digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
pardon me for leaving (first)
to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)
armpit; under one's arm; beside; close to; aside; to the side; off-track
to pass (e.g. car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to get ahead of
to throw oneself; to jump; to leap
to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded
lightly; nimbly; with agility; casually; readily; regularly
to take the initiative; to forestall; to beat to the punch
to go down and stand; to alight; to get down
to make a circle (of a motion, arrangement, etc.); to move (e.g. one's head) in a circle; to form (the shape of) a circle; to draw a circle
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
to be(come) intertwined; to be entangled
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
central part; heart (of a city)
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
dignified appearance; majestic appearance; imposing appearance
to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance
naked sword; drawn sword; shellfish removed from the shell
affectation; showiness; pretence
fragment; splinter; wane (of the Moon)
to be conspicuous; to stand out
to step forward; to step forth; to advance; to start; to embark on; to set forth on
dark red; dark brown; reddish brown
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
bluff; false show of power; bold front
to lose sight of; to miss
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
in spite of; regardless of
intercept; interception; counter-attack
thickheaded; slow-witted; phlegmatic; slow (of one's movements); sluggish
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye