chance upon | find or see someone or sth when you did not expect to |
come across | meet someone or find sth by chance |
cool down | become cooler, or make sth cooler |
cut back on | reduce the amount of sth, esp money that you need |
die out | become weaker or less common and then disappear completely |
dig up | 1/3)remove sth from under the ground by digging, 2/3)dig holes in an area of land |
dig up | 3/3)find information by searching carefully |
dry up | when sth ..., all the water comes out of it |
get through | 1/3)use or finish sth 2/3)manage to deal with a difficult situation or stay alive until it is over |
get through | 3/3)finish dealing with some work, a subject etc. |
heat up | make sth hot |
kill off | destroy living things so that most or all of them are dead |
put down to | if you ..... to a particular reason, you think it has happened for that reason |
slip up | make a cereless mistake |
spring up | appear or be produced suddenly and quickly |
store up | 1/2)keep a lot of sth so that you can use it later 2/2)do sth that will cause problems in the future |
throw out | 1/3)get rid of sth that you no longer want 2/3)force someone to leave a place or group |
throw out | 3/3)if someone in authority .... a plan, proposal, etc they refuse to accept it |
throw up | 1/2)produce sth new or unexpected 2/2)cause sth such at dust or water to rise into the air |