sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)
legendary; fabled; fabulous
effect; efficacy; validity; potency
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you
Dirty Hands (1948 play by Jean-Paul Sartre)
disorder; confusion; clutter; mess; muddle; disarray
to look away; to avert one's eyes; to avoid facing (e.g. reality)
property; fortune; assets
to leave behind; to misplace; to forget
dealing fully (with); going into (issue, etc.); stepping into; alcove
to boil; to seethe; to roil (e.g. waterfall, torrent); to foam; to well up (of emotions); to overflow (e.g. fighting spirit)
laws (of nature); (divine) providence
to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort; to distort (e.g. the truth); to twist (e.g. someone's words)
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
event; phenomenon; matter
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
reaction; recoil; kick; backlash
things one is carrying; things one has on one's person; thing one owns; one's property; mistress; lover
inorganic matter; inorganic substance; inorganic compound
obedience; submission; resignation
to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far
adds emphasis to the following verb or indicates that the action is done forcefully or violently
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
wound (suffered in a fight)
gotcha; alrighty; got it; OK
first come, first served; the early bird catches the worm
doing whatever one pleases; selfishness; self-indulgence
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
chance to win; opportunity to win; chance of victory
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
payment of a sum twice the original; giving back a gift double the value of the one received; repaying twofold; inflicting a revenge twice as hurtful (painful, costly, etc.) as the original misdeed
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
to exude (e.g. sweat); to ooze; to seep out; to reveal itself (of emotions, etc.)
first rider in a charge; first (person) to arrive
oh; ah; if there is; as for that; that is