to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street
very great; enormous; serious
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
bomb blast; blast (from an explosion); shock wave
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
in its entirety; whole; wholly
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
ratio; proportion; match; equal; compared with ...; relative to ...
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
two sheets (of paper or other flat objects)
to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)
cannot help feeling that; cannot help thinking that
atrocious; heinous; fiendish; brutal; vicious
to flicker; to quiver; to waver; to sway
visit (to someone affected by illness or misfortune); call; letter of inquiry; letter of sympathy; dealing (a hit); striking (a blow)
what with A and B; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; denotes uncertainty
adds light emphasis or insistence to a statement; gives a statement a threatening or condescending tone
dying; kicking the bucket; being ruined; being finished; ending in failure
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
six; six years of age; six o'clock (old time system)
surface of the earth; ground surface
to make a circle (of a motion, arrangement, etc.); to move (e.g. one's head) in a circle; to form (the shape of) a circle; to draw a circle
switching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking; flickering
rumbling; (ringing) cadence
to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good; to hold one's liquor; to be able to hold one's drink
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
the whole area; the entire region; all parts (of); the whole field (of study); every field; the whole gamut
one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object
to cover fully; to wrap around
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; of course; definitely