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focus (e.g. photographic); focal point

3

to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous

1

gear; cogwheel; cog (in an organization, company, etc.); cog in the machine

2

limits; end; bounds

2

hint; suggestion

2

preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding

5

hacking to pieces

2

li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

2

not be allowed; must not

1

to be understood; to be comprehended; to be grasped; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered

1

to provide momentum; to give a boost to; to encourage; to spur; to stimulate

1

to stab; to pierce; to run through (e.g. with a sword)

1

to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to

3

to float in the air; to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided

4

roof tile

1

boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless

3

it serves you right

7

serious damage; injury or loss; heavy blow

1

well done!; good job!; good work!; you did it!; bravo!

2

small child; pipsqueak; short person; midget; small animal; runt

2

bitch

2

cunning deed; sly trick; foul play; cunning person; sly fellow; cheat

1

vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry

2

to do (indicating contempt for other person's actions)

3

shooting down (aircraft)

1

(as alike as) two peas in a pod

3

to take away; to carry away

2

swimming

2

mansion; palace; (arch.) nobleman; (arch.) noblewoman; (arch.) cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.)

2

indoor swimming pool

1

taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)

1

sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass

4

unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to

2

somehow or other

3

close-up

1

bridge of nose

2

smooth; meticulous; painstaking; detailed

2

apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but

1

to put to sleep; to lay (something) on its side

2

hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff

7

troublesome; bothersome; tiresome; annoying

1

heavy labor; heavy labour; hard work; hard labor (in prison); hard labour

3

good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless

2

unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very

6

disappointment; let-down

1

down (feather) quilt

3

towel blanket; terry-cloth blanket

2

sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death

4

silk

4

with a rustling sound; rippling (of a stream, etc.); murmuring; slurping down (ochazuke); quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter); with ease

1