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to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails

2

nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things

1

stern; grim; rough; rugged; forbidding; overbearing

1

advance; moving forward; progress

5

to move forward; to move on

7

depth of water

6

one third; a third part

2

to sink (into); to get depressed

1

no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable

6

surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)

1

bottom; sole

2

to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry

2

hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds

1

to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention

1

to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver

2

to push back

1

cancer

3

to be discouraged; to shrink from

1

aquatic; on the water

2

density

2

hardness; stiffness

1

raindrops (dripping from eaves, branches, etc.); exclamation point; exclamation mark

1

now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now

1

deafness

1

noise; din

1

to keep step (with); to keep pace (with); to move in lockstep; to align (with another's thoughts or actions)

1

to go; to come; to turn out (at a meeting, event, etc.); to show up; to make your way to

1

to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)

1

projection; protrusion

2

rear-end collision

1

shield

1

sense of stability

1

bank; coast; shore

9

noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe

1

to brace one's legs; to stand firm; to plant one's feet (firmly on the ground); to hold out; to persist; to make an effort

1

rope; cord; line; grand champion's braided belt

20

stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump

4

adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined

1

landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land

4

backward somersault; backward roll

1

both ends; either end; both edges; double-mindedness; sitting on the fence

1

to draw or pull something towards oneself (e.g. chair)

3

to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)

1

opposite bank; farther shore

3

(exercising) the right to command

3

to invade; to raid; to infringe; to encroach; to harm; to afflict

2

one-eyed; first (in a series); initial

1

one's own army; one's own team

3

possession; occupation; occupancy

2

cut; notch; raid; attack

1