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to overwork

1

to sleep like a log; to sleep like a baby

1

physical work; manual labour (labor)

3

to work (someone) hard; to push (someone) around

1

separate room; another room; special room; (arch.) concubine (of a noble)

6

narrow; small; cramped

1

electric chair

2

execution

4

dive (e.g. into water); diving; dive (of an aircraft)

8

olive (colour); olive brown

2

scribbling; scrawl; hasty writing

1

one's own handwriting; autograph

1

for convenience; as a matter of convenience

2

electrode

1

(protective) headgear

2

stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration

3

obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit

4

X-ray photograph

1

tumor; tumour; neoplasm; neoplasia

1

brain surgeon

1

last resort

1

output (electrical, signal, etc.)

6

to burn off

2

boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. of a debate); excitement; soaring (of prices); shooting up

2

last resort

1

boiling (something); voile (type of fabric)

1

(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

7

platform; home; home base; home plate

2

to be imminent; to be impending; to be pressing; to be urgent

1

to be imaginable; to be conceivable

2

elegant; graceful; refined

2

self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person

1

mad scientist

1

dark side (of nature, town, etc.)

3

tremendous; rapid; dramatic

2

to backfire; to have a harmful result

2

manpower; labor force; workers

1

annoying; infuriating; provoking; irritating; aggravating; vexing

2

to pour in (liquids); to pour in (money); to pump in (investment)

1

awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion

3

old age; ageing; aging; old person; the elderly; the aged

1

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); raw; live (i.e. not recorded)

1

to age; to grow old

1

pity; compassion; mercy

2

to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

1

to fold one's arms; to stand and watch (without interfering); to stand idly by; to lie in wait; to be ready and waiting

1

east wind; spring wind

1

rolling up one's sleeves

1

intellectual

4

clap (sound of wooden clappers); chop vigorously; slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting); the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers; dot (esp. typographical)

2