contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation
complete darkness; total darkness; pitch darkness
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
amulet or talisman issued by a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple
everywhere; all over; throughout
(walk) briskly; at a brisk pace; quickly
bent back; prone posture; weak-kneed; timidity; lack of nerve
to bend; to warp; to yield; to be supple (e.g. bamboo, body); to be flexible; to be pliant
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
to assail the nostrils (smell); to go nose-to-nose (with someone)
to cling to; to embrace; to throw one's arms around
pointing out; identification
unwritten law; common law; unwritten rule
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation)
I don't give a damn; I wouldn't know; that's got nothing to do with me
wallpaper; wallpaper; background image; desktop image
to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract
absorption; suction; attraction
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
to keep standing; to stand motionless
to jar; to creak; to grate
to learn; to study; to take lessons in
ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
fierce; intense; severe; very; extremely; terribly
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
immediately; as soon as possible; as quickly as possible
outside ...; beyond ...; not included in ...
fiction; fabrication; concoction
to put on (another's shoes by mistake); to put (shoes) on the wrong feet; to mistake (one thing for another); to confuse; to have a mistaken idea of
pat; tap; pop; crack; cutesy suffix applied to names
lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life
to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
weakly; helplessly; weak; flimsy; easy to bend
rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
believer; adherent; devotee; fanboy; fanatic; superfan
the four cardinal directions; north, east, south and west; surroundings; many countries; the whole world; all around; here and there
to plow through (a wave) (plough); to tack (against the wind)
Shinto shrine precincts; holy precincts; sanctuary
uneventfully; without incident; without a hitch; peacefully
every ...; every other ...; at intervals of ...; with ... in between; ... apart
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning