old wound; scar; unpleasant past experience; painful memory; past misdeed
putting one's hands behind one's back; having one's hands behind one's back; behind; rear; back
emergency food; emergency rations
cannibalism; anthropophagism
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
to be within others' sight; to be visible; to be conspicuous; to attract public attention; to come under observation
(very) patient; persevering
vise; vice; capstan; windlass; cargo net
broken; interrupted; disconnected; intermittent; fragmentary; discontinuous
to be muffled; to be mumbled; to be muttered
to clatter; to rattle; to flap (noisily); to get in a panic; to get in a flap; to rush around
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via
(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
prisoner (of war); POW; captive
questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)
end; tip; extremities; rank and file; part of an organisation furthest from the centre
members; member; constituent
stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
(cargo) depot; (garbage) collection site; (ammunition) dump
form; shape; figure; morph
same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence
rampancy; prevalence; domination
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion
all sorts of things; (anything and) everything; by all means; at any cost
patterned (e.g. clothes, pottery); figured
mental fatigue; worry; boredom
sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
defense; defence; fielding
secret; private; surreptitious
ideally; if one were to wish for more
to choke; to be choked by; to be stifled by
generous; magnanimous; big-hearted; broad-minded; (lit.) big-bellied
to waive one's right; to waive a right