clanging; banging; throbbing (headache); pounding; fully; vigorously
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
to miss a chance; to fail to do
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
to rush on; to attack; to swoop down on
extraordinarily; astonishingly; extremely; terribly; unreasonably; absurdly
hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh
hey!; c'mon!; pushy; overbearing; self-assured
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
much more; still more; single layer (or storey, etc.); (arch.) rather; (arch.) sooner
precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern
that is to say; so that means
asking; enquiring; searching; looking for
long military service; having experienced many battles
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
setback; deadlock; standstill; impasse; miscarriage
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
to ignite; to set fire to; to spark (an incident, etc.); to inflame (a situation, etc.)
one's own army; one's own team
to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps
to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of
to throw into; to toss into
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
spontaneous discharge; accidental gun discharge
for example; for instance; e.g.