signify (that):
The symbol used signifies that the frequency is measured in kHz.
