playing dead; feigning death; playing possum
to manage (money, family finances, etc.)
to rub out; to clean off; to clear away; to efface; to erase
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
to distinguish between; to tell the difference between
more than usual (usu. time)
speed; velocity; pace; velocity
prickling; stinging; biting; tale-telling; tattling
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
hazy; misty; foggy; hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy
stationery store; stationery shop; stationer's
bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine
direction; orientation; suited to; suitable for; tendency; inclination
to hold (in one's hand); to take (into one's hand); to own; to obtain
to suppress (a smile, yawn, etc.); to stifle; to bite to death
to have sparkling eyes; to have shining eyes; to have a gleam in one's eyes
reflection; reverberation; reflex; reflexes
bathing; going in the bath
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
labored breathing; laboured breathing; dyspnea; dyspnoea
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
(around the) neck; nape; collar (at the front of a coat, kimono, etc.); collar area
no, not like that (but like this)
to flare up; to burst into flames
dryer (esp. hair); drier; blower
wicked; evil; wastrel; scoundrel; organized crime; yakuza
dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered
raindrops (dripping from eaves, branches, etc.); exclamation point; exclamation mark
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
pottery; earthenware; ceramics; (soft-paste) porcelain; china
to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)
objet d'art; item of artwork; object; curio