to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
encroachment; erosion; corrosion
(right at the) side; just beside
to shoot out (lights, window, etc.)
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to present (money or gifts) to a monarch (feudal lord, etc.)
to do (a person) good; to bring profit
custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
to yield; to give in; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; (arch.) to feel down
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
nothing but; none other than
loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman
sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
loss of strength; exhaustion; weakness
the (four) limbs; arms and legs
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
conclusion; decision; end; settlement
haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
exactly right!; indeed; damn straight
to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades)
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
maximum permissible level or dosage
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
collapse; break; cave-in; crash; (market) decline
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
crack; fissure; rift; split; chaps; skin fissure
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
to hang over; to cover; to fall upon someone (responsibility, burden, pressure, etc.)
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless
to resolve; to make up one's mind; to decide
to meet (the enemy) and attack; to engage (the approaching enemy); to confront; to intercept
imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective
clear; precise; definite; distinct
to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with
throughput; processing power
offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff