high-speed; rapid; express; highway; freeway; expressway
startup; booting up; activation; starting (e.g. engine, computer); launch
section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.; maxim
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
second line of a four-line Chinese poem
spread; extension; influence; aftereffect; ripple
to cover fully; to wrap around
source; origin; exit; way out; (appropriate) moment to come out; (right) time to appear
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)
That Thing You Do! (film)
to avenge (someone) by striking down their killer
to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind
recollection; calling to mind
-job; stimulating the penis with a body part
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
to play a hand game (e.g. rock, paper, scissors)
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
substitution (for someone else); substitute; stand-in; scapegoat; sacrifice
to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal
to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding (a runner) on base
condition; state (of health); appearance
something unusual; something wrong; mishap; accident; serious condition (e.g. after an injury); different situation
to put to bed; to let sleep; to lay (something) down; to put on its side; to let (money, goods, etc.) lie idle; to set aside unused
to move along; to go alongside; to walk along; to follow; to run down (one's cheek, leg, etc.); to trickle down
drop (e.g. of water); drip
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
unexpected; unlikely; terrible; awful; very; extremely
to look down on (someone); to treat with contempt; to treat disparagingly; to sneer at
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; pile of 3 cards of the same value in oicho-kabu
unprecedented; never seen before
threatening attitude; menacing look; angry look
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly
to excel; to surpass; to be superior; to be conspicuous (esp. forehead and eyebrows); to be prominent; to stand out
before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently
to do exactly what one is told to do; to be subservient; to be easily controlled
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
actual profit; practical use; benefit