to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
blindness; blind (e.g. love, faith); reckless
to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
dynamic visual acuity; DVA; kinetic vision
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism
swordsman; swordswoman; fencer
samurai's compassion; samurai-like mercy
to feel giddy; to totter; to be unfixed (emotions, beliefs, etc.); to waver; to wander aimlessly; to loiter
groundless rumor (rumour)
baseless rumor; baseless rumour; gossip; false report
it can't be helped; there is no choice; inevitable; unavoidable
first move (in shogi, go, etc.); beginning; start
steel; sword steel; sword
to run through; to run past
spinal column; vertebral column; spine
congestion (of blood); engorgement
(lit.) to carry a bomb; to have a bomb about to go off; to have an imminent problem; to be in danger of relapse
bewitched sword; magical sword; demon sword
how; how much; to what extent; no matter how (much); however
sect; denomination; tenets (of a religious sect)
(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"
broken; interrupted; disconnected; intermittent; fragmentary; discontinuous
to dig out; to hollow out; to cut into
ominous atmosphere; ghostly air; weird air; unearthly atmosphere
disturbance; trouble; ups and downs (e.g. in life); vicissitudes; small and large waves
to be helpful; to be dependable; to stand by (someone)
to choose (and take); to select; to pick (out)
to win and advance to the next round
as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated
ultramarine colour (color)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
to push someone (towards); to encourage someone
lie; fib; falsehood; untruth
to wet the lips of a dying person; to attend someone's last moments
for goodness' sake; for the love of God; I implore you, ...; I beg of you, ...
lighting up; illumination; floodlighting