(idiomatic) Alternative form of cross to bear

To evaluate something in terms of its expected long-term results rather than its immediate state.

To continue working on something that someone else started, especially when one does so efficiently and successfully.

(UK, politics) To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.

(idiomatic) To start to become better; to improve.

(idiomatic) To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose.

Of or pertaining to a contest, election, or other competition in which only the winner is rewarded and none of the losers get anything.

(idiomatic) To choose; to select.

(intransitive) To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.

(idiomatic) To start to become worse; to worsen.