bizarre plan; perplexing strategy; outlandish scheme
sculpture; carved statue; graven image
to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into; to pour salt on a wound
failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
signs of defeat; negative turn of events
loser; failure; underdog; unmarried and childless older woman
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
defeat; loss; failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.); discount; loss (on a sale)
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
to do for (the sake of someone else)
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
-itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)
to rock; to shake; to swing
oscillation; vibration; swing (e.g. of a pendulum)
creaking; groaning (e.g. under physical stress)
to jar; to creak; to grate
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
pillar of fire; blazing column
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
heart; guts; nerve; central part
to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)
mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly); gradual; bit by bit
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
lump of ice; block of ice; ice floe
to model on; to make in the shape of; to represent; to symbolise
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
in proportion to; just as much as
to feel giddy; to totter; to be unfixed (emotions, beliefs, etc.); to waver; to wander aimlessly; to loiter
to stray into; to lose one's way (and enter); to wander into
backing; support; backer; shield that protects one's back
pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character
to smoke (e.g. fire); to billow smoke; to smoulder; to be hazy; to look dim
to trail (of smoke, clouds, etc.); to hang (of mist, haze, etc.); to lie (over); to linger; to flow (e.g. of hair in the wind)
on the way back; returning