to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
to pin down; to immobilize; to immobilise; to control; to suppress
opportunity; chance; trigger; cause
in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; immediately; instantly; right away
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
to shake; to waver; to tremble
pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
at any rate; in any case; at the very least; if nothing else
to be nervous; to be sensitive; to worry; to be fussy; to be precise
two legs; two feet; two pairs
to stretch (unbend) oneself
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)
trespassing; intrusion; to barge into; to burst into; to trespass
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
as a matter of fact; really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly
incident; affair; happening; event
beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions
confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter
reality; actuality; hard fact
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
to pull the trigger; to squeeze the trigger
absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine
to make time; to carve out some time (to do something)
to the last; persistency; thoroughness
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
to examine someone's expression
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
to dust; to remove dust; to slap; to hit (with the palm); to use up money
being startled, surprised or afraid; panic; trepidation
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody