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  • 31welcome — [[t]we̱lkəm[/t]] ♦♦ welcomes, welcoming, welcomed 1) VERB If you welcome someone, you greet them in a friendly way when they arrive somewhere. [V n] Several people came by to welcome me... [V n adv/prep] She was there to welcome him home from war …

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  • 32appear */*/*/ — UK [əˈpɪə(r)] / US [əˈpɪr] verb [intransitive, not usually progressive] Word forms appear : present tense I/you/we/they appear he/she/it appears present participle appearing past tense appeared past participle appeared 1) to make other people… …

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  • 33flood in — verb arrive in great numbers • Hypernyms: ↑arrive, ↑get, ↑come • Verb Frames: Something s Somebody s * * * roll/flood/ …

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  • 34roll — roll1 [ roul ] verb *** ▸ 1 move while turning ▸ 2 move on wheels ▸ 3 move from side to side ▸ 4 change direction faced ▸ 5 move across surface ▸ 6 wrap something around itself ▸ 7 produce long low sound ▸ 8 machine: work ▸ 9 make substance flat… …

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  • 35flood — [[t]flʌ̱d[/t]] ♦♦♦ floods, flooding, flooded 1) N VAR If there is a flood, a large amount of water covers an area which is usually dry, for example when a river flows over its banks or a pipe bursts. More than 70 people were killed in the floods …

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  • 36time — [[t]ta͟ɪm[/t]] ♦ times, timing, timed 1) N UNCOUNT Time is what we measure in minutes, hours, days, and years. ...a two week period of time... Time passed, and still Ma did not appear... As time went on the visits got more and more regular... The …

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  • 37roll — 1 verb 1 ROUND OBJECT (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive) if something that is round rolls or if you roll it, it moves along a surface by turning over and over: The ball rolled into the street. | roll sth: Maybe we can roll the log to… …

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  • 38pour in — intransitive verb : to arrive in overwhelming numbers or quantity tourists fly in, drive in, pour in by train Kenneth Tynan the avalanche of petitions … poured in from northern and eastern states R.A.Billington money is pouring in from America… …

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  • 39rock up — (informal) To arrive without giving prior notification • • • Main Entry: ↑rock * * * ˌrock ˈup [intransitive] [he/she/it rocks up present participle rocking …

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  • 40on the dot — also[on the button] {adv. phr.}, {informal} Exactly on time; not early and not late. * /Susan arrived at the party at 2:00 P.M. on the dot./ * /Ben s plane arrived on the dot./ …

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