to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
feeling of happiness; sense of well-being; euphoria
pure; innocent; pure; unmixed; long kimono made from the same plain-coloured cloth
murder; killing; murderer
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
birth; creation; formation
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
embrace; hug; holding in one's arms
to die; to lay down life's burden
drunkenness; intoxication
alcohol; (alcohol-based) hand sanitizer
to exert (influence); to exercise; to cause (e.g. damage); to do (e.g. harm); to bring about (e.g. benefits); to extend
opposite; reverse; contrary
physical weariness; sense of fatigue; washed-out feeling
self-hatred; self-abhorrence; self-loathing
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
old clothes; secondhand clothing
to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death
detestable; despicable; abhorrent
grace; favor; favour; blessing; benefit
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
bath; bathing; bathhouse; public bath; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread