true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience
to be interested in; to take an interest in; to care about
to pick up; to find; to gather
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
to one's regret; regrettably; unfortunately; what can be done about ...; ... cannot be helped
dimness; obscurity; indistinctness; unclear; unintelligible
to float in the air; to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided
deep sea; depths of the sea; ocean depths
bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
to cancel; to withdraw; to retract; to take back (words, etc.); to revoke
now that; since; as long as; provided that
designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at
serious; severe; grave; acute
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
analysis; analytical study; parsing; parse
burden; load (e.g. CPU time, electricity, etc.)
detection; sense (e.g. sensor)
group; party; team; squad; section
program (of events, music, etc.); programme; program (booklet); brochure; (computer) program; programming
on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine
to clear away; to remove; to demolish
sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
tap-tap; knock-knock; cough-cough; bark (of a fox); yelp; heavily (e.g. of snow falling)
for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
inside a plane; in-flight
accumulation; accumulate; store
library; book series; library (software, modules, images, etc.)
reference; bibliographical reference; consultation; browsing (e.g. when selecting a file to upload on a computer); checking out
prattle; broken language; halting language; baby talk; imperfect speech; smattering
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
to hold the steering wheel; to drive (a car)
before one's eyes; under one's nose; immediate (e.g. interests); present; foresight; near future
landing; alighting; touch down
private; informal; among one's people (group, friends)
to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind