to sleep; to die; to rest (in peace); to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to lie unused; (arch.) to close one's eyes
trouble; difficulty; failure (of an engine, machine, computer, etc.); breakdown; (medical) condition; disorder
to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)
one large ...; a great ...
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
control; management (e.g. of a business)
power; authority; jurisdiction
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as); to think of (as)
for example; for instance; e.g.
defect; deficiency; imperfection; Yours in haste
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
concerning ...; over ...; about ...; centering on ...
shape; form; appearance; style; state; situation
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
could result in (something undesirable); might end up (doing, happening); run the risk of
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
great disaster; catastrophe; train wreck
quite capable of ...; not unlikely to ...; may well ...; might ...; could ...; would not hesitate to ...
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
clear; precise; definite; distinct
image; figure; figure; form; image
to mistake (for something or someone else); to misread; to misjudge
grinding of the teeth; involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation; gnashing one's teeth; gritting one's teeth
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
to fix; to settle; to standardize; constant; definite; uniform
distance; range; difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; metric
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
relationship of mutual trust; fiduciary relation
warfare; the maelstrom of war; disorder brought about by war
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
information; news; information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.); informatics (as a subject)
shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there
to be too late; to be too slow