expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have the tables turned on one ➜ 逆捩じ

noun / ~する noun:

• shaving against the grain

noun:

• breech presentation (feet or buttocks-first birth); breech delivery; breech birth

expression / ichidan verb:

• to retort; to turn the tables (on someone)

noun:

• spinning the opposite way; backspin (tennis, baseball); counter

noun / ~する noun:

• counterpropaganda

noun:

• levirate marriage - obscure term ➜ レビレート婚

noun:

• man who marries a wealthy or upwardly-mobile woman; (male) gold digger

noun:

• holding a memorial service for oneself - Buddhism term
• an older person conducting a memorial service for a deceased, younger person

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be beside oneself; to lose one's head; to go mad with something

noun:

• a hangnail

expression / ichidan verb:

• to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one
• to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor - orig. meaning

noun:

• regressive tax ➜ 累進税

noun / ~する noun:

• going into a frenzy; flying into a rage

noun:

• a child dying before its parents

noun / ~する noun:

• reading a word backwards (often to make slang) ➜ ズージャー・ぱいおつ

noun:

• turning an object in the wrong direction
• retort

noun:

• turned-in eyelashes; ingrown eyelashes; trichiasis ➜ 逆さまつげ

prefix noun / noun:

• inverse; reverse

noun:

• reverse-imported vehicle (esp. high-displacement motorcycles meant for sale outside Japan)

noun:

• baby born feet (or buttocks) first; breech birth

noun:

• reciprocal; inverse number; multiplicative inverse - Mathematics term

noun / ~する noun:

• headlong dive; header; plunge

noun:

• reverse sexual harassment; sexual harassment of males by females

noun:

• plunging or dropping an object headfirst (down a precipice)