to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
counter for ships (large boats); counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen); counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.
getting closer; drawing nearer; being not much different; being near (age, skill, etc.); becoming close (i.e. friendly); becoming intimate
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
dissemination; scattering; sprinkling; spraying
army; armed forces; military authorities; team; group
to be traced (of a criminal); to be tracked; (arch.) to have a (male) lover
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
lieutenant general; vice-admiral
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
one breath; time of one breath; pause; break; (doing in) one go; doing without stopping
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
danger; peril; hazard; risk
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
one's father; one's old man; middle-aged (or older) man; old man; one's boss; proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.)
failure; mistake; blunder
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
so; like this; in this way
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
meaning; significance; sense
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly