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• to set an example, to give someone a lead

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• to buy more, to increase one's holdings

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• to spend one's days in grief, to grieve away one's days, to grieve all day

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• to have convulsions

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• to digest (a book), to thoroughly understand

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• to start walking, to begin to walk
• to begin (something new)

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• to destroy, to break (by striking), to smash (to pieces), to knock down
• to ruin (e.g. a plan), to wreck, to do away with (an old custom, ideology, etc.), to overthrow (a system), to dismantle

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• to knock (someone) down, to floor, to beat up, to beat to a pulp
• to deal a devastating blow (from which one cannot recover), to devastate (emotionally), to crush, to overwhelm, to defeat resoundingly, to give (an opponent) a drubbing

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• to make a fortune, to build family wealth
• to become the head of a family

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• to turn inside out, to evert