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6.

rug        
  1      rug   rugs
     A rug is a piece of thick material that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area.
        A Persian rug covered the hardwood floors.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      rug   rugs
     A rug is a small blanket which you use to cover your shoulders or your knees to keep them warm. (mainly BRIT)
        The old lady was seated in her chair at the window, a rug over her knees.
        ...a travel rug.
     N-COUNT
     
  3      rug
     If someone pulls the rug from under a person or thing or pulls the rug from under someone's feet, they stop giving their help or support.
        If the banks opt to pull the rug from under the ill-fated project, it will go into liquidation.
     PHR: V inflects
     
        sweep something under the rug: see sweep.
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7.

table        
  1      table   tables
     A table is a piece of furniture with a flat top that you put things on or sit at.
        She was sitting at the kitchen table eating a currant bun.
        I placed his drink on the small table at his elbow.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      table   tables
     If you ask for a table in a restaurant, you want to have a meal there.
        I'd like a table for two at about 8.30, please.
        I booked a table at the Savoy Grill.
        You will join us at our table, won't you?
     N-COUNT
     
  3      table   tables   tabling   tabled
     If someone tables a proposal, they say formally that they want it to be discussed at a meeting. (mainly BRIT)
        They've tabled a motion criticising the Government for doing nothing about the problem.
     VB
     = propose
  4      table   tables   tabling   tabled
     If someone tables a proposal or plan which has been put forward, they decide to discuss it or deal with it at a later date, rather than straight away. (AM)
        We will table that for later.
     VB
     
  5      table   tables
     A table is a written set of facts and figures arranged in columns and rows.
        Consult the table on page 104.
        Other research supports the figures in Table 3.3.
     N-COUNT: also N num
     
  6      table   tables
     A table is a list of the multiplications of numbers between one and twelve. Children often have to learn tables at school.
        He didn't know his eleven-times table.
        I attempted to learn my tables.
     N-COUNT: oft poss N
     = multiplication table
  7      table
     If you put something on the table, you present it at a meeting for it to be discussed.
        This is one of the best packages we've put on the table in years.
        It means that all the options are at least on the table.
     PHR: PHR after v, v-link PHR
     
  8      table
     If you turn the tables on someone, you change the situation completely, so that instead of them causing problems for you, you are causing problems for them.
        The only question is whether the President can use his extraordinary political skills to turn the tables on his opponents.
     PHR: V inflects, oft PHR on n
     
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8.


clock        
  1      clock   clocks
     A clock is an instrument, for example in a room or on the outside of a building, that shows what time of day it is.
        He was conscious of a clock ticking.
        He also repairs clocks and watches.
        The hands of the clock on the wall moved with a slight click.
        ...a digital clock.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      clock   clocks
     A time clock in a factory or office is a device that is used to record the hours that people work. Each worker puts a special card into the device when they arrive and leave, and the times are recorded on the card.
        Government workers were made to punch time clocks morning, noon and night.
     N-COUNT: oft n N
     
  3      clock   clocks
     In a car, the clock is the instrument that shows the speed of the car or the distance it has travelled. (mainly BRIT)
        The car had 160,000 miles on the clock.
        At 240 mph the needle went off the clock.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, the N
     
  4      clock   clocks   clocking   clocked
     To clock a particular time or speed in a race means to reach that time or speed.
        Elliott clocked the fastest time this year for the 800 metres.
        The yacht swayed in 40-knot winds, clocking speeds of 17 knots at times.
     VB
     = reach
  5      clock   clocks   clocking   clocked
     If something or someone is clocked at a particular time or speed, their time or speed is measured at that level.
        He has been clocked at 11 seconds for 100 metres.
        170-mile-an-hour winds were clocked on a mountaintop in North Carolina.
     VB: usu passive
     
  6      clock   clocks   clocking   clocked
     If you clock something, you notice or see it. (BRIT, INFORMAL)
        If there was any scandal in that company, you can be sure that Bobby will have clocked it.
     VB
     
  7      clock
     If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.
        The emergency services were working against the clock as the tide began to rise.
        It's now become a race against the clock.
     PHR: PHR after v, n PHR
     
  8      clock
     If you beat the clock, you finish doing something or succeed in doing something before the time allowed for doing it has ended.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  9      clock
     If something is done round the clock or around the clock, it is done all day and all night without stopping.
        Rescue services have been working round the clock to free stranded motorists.
        We can't afford to give you around-the-clock protection.
     PHR: PHR with v, PHR n
     
  10      clock
     If you want to turn the clock back or put the clock back, you want to return to a situation that used to exist, usually because the present situation is unpleasant.
        In some ways we wish we could turn the clock back.
        We cannot put back the clock.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  11      clock
     If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible. (INFORMAL)
        I started to watch the clock about halfway through the class.
     PHR: V inflects
     
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9.


compliment        
  1      compliment   compliments
     A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
        You can do no harm by paying a woman compliments.
        `Well done, Cassandra,' Crook said. She blushed, but accepted the compliment with good grace.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      compliment   compliments   complimenting   complimented
     If you compliment someone, you pay them a compliment.
        They complimented me on the way I looked each time they saw me.
        Firstly I compliment you on most of your excellent Spring issue of `Triangle'.
     VB
     
  3      compliment   compliments
     If you consider something that a person says or does as a compliment, it convinces you of your own good qualities, or that the person appreciates you.
        We consider it a compliment to be called `conservative'.
        It's obvious he's worried about us and I'm taking it as a compliment.
     N-COUNT
     
  4      compliment   compliments
     You can refer to your compliments when you want to express thanks, good wishes, or respect to someone in a formal way.
        My compliments to the chef.
        Give my compliments to your lovely wife when you write home.
     N-PLURAL: usu poss N, oft N to n politeness
     
  5      compliment
     If you say that someone returns the compliment, you mean that they do the same thing to someone else as that person has done to them.
        The actors have entertained us so splendidly during this weekend, I think it's time we returned the compliment.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  6      compliment
     If you say that you are giving someone something with your compliments, you are saying in a polite and fairly formal way that you are giving it to them, especially as a gift or a favour.
        Please give this to your boss with my compliments.
        On my bedside table awaited, with the compliments of the management, an appetizing breakfast.
     PHR: PHR after v politeness
     
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10.

centre        
  1      centre   centres
     A centre is a building where people have meetings, take part in a particular activity, or get help of some kind.
        We went to a party at the leisure centre.
        She now also does pottery classes at a community centre.
        ...the National Exhibition Centre.
     N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft in names after n (AM) center
     
  2      centre   centres
     If an area or town is a centre for an industry or activity, that industry or activity is very important there.
        London is also the major international insurance centre.
     N-COUNT: with supp (AM) center
     
  3      centre   centres
     The centre of something is the middle of it.
        A large wooden table dominates the centre of the room.
        Bake until light golden and crisp around the edges and slightly soft in the centre.
     N-COUNT: usu sing (AM) center
     
  4      centre   centres
     The centre of a town or city is the part where there are the most shops and businesses and where a lot of people come from other areas to work or shop.
        ...the city centre.
     N-COUNT: usu sing (AM) center
     
  5      centre   centres
     If something or someone is at the centre of a situation, they are the most important thing or person involved.
        ...the man at the centre of the controversy...
        At the centre of the heated row was the question: Who leaked little Jennifer's name?
     N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N of n (AM) center
     
  6      centre   centres
     If someone or something is the centre of attention or interest, people are giving them a lot of attention.
        The rest of the cast was used to her being the centre of attention.
        The centre of attraction was Pierre Auguste Renoir's oil painting.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n (AM) center
     = focus
  7      centre
     In politics, the centre refers to groups and their beliefs, when they are considered to be neither left-wing nor right-wing.
        The Democrats have become a party of the centre.
        ...the centre parties.
     N-SING: the N, oft N n (AM) center
     
  8      centre   centres   centring   centred
     If you centre something, you move it so that it is at the centre of something else.
        Centre the design on the cloth before you start.
     VB (AM) center
     
  9      centre   centres   centring   centred
     If something centres or is centred on a particular thing or person, that thing or person is the main subject of attention.
        ...the improvement was the result of a plan which centred on academic achievement and personal motivation...
        All his concerns were centred around himself rather than Rachel.
        When working with patients, my efforts are centred on helping them to overcome illness.
     V-ERG (AM) center
     
       -centred
        ...a child-centred approach to teaching.
        ...patient-centred care.
     COMB in ADJ-GRADED
     
  10      centre   centres   centring   centred
     If an industry or event is centred in a place, or if it centres there, it takes place to the greatest extent there.
        The fighting has been centred around the town of Vucovar.
        The disturbances have centred round the two main university areas.
        Between 100 and 150 travellers' vehicles were scattered around the county, with the largest gathering centred on Ampfield.
     V-ERG (AM) center
     
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11.


chair        
  1      chair   chairs
     A chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit on, with a back and four legs.
        He rose from his chair and walked to the window.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      chair   chairs
     At a university, a chair is the post of professor.
        He has been appointed to the chair of sociology at Southampton University.
        He gave London University s600,000 to establish a chair in Islamic art.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of/in n
     = professorship
  3      chair   chairs
     The person who is the chair of a committee or meeting is the person in charge of it.
        She is the chair of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military.
     N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n
     = chairperson
  4      chair   chairs   chairing   chaired
     If you chair a meeting or a committee, you are the person in charge of it.
        He was about to chair a meeting in Venice of EC foreign ministers.
        The declaration was drafted by a committee chaired by Dr Robert Song.
     VB
     
  5      chair
     The chair is the same as the electric chair. (AM)
     N-SING: the N
     
  6      chair
     If you are in the chair or take the chair at a meeting, you are the person in charge of it.
        In the chair was Morien Morgan.
        Wheeler took the chair of this sub-committee.
        ...Britain's turn in the EC chair.
     PHR: V inflects
     
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dollar        
  1      dollar   dollars
     The dollar is the unit of money used in the USA, Canada, Australia, and some other countries. It is represented by the symbol $. A dollar is divided into one hundred smaller units called cents.
        She gets paid seven dollars an hour.
        The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.
     N-COUNT: usu num N
     
  +      dollar
     The dollar is also used to refer to the American currency system.
        In early trading in Tokyo, the dollar fell sharply against the yen.
     N-SING: the N
     
  2      dollar
     If you pay top dollar for something, you pay a lot of money for it. (INFORMAL)
        Japanese investors once paid top dollar for the most glamorous hotels and office buildings in the United States.
     PHR
     
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13.

money        
  1      money
     Money is the coins or bank notes that you use to buy things, or the sum that you have in a bank account.
        A lot of the money that you pay at the cinema goes back to the film distributors.
        Players should be allowed to earn money from advertising.
        She probably had more money but she didn't spend it.
        ...discounts and money saving offers.
     N-UNCOUNT
     
  2      money   monies or moneys
     Monies is used to refer to several separate sums of money that form part of a larger amount that is received or spent. (FORMAL)
        We drew up a schedule of payments for the rest of the monies owed.
        ...the investment and management of monies by pension funds.
     N-PLURAL
     
  3      money
     If you say that someone has money to burn, you mean that they have more money than they need or that they spend their money on things that you think are unnecessary.
        He was a high-earning broker with money to burn.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  4      money
     If you are in the money, you have a lot of money to spend. (INFORMAL)
        If you are one of the lucky callers chosen to play, you could be in the money.
     PHR: usu v-link PHR
     = rolling in it
  5      money
     If you make money, you obtain money by earning it or by making a profit.
        They couldn't find work or make money in the cities.
        ...the only bit of the firm that consistently made money.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  6      money
     If you say that you want someone to put their money where their mouth is, you want them to spend money to improve a bad situation, instead of just talking about improving it.
        The government might be obliged to put its money where its mouth is to prove its commitment.
     PHR: V inflects
     
  7      money
     If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen. (JOURNALISM)
        With England not playing, the smart money was on the Germans.
        A lot of smart money in Washington says that peace is nearly at hand.
     PHR
     
  8      money
     If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
        The formula in Hollywood is simplemmoney talks.
     PHR
     
  9      money
     If you say that someone is throwing money at a problem, you are critical of them for trying to improve it by spending money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful and practical things to improve it.
        The Australian government's answer to the problem has been to throw money at it.
     PHR: V inflects, PHR n disapproval
     
  10      money
     If you say that someone is throwing good money after bad, you are critical of them for trying to improve a bad situation by spending more money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful or practical things to improve it.
        Further heavy intervention would be throwing good money after bad.
     PHR: V inflects disapproval
     
  11      money
     If you get your money's worth, you get something which is worth the money that it costs or the effort you have put in.
        The fans get their money's worth.
     PHR: PHR after v
     = value for money
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14.


how        
  1      how
     You use how to ask about the way in which something happens or is done.
        How do I make payments into my account?.
        How do you manage to keep the place so tidy?.
        The law, your contracts, your public protect you, do they? How?.
        How are you going to plan for the future?
     QUEST
     
  +      how
     Also a conjunction.
        I don't want to know how he died.
        Did you ever wonder how the top supermodels manage to look stunning?.
        I didn't know how to tell you.
     CONJ-SUBORD
     
  2      how
     You use how after certain adjectives and verbs to introduce a statement or fact, often something that you remember or expect other people to know about.
        It's amazing how people collect so much stuff over the years.
        It's funny how I never seem to get a thing done on my day off.
        I remember how Grandma loved to cook, loved to fix special treats.
        It's important to become acutely aware of how your eating ties in with your stress level.
     CONJ-SUBORD
     
  3      how
     You use how to ask questions about the quantity or degree of something.
        How much money are we talking about?.
        How many full-time staff have we got?.
        How long will you be staying?.
        How old is your son now?.
        How fast were you driving?.
        How difficult is it to do business with the company?.
        `How well do you know Mrs. O'Toole?' Ryan asked.
        No-one knows how many people have been killed since the war began.
        He was asked how serious the situation had become.
     QUEST: QUEST much/many, QUEST adj/adv
     
  4      how
     You use how when you are asking someone whether something was successful or enjoyable.
        How was your trip down to Orlando?.
        How did your date go?.
        Tell me about your clinical trials. How did they go?.
        Tell me how everything went off tonight.
        I wonder how Sam got on with him.
     QUEST
     
  5      how
     You use how to ask about someone's health or to find out someone's news.
        Hi! How are you doing?.
        How's Rosie?.
        How's the job?.
        She asked how he had been feeling.
        Susan introduced herself to him and asked him how he was.
     QUEST
     
  6      how
     `How do you do' is a polite way of greeting someone when you meet them for the first time.
        `How do you do, Mrs Bellingham,' Sam said.
     CONVENTION formulae
     
  7      how
     You use how when you want to say that it does not matter which way something is done. (INFORMAL)
        Two historical questionsmyou can answer them how you like.
        It's your life, so live it how you want!
     CONJ-SUBORD
     = however
  8      how
     You use how to emphasize the degree to which something is true.
        I didn't realize how heavy that shopping was going to be.
        Franklin told them all how happy he was to be in Britain again.
     ADV: ADV adj/adv emphasis
     
  9      how
     You use how in exclamations to emphasize an adjective, adverb, or statement.
        How strange that something so simple as a walk on the beach could suddenly mean so much.
        How anxiously she awaited my answer.
        How she must have talked last night!
     ADV: ADV adj/adv/cl emphasis
     
  10      how
     You use how in expressions such as `How can you...' and `How could you...' to indicate that you disapprove of what someone has done or that you find it hard to believe.
        How can you drink so much beer, Luke?.
        How could such a writer be taken seriously?.
        How could he be so indiscreet?
     QUEST: QUEST can/could disapproval
     
  11      how
     You use how in expressions such as `how about...' or `how would you like...' when you are making an offer or a suggestion.
        How about a cup of coffee?.
        You want Jeannie to make the appointment for you? How about the end of next week?.
        How would you like to have dinner one night?
     QUEST
     = what about
  12      how
     If you ask someone `How about you?' you are asking them what they think or want.
        Well, I enjoyed that. How about you two?.
        `Something to drink?'n`No, thanks,' said Michael. He glanced at Wilfred. `How about you?'
     CONVENTION
     = what about you
  13      how
     If you say `How about that?' you are drawing attention to something that has been said or done that you think is surprising.
        The twins made their appearance at three o'clock. How about that? Spot on time.
     CONVENTION feelings
     
  14      how
     You use how about to introduce a new subject which you think is relevant to the conversation you have been having.
        Are your products and services competitive? How about marketing?
     PHR: PHR n
     = what about
  15      how
     You ask `How come?' or `How so?' when you are surprised by something and are asking why it happened or was said. (INFORMAL)
        `They don't say a single word to each other.'n`How come?'.
        How come he hasn't been able to be as good this year?.
        `She was weird.'n`How so?'
     PHR: oft PHR cl
     
  16      how
     If you say `How do you mean?' to someone, you are asking them to explain or give more details of what they have just said. (BRIT, INFORMAL)
        `The fuel gauge is broken.'n`Broken? How do you mean?'
     PHR
     = what do you mean
  17      how
     If you say `How's that?' to someone, you are asking whether something is acceptable or satisfactory.
        Suppose we meet somewhere for a drink? I'll pay. How's that?
     PHR
     
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much        
  1      much
     You use much to indicate the great intensity, extent, or degree of something such as an action, feeling, or change. Much is usually used with `so', `too', and `very', and in negative clauses with this meaning.
        She laughs too much.
        Thank you very much.
        My hairstyle hasn't changed much since I was five.
     ADV-GRADED: ADV after v
     
  2      much
     If something does not happen much, it does not happen very often.
        He said that his father never talked much about the war.
        Gwen had not seen her Daddy all that much, because mostly he worked on the ships.
        Do you get back East much?
     ADV-GRADED: oft with brd-neg, ADV after v
     = often
  3      much
     You use much in front of `too' or comparative adjectives and adverbs in order to emphasize that there is a large amount of a particular quality.
        The skin is much too delicate.
        You'd be so much happier if you could see yourself the way I see you.
        He had written to The Times and then, much more unacceptably, allowed himself to be interviewed on television.
     ADV-GRADED: ADV compar, ADV too emphasis
     = far
  4      much
     If one thing is much the same as another thing, it is very similar to it.
        The day ended much as it began.
        Sheep's milk is produced in much the same way as goat's milk.
     ADV: ADV as/like cl, ADV like n, ADV n as n, ADV n
     
  5      much
     You use much to indicate that you are referring to a large amount of a substance or thing.
        They are grown on the hillsides in full sun, without much water.
        Japan has been reluctant to offer much aid to Russia.
        The Home Office acknowledges that much crime goes unreported.
        Furniture is so bulky, it takes so much room.
     DET: DET n-uncount, oft with brd-neg
     * little
  +      much
     Also a pronoun.
        ...eating too much and drinking too much...
        There was so much to talk about.
     PRON
     * little
  +      much
     Also a quantifier.
        Much of the time we do not notice that we are solving problems.
        She does much of her work abroad.
        Her father had been a merchant seaman, absent for much of her childhood.
     QUANT: QUANT of def-n-uncount/def-sing-n
     = a lot of
  6      much
     You use much in expressions such as not much, not very much, and too much when replying to questions about amounts.
        `Can you hear it where you live?' He shook his head. `Not much.'.
        `Do you care very much about what other people think?'n`Too much.'
     ADV-GRADED: ADV as reply
     
  7      much
     If you do not see much of someone, you do not see them very often.
        I don't see much of Tony nowadays.
        We won't be seeing much of each other for a while.
     QUANT: with brd-neg, QUANT of n-proper/pron
     
  8      much
     You use much in the expression how much to ask questions about amounts or degrees, and also in reported clauses and statements to give information about the amount or degree of something.
        How much money can I afford?.
        See just how much fat and cholesterol you're eating.
        I'm always very aware of how much work there is still to be done.
        Krock told this story to McCauley and asked him how much truth there was in it.
     DET: how DET
     
  +      much
     Also an adverb.
        She knows how much this upsets me but she persists in doing it.
        How much cooler will it get?
     ADV-GRADED: how ADV, ADV with cl, ADV compar
     
  +      much
     Also a pronoun.
        How much do you earn?.
        Greg made a vague gesture to indicate how much.
     PRON: how PRON
     
  9      much
     You use much in the expression as much when you are comparing amounts.
        I shall try, with as much patience as is possible, to explain yet again.
        Their aim will be to produce as much milk as possible.
        With an 18-watt fluorescent bulb you get as much light but use 75% less electricity.
     DET: as DET n, usu as DET n as cl/group
     
  10      much
     You use much as to introduce a fact which makes something else you have just said or will say rather surprising.
        Much as they hope to go home tomorrow, they're resigned to staying on until the end of the year.
     PHR-CONJ-SUBORD
     
  11      much
     You use as much in expressions such as `I thought as much' and `I guessed as much' after you have just been told something and you want to say that you already believed or expected it to be true.
        You're waiting for a womanmI thought as much.
     PHR: v PHR
     
  12      much
     You use as much as before an amount to suggest that it is surprisingly large.
        The organisers hope to raise as much as s6m for charity.
     PHR: PHR amount emphasis
     
  13      much
     You use much less after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
        They are always short of water to drink, much less to bathe in.
        But we must not think of Chekhov as a leftist, much less a revolutionary.
     PHR: PHR cl/group, PHR before v
     
  14      much
     You say nothing much to refer to something that is not very interesting or important.
        `What was stolen?'n`Oh, nothing much.'.
        Nothing much interesting seemed to be happening.
     PHR
     
  15      much
     If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
        It hasn't been much of a holiday.
        It's not much of a career, you may think.
     PHR: PHR n
     
  16      much
     So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject. (SPOKEN)
        Well, so much for the producers. But what of the consumers?
     PHR: PHR n
     
  17      much
     If you say so much for a particular thing, you mean that it has not been successful or helpful. (INFORMAL)
        He had panicked. And panic was fear. So much for all his damn theories!
     PHR: PHR n
     
  18      much
     If you say that something is not so much one thing as another, you mean that it is more like the second thing than the first.
        I don't really think of her as a daughter so much as a very good friend.
        She told me she was not so much leaving her job as it was leaving her.
     PHR: with brd-neg, PHR group, PHR before v
     
  19      much
     If you say that someone did not do so much as perform a particular action, you are emphasizing that they did not even do that, when you were expecting them to do more.
        I didn't so much as catch sight of him all day long.
        Laura had not reproached him, never so much as mentioned it.
        She auctioned off the car without so much as taking a ride in it.
     PHR: with brd-neg, PHR before v emphasis
     = even
  20      much
     You use so much so to indicate that your previous statement is true to a very great extent, and therefore it has the result mentioned.
        He himself believed in freedom, so much so that he would rather die than live without it.
     PHR: PHR that
     
  21      much
     If a situation or action is too much for you, it is so difficult, tiring, or upsetting that you cannot cope with it.
        His inability to stay at one job for long had finally proved too much for her.
     PHR: v-link PHR, oft PHR for n
     
  22      much
     You use very much to emphasize that someone or something has a lot of a particular quality, or that the description you are about to give is particularly accurate.
        ...a man very much in charge of himself...
        Yorkshire is still very much a farming community with good meat, good dairy produce and eggs.
        Something was very much the matter.
     PHR: oft PHR n emphasis
     
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