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nine o'clock

2

to be rubbed

1

discord; dissonance; cacophony; discord (in a relationship); disagreement; disharmony

2

opposite shore

3

hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord

1

advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful

2

predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

1

locational advantage; advantageous position

2

crushing to death; crushing (hope, freedom, etc.); suppression; quashing

1

usurpation; taking back; dispossession

4

tension; strain

1

sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment

1

suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows

1

to fan (oneself, flames, etc.); to flap (in the wind); to instigate; to stir up; to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something); to take a photo from a low angle; to tailgate

4

mental; spiritual; emotional

1

to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than

1

obstruction; inhibition

1

firing in rapid succession; volley of shots

1

vortex; maelstrom; whirlpool; (in the middle of a) scandal; controversy; quarrel

1

(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability

4

as one wishes; the way one wants; to one's satisfaction

1

and (also); both ... and; as well as

2

to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem

2

right bank (of a river)

2

to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

2

cruising; patrolling

3

sea spray; spindrift

1

dilemma; predicament

3

crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch

2

panic; scare; alarm; panic; financial panic

1

explosion; rupture; break off

1

to be clear; to be distinct; to be skillful; to be skilful; to be well-executed; to get cold

3

damage control

1

discharge; outward flow; efflux; leak of (private) information or pictures

1

going side-by-side; going abreast; running concurrently; occurring at the same time; keeping pace with

3

Kawanaka

1

water current

1

warning sound

2

order; rank; position (e.g. in a race); precedence

1

degree of relative priority

1

same age

2

on board a ship; aboard a ship

3

to be delirious with fever; to have a feverish dream; (fig.) to be crazy about something

2

throwaway; disposable; single-use

3

(grenade, etc.) launcher

1

rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse

1

normally; habitually

1

... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?")

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to want; to wish for; (arch.) to request; (arch.) to demand; (arch.) to seek; (arch.) to search for

1

information sharing

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