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to conquer (e.g. an enemy); to defeat; to overcome (a difficulty); to out-hit

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a bolt out of the blue

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adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing

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ingredient; foodstuff

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collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval

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news (from someone); word; letter; tidings; contact

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How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

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up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right

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to get drunk; to become intoxicated; to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated; to be elated; to be exalted

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to purse one's lips

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groggy

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unworthy; unbecoming; improper

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still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less

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to fall forward (of a person); to tumble forward

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to perceive; to sense; to take in; to grasp; to feel

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to take a break

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admirable; commendable; praiseworthy; laudable; brave; heroic

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motion sickness; travel sickness

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complete defeat; utter defeat; annihilation; to be completely defeated; to be beaten hollow

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to assume the air of ...; to behave like ...; to put on airs; to be self-important

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to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far

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collecting; assembling

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face of the earth

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to lull (a child) to sleep; to put a person to sleep

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poor physical health; bad shape

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care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation

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snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation

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food poisoning

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being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)

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performance; execution; skill; dexterity; tact

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to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation

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to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except

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conveyor belt; belt conveyor

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point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes

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demolition; taking down; dissolution (of an organization, company, etc.); breaking up; dissection (of a body); dismemberment

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internal organs; intestines; viscera

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part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)

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to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

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comfortably; easily

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to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember

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in its entirety; whole; wholly

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to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of

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preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)

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huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho; to butter up; to suck up to

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to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout

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to throw into

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letting out blood prior to cooking; draining blood from meat, fish, etc.

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between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea

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butcher's shop; butcher; meat shop

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chunk of meat (e.g. for grilling); joint of meat

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