harsh tasting; strongly alkaline tasting; excessively strong-willed; fiercely individualistic; strongly idiosyncratic
the hiragana character "ku"; chevron-shaped; dogleg-shaped
compression; condensing; shortening; compression (of data)
charge; duty; person in charge; official; clerk
to take flight; to disappear
to wink; to blink; to twinkle; to flicker
to stop (in one's tracks); to come to a stop; to halt; to pause; to stand still
to find someone's weak spot; (lit.) to drill a hole
to assail the nostrils (smell); to go nose-to-nose (with someone)
to smoke out; to flush out with smoke
to charm; to attract; to fascinate; to entice
to strain one's eyes; to stare
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
to peel off; to come off; to be taken off
to peel off; to come off; to flake off
to give off a stench; to stink
decomposed body; decomposing corpse
to hug tight; to grasp firmly; to embrace tightly
to sleep together (for a man and a woman); to bring one's bodies together (e.g. for warmth)
to be easily mistaken for (something else); to be indistinguishable from; to look just like; (arch.) to intermingle; (arch.) to be in disorder; (arch.) to be in disarray
to rant and rave; to raise hell
low (level, value, price, etc.)
double-stopping (string instr.); double-stop; multiphonics (e.g. wind instr.)
hard blow; crushing blow; severe attack
decomposition; ulceration
scarlet; crimson; cardinal red
dripping; trickling; wet and heavy (snow, clay, etc.); (arch.) (moving) slowly
(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags
to stub out (e.g. a cigarette); to crush out; to smother (fire); to hush up; to cover up; to stifle
subterranean rumbling; earth tremor
stone (used for throwing)
to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter
naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
whether one wants to or not; without choice
to mistake (A for B); to misread