fitverb
uk/fɪt/us/fɪt/-tt-fit verb (CORRECT SIZE)
B1 [ I or T ] to be the right size or shape for someone or something:
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- Those trousers fit you nicely.
- This tiny device fits into the palm of your hand.
- Their new car barely fitted into the garage.
- If you can't fit all the cases in your car, I can take a few in mine.
- One size fits all.
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Style & appearance of clothes
- backless
- baggy
- bespoke
- black tie
- bootcut
- half-sleeve
- hang
- ill-fitting
- knitted
- low-cut
- preppy
- ruck
- S, s
- scantily
- scoop-neck
- sequin
- skintight
- tweedy
- white-tie
- wraparound
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fit verb (BE SUITABLE)
C1 [ T ] to be suitable for something:
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- He doesn't fit my image of how an actor should look.
- He doesn't conform fit the national stereotype of a Frenchman.
- We had to adapt our plans to fit Jack's schedule.
- The soundtrack really fits the era in which the film is set.
- I don't have anything that really fits the occasion.
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Being suitable or unsuitable
- age-barred
- answer
- be made for sb/sth idiom
- become
- befit
- behove
- bill
- do 1
- fill/fit the bill idiom
- find your own level idiom
- fit in
- fit the bill idiom
- go
- lend
- make
- order
- out of order idiom
- part
- suit sb (right) down to the ground idiom
- unworthy
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fit verb (PUT IN POSITION)
B2 [ T ] to provide something and put it in the correct position:
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- We're having a new bathroom suite fitted at the weekend.
- He was recently fitted with a brace for his bad back.
- Do you know anyone who can fit windows?
- He was messing with his bike and then he couldn't fit the parts back together.
- My car is having new tyres fitted.
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Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- install
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sb/sth between sb/sth
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- set sth down
- shelve
- shove
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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fit verb (ILLNESS)
[ I ] UK to have a fit (= sudden attack of uncontrolled movements)
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- cramp
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- writer's cramp
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Phrasal verb(s)
fitadjective
uk/fɪt/us/fɪt/fitter, fittestfit adjective (HEALTHY)
A2 healthy and strong, especially as a result of exercise:
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- He's jogging round the park every morning in an effort to get fit for the football season.
- At 73, she's still fighting fit, walking five miles a day.
- Her hearing is going, but otherwise she's remarkably fit for a 95-year-old.
- "What do you do to keep fit?" "I jog and go swimming."
- Most exercise classes start gently, lulling you into thinking that you're fit.
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Animal physiology: fit & healthy
- agile
- amazon
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away idiom
- apple
- athleticism
- be (as) fit as a fiddle idiom
- be (as) right as rain idiom
- beach-ready
- bouncing
- clean
- fighting fit
- foot
- healthy
- iron man
- limber
- lithe
- muscle-bound
- strength
- sturdy
- virility
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fit adjective (SUITABLE)
C1 suitable for a particular purpose or activity:
to not be able to do something because you are upset, ill, drunk, etc.:
safe for people to eat
UK Something that is fit for purpose does what it is meant to do.
C1 to consider an action or decision to be correct for the situation:
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Suitable and acceptable
- able
- acceptable
- accepted
- accordingly
- age-appropriate
- correct
- doctor
- felicitous
- fit in
- fit in with sth
- fitting
- germane
- horse
- keeping
- rightly
- satisfaction
- seasonable
- seemly
- sit
- sit right/well (with sb) idiom
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fit adjective (ATTRACTIVE)
UK slang sexually attractive:
Idiom(s)
fitnoun
uk/fɪt/us/fɪt/fit noun (ILLNESS)
[ C ] a sudden attack of illness when someone cannot control their movements and becomes unconscious:
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- cramp
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- writer's cramp
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fit noun (SHORT PERIOD)
[ C ] a sudden, uncontrolled period of doing something or feeling something:
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Disease & illness - general words
- abnormality
- autoimmune disease
- bilharzia
- bluetongue
- bout
- CFS
- CGD
- complaint
- dose
- dreaded lurgy
- endemic
- life-threatening
- lurgy
- morbidity
- pandemic
- pinkeye
- strangulated
- syndrome
- viral
- wasting disease
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fit noun (CORRECT SIZE)
[ S ] the way that something fits:
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Style & appearance of clothes
- backless
- baggy
- bespoke
- black tie
- bootcut
- half-sleeve
- hang
- ill-fitting
- knitted
- low-cut
- preppy
- ruck
- S, s
- scantily
- scoop-neck
- sequin
- skintight
- tweedy
- white-tie
- wraparound
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