Blind:
(a) unable to see
(b) unwilling to recognize (c) without reason or purpose (d) drunk (e) turn a blind eye – (to) pretend not to see or notice (something especially something illegal) (f) make unable to see or understand (g) blind with science – confuse or fill with admiration by a show of detailed or specialist knowledge (h) place where one may watch animals, birds, etc. without being seen
Cataract:
(a) eye disease causing blindness
(b) large waterfall
Chill:
(a) illness with coldness and shaking
(b) make or become cold (c) (cause to) have a feeling of cold as from fear (d) unpleasant coldness
Choke:
(a) stop breathing because the breathing passage is blocked
(b) fill (a passage) completely (c) apparatus that controls air going into a gas engine (d) choke back – control (especially violent or sad feeling ) as if by holding in the throat
Cold:
(a) illness of the nose and throat
(b) low temperature (c) unfriendly (d) (of cooked food) allowed to get cool (e) unconscious (f) get / have cold feet – lose courage (g) give / get the cold shoulder – treat / be treated unsympathetically (h) (out) in the cold – not noticed, unwanted (i) catch cold – become ill with a cold
Collapse:
(a) suddenly fall down due to illness, tiredness or weakness
(b) (something) falls inwards and becomes smaller or flatter (c) (system or institution) fails completely and suddenly
Corn:
(a) painful lump of hard skin on the foot
(b) (seed of) a tall food plant with long bunches of yellow seeds
Cough:
(a) push air out noisily from the lungs
(b) illness that makes a person cough (c) cough up – produce (money or information) unwillingly
Cramp:
(a) sudden painful tightening of a muscle
(b) cause to have a cramp (c) prevent natural growth or development (d) cramp someone's style – prevent someone from showing their abilities to the full
Cripple:
(a) person who cannot use the limbs, especially the legs, properly
(b) make into a cripple (c) damage seriously
Cure:
(a) make (a disease ) go away
(b) a bring back to health (c) preserve (food, skin, tobacco) by drying etc. (d) something that cures a person or disease (e) a return to health after illness
Cut:
(a) accidently injures oneself on a sharp object
(b) use sharp things to divide, remove, shorten, make a hole, etc. (c) (of a knife etc. ) be sharp (d) make shorter or smaller (speech) (e) make less in size, amount, etc. (a public service) (f) stay away on purpose (g) put (a film) into final form (h) hurt the feelings of (someone) (i) (of a line, path, etc.) cross (j) stop filming a scene (k) opening made by cutting (l) piece of meat, etc., cut off (m) reduction (n) way in which clothes, hair, etc., are shaped (o) somebody's share of a profit (p) an act of removing a part, to improve or shorten (q) part removed (r) cut corners – do something quickly and cheaply but not perfectly (s) cut it close – leave oneself too little time or money (t) cut it out – stop doing something (u) cut no / not much ice – have no / little influence (v) cut one's losses – stop doing something before one loses any more money (w) cut someone (dead) – refuse to recognize them (x) cut across – go across instead of around; make a different division (y) cut back – reduce (z) cut down – bring down by cutting; knock down or kill (someone) (aa) cut down to size – reduce from too great importance to true or suitable importance (ab) cut in – interrupt; include (ac) cut off – separate by cutting; disconnect; end unexpectedly; disinherit; separate from others (ad) cut out – remove by cutting; make by cutting (dress); stop (ae) not cut out for – not suitable for (af) cut up – cut into little pieces; make unhappy; behave in a humorous way (ag) a cut above – better (ah) cut-and-dried – unlikely to change; fixed
Posted by Jade Dame
[To be continued]
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