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meddle collapse: intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"

foothold collapse: a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing

lay over collapse: interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

tend collapse: manage or run; "tend a store"; have care of or look after; "She tends to the children"; have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

interrupt collapse: a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out; terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"; destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"; interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"; make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

category collapse: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

steer collapse: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling; direct (oneself) somewhere; "Steer clear of him"

jibe collapse: shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly"

referee collapse: (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play; an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case; evaluate professionally a colleague's work; be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

hold forth collapse: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England"

intercept collapse: the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis; seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

epigraph collapse: an engraved inscription; a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

hold out collapse: wait uncompromisingly for something desirable; "He held out for the dessert and did not touch the cheeses"

idolize collapse: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

grab collapse: a mechanical device for gripping an object; capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination"; take or grasp suddenly; "She grabbed the child's hand and ran out of the room"; make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand; "The passenger grabbed for the oxygen mask"; obtain illegally or unscrupulously; "Grab power"

superscription collapse: the activity of superscribing; an inscription written above something else

lock up collapse: secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation"

imprison collapse: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"; confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

hem in collapse: surround in a restrictive manner; "The building was hemmed in by flowers"

continue collapse: exist over a prolonged period of time; "The bad weather continued for two more weeks"; continue talking; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room"; keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"; continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"; continue after an interruption; "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"; do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move"

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