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

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front line; forefront

1

(period of) a year; during the era (of)

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elbow strike (karate)

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to make someone eat; to deal (a blow); to play (a trick)

1

to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind

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line

3

crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift

2

cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence

3

chilly; unpleasantly cold

1

reeking of blood; stinking of blood; bloody (battle, crime, etc.)

1

putrid smell of a corpse

1

short pause; short interval

1

other than; excluding; without

1

membrane; film

1

itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally

2

to be slow; to not make progress; to be inefficient

1

to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else

1

dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook

1

elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy

1

huge; big; enormous

2

that is to say; so that means

2

wheat grain

1

not exceeding ...; not more than ...; below (a standard, level, etc.); under; the following; the below-mentioned

1

scope; valid range; effective range (e.g. in broadcasting); coverage

2

to lend a hand; to give a hand; to help; to extend a helping hand

1

at the same time; concurrently; simultaneously; coinciding (with)

2

to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)

1

to want; to desire

2

habit; behavior; behaviour; trait

1

forehead; brow

1

natural disaster; natural calamity; act of God

2

to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see

1

(hand-to-hand) fight; grapple; scuffle; struggling (with a problem, task, etc.); grappling; wrestling

2

to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)

1

isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words

1

territory; domain; field; area; domain; region

7

to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

1

especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though

1

to run up (a hill, stairs etc.); to dash up; to rush up

2

ego; self; ego

1

reaching; attaining; arrival

1

ten years; decade

2

going backward; turning back; backtracking; regression; retrogression; relapse

1

readiness; (mental) preparedness; resolution; determination; resignation (to one's fate)

2

increase; multiplication; propagation; proliferation

1

to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)

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to take on a role; to take part

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to reach out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to get involved in; to embark on; to start a fight; to get physical with

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to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself

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