first aid

The area was closed off while the casualties were given first aid and taken to hospital.

Pet First Aid helps you provide the basic care and attention that your four-legged friend might need in a medical emergency.

fall ill

If they fall ill, they must be taken out for treatment before a court decides their fate.

Millions of people fall ill every year and many die as a result of eating unsafe food.

poison

You will have to kill these unwanted plants with poison.

When you do work you dislike, you poison your output.

electric shock

My daughter got the electric shock.

The creatures were placed on a platform, on which a stationary section delivered a mild electric shock.

swell

I'm now in my 80s, but whenever I think of that look on Dad's face, my heart still feels as if it will swell up and burst.

As those costs inevitably swell, they will apply even more pressure to state budgets.

squeeze

I squeeze carefully through the crowd.

If one really cares for you, he is able to squeeze time for you.

squeeze out

The capitalist wants to squeeze out more, more, more.

You’d better squeeze out the time from your busy schedule then.

over and over again

In the time before books, children learned fairy tales by listening to them over and over again.

We had to do the scene over and over again, from different angles.

in place

You can improve the machine translations by editing the translation in place.

This grouping has everything to do with the branching strategy currently in place.

pour

Pour milk out of the bottle into the glass.

The drink fizzes up when you first pour it.

a number of

They have retrained a number of young technicians for our factory.

There are a number of options you have.

put one’s hands on

He put his hands on the gate and vaulted it easily.

He read every book he could put his hands on.

treat

They shouldn't treat their mother in disrespectful way.

Her cousin, a hairdresser, was perming her hair as a special treat.

apply

Apply a dressing to the wound and bandage it.

She graduated with high enough marks to apply for university.

make a difference

Dose his absence make a difference to your work?

We make a difference between new word and coinages.