loss of ground



damage, detriment, disadvantage, drawback, handicap, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, liability, loss, mischief, prejudice ,

   nutritious - balanced, beneficial, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, gastronomic, gluttonous, good, grain-eating,

   pressure group - VIP, access, bad influence, big wheel, black vote, breakaway group, camp, caucus, court, division, ethnic group, faction, farm interests, financial interests, friend at court,

   be resolved - buckle down, die hard, go for broke, mind, never say die ,

   run to - add up, adjure, afford, aggregate, amount to, appeal, appeal to, balance, beg, beseech, break even, bring, bring in, call on, clamour for,

   colonialism - absolute monarchy, appeasement, aristocracy, autocracy, autonomy, balance of power, brinkmanship, coalition government, coexistence, commonwealth, compromise, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, containment, democracy,

   correcting signals - bit, bug, command, computer program, data, error, information, input data, instructions, message, noise, output, play, signal ,

   skinned alive - beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, down, fallen, fixed, floored, licked, outdone, overcome, overpowered,

   serial number - ID card, badge, calling card, card, cardinal, countersign, credentials, dog tag, fraction, identification, infinity, initials, integer, monogram, ordinal,

   hard cash - Mammon, cash, change, coinage, currency, fund, gold, legal tender, lucre, medium of exchange, mintage, money, pelf, scrip, silver,

   forked - akimbo, angular, arboreal, bent, bifurcate, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, branchlike, cleft, cloven, cornered, crooked, crotched,