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■ verb ( ~s , ~ting ; past and past participle ~ )
1》 not prevent or forbid; allow.
2》 used in the imperative to express an intention, proposal, or instruction: ~'s have a drink.
3》 used to express an assumption upon which a theory or calculation is to be based: ~ A and B stand for X and Y.
4》 chiefly Brit. allow someone to use (a room or property) in return for payment.
5》 award (a contract) to an applicant.
■ noun Brit. a period during which a room or property is rented: a short ~.
Phrases
~ alone not to mention.
~ someone/thing be stop interfering with someone or something.
~ something fall Geometry draw a perpendicular from an outside point to a line.
~ fly attack.
~ oneself go
1》 act in an uninhibited way.
2》 become careless or untidy in one's habits or appearance.
~ someone/thing go
1》 allow someone or something to go free.
2》 euphemistic dismiss an employee.
3》 (also ~ go or ~ go of ) relinquish one's grip on someone or something.
~ someone have it informal attack someone.
to ~ available for rent.
Phrasal verbs
~ down (of an aircraft) descend prior to making a landing.
~ someone down fail to support or help someone.
↘( ~ someone/thing down ) have a detrimental effect on someone or something.
~ oneself in for informal involve oneself in (something difficult or unpleasant).
~ someone in on/into allow someone to know (something secret).
~ something into set something back into (a surface).
~ someone off
1》 refrain from punishing someone.
2》 excuse someone from a task or obligation.
~ something off cause a gun, firework, or bomb to fire or explode.
~ on informal
1》 divulge information.
2》 pretend.
~ someone out release someone from obligation or suspicion.
~ something out
1》 utter a sound or cry.
2》 make a garment looser or larger.
3》 reveal information.
~ up informal become less intense.
↘relax one's efforts.
Derivatives
~ting noun
Origin
OE ltan 'leave behind, leave out', of Gmc origin; related to late .
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~ 2
■ noun (in racket sports) a circumstance under which a service is nullified and has to be retaken, especially (in tennis) when the ball clips the top of the net and falls within bounds.
■ verb ( ~s , ~ting ; past and past participle ~ted or ~ ) archaic hinder.
Phrases
play a ~ (in racket sports) play a point again because the ball or one of the players has been obstructed.
without ~ or hindrance formal without obstruction; freely.
Origin
OE ~tan 'hinder', of Gmc origin; related to late .