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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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fossil fuel
124
Monetisation
6
testosterone
5
punish
411
FEARFUL
128
samoa
5
pro forma
3
flow
596
prettyish
4
cantata
60
Mafioso
9
protoplasmal
8
unable
457
detach
333
tripe
6
spinnaker
5
orchard
186
redress
12
ethnography
232
watermelon
10
corn-exchange
68
stuffer
6
waterside
7
toff
8
opinion
396
unhitch
8
spinachy
2
wolfhound
7
obvious
439
unsatisfied
5
listeria
5
stepmom
8
unpick
9
wearied
9
transgressor
12
unexceptionable
8
baize
115
redressal
8
virology
8
sleaze
9
tidied
6
kick
413
protrusive
7
ratifies
8
Retarded
10
neocon
10
reprovable
10
To disappear, or to stop existing or happening
20
southern
327
beading
73
submergible
8
wintry
10
eighteen
353
posteriority
4
stood
3
collider
6
pinochle
6
NT
5
pinker
5
registration document
31
rattier
7
eww
9
unpaved
10
rwandan
6
scrummed
9
sweepstakes
8
Durex
30
runny
7
trout
8
windmill
6
tapir
6
furniture
697
semiprecious
8
uppity
5
OXFAM
11
stagecoach
8
parka
14
tourney
10
sozzled
6
prostitute
9
saturnalia
5
angina
167
non-renewable
8
sase
12
squaddy
9
impedimenta
8
no-no
10
Fleet
84
Journalists and groups of journalists
11
Passion, the
189
greasepaint
108
th
9
stupidity
9
quota
221
sump
8
tumulus
10
god-awful
147
shopkeeper
506
Cicada
9
gossamer
65
Miraculously
13
hence
373
vilified
1
archdukedom
7
Headphones
33
slushy
8
sagittarius
5
pontiff
6
Dice
57
tape
398
trajectories
5
biology
354
Comfort
233
germanium
60
plunder
224
apparent
668
rheme
4
Existing
528
appeals court
80
wigging
8
a priori
101
trowel
4
Sermonize
46
voguing
7
telex
7
ashtray
74
ungrammatical
8
dietary
127
Freelance
181
sustain
387
rejection
245
Reach
272
vitro
7
shelves
8
broom
357
recondite
6
fart
82
institution
383
vp
4
sat
4
recompense
3
kill
409
reexamine
11
Excitement
263
diplomatic bag
82
youngster
368
punctuate
8
pole
616
fork out (something)
88
scarves
3
torchlight
7
nature
414
tumuli
6
phonetician
11
forth
313
roomier
4
lineman
9
underside
3
summit
555
ado
85
scumbag
2
ruled
7
navel gazing
11
pique
14
analogous
152
stratagem
78
untidy
7
vision
445
usherette
2
urdu
2
wearer
5
plaguing
2
hoax
162
ricotta
11
fit up
88
replication
2
whammies
4
rag doll
3
Suit
141
planted
7
pint
387
seditious
112
pianist
31
up to
144
unsociable
5
abdominal
145
smallholding
7
tempting
204
hierarchy
398
vg
6
underpinnings
2
semitone
13
ponce
4
snowdrift
3
runnier
8
percussionist
6
swatted
4
fag end
41
sawdust
8
uncooperative
9
widowhood
8
smeller
3
lawsuit
31
sexier
9
onion
461
webhead
6
limitation
491
topeka
6
predicant
6
puerile
7
hussies
6
workably
6
Tactful
26
ream
8
treasurer
11
startlement
9
cat burglar
86
seizing
7
polack
7
sentries
7
throttle
6
stickybeak
8
DVLA, the
45
stews
5
difference
558
Limit
301
rex
8
frozen
90
tenements
4
volte
6
Notion
237
snotty
9
polypoid
8
sample
407
resin
9
frosh
54
quoit
8
scuttlebutt
6
misogynic
8
saturnalianly
7
steering
9
non-restrictive
8
Pyrex
9
unfazed
9
icq
8
tealight
3
snowiest
3
toytown
8
yammer
5
pallid
5
smallish
3
remitter
3
landfill
161
rockfall
9
wearisome
12
cold-blooded
153
pricer
8
expressionist
83
hulk
15
rabies
9
strove
7
pol
9
Fied
25
ps
9
south-westerly
6
twilit
2
warzone
10
risk assessment
85
upc
9
definition
574
sandbar
5
whopper
7
valentine
6
starched
2
Univ
5
south-easterly
2
bathtub
124
rissole
4
Grail
21
sorted
12
coeducational
34
uk
2
prepared
147
records
5
Capacity
259
NIMBY
11
snagging
5
topsides
7
region
421
glory
402
spiny
50
sparkling
4
felon
104
yd.
7
showrooming
1
average
470
fascinating
239
poofter
6
Bucket
113
payment
429
zanier
4
While
342
envelope
627
woods
5
webbing
2
big bucks
78
wiener
2
gigantic
232
observable
143
ridiculously
8
aside from
58
tried
5
skater
2
Deport
45
faith
383
shamanism
3
splice
4
recd
9
recuperable
8
give
318
defective
102
wrung
4
browned off
37
self
1093
discretionary
97
ailment
123
neat
569
sauté
3
weatherboard
7
retrofitting
5
bog
251
grievance
211
enchanted
170
stocking
475
Adrift
69
schwa
6
Engender
174
primus
7
southbound
6
pooch
8
repackage
6
wednesdays
7
resettle
9
pyrotechnics
7
tripodal
9
trapeze
7
vibration
423
pyramidal
8
wham
7
quoits
5
powers
12
tolerance
517
untypical
7
agonize
83
bst
88
woodworm
7
Uzbekistan
7
signposted
7
protractor
6
Font
50
sloganeering
8
pugilist
9
rectification
7
rations
7
sax
5
supplementation
7
weft
7
deputy
386
wartless
6
tentacled
5
uzi
11
unendurable
5
scabbing
6
ether
76
wove
7
substantial
487
squadron
6
vetted
4
unemotionally
5
plantain
5
ruleless
7
Birthdays and anniversaries
42
upwards
342
needlework
9
Animals found on more than one continent
23
Appeal
274
rightward
7
polyurethane
9
breeding ground
93
wholewheat
8
paneled
36
sharecropper
9
delectable
124
blacksmith
82
edition
398
shush
6
tribe
423
UK, the
83
unplaced
4
wargame
5
unsuitable
399
little
187
noun
540
compass
343
self-denial
74
protagonist
259
Making you feel surprised or amazed
53
ceiling
405
yrs
10
boutique
156
splattered
5
commercial
407
blaze
401
lava
9
go with somebody
71
xe
8
upcoming
270
FLATTER
24
zax
5
qatar
7
Proof
84
revetment
5
rider
369
who's
8
rectilinear
6
sounds
6
as much as
20
tie
1361
angular
148
consecration
39
tissuey
4
Trends
8
acceleration
437
wallchart
11
shabbiest
5
tepee
4
testimonies
7
proser
7
wistaria
9
coarseness
81
taken
8
prophesies
5
polytheistical
7
thunderclap
6
spillable
4
Luxembourg
8
fish and chip shop
64
rooty
8
utter
360
wassail
7
welder
9
weary
497
Truancy
30
writhe
7
fluid
428
rococo
7
thai
7
Standard
142
push-start
21
vertex
1
satanic
5
squeezability
5
weightlifter
6
infight
10
seawater
7
remonstrate
7
divide
485
rhinestone
6
ragga
9
tatting
7
provincialism
5
thereof
8
Annunciation
23
gallon
373
purebred
8
unpalatable
6
vulturous
5
potty
5
snidey
3
inevitability
45
reload
9
yucky
7
irrationality
6
detain
208
transferor
5
workhouse
9
tache
2
subtitled
5
slobber
6
supplied
9
potash
4
woot
7
Migration
162
interpose
9
skippable
9
restatement
5
wally
7
conversion
450
tuppenny
6
qb
6
TOEFL
BNC: 1762
COCA: 2053
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
approve
Word family
noun
approval
≠
disapproval
approver
approved school
adjective
approving
≠
disapproving
approved
approvable
verb
approve
≠
disapprove
adverb
approvingly
≠
disapprovingly
ap
·
prove
/
əˈpruːv
/
●●●
S3
W2
verb
1
[
transitive
T
]
AGREE
to officially
accept
a plan,
proposal
etc
批准;认可
The conference approved a proposal for a referendum.
会议通过了举行全民公决的提议。
►
see
thesaurus
at
agree
2
[
intransitive
I
]
APPROVE
to think that someone or something is good, right, or
suitable
赞许;赞成,同意
OPP
disapprove
approve of
Catherine’s parents now approve of her marriage.
凯瑟琳的父母现在认可她的婚姻了。
I don’t approve of cosmetic surgery.
我不赞同整型手术。
n
GRAMMAR: Comparison
approve of
You use
approve of
when saying that someone thinks that someone or something is good or right:
Her parents didn’t
approve of
her boyfriend.
✗
Don’t say:
Her parents didn’t approve her boyfriend.
approve
You use
approve
when saying that a person or group of people officially agrees to allow something to happen:
Congress approved the budget.
THESAURUS
approve
to officially accept a plan, proposal etc
批准;认可
The Medical Research Council has approved the use of a new drug for breast cancer.
医学研究委员会已批准使用一种新药来治疗乳腺癌。
pass
to
approve
a
law
or proposal, especially by
voting
〔尤指以投票方式〕通过〔法律或提案〕
Many anti-smoking laws have been passed.
许多禁烟法令已获通过。
ratify
to make a written
agreement
official
by
signing
it
批准,正式签署
The treaty was ratified by the Senate in 1988.
此条约由参议院于
1988
年批准。
rubber-stamp
to approve something without really thinking about it – used to show
disapproval
不加思考就照例批准〔含贬义〕
Parliament merely rubber-stamped the president’s decisions.
议会只是例行公事般通过了总统的决定。
Examples from the Corpus
approve
•
Don
will only buy the
motorcycle
if his parents
approve
.
•
Some women do not
join
unions because their
husbands
do not
approve
.
•
The
Senate
approved
a plan for
federal
funding
of local housing
programs
.
•
He said the proposals would have to be
approved
by the
engineering
department
.
•
In the Watergate
scandal
,
obstruction
of
justice
was number one in the
articles
of impeachment
approved
by the House
Judiciary
Committee
.
•
Assuming
the department would
approve
, I could tell a story or two.
•
Bob
doesn't
approve
of
alcohol
.
•
Do you
approve
of doctors using
human
embryos
for
research
?
•
By the time she
finished
, her
father
would surely have
approved
of her work.
•
Forty
percent
of
registered
voters
approved
of
Senator
Campbell.
•
I was
surprised
that
Mom
seemed to
approve
of Tracy's new
boyfriend
.
•
In 1994, voters there
approved
Proposition
187, which
restricts
education
,
health
and other state services to
illegal
aliens
.
•
Congress
voted not to
approve
the President's plans for cutting the arms
budget
.
•
The
Medical
Research
Council
said it could not
approve
the use of the new
drug
without
further
tests
.
•
Kwalwasser
drafted
a reorganization plan for his
office
that the
board
of education
approved
Tuesday
.
approve of
•
Most people no longer
approve of
smoking
in public places.
Origin
approve
(
1300-1400
)
Old French
aprover
, from
Latin
approbare
, from
ad-
“
to
”
+
probare
“
to prove
”
ap
·
prove
verb
→
n
GRAMMAR
1
→THESAURUS
1
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