so to speak; so to call it; as it were
owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)
survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; (lit.) the weak are meat the strong do eat
to accept; to receive (an application); to (be able to) take (food, medicine, etc.); to bear; to be affected by; to take damage from
return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression
extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation
permanent; perpetual; persistent; lasting
habit; behavior; behaviour; trait
to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
smooth (of a surface); glassy; smooth (of an action, proceedings, etc.); fluent (speech); continuously differentiable
to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge
under control (e.g. of territory)
to trace back to (the origins of something)
replacement; substitute; displacement; transposition; reset
solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); solution (to a given problem); answer; explanation; interpretation
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
to use and then throw away
throwaway; disposable; single-use
control; restraint; suppression; constraint; curtailment; inhibition
encroachment; erosion; corrosion
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
to follow; to conform; to apply to
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
(arch.) arm (esp. upper arm); counter used to measure the thickness of round objects
apparent; obvious; very clear
explosion; rupture; break off
at any cost; at any price; at any expense
scattering; diffusion; spread (e.g. signal across the spectrum)
to hold a person back; to restrain; to catch in one's arms
disastrous flooding; kelpie; water demon that brings floods or disasters
fire fighting; extinguishing a fire
to drop; to let fall; to omit
harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result