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tights; pantyhose

2

poisoning someone

2

flourishing (of plants); thriving; luxuriant growth; growing lushly; rankness (of weeds)

1

imperial command

1

road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

1

to be harboured (of negative feelings or thoughts); to be rooted in one's mind; to coil; to curl around; to become tangled (e.g. of roots)

9

to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate

2

to look up (at); to look upwards; to respect; to look up to

2

incessant; constant; continuous; perpetual; everlasting

6

latter period; second half; late stage; third trimester; second semester

1

deployment of troops, equipment, etc. (in preparation for battle)

1

sortie; sally; attack

6

biting louse (any louse of order Mallophaga); small winged insect (esp. a flying ant or termite)

2

outer circumference; perimeter; outskirts; periphery

3

to spread its roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.); to put down roots; to settle down (in a place)

3

belfry; bell tower

13

reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

3

to be contrary (to); to go against; to infringe; to violate; to disobey (an order, teachings, etc.); to defy

5

to live long; to survive

1

to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see

4

military shoes; combat boots

9

all eyes; public attention

1

opponent; antagonist

1

fast; quick; easy; simple; as soon as ...; the moment ...

1

one wing; single wing

7

personal; inter-personal; anti-personnel (e.g. weapon, mine); anti-human; personal liability (e.g. insurance)

8

killing and wounding; bloodshed

2

addition; annexation; appendage

1

to be injured; to sustain a wound

3

to one's heart's content or satisfaction

1

to become complicated; to become intricate; to become tangled

8

to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

3

to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else

3

playing with a handicap of one rook or bishop

1

to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)

11

to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

1

to torture; to persecute; to excruciate

1

to come to realize; to become aware (of)

4

continuation; continuance; maintenance; persistence; going on

3

to burn (with jealousy, desire, etc.)

1

to be at a loss; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to be pressed for; to be pinched for; to become poor

1

to be sad; to mourn for; to regret

8

glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off

2

straight sword

1

course; route; path; process; stages

4

to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)

2

misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune

2

wound (suffered in a fight)

1

political organisation

1

tedious talk; impertinent talk; repetitious talk; saucy speech; pretentious statement

1