To collect and detain (a suspect).
To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
To lift; to grasp and raise.
To clean up; to return to an organized state.
To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
To receive calls; to function correctly.
To record; to notch up.
To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
To collect an object, especially in passing.
To answer a telephone.
To take control (physically) of something.
To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
To restart or resume.
To receive (a radio signal or the like).
To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
To improve, increase, or speed up.
To reduce the despondency of.
To pay for.
To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
To collect a passenger.
To arrest or capture.
To squeeze between two objects.
Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
To steal, usually something inconsequential.
To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
To seize; to grip; to bite.
A close compression of anything with the fingers.
A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
An organic herbal smoke additive.
A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
An arrest.
A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.