boarding embarkation embarkment | the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft |
boarding | a structure of boards |
boarding house boardinghouse | a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests |
boarding card boarding pass | a pass that allows you to board a ship or plane |
boarding school | a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught |
f make urinate piddle puddle micturate piss pee pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny wee wee-wee pass water | eliminate urine, Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug |
find oneself find d | accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation, My son went to Berkeley to find himself |
steel oneself against steel onself for brace oneself for prepare for | prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant |
get cracking bestir oneself get going get moving get weaving get started get rolling | start to be active, Get cracking, please! |
prove oneself | show one's ability or courage |
propose declare oneself offer pop the question | ask (someone) to marry you, he popped the question on Sunday night, she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months, The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman |
cross oneself | make the sign of the cross, in the Catholic religion |
extend oneself | strain to the utmost |
kill oneself overexert oneself | strain oneself more than is healthy |
take pride pride oneself | feel proud of, She took great pride in her sons |
betake oneself | displace oneself, go from one location to another |
keep to oneself | withhold information, I kept your little secret to myself all these years |
keep to oneself | shun the company of others, The new student keeps to herself |
band oneself league together | attach oneself to a group |
bring oneself | cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative, He could not bring himself to call his parents |
trouble oneself trouble bother inconvenience oneself | take the trouble to do something, concern oneself, He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday, Don't bother, please |
condescend stoop lower oneself c | debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way, I won't stoop to reading other people's mail |
assert oneself | put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner |
remember oneself | recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly, Please remember yourself, Charles! |
lend oneself apply | be applicable to, as to an analysis, This theory lends itself well to our new data |
help oneself help | abstain from doing, always used with a negative, I can't help myself--I have to smoke, She could not help watching the sad spectacle |