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(v.) detain, arrest, hold, confiscate

(idiom.) thrilling, breathtaking, heart-thrilling, pulling at one's heartstrings

(v.) detain, restrain, hold in custody

(adj.) dried up, exhausted

(n.) hole, cavity; (fig.) debt, deficit; (fig.) loophole, flaw

(phr.) not know whether to laugh or cry, both funny and extremely embarrassing, between laughter and tears

(n.) difficulty, tribulation

(adj.) worried, annoyed

(v./n.) force a smile; bitter smile

(n.) painstaking effort, trouble taken, pains

(n.) inventory

(v.) bear a strong resemblance of, to resemble closely

(v.) exaggerate

(idiom.) indulge in exaggeration, talk big

(v.) brag about, show off, flaunt

(v.) collapse, fall, crack up

(n.) span, skip distance, stretch

(adj.) transnational, multinational

(v.) to stride across, to leap over

(adj.) (of meaning) covering a wide range; broad

(adj.) large, wide, broad

(adj.) tolerant, generous, thick and broad (build), thick and deep (voice)

(adj.) wide, broad

(v.) forgive

(adj.) loose and comfortable, (economically) well-off

(n.) funds, a sum of money

(char.) crazy, mad; violent; wildly, unrestrainedly (usually of pleasure) | (adj.) arrogant, overbearing

(v.) revel, party, have a mad time of it

(adj.) fanatical, fever, enthusiastic

(n.) mine, pit, ore

(n./v.) (door) frame, case, casing, box; to draw a frame, to circumscribe; to restrict

(n.) mineral resources, mineral reserves

(v.) make a loss

(v./m./n.) to tie, to bond; bunch, bundle; things that are bundled

(adj.) puzzled, bewildered, confused

(n.) predicament, dilemma, difficult situation

(v.) to expand, to enlarge, to extend

(adj.) extravagant, liberal with money

(n.) brackets, parenthesis

(v.) extend, enlarge (an enterprise)