pilling; lint; furball; hairball; trichobezoar
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
encouragement; spurring (on); cheering (on)
in a whisper; in a low voice; in undertones
whispered conversation; whispering
dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); mail; post; opportunity; chance
all night; throughout the night
superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)
gravel; ballast; pebbles; child; rugrat; ankle-biter
to be hot on a person's heels
wooden doll; blockhead; good-for-nothing
looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia
imprisonment; captive; prisoner
of great promise; with a promising future
present continuous tense; present progressive form
supplement; top up; complement; making up (a deficiency)
to fall apart; to collapse; to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out; (arch.) to fall apart (one's body or health)
complete stranger; total stranger
to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
complete defeat; utter defeat; annihilation; to be completely defeated; to be beaten hollow
mentally deranged person; lunatic; mental patient
bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
further; farther; furthermore; all the more; even more
strip show; striptease; stripping; removing one's clothes; strip (e.g. of wood)
to saw; to grind (e.g. coffee beans); to mill
flatly rejecting; curtly refusing; beating easily; defeating handily; a kick
casting; cast-metal object
to erase all trace of something