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Account for
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Give reason / explanation for some action
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Agree with
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Suit one’s health
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Back out
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With draw from a promised support / help / obligation
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Back up
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Support one / something
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Bank on
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Rely on someone / something
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Be at
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Aim at getting something
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Be back
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Return home
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Be with
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Support someone
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Bear out
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Confirm something
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Bear out
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Support someone
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Bear with
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Tolerate patiently / sympathetically
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Blow out
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Extinguish a candle
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Blow over
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Pass away without causing serious effect
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Blow up
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Destroy something by explosion
Fill with air / Gas
Enlarge a photograph
Exaggerate something
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Break down
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Stop functioning due to a mechanical fault
Discontinue ( of negotiations)
Analyse into details
Lose emotional control due to shock
Collapse due to bad health / weakness .etc
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Break in
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Enter a house by force
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Break in
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Train some one
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Break off
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Discontinue
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Break out
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Start suddenly
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Break up
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Come to an end / disperse
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Bring down
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Lower/ reduce something
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Bring out
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Publish a book
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Call at
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Visit for a short time
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Call for
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Demand / require something
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Call out
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Summon someone
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Carry on
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Continue work / duty etc
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Catch on
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Get popular
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Catch up with
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Over take
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Come across
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Meet some one
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Come by
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Obtain something
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Come off
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Take place as planned
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Come out
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Be published
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Come around
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Regain consciousness
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Count on
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Rely on someone
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Cut down
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Reduce something
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Cut off
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Discontinue / disconnect
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Deal with
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Treat a subject
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Die down
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Decrease in intensity
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Die for
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Long for something
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Die out
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Become extinct
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Do away with
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Abolish something
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Draw up
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Make plan / agreement
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Drop in
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Pay a short visit
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Drop out
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Withdraw from plan / scheme
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Fall back upon
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Depend
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Fall in
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Form a line
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Fall on
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Attack someone
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Fall out with
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Quarrel with someone
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Fall through
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Fail / not to take place
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Fill in / up
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Complete a form
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Fit it with
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Match / suit
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Get at
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Find out
Mean to say
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Get along
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Make progress
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Get away with
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Escape punishment
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Get back
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Return home
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Get in
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Arrive / enter
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Get off
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Leave a vehicle
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Get on
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Enter a vehicle
Make a progress
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Get over
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Recover from illness
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Get through
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Succeeded in something
Get someone on telephone
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Get up
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Rise from bed
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Give away
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Distribute something
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Give in
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Surrender / Yield
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Give up
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Discontinue something
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Go about
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Circulate / move about
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Go ahead
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Continue / Proceed
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Go back on
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Break a promise
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Go down
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Be reduced
Be remembered
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Go in for
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Have as an interest / choose as a profession
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Go into
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Examine throughly
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Go off
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Explode
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Go on
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Continue an activity without a break
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Go through
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Read / Examine thoroughly
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Go up
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Rise
Be built
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Grow up
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Become an adult / mature
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Hand out
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Distribute something
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Hand over
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Transfer power/ authority to someone
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Hold on
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Wait
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Hold up
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Stop by force
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Keep off
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Refrain from touching /approaching
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Keep up
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Remain unchanged
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Let down
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Lower something
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Let down
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Disappoint someone
Fail to fulfil an agreement
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Let in
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Allow someone / something to enter
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Let out
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Allow to leave
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Live on
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Use a staple food
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Live up to
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Maintain an expected standard
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Look after
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Take care of something
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Look down on
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Despise something, something
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Look for
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Search
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Look into
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investigate
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Look on
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consider
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Look on
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Be a passive spectator
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Look out
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Be watchful
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Look up
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Search for something
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Make out
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Understand something clearly
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Make off
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Escape / steal something
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Make over
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Transfer something to someone
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Make up
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Invent a story / excuse etc.
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Mix up
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Confuse something
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Pick out
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Select / choose from many
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Pick up
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Learn something easily
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Pull down
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Demolishing a building
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Pull up
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Stop / halt
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Put down
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Crush an agitation
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Put off
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Postpone on action / meeting
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Put on
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Dress oneself
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Put out
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Extinguish light / fire
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Put up
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Erect a building etc.
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Ring off
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End a telephone conversation by putting down the receiver
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Run after
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Pursue someone / something
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Run down
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Criticise someone
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Run out
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Terminate / be used up
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See off
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Accompany someone to the place of departure
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See through
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Discover deception
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See to
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Attend to something / make arrangements
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Send for
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Call someone in
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Set about
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Begin something
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See off
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Start a series of actions/ events
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See through
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Discover deception
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See to
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Attend to something / make arrangements
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Send for
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Call someone in
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Set about
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Begin something
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Set in
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Begin
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Set off
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Start a series of action / events
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Set on
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Attack someone
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Set out/ set off
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Begin a journey
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Set up
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Start a new business
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Shut down
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Close something
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Stand by
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Support and help someone
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Stand for
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Represent something
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Take down
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Write / record something
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Take for
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Suppose someone / something to some one
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Take in
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Fool, deceive
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Take off
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Leave the ground
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Take off
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Remove something (Clothing)
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Take over
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Assume control/possession of something
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Take to
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Form a habit of or a liking for something
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Take up
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Begin a hobby / project
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Tell on
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Have a bad effect on someone
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Think over
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Consider an idea / suggestion
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Throw off
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Discard something
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Try out
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Test something
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Turn down
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Refuse / reject someone
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Turn in
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go to bed
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Turn into
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Convert something into something else
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Turn on
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Switch on
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Turn off
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Switch off
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Turn out
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Produce something
Evict something
Assemble / attend
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Turn up
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Arrive at a place
Increase of shares
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Wind up
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Finish
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Wipe out
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Destroy something completely
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Work out
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Devise a method / calculate
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Work up
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Excite someone
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Write off
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Delete Something
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Write out
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Write in full.
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