politics

a reason / a motive

political

to flow / to release / to cancel / to flush (something) down the toilet / to play (music) / (usually in the passive) to exert influence over someone's immediate actions

flowing, running, draining / sink, drain, basin / draining floor (in a bathhouse) / washing the clients' backs in bathhouses, or someone who does so

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a male given name

escape, run away / encroach