heartbroken; crestfallen; dejected; feeling exhausted; feeling drained
to hang one's head; to droop one's head
to accept one's inferiority; to take one's hat off to someone; to give up; to surrender; to strike one's colors
way one walks; one's walk
younger half-brother (by a different mother)
stealthily; secretly; in secret
to drop; to let fall; to omit
to become pale; to turn pale
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
to behave; to conduct oneself; to act; to treat (someone) to (food or drink); to entertain (e.g. to lunch)
to get angry; to get mad; to lose one's temper; to scold; to tell (someone) off
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite
to set one's mind on doing; to get the idea of doing; to make up one's mind
piling up; accumulating; forming a (huge) pile; lying in piles
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
return; reversion; comeback; carriage return
proposal; motion; recommendation
attendee; participant; person present
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
national crisis; national disaster
total energy; all efforts
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
fate; destiny; connection; tie; pretext; justification
to be obsessive (about); to be overly concerned (with); to be particular (about); to pay special attention (to); to get stuck; to be obstructed
to drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die
to cut off and throw away; to abandon; to disregard; to discard (numbers after a certain decimal place); to drop; to cut (someone) down
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (someone) for advice
to offer (a suggestion, etc.); to propose (an idea, etc.); to approach with (a proposal, etc.)
common knowledge; well-known fact
old friend; old acquaintance
to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
mixed with; mingled with; interspersed with; dashed with; sprinkled with
solitude; loneliness; isolation
great famine; severe famine
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
minimum; lowest; minimal; at a minimum
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
no matter (what, who, etc.); whether ... or ...; be
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony