to alleviate the pain | to reduce the amount of pain | |
to contract a disease | to catch a disease | |
to give blood | to voluntarily have blood taken from you | |
to make a recovery | to recover, to get better | |
to nurse sb back to health | to help sb get better | |
to perform an operation | to operate on sb | |
to reduce the swelling | do sth that will return the swollen part of your body back to normal size | |
to regain consciousness | to wake up having previously fainted | |
to respond to treatment | to get better as a result of taking particular medicine | |
to take effect | to start to work | |
to treat an illness | to try and cure an illness | |
to undergo surgery | to have a surgeon operate on you | |
to be admitted to hospital | to be taken into hospital | |
to be allergic to sth | your body reacts to sth in a negative way | |
to be on antibiotics | to be taking antibiotic medicine | |
a cure for a disease | sth that will get rid of an illness or a disease | |
to die of sth | when a particular illness or disease kills sb | |
to be discharged from hospital | to be allowed to leave hospital | |
to be in intensive care | to be in a hospital ward where people who are very ill are treated and looked after | |
to be on the mend | to be getting better | |
to operate on sb | to treat sb by cutting open part of their body and removing or reparing sth | |
to get medicine on prescription | you must have a prescription to obtain it | |
to be rushed to/into hospital | to be taken to hospital very quickly | |
to be in good shape | to be fit and healthy | |
to be under a lot of stress | to be unable to relax because you are worrying a lot | |
to suffer from sth | to have a particular disease or illness | |
to be suspectible to sth | to be the kind of person who easily catches a disease or illness | |
to hang by a thread | when sb is very ill and likely to die | |
to take its toll | to have a bad effect on | |
to clear up | if a rash or a cold clears up, it goes away | |
to come out in a rash/spots | when a rash or spots start covering part or all of your body | |
to come out of a coma | to wake up from a coma | |
to come round/ come to | to regain consciousness after you have fainted | |
to go down with sth | to become ill with sth | |
to pass out | to faint | |
to pull through | to survive and recover from a serious illness | |
to put sb on sth | when a doctor puts you on a particular medicine you have to take it | |
to put you back out | to hurt your back | |
to shake sth off | to get rid of sth | |
to take a tooth out | to remove a tooth | |
to wear off | to stop having an effect | |
a blinding/splitting/thumping headache | a very bad hedache | |
a bug | an illness wchich is easily caught but which is not serious | |
to feel as right as rain | to feel 100% well after having previously felt ill | |
a highly infectious disease | a disease wchich is very easily passed from one person to another | |
to have/suffer a nervous disease | to become extremely depressed and unable to cope | |
to have (got) a poor eyesight | not to be able to see very well | |
a runny nose | when you have a cold and your nose is producing a lot of liquid | |
to be seriously-ill | to be very ill and probably in hospital as a result | |
shooting pains | sudden sharp pains which do not last for a long time but which do repeat themselves | |
a sore throat | when your throat hurts so that you find it difficult to swallow and sometimes even to speak | |
a stinking cold | a very bad cold | |
to have a touch of flu | to have some of the symptoms of flu but not be so ill that you have to go to bed | |
to feel a bit under the weather/ of-colour | to feel slightly ill | |
to have an upset stomach/ to have a stomach upset | not to be able to keep anything in your stomach | |
to double-cross | to cheat sb you have just commited crime with | |
to rig | to illegally arrange the result of an election | |
to swindle | to get money from sb by deceiving them | |
to carve | to cut meat into slices | |
to mow | to cut grass | |
to slash | to cut sth violently, with a knife | |
to trim | to make sth neat by cutting away untidy pieces | |
to plummet | to fall dramatically | |
to plunge | to fall dramatically for prices and temperatures | |
to slump | to suddenly or dramatically fall | |
to die down | to become less intense (without necessarily disappearing) | |
to fizzle out | to end and dissapear in a weak an dissapointing way | |
to peter out | to gradually disappear and come to an end | |
to wear off | to stop having an effect | |
to bug | to put very small listening devices somewhere as to listen to conversation | |
to eavesdrop | to intentionally listen to the private conversations of other people | |
to overhear | to unintentionally hear sb talking to sb else | |
to tap | to put a very small listening device on so as to listen to telephone conversation | |
to dig up | to find sth which has remained hidden for a long time | |
to stumble on | to find by chance | |
to shadow/ to tail | to follow and watch sb closely | |
to stalk | to follow and try to get near a person or animal in order to attack them | |
to banish | to send sb outof their native country as a punishment for sth they have done | |
to evacuate | to have to/ to force sb to leave a building or area because it is dangerous | |
to evict | to force sb to leave the flat or house they live in because they have broken a law or the contract | |
to expel | to dismiss sb from school permanently because they have done sth very bad | |
to climb | to steadlily increase | |
to rocket | to increase dramatically | |
to soar | to increase dramatically for temperatures and prices | |
to curb | to do sth to stop sth bad from continuing | |
to hamper | to make movement or progress difficult | |
to hinder | to prevent or delay progress | |
to chuck | to throw | |
to fling | to throw sth somewhere or sb with great force | |
to hurl | to throw sth violently and with great force, often because you are angry | |
to pelt | to throw sth at sb and hit them with it | |
to comb | to search a place thoroughly or look at information carefully | |
to fish around in | to look for sth using your hands and not your eyes | |
to scour | to make a thorough search of a place or sth | |
to sift through | to examine sth thoroughly | |
to apologise profusely | to apologise a lot | |
to be bitterly disappointed | to be very disappointed | |
to borrow heavily | to borrow a great deal of money | |
to be deadly serious | to be very serious | |
to be deeply divided | not to be united, in strong disagreement | |
to deeply regret | to regret very much | |
to desperately need | to need very much | |
to be excruciatingly painful | to be extremely pauinful | |
to fail miserably | to fail totally | |
to freely admit | to be willing to admit | |
to be fully booked/ booked solid | used to describe a theatre, restaurants etc where all the seats rooms are occuped | |
to be highly thought of | to be greatly admired and respected | |
to be hysterically funny | to be extremely funny | |
sth is long overdue | sth should have happened a long time ago | |
to be painfully thin | to be extremely thin | |
to be patently obvious | to be clearly obvious | |
to be perfectly willing to do sth | to be happy to do sth | |
to be prohibitively expensive | to be too expensive for most people to afford | |
sth is readily available | sth can be easily bought or obtained | |
to richly deserve | to very much deserve | |
to be scrupulously honest | to be very honest | |
to be sorely tempted to do sth | to really feel like doing sth even if you know doing it is wrong, stupidor unnecessary | |
to be sparsely populated | when very few people live in an region or area | |
to be spotlessly clean | to be very clean | |
to be stunningly beautiful | to be extremely beautiful | |
vastly improved | much better | |
to be vastly overrated | when people have s higher opinion than it is worth | |
very nearly | very close to happening | |
to be well aware of | to know very well | |
to abide by sth | to accept and obey sth (law/rules) | |
to be absorbed in sth | to be very interested in sth | |
to account for sth | to explain | |
in the aftermath of sth | in the period of time following a disaster, tragedy or a war | |
aside from sth/sb | except for/ apart from | |
an asset to sth | very valuable to sth | |
a ban on sth/doing sth | an official prohibition | |
to be barred from somewhere | to be prevented from entering a place | |
be based on sth | if one thing is based on another, the former is developed from/ is founded in the latter | |
to bombard sb with questions | to ask sb a lot of questions | |
to brag about sth | to proudly talk about sth in such way that other people finds it annoying | |
a cater for | to provide that sb needs or wants | |
to collide with sth/sb | to crash into | |
to comment on sth/sb | to give an opinion anout sth/sb | |
to comply with sth | to do what you have to do | |
to confide in sth | to tell sb sth which is private or personal | |
to cope with sth | to deal with a difficult situation or problem | |
to be credited with sth | to be considered responsible for sth good/important | |
to be cruel to sb/sth | to do/say sth that hurts a person/animal | |
a cutback in sth | a reduction in the numbers of sth or the amount of money spent on sth | |
a breakdown | a failure or ending of sth | |
a break-in | a burglary | |
a breakthrough | an improtant new discovery | |
to make/stage a comeback | to become popular or important again, having been unpopular for some time | |
a cover-up | an attempt by a government or large organisation to stop the public from finding out the truth about | |
a downfall | a fall from a position of power | |
a drawback | a disadvantage | |
to make a getaway | to escape after commiting a crime | |
to hold up | a delay/ an armed robbery | |
an income | the amount of money that sb earns | |
the layout | the arrangement of pictures and/or writing on a page or letter | |
a let-down | a reduction or pause in sth | |
a mix-up | a mistake that causes confusion | |
an outbreak | the sudden start of a war or a disease | |
an outcome | the final result | |
from/at the outset | from/at the beginning | |
a pile-up | an accident involving a lot of cars | |
a steback | sth that delays progress/upsets sb's plans | |
a takeaway | a meal prepared in a restaurant and wchich you take home | |
a turnout | the number of people who go to a meeting or vote in an election | |
a write-up | a review written in a newspaper or magazine | |