to beat someone to the punch; to get the drop on (someone); to forestall
vengeful spirit (spawned from a living person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; wraith
one's nature; one's feelings; plain; unadorned; mere; poor
bashfully; hesitantly; fidgety; restlessly; squirming; wriggling
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
to gather in a circle; to form a circle
middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
scratch; graze; scrape; minor damage
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide
near miss; just missing (each other)
to backfire; to have a harmful result
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; gibe
with a twitch; twitchingly
to swing; to wield (physically); to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to flourish; to prosper
stronghold; citadel; base (of operations); headquarters
lacking a chief priest (of a temple); temple without a chief priest; being uninhabited; being vacant; non-attachment
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
to inflict; to impose (a fine, etc.)
bow-wow; woof; wah-wah; bawling; clamouring; clamoring
slut; floozie; ho; bitch; witch; overbearing woman
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
defense; defence; fielding
to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
arrangement; good offices; discretion; judgment; disposition
test; trial; ordeal; tribulation
going straight to the point; cutting it short; as it turns out
spirit; drive; vigour; ambition; aspiration
disappearance; vanishing; loss; dying away; wearing off
filth (esp. excrement, feces, urine); muck; waste; garbage; dirt; dust
incineration; destruction by fire
disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty
to use (the same thing) for multiple purposes; to reuse; to work (someone) hard; to order around
handstand; headstand; being upside down; being in reverse
one's daily life; condition; well-being; standing and sitting; movements
to be possessed (by a spirit, demon, etc.); to be possessed (by an idea, delusion, etc.); to be obsessed (with)
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
substantiation; materialization; materialisation; (specific to object language classes) instantiation
to feel nauseated; to feel sick