to kill; to choke the life out of
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
to cast a shadow; to appear; to loom (of a threat, etc.); to manifest (of symptoms, etc.)
confirmation; certification; ascertainment
tip of an ear (of wheat, etc.); tip (of a brush, spear, etc.); point; spearhead
to collapse into; to flop onto
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn
(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains
hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)
maneuver to shake, flick, or wipe blood off of a sword
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
serves you right!; see what happens!
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
that kind; competition; match
precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
in the hand; (something) easily manipulated
throw; throwing; throwing event
front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context
to drop; to let fall; to omit
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon
to cool (from room temperature); to chill; to calm down; to cool off; to be frightened (at); to be scared (of)
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
side (of something, or taking someone's side); part; (watch) case
one after another; in rapid succession
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience
doing whatever one pleases
to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell; to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with
large crowd; large herd; large flock; large school; large shoal; swarm
level ground; plain; flatland
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to compete with; to argue with; to quarrel
position; location; base; point; site