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He spouts a load of pretentious nonsense and people are stupid enough to believe him!

Flames spouted (out) from the oil wells. The gash was spouting blood.; A spout of water shot out of the geyser.

She slipped on a rock and gashed her knee.

a long deep slash, cut, or wound.

The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed. We had to slash (our way) through the long grass to clear a path.

American businesses slashed 200,000 jobs in September.

a pretentious art critic

a coach trip

She coaches students in French, usually for exams.

Even the company's director flies coach most of the time.

ALSO - coach class - US ALSO - (UK economy class)

He was a weak man, led astray by ambition.

She took the child by the hand and led him upstairs to bed.

You've been there before - why don't you lead the way?

The company has been leading the way in network applications for several years.

We'll go through the dance routine again - follow my lead (= do what I do).

A lead from an informer enabled the police to make several arrests.

(also wire); (UK also flex); (US also cord)

Who played the lead role in the movie? The lead guitarist was good.

scrawls done with a bit of pencil lead

After five games, she was still ahead by a point in the chess tournament, but her lead was shrinking.

The company has improved operating performance, led by cost reduction efforts and productivity gains.

I scrawled a quick note to Judith and put it under her door. Someone had scrawled graffiti across the wall.

The insurance company wired millions of dollars to its accounts to cover the payments.

Janet wired me to say she'd be here a day later than planned.

First, straighten your legs, then flex your feet. He tried to impress me by flexing his huge muscles.

The space can flex to suit various uses.

The taper in the handle allows flex on impact.

This convertible apartment or flex has had a temporary wall placed in the living room to create a third bedroom.

flex work

Opposition groups fear violence, after weeks of military muscle-flexing from the government.

the talks were seen as a way for Merkel to flex her well-known diplomatic prowess

The pond was covered in a brittle layer of ice.

hard but liable to break or shatter easily.

She gave a brittle laugh and turned away.

The journey had fatigued him. The doctor said he was suffering from fatigue and work-related stress.

to make someone extremely tired:

army fatigues

Get dressed right now or you'll find yourself on fatigues.

menial non-military tasks performed by a soldier, sometimes as a punishment.

The nurse cut the baby's umbilical cord.

an organ that develops inside the uterus of a pregnant woman or animal and provides food for the developing baby

Conception is the moment when a fertilized egg implants itself in a woman's uterus.

an unfertilized egg before conception the process in which a baby starts to form in the uterus from the coming together of a sperm and an egg

the action of conceiving a child or of a child being conceived.

He has a low/high sperm count.

They arranged for her to have regular fetal monitoring.

He was curled up in a fetal position on the floor, sobbing.

I found her sobbing in the bedroom because she'd broken her favourite doll.

She came out with some sob story about not having enough money to go and see her father who was ill.

They heard sob stuff from one man about his deprived childhood in an institution.

rabbits gestate for approximately twenty-eight days

The internet had been gestating since the fifties. The subconscious mind needs time to gestate the work.

You'd better wipe up that red wine you've spilled before it soaks (= is absorbed) into the carpet.

You can usually soak out a stain. Leave the beans to soak overnight./Let the beans soak overnight.

I think my uncle still conceives of me as a four-year-old. He couldn't conceive of a time when he would have no job. I can't conceive (= it is too shocking to imagine) how anyone could behave so cruelly.

He conceived the plot for this film while he was still a student.

The baby was conceived in March, so will be born in December.

The whole project was ill-conceived.

In the case of the guinea pig, the number of offspring varies between two and five.

Tom's sister came over on Saturday with all her offspring.

It's fairly menial work, such as washing dishes and cleaning floors.

used to describe work that does not need any skills and is badly paid and often boring:

The letter must have gone astray in the post. I was led astray by an out-of-date map. Her parents worried that she might be led astray (= encouraged to behave badly) by her unsuitable friends.

They scratched the horse from the race because she had become lame.

Saying she’d lost her homework was a pretty lame excuse, if you ask me.

pan-fried lobster

Swirl a little oil around the frying pan.

Use a Bundt pan to bake a traditional Austrian Gugelhupf cake.

The euro can't survive without pan-European taxation. a pan-European solution to the problem

In the first scene, the camera pans slowly across the room.

swing (a video or movie camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject.

The critics panned the movie version of the novel.

a pan-American conference a pan-European summit the Pan-African Congress

all-inclusive, especially in relation to the whole of a continent, racial group, religion, etc.

the old-timers panned gold

The fog swirled thickly around us. Swirl a little oil around the frying pan.; The truck went by in a swirl of dust.

a twisting, circular shape: A swirl of cream will make a dish look more fancy.

The swirl of rumours and speculation never stopped.

The water eddied around in a whirlpool. The crowds were eddying into the road.

a circular movement of water, counter to a main current, causing a small whirlpool.

She watched the small groups of protesters eddy across the courtyard.

to come and go in large quantities, without becoming firmly fixed:

She saw a mass of bodies whirling around on the dance floor. He whirled her around until she felt quite sick.

the action of turning around in circles or something that turns around in circles: - a whirl of snow

I found myself swept up in the social whirl of college life and hardly had time to study.

water that moves in a powerful, circular current, sucking into its center anything that floats near it

They married three months after they met - it was a real whirlwind romance. a whirlwind tour/visit The film created a whirlwind of controversy.

People sometimes use whirlwind to describe a situation that happens suddenly and that is full of lots of quickly changing or confusing activity:

I was sucked into a vortex of despair.

A quick scour with salt and an old toothbrush is a simple way to freshen up stained cups.

The police are scouring the area for the missing child. I scoured the shops for a blue and white shirt, but I couldn't find one anywhere.

Huge scour marks in the bed of the Channel could have been created only by a giant torrent of water.

The fast-moving water had scoured out a channel in the rock.