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📖 Определения и значения для слова heel

📒 the back part of the foot below the ankle

  • Apply the cream to dry, cracked heels before bed.
  • on your heels She took a potato from the fire and sat back on her heels.
  • The punch rocked him back on his heels.

📒 the part of a sock, etc. that covers the heel

📒 the raised part on the bottom of a shoe, boot, etc. that makes the shoe, etc. higher at the back

  • shoes with a low/high heel
  • a stiletto heel
  • He crushed the cigarette under the heel of his shoe.

📒 having the type of heel mentioned

  • high-heeled shoes

📒 a pair of shoes that have high heels

  • She doesn't often wear heels.
  • I had to do the whole walk in heels.

📒 the raised part of the inside of the hand where it joins the wrist

📒 a man who is unpleasant to other people and cannot be trusted

📒 following closely behind somebody

  • He fled from the stadium with the police at his heels.
  • She came up the path with two little dogs at her heels.

📒 to force somebody to obey you and accept discipline

  • a non-violent means of bringing the rebels to heel

📒 to make a dog come close to you

📒 to agree to obey somebody and accept their orders

📒 to come close to the person who has called it

📒 to have to wait for somebody/something

📒 to refuse to do something or to change your mind about something

  • They dug in their heels and would not lower the price.

📒 to be deliberately slow in doing something or in making a decision

📒 very close behind somebody/something; very soon after something

  • He turned and fled with Peter hot on his heels.
  • They reached the border with the police hot on their heels.
  • Further successes came hot on the heels of her first best-selling novel.

📒 loving somebody very much

  • He's fallen head over heels in love with his boss.

📒 to have nothing to do while you are waiting for somebody/something

  • We were kicking our heels, waiting for some customers.

📒 to be relaxed and enjoy yourself

📒 to run away from somebody/something

📒 to follow somebody closely

📒 to turn around suddenly so that you are facing in the opposite direction

  • He turned on his heel and marched away angrily.

📒 completely controlled by somebody

  • The island spent several centuries under the heel of the British Empire.
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