gaining total control (of people or counties); suppression; oppression; control; mastery; ascendancy
weak point; weakness; shortcoming; defect; flaw; sore spot
solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating
to join together; to combine; to join up
revolution; rotation; turn; turning; inversion; handspring (gymnastics)
beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions
remedial measure; countermeasure; counter-measure; relief measure; remedy
not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser; poor at letting things go; unable to accept the inevitable
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
(primarily in shogi or go) response; countermeasure; counter-measure
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
fully armed; armed to the teeth
chance to win; opportunity to win; chance of victory
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
forced march; (fig.) doing something on a very strict schedule
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
unbelievable; incredible; implausible
to be flabbergasted; to be amazed; to be astounded; to be stunned
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
to raise one's voice; to shout
elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
to rewind; to rally; to recover; to come back
to get change back; to be more than enough
extermination; expulsion; destruction
(exaggerated) professing to be; passing oneself off as
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
strangely; oddly; miraculously; mysteriously
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
daring and resolute; having dauntless courage
confused fight; free-for-all; melee; close contest; close match
departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition
dark circles around the eyes; periorbital dark circles