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He wrapped a robe around himself before answering the door; I had on pajamas and a robe.

Judges wear black robes when they are in court.; They wear different robes according to the level of their degrees, and their parents are present watching their young hopefuls graduate.

The terrorists financed themselves by robbing banks.; My wallet's gone! I've been robbed!; They robbed the company of $2 million; The gang admitted they had committed four recent bank robberies. The robbers shot a policeman before making their getaway.

A last-minute injury robbed me of my place on the team.; Elderly people should not be robbed of their dignity.

The place was in such a mess that I thought we'd been burgled; Several men were questioned by police yesterday about the burglary; The burglar had left his fingerprints all over the window.

The water was level with the edge of the bowl.

Make sure the camera is level before you take the picture.; Is this painting level?; This table isn't level.

In a level voice, he ordered the soldiers to aim and fire.

Level the wet cement before it sets; We had to level the backyard before putting up the pool.

The bombing levelled the village; Her grandfather survived the 1906 earthquake that leveled San Francisco.

Soldiers leveled their weapons.

Interest rates are expected to remain level for the next six months.; level with sth: Overall, sales were level with those for the same period last year.

"Keep calm," she told him levelly, as if he were crazed.; Jenny stared at him levelly.;

If the tax systems are different in each European country, how can industries start on a level playing field?;

Tickets are hard to come by but I'll do my level best to get you one.

a cranky baby; He's been cranky all day.; He was bored and cranky after eight hours of working

She's a member of a group that promotes cranky ideas about food and exercise.; In this country, cycling is regarded as a slightly cranky occupation.

I can't find my brush, but I still have my comb.; Can I borrow your comb?.; I always carry a comb in my handbag.

Combs have been used from ancient times by women to hold and fix their hair.

She combed her hair and put on some lipstick.; I combed my hair before I left home.

The police combed the whole area for evidence;

an unruly class of adolescents; Her unruly behavior caused chaos in class; About 4,000 cases of in-flight passenger unruliness occur every year; It was not the unruliness of the pupils that drove her to quit.

an unruly mop of black hair

He mopped the bathroom floor.

He kept pausing to mop his brow.

She wrinkled her brow as she thought.; He paused at the top of the hill and mopped his brow (= rubbed the sweat away); He wiped the sweat from his brow.; A brow is also an eyebrow.

The battle had been won, but two infantry units were left behind to mop up.; Twenty firefighters will be working on mopping up the fire today.

The cottages were built on the brow of a hill; the brow of the hill

She stuck her tongue out at him and smiled.

stick/be stuck at sth: The bank's main money market rate has been stuck at 4.50% for eight weeks.

Stick these labels on the top of the boxes.; He stuck up a notice on the board with pins; I tried to stick the pieces together with some glue/tape; This glue won't stick.

When I get up in the morning, my hair is always sticking up.; There were some large rocks sticking up out of the water.

Two men ran into the bank, shouting "This is a stick-up!"

Did you hear that someone stuck up the post office last night?

There was a handkerchief sticking out of his jacket pocket.

She certainly sticks out in a crowd.; Dye your hair orange and you’ll really stick out in a small town like this.

Mum, Lewis stuck out his tongue at me!; He stuck his arm out of the window and waved at us. She stuck her head out of the window and called to him.

She took out her handkerchief and blew her nose loudly; He added that he had to take out a handkerchief as he watched the film.

Definition - another: Definition - another: a square of cotton or other finely woven material, typically carried in one's pocket and intended for blowing or wiping one's nose;

I don't know why he hangs out with James, they've got nothing in common.; Haven't you got anything better to do than hang out at the shopping centre?