to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission; professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love; profession (of faith); confession (of sins)
close; intimate; on good terms
kind deed; (a) kindness; helping others; helping someone
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
serious; not joking; straight; (arch.) cannot; (arch.) should not; (arch.) will not
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
key word; key phrase; clue; keyword; search term; index term
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
full stomach; bellyful; (eat) heartily; to one's heart's content