coastline; shoreline; coastal railway
heliborne (e.g. operation, assault)
total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; total defeat; complete failure
chief; main; principal; important
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
cleaning up (enemy remnants); sweeping clean (of opponents); mopping up
defense; defence; fielding
firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun; having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial
landing zone; point of landing
systematic; organized; organizational
to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
loss (of assets, profit, etc.)
superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)
grater (esp. the variety used in Japanese cooking to grate foods very finely)
white flag; truce flag; surrender flag
fanatic; fanatic believer; zealot
destruction; annihilation; extermination
to some degree; up to a point; to some extent
stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation
to fill a hole with earth
detour; circumvention; turning movement