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camera

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flash (esp. of a camera); flashlight; very short scene in a film or TV show; newsflash

1

closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to; pressing hard; pressing hard (e.g. with a question); taking to task; grilling

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sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them; poking someone's eyes during a fight to blind them

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to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected

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with a thump; with a thud; hard (hit, scold, etc.); severely; card marking (on a hanafuda, etc. card); alteration

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to lose hope

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long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

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gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)

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to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to

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to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

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left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)

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wrist

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to cut off; to lop off; to prune

1

radius

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to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle

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sword dance

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to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince

2

footwork (in martial arts, sports, etc.)

2

dance

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turn

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steel

5

cancer

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(good) result; outcome; fruits (of one's labors); product; accomplishment

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place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

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to be injured; to sustain a wound

4

to change one's way of thinking; to switch the direction of one's thoughts; to put one's focus on a new subject; to adopt a new frame of mind

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bulky; massive; thick; heavy

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counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow

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accumulation; accumulate; store

2

as; because; with; due to

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minimum; lowest; minimal; least

2

to get impatient; to become irritated; to fret; to chafe

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fighting (against); taking on (an opponent); facing; confronting; competing (with); battle

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revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization

3

if so; in that case; in that situation

3

probably isn't (doesn't, won't, etc.); don't (doesn't) intend to; intend not to; must not; (when used in an imperative sentence) don't

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act of God; irresistible force; inevitability; force majeure; vis major

2

hypothesis; supposition; assumption

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to distract one's attention

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needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer

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eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality

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to become stronger; to grow in intensity; to grow violent; to invite contributions, etc.; to solicit help, participation, etc.; to recruit (e.g. soldiers)

1

sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course

4

three minutes

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painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

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optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion

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to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other

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(a) touch of; tinge of; wreath (e.g. of smoke); one stroke; one brush

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several minutes; a few minutes

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