striding; swaggering; strutting; lording it over others; acting as though one owns the place; throwing one's weight around
to grow older; to advance in age; to be very aged
burka; burqa; burkha; bourkha
thermos (flask, bottle); vacuum flask
completely relying on others
attenuating; fizzling out
threefold training; three divisions of the noble eightfold path
free flow (of water); random talk; nonsense
to compete with; to argue with; to quarrel
to be told or made to hear something so often that you (metaphorically) get calluses on your ears
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what somebody feels (using one's intuition)
aiguillette (ornamental braided cord)
to be understood; to be comprehended; to be grasped; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered
exchange; conversion; replacement; switching (to); switchover
to flee; to take flight; to be ruined; to go down in the world; to settle down (e.g. in one location)
extremely cold feeling that makes one feel numb; sharp pain that is almost numbing; heartrending; touching the heart
asafetida (Ferula assafoetida)
I'm not so sure; I can hardly say with any finality that ...
Catherine wheel (firework); pinwheel
nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious
method of manipulating; management method; puppeteering
increased or beefed up security