victory or defeat; match; contest; game
to use up; to exhaust; to wear out
to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending
deep regret; great sorrow; bitter grief
writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books; cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for)
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
to collapse (physically or emotionally); to fall down
(spoken) line (in a play, film, comic, etc.); one's lines; comment; remark; stock phrase; set phrase
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart
to cut down; to chop down; to fell
these guys; these fellows
instant; moment; for an instant
to shed light; to cast light
stealthily; secretly; in secret
joint struggle; common (united) front
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (someone's) side
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
to make a speech; to address
to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something
gentle; quiet; mild; quiet (color, pattern, etc.); sober
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn
to jump up; to leap up; to fly up (into the sky); to soar up; to jump ahead; to skip ahead
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord
linear; rectilinear; straight-line; straightforward; simple
scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation
to do for (the sake of someone else)
protagonist; main character; hero; head (of a household); proprietor (of a store)
the same kind; accomplice; partner
unasked for; unnecessary; uninvolved
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
locking swords and pushing against each other; close contest; neck-and-neck game; fierce competition
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably
provocation; stirring up; arousal; excitement; stimulation
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to run around; to bustle about
even though; despite; when
to thrust at someone (e.g. a weapon); to point (a gun, knife, etc.) at; to hold up threateningly to (someone's face); to present forcefully (demand, document, etc.); to confront someone with (evidence, facts, etc.); to force upon