godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to look up (at)
• to look up to; to respect; to revere
• to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to turn to (someone) for
• to depend on; to rely on
• to gulp down; to quaff; to drink

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to choose at one's own discretion
• to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smash; to crush; to flatten
• to shut down; to put out of business; to force (a company) to close up shop
• to wreck; to break; to block; to thwart
• to butcher; to slaughter; to kill (livestock, for food)
• to kill (time); to while away (the time)
• to waste (e.g. talents)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to topple over and lean at a precarious angle; to fall onto something and lean against it
• to be on the point of collapse; to be about to fall; to begin to fall

expression:

• to wait for a good opportunity; to come down on the right side of the fence; to see which way the cat jumps; to wait and see at Horagatoge [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (of a woman) divorcing and moving back in with her parents - sensitive
• (of an employee) leaving a position only to return to it later
• (of a ship) leaving from and returning to the same port

temporal noun:

• at the worst time; at worst; at the worst level

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to taste and compare several dishes (or foods) of the same type

noun:

• wrestlers with the same win-loss record at the end of a tournament - Sumo term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to fly through the air; to hurtle through the air
• to strike at something and miss; to fan the air

noun:

• arriving at the same moment

noun:

• making a piece of clothing with the same cloth inside and out; making a kimono with lining of the same fabric - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to drink regularly; to drink stubbornly

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom

noun:

• work hakama that are loose at the top and tight at the bottom - obscure term ➜ 猿袴

noun / expression:

• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern"

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to go on a pub-crawl; to drink at a round of places

particle:

• at (place, time); in; on; during
• to (direction, state); toward; into
• for (purpose)
• because of (reason); for; with
• by; from
• as (i.e. in the role of) ➜ として
• per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month")
• and; in addition to
• if; although - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at
• to stare intensely at; to examine carefully
• to estimate; to guess; to suspect; to judge
• to keep an eye on someone (e.g. a suspicious or untrustworthy person); to watch - often as 睨まれる ➜ 睨まれる
• to take account of; to take into consideration

expression:

• The time has come (for, to, when...); Now is the time - four character idiom

noun:

• shark

adverb:

• sometimes; occasionally; now and then; from time to time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak