to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to welcome (a proposal, advice, etc.); to take kindly to; to do with pleasure
to repaint; to paint again; to paint (a different colour); to change completely; to break (a record); to redraw (e.g. the map)
to scrape off; to shave off
to shut in; to confine (in); to seal in; to contain; to suppress; to restrain
Naraka; Hell; very bottom; the end; trap room (of a theatre); below-stage basement
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
person who has escaped death; failed suicide; person who has outlived their time; dotard; doddering old man
to jump up; to leap up; to spring up
fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion
to grant (a wish); to accede; to comply with; to heed
protective instinct; defensive instinct
(any) particular; special; material; perceptible; noticeable
to place persons opposite; to come face to face with; to compare (with); to check (against); to match
trance; ecstasy; enthusiasm
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)
being used to ...; getting used to ...; being accustomed to; being conditioned to; be familiar with
hateful; detestable; loathsome
course (of a road, moving object, etc.); way; course (of events, action, etc.); direction (e.g. an argument is heading in); reasoning; logic
to await; to wait for; to expect
desperation; struggle to the death
to fire into; to shoot into
reversal (of a situation); turnaround; turnabout; reversal (of direction of rotation)
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious
loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman
looking at from the corner of one's eye; sidelong glance; disregarding; ignoring; faceless ghost with an eye in its rump
severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair
to be jealous of; to envy; to begrudge
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)
to fly into a jealous rage; to go mad with jealousy
to puzzle; to perplex; to bewilder; to delude; to mislead; to fascinate
hibernation; winter sleep; brumation; torpor
fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
to eat untidily; to eat messily; to eat a bit of everything; to leave things half-eaten; to dabble in (something); to try one's hand at (various things)