to push through (a crowd, vegetation, etc.)
aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
to lose (money, etc.); to waste one's (time, etc.); to have one's efforts come to naught
lying face down; lying on one's face; placing upside down; placing face down
to stoop; to bend (e.g. one's knees)
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)
challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
incident; affair; happening; event
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
shock; tremor; impact; vibration
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
growing thickly; growing densely
fresh verdure; new green leaves
dead tree; withered tree; leafless tree; bare tree
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline
ruins (of a building, town, etc.); remains
to rot away; to crumble to dust; to decay completely; to die in obscurity
something going right into or coming right out of a place where it fits snugly
board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board
to become covered in moss; to become mossy; to grow over with moss; to become aged; to grow old
cross (for crucifixion); the Cross (of Christ)
the end; the extremity; the limit; the limits; the result
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
expansion; extension; elongation; stretching
to remember; to recollect; to recognize; to recognise
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
unexpectedly; unusually; considering all that
to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)
payment to the government
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
to make sure of; to assure oneself of; to see with one's own eyes; to ascertain