wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
adhesive bandage; sticking plaster; band-aid
to allot; to assign; to give; to provide; to fit to; to fasten to
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
sound of a flat surface repeatedly making contact with something; applying a seal or stamp again and again; pasting (paper) all over; daubing; smearing
embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; disgraceful; shameful
solid; robust; tight; taut; shrewd; calculating
germ; germs; bacteria; something dirty or harmful; vermin
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
several minutes; a few minutes
in tatters; in pieces; wiped out
(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies
to put one's strength into
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into; to discover; to find out
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
ability; performance; efficiency
equal (in ability); even; evenly matched; well-matched; on par (with)
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
worried look; concerned expression
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay
to wear (multiple layers of clothes); to wear underneath; to dress up (esp. in formal clothes); to attire oneself (in); to break in (through repeated wearing); to wear in
to take along; to hold in the hand; to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist)
changing clothes; change of clothes
so; accordingly; now; then; thereupon; therefore
to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)
pieces; scraps; disconnected
construction; framework; erection; assembly; organization; organisation
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
deep down; special place in one's heart; in the back of one's mind
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
to coil around; to twine around; to cling (to); to follow around; to hang around
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur