to spend time (on doing something)
water content; moisture; water vapor (vapour); steam; dropsy; edema
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
substance; true form; main part; main unit; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.); noumenon
one round; one turn; one size (larger or smaller); one cycle of the twelve years of the Chinese zodiac
construction; architecture (of buildings)
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side by side; to make (someone) get married; to get (someone) hitched
to wrench open; to break open; to pry open; to prise open; to force open
tap-tap; knock-knock; cough-cough; bark (of a fox); yelp; heavily (e.g. of snow falling)
cavity; hollow; cave; hollow
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
sound; noise; (speech) sound; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade
contemplation; meditation
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
choice; selection; option
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
to erase; to rub out; to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.); to switch off; to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.); to put out; to remove (a smell, pain, etc.)
summertime; summer season
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
chilly; unpleasantly cold
to buy; to purchase; to value (highly); to think highly of; to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.); to elicit (e.g. sneers)
middle of the night; dead of night
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
harmful animal; pest; vermin
custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; normally
force (bulldoze) one's way through
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
hunting ground; hunting preserve
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
winning over; placation; gentle persuasion
to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out
death from prostration; death from emaciation
paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
replenishment; supplementation; supplement; replacement; refilling
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
relatives; one's family; friends; members of the same organization; followers; henchmen
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question