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self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally

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to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind

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collective responsibility; joint liability

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stripping (of rights, rank, etc.); deprivation; forfeit; revocation; divestiture

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effective; successful

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infirmary (at a school, workplace, etc.); health center; nurse's office; nurse's room; sickroom; sick bay

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locked room; secret room

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public prosecutor

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presiding judge

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in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces

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witness

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in confusion; in a fluster; in bewilderment; sobbing; tearfully; trembling (voice)

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unsparing; without stinting; painstakingly; tirelessly

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silence; keeping silent; giving no notice; giving no warning; wordless pantomime performed in the dark

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to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing

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to make a mistake; to blunder

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showing no signs of; there being no hint of; (arch.) unthinkable

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carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently

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basic mistake; careless mistake

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to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out

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sex mania; erotomania; nymphomania; sex maniac; erotomaniac; nymphomaniac

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to that degree; to that extent; that much

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nasal voice

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to be filled with grief; to be overcome with sorrow

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sense of emptiness; empty feeling; feeling of meaninglessness

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substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice

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testimony; (verbal) evidence

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demonstration; verification; substantiation; actual proof

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contrived; false-sounding

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to arrange beforehand to tell the same story; to get the stories straight

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lack of evidence; insufficient evidence

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stay of execution; suspended sentence

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unlimited; endless; boundless; infinite

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to reject; to spurn; to turn down; to refuse

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mid-air breakage; mid-air disintegration

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awkward; uncomfortable; embarrassing

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something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside

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what kind of; what sort of; what; how; in what way

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receiving (a message, letter, email, etc.); reception (radio, TV, etc.)

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taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)

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snuffling; sniffling

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presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...

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to encamp; to take up positions

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Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking

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searching for the culprit; trying to find out who did something

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immediately; right away; at once; easily; readily

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to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring

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to be incomparable; to be completely different matters; to be completely different things

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to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert

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(on) one's own; (by) oneself

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