to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding
doing (with resolve); carrying out (e.g. a plan)
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
whole story; full picture; full particulars
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
whereabouts; place where one is; position; location
clear; precise; definite; distinct
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
to settle a matter; to get even with someone
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
compensating; making up for; supplementation
being rich; having plenty of money; wallowing in money
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
together with; same; both; all; including ...
false accusation; pretext; picking a quarrel; committing oneself
to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
(not) in the least; (not) at all; (not) a bit
favour; favor; obligation; debt of gratitude
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.); to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.)
a few years ago; some years back
in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth
restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
overthrow; defeat; bringing down; knockdown
influence; power; might; strength; potency; force
not asking (about); letting go unquestioned; disregarding; ignoring; overlooking
safety; welfare; well-being
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
(air) bubble (esp. in a liquid)