protecting (someone); defending; standing up for
same crime; being equally guilty; bearing the same amount of responsibility
shooting down (an aircraft)
to benefit; to profit; to gain; to reap rewards
last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); canine; squealer; rat; loser; asshole
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
to pin (someone) down; to hold down; to shut out (one's opponent); to keep (the opposing team) from scoring; to suppress; to control
safety zone; buffer (e.g. against defeat)
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
to chop; to cut off; to chop off; to hack off
personal (employee); employed; retained
five (long cylindrical things)
section; cross section; profile
stickiness; viscosity; glutinosity
to overflow from something full
depths of Hell; abyss; inescapable situation
colour; color; hue; tints
mystery; something inexplicable; unfathomable (of a Buddha's abilities); 10^64 (or 10^80)
considerably; greatly; a lot
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
severe wound; serious wound; gash
military gains; war results; fruit of battle
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
independently; individually; separately; alone; singlehanded; unassisted
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
killer technique; surefire assassination method; special or lethal move, usu. one unique to a certain fighter or fighting style
substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
hearsay; hearing secondhand; hearing through the grapevine
to run about frantically trying to escape; to run this way and that to make one's escape
to take great care (in doing); to pay attention; to be careful
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
swimming; bathing; getting on in the world
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
to catch fire (of charcoal); to start burning; to burn away; to burn merrily
rare (or peculiar) animal
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)