chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken; chicken meat
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
leaving hospital; discharge from hospital
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
procedure; process; proceedings; formalities
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
fiercely; ferociously; furiously; resolutely
putting out the light; switching off the light
banknote; bill; note; paper money
double room; room shared by two people; shared room
to walk noisily; to walk loudly
bedside; near one's pillow
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
hoarse voice; husky voice
first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address
to interrupt (a story, etc.); to bend at the waist
to insert; to put in; to send in (to a prisoner; e.g. clothes, books); to deliver (food, refreshments, etc. to workers); to supply
imprisonment; captive; prisoner
chill; the shivers; shivering fit; cold; coldness; cold air
alluring words; endearing words; sugared words; sweet words; honeyed words; flattery
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
to grumble; to be unsettled; to grizzle
noncommittal; equivocal; indecisive; evasive; ambiguous; vague
reasonable (person); obedient (e.g. child); doing what one is told
ridiculous; absurd; silly; laughable
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
direct connection; direct link
brake; drag; skid; restraint; curtailment; self-imposed limit
left hand; left-hand side; left-hand direction; (on) the left
hospitalization; hospitalisation
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.); dilution; taking the backbone out of; weakening
to proceed though deadlocked; to be carried over (e.g. to next meeting); to go into a shootout (e.g. sport)
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both
to be slow; to not make progress; to be inefficient