to be shut; to close; to be firm (of a body, face, etc.); to be well-knit; to be locked; to tighten
fidelity; honour; honor; chastity (of a woman); faithfulness (e.g. to one's husband)
number (in a series); (one's) turn; watch; guard; rank; standing; bout
hole; hole (in golf); (golf) cup; (electron) hole
thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
open; public; overt; free; unreserved; uninhibited
busy; hectic; frantic; restless; hurried; fidgety
lightly (floating); buoyantly; puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.); tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle)
one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
gatekeeper; doorman; porter
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard
to some extent; to a certain extent
(political) power; authority; influence
applying (e.g. a technology); adoption
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
even if; even though; even; too; whether ... or ...; no matter (what, where, who, etc.)
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
importance; emphasis; stress
loss; defeat; counter for losses
indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission
erasure; denial; obliteration; ignoring (an opinion)
to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into
shame; embarrassment; disgrace
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
practice (as opposed to theory); actual practice; actual site; (at) the scene; (on) the spot
to trouble; to bother; to annoy; to give trouble
to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow (a person); to accompany; to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
self-consciousness; self-awareness
to chase about; to hang on; to drive hard
all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost