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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

Letter
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Level
A1A2A2+B1B1+B2B2+C1C2
Part of speech
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  • launch an investigationphraseB2To start an official inquiry.
  • lay offphraseB2To dismiss workers because there is no work.
  • laze aroundphraseB2To pass time doing nothing much.
  • lean inphraseB22 meaningsTo move your upper body closer to somebody or something.
  • leave no tracephraseB2The rule that you take everything away with you.
  • let downphraseB22 meaningsTo fail somebody who was relying on you.
let gophraseB12 meaningsTo release your hold on something.
  • let nature take its coursephraseB2To let things happen without interfering.
  • let off steamphraseB2To release built-up energy or anger harmlessly.
  • let outphraseB22 meaningsTo make a garment wider or looser.
  • let your hair downphraseB2To relax completely and stop behaving formally.
  • let's catch upphraseB2A suggestion to meet and swap news.
  • lie aheadphraseB2To be waiting in the future.
  • life and soul of the partyphraseB2The person who makes a gathering go with a swing.
  • life of the partyphraseB2The person who makes an occasion lively.
  • like two peas in a podphraseB2So alike that you can hardly tell them apart.
  • live and let livephraseB2To accept others' ways and expect the same in return.
  • live up tophraseB2To be as good as what was promised or expected.
  • liven upphraseB2To make something more interesting or cheerful.
  • lock up/ˌlɒk ˈʌp/phraseB12 meaningsTo secure a building by locking its doors.
  • long story shortphraseB2Skipping the details and giving the outcome.
  • look aroundphraseB12 meaningsTo walk through a place to see what is there.
  • look down onphraseB2To treat someone as beneath you.
  • look intophraseB2To investigate something in order to find out more.
  • look out forphraseB2To watch carefully in order to notice something.
  • look throughphraseB2To examine a collection of things one by one.
  • look up/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/phraseB13 meaningsTo search for information in a reference source.
  • look up tophraseB2To admire someone as your example.
  • lose sight ofphraseB2To stop being able to see something.
  • lose touchphraseB22 meaningsTo stop being in contact with somebody.
  • lose track of timephraseB2To be so absorbed you forget how late it is.
  • lose your nervephraseB2To find your courage gone at the last moment.
  • lose your temperphraseB2To stop controlling your anger.