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81 go up in smoke/flames
(to catch fire; to be destroyed or damaged by fire etc: The building across the street went up in flames.) fuðra upp -
82 grow
[ɡrəu]past tense - grew; verb1) ((of plants) to develop: Carrots grow well in this soil.) vaxa, spretta2) (to become bigger, longer etc: My hair has grown too long; Our friendship grew as time went on.) vaxa, aukast3) (to cause or allow to grow: He has grown a beard.) láta (sér) vaxa4) ((with into) to change into, in becoming mature: Your daughter has grown into a beautiful woman.) breytast í5) (to become: It's growing dark.) verða•- grower- grown
- growth
- grown-up
- grown-up
- grow on
- grow up -
83 hill
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84 home
[həum] 1. noun1) (the house, town, country etc where a person etc usually lives: I work in London but my home is in Bournemouth; When I retire, I'll make my home in Bournemouth; Africa is the home of the lion; We'll have to find a home for the kitten.) heimili2) (the place from which a person, thing etc comes originally: America is the home of jazz.) heimkynni3) (a place where children without parents, old people, people who are ill etc live and are looked after: an old folk's home; a nursing home.) barnaheimili; dvalarheimili, hæli4) (a place where people stay while they are working: a nurses' home.) heimili, vist5) (a house: Crumpy Construction build fine homes for fine people; He invited me round to his home.) heimili2. adjective1) (of a person's home or family: home comforts.) heima-, heimilis-2) (of the country etc where a person lives: home produce.) heima-; innanlands-3) ((in football) playing or played on a team's own ground: the home team; a home game.) heimavöllur/-leikur/-lið3. adverb1) (to a person's home: I'm going home now; Hallo - I'm home!) heim, heima2) (completely; to the place, position etc a thing is intended to be: He drove the nail home; Few of his punches went home; These photographs of the war brought home to me the suffering of the soldiers.) í botn, ná takmarki sínu, gera ljóst•- homeless- homely
- homeliness
- homing
- home-coming
- home-grown
- homeland
- home-made
- home rule
- homesick
- homesickness
- homestead
- home truth
- homeward
- homewards
- homeward
- homework
- at home
- be/feel at home
- home in on
- leave home
- make oneself at home
- nothing to write home about -
85 homesick
adjective (missing one's home: When the boy first went to boarding-school he was very homesick.) haldinn heimþrá -
86 honeymoon
noun (a holiday spent immediately after one's marriage: We went to London for our honeymoon; ( also adjective) a honeymoon couple.) brúðkaupsferð -
87 horizon
(the line at which the earth and the sky seem to meet: The sun went down below the horizon; A ship could be seen on the horizon.) sjóndeildarhringur- horizontally -
88 hunger strike
(a refusal to eat, as a form of protest or to force (someone) to agree to certain demands etc: The prisoners went on hunger strike as a protest against prison discipline.) hungurverkfall -
89 in(to) a huff
(being or becoming silent because one is angry, displeased etc: He is in a huff; He went into a huff.) fÿla; reiðikast -
90 in order to
(for the purpose of: I went home in order to change my clothes.) til þess að -
91 in place of
(instead of: We advise discussion in place of argument; John couldn't go, so I went in his place.) í staðinn fyrir -
92 in search of
(searching for: We went in search of a restaurant.) í leit að -
93 in single file
((moving along) singly, one behind the other: They went downstairs in single file.) í (einfaldri) röð -
94 in spite of
1) (taking no notice of: He went in spite of his father's orders.) þrátt fyrir2) (although something has or had happened, is or was a fact etc: In spite of all the rain that had fallen, the ground was still pretty dry.) þrátt fyrir -
95 indoors
adverb (in or into a building: Stay indoors till you've finished your homework; He went indoors when the rain started.) inn; inni, innanhúss -
96 initiative
[-ʃətiv]1) (a first step or move that leads the way: He took the initiative in organizing a search party to look for the girl; A move to start peace talks is sometimes called a peace initiative.) frumkvæði2) (the ability to lead or make decisions for oneself: He is quite good at his job, but lacks initiative; My son actually went to the hairdresser's on his own initiative!) frumkvæði -
97 insistence
noun ((the act of) insisting: She went to see the doctor at her husband's insistence.) þrábeiðni -
98 instantly
adverb (immediately: He went to bed and instantly fell asleep.) þegar í stað, samstundis -
99 intention
[-ʃən]noun (what a person plans or intends to do: He has no intention of leaving; He went to see the boss with the intention of asking for a pay rise; If I have offended you, it was quite without intention; good intentions.) ætlun -
100 in(to) a huff
(being or becoming silent because one is angry, displeased etc: He is in a huff; He went into a huff.) fÿla; reiðikast
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Went the Day Well ? — Went the Day Well? Went the Day Well? Titre original Went the Day Well? Réalisation Alberto Cavalcanti Acteurs principaux Leslie Banks Elizabeth Allan Scénario John Dighton Angus MacPhail Diana Morgan d après une nouvelle de Graham Greene Genre … Wikipédia en Français
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Went — Went, imp. & p. p. of {Wend}; now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See {Go}. [1913 Webster] To the church both be they went. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
went gone out with the ark — went/had gone out with the ark British & Australian, humorous if an object or method went out with the ark, it is not used any more. These old manual printing presses went out with the ark everything s computerized these days … New idioms dictionary
went — [went] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: From the old past tense of wend] the past tense of ↑go … Dictionary of contemporary English
went — past tense of GO (Cf. go); originally past tense and pp. of WEND (Cf. wend). The original past tense forms of wend were wende, wended, but variants wente, went developed from c.1200 and began to replace older past tenses of go. By c.1500 they… … Etymology dictionary
went — [went] vi., vt. [old pt. of WEND, used to replace missing form of GO1] pt. of GO1 … English World dictionary
went — /went/, v. 1. pt. of go. 2. Nonstandard. a pp. of go1. 3. Archaic. a pt. and pp. of wend. * * * … Universalium
