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faint breath; dying whisper; at death's door

1

antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester

1

accomplice; cohort

2

safe; certain

1

cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono; sash (worn across chest, e.g. by election candidate or relay runners); wrapper band on books, CDs, etc.

6

network

3

difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

1

obstacle race

2

salt; salt content

1

concentration; thickness; density; cardinality

1

salt water; brine

1

splish-splash; with a splash

1

reward; prize

1

knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes

1

to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay

1

moron; idiot; stupid person

1

runner; base runner

11

delay; lag; postponement; falling behind

1

a gap develops; a significant difference emerges

1

curiosity-seeking; bizarre (crime, etc.); grotesque; abnormal

1

five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)

1

to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation

1

tortoise; turtle; heavy drinker; turtle crest; turtle mon

1

defensive body movement (judo, kendo, etc.)

1

something wrapped in a furoshiki

1

tie-dye; tie-dyeing; aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; contraction; squeezing

1

prostitute; whore; tramp; floozy; slut

1

indiscriminate shooting; random shooting; firing blindly

1

to crouch; to stoop; to yield; to submit; to hide; to conceal oneself

1

winding; meandering; wriggling; wiggling; waving; swaying

1

to be torn off; to come off; to be torn to pieces; to be torn to shreds

2

to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath

1

opposite direction; reverse; retrorse

1

flour; meal; powder; dust

1

amateur

3

don't do anything rash!; keep composed!

1

endgame; final stage

1

anchor (of a ship); last runner or swimmer in a relay team; news anchor; news presenter; anchor (clock component); pallet fork; anchor (HTML)

2

in search of; in order to look for

1

going down; fall; knocking down (in boxing); flooring; being out of action (due to illness, exhaustion, etc.); being down (e.g. with a cold); going down (of a computer system, server, etc.)

1

field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness

3

to be buried; to be covered; to overflow; to be crowded; to be repaid (e.g. debt); to be replenished

2

with a bang

1

ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)

3

to hang down (from); to dangle; to be within one's reach; to dangle (before one's eyes); to be completely reliant on; to be entirely dependent on

3

made of metal

1

pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe

1

selling or divesting in unwanted stocks; hiding bad loans

1

pupil and (dark) iris of the eye

1

traffic cone; safety cone

3