dilapidated house; deserted house
wooden; made of wood; wooden construction
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
copy; photocopy; blurb on a book jacket; catch copy
paste (food, text, adhesive, etc.)
prototype; model; pattern; archetypal
time in; making a move immediately in a timed game (shogi, go, etc.)
fire prevention; fire fighting; fire proof
assertion; declaration; affirmation
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
ramming attack; hurling oneself (at); throwing oneself into (e.g. a role); going all out
bar; bolt (e.g. on door); double-arm lock; (rope) cinching
to stimulate; to stir up; to arouse
to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)
to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
to suddenly assume an antagonistic attitude; to suddenly become defiant; to turn aggressive (in one's manner); to moon; to point one's naked buttocks at someone; to give somebody the brown-eye
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
closing one's eyes; passing away; dying peacefully
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
disturbance; obstruction; hindrance; jamming; interference
faint hopes; dim prospects; little hope; unlikely (to be successful)
last ray of hope; only hope
fixed date; settlement date
fifth day of the month; five days
probability; likelihood; chances
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
dimension; perspective; point of reference; level (of something)
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all