painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
to keep (a pet or other animal); to have; to own; to raise; to rear; to feed
of good character; kindhearted; good-natured
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
basket (shopping, etc.); hamper; cage
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)
to be softened; to calm down
again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again
willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
unwell; in a bad state; not working properly; out of order; inconvenient; troublesome
freely; impudently; brazenly; shamelessly; however one wishes
to drink up; to drain (cup)
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously
to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to fall ill; to be taken ill
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
opening (one's mouth) wide; saying "aah"; crying loudly; wailing; bawling
My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
immediately; at once; instantly
to stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
to pick out (with the fingers); to pull out; to throw out (e.g. of a bar); to drag out; to chuck out
to sigh; to breathe a sigh