fight off
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~ force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
fend off
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~ prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
face off
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~ start a game by a face-off
flake off
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~ come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
fob off
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~ sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
flow off
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~ flow off or away gradually; "The water flowed off from the pipe"
fling off
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~ write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess"
foist off
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~ sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
finish off
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~ finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment"
frown on
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~ look disapprovingly upon
fasten on
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~ adopt; "take up new ideas"
feed on
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~ be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"
focus on
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~ center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"
feast one's eyes
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~ look at with great enjoyment; "She feasted her eyes on the Tuscan landscape"
feather one's nest
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~ enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position; "The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business"
flip one's lid
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~ get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
find oneself
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~ accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
fall open
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~ open involuntarily; "His mouth dropped open"; "Her jaw dropped"
fly open
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~ come open suddenly; "the doors flew open in the strong gust"