To trap or ensnare.
To trick someone in order to make them do something.
To cause to happen.
To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
To profess openly; to make pretensions.
To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
To arrange logically.
To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
To establish someone in a business or position.
To gel or harden.
To ready something for use.
To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
To ready for use.
To found; to start (a business, scheme)
To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
In a position to function; ready.
To strangle or choke someone.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.