📖 general

To cause someone trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; to tease or criticize someone repeatedly.

To cause someone a great deal of trouble, difficulty, or pain; to scold or punish severely.

To give someone enough freedom or opportunity to act as they wish, often to observe their actions or decisions.

To betray someone, especially by informing on them; or, to leave someone with an unwelcome task or responsibility.

To dismiss someone rudely or curtly; to reject someone's advances or requests.

To treat someone harshly or roughly; to scold, punish, or cause someone a lot of trouble.

To sentence someone to death by electric chair (in jurisdictions where this form of execution is used).

To make someone feel uneasy, scared, or repulsed.

To look at someone in a way that shows romantic or sexual interest; to flirt with someone.

To dismiss someone from a job, organization, or place; to eject or throw someone out.

An informal and often jocular variant of 'give someone the heave-ho,' meaning to dismiss someone from a job, organization, or place; to eject or throw someone out.

To intentionally delay, mislead, or avoid helping someone by sending them from one person or department to another, or by providing evasive answers.