expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be struck by a chance blow; to be embroiled in; to be caught up in; to be dragged into

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to come down - esp. 下りる
• to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to disembark; to dismount - esp. 降りる
• to step down; to retire; to give up; to quit
• to be granted; to be issued; to be given - esp. 下りる
• to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.) - esp. 降りる
• to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm) - esp. 下りる ➜ 下り物

ichidan verb:

• to compile; to bring together; to weave; to put together; to bring to a conclusion; to wrap up

expression / godan ~ぶ verb:

• to do up one's shoelaces; to tie one's shoes; to lace up one's shoes

noun:

• making the numbers balance; fixing the numbers; number-juggling; making up the numbers (e.g. to form a majority); taking tally; number-crunching

noun:

• Japanese clethra; tree clethra; clethra barbinervis

noun:

• common fig (Ficus carica); fig; fig tree

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to take; to pick up; to harvest; to earn; to win; to choose
• to steal ➜ 盗る
• to eat; to have (a meal) ➜ 摂る
• to remove (one's glasses, etc.) - also written as 脱る
• to compete (in sumo, cards, etc.); to play

noun:

• large ginkgo tree
• ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers - Sumo term

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be evasive; to give an evasive answer
• to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate
• to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation
• to make do with

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; to have evidence; to get a lead - idiom
• to grab by the tail [literal]

noun:

• tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax

expression:

• How can a small bird (a sparrow, a petty person) understand the aspirations of a great bird (a phoenix); Only a hero can understand a hero - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be piled up; to lie on top of one another
• to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate
• to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously

noun:

• Timor monitor (Varanus timorensis, species of small carnivorous monitor lizard native to Indonesia); spotted tree monitor

noun:

• using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

expression:

• Y adding up to Z; Y making up Z; Y constituting Z; Z consisting of Y; Z composed of Y; Z containing Y - for the pattern Y からなる Z

noun:

• winged spindle-tree (Euonymus alatus); burning bush; winged euonymus

noun:

• willow (any tree of genus Salix)
• weeping willow (Salix babylonica) ［やなぎ・ヤナギ］ ➜ 枝垂れ柳

noun:

• emblic myrobalan (Phyllanthus emblica); emblic; myrobalan; Indian gooseberry; Malacca tree; amla; amalika

noun:

• southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)

noun:

• traveller's tree (Ravenala madagascariensis); traveller's palm ➜ 旅人の木

noun:

• traveller's tree (Ravenala madagascariensis); traveller's palm

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to turn over; to turn pages of a book
• to tear off; to strip off; to tear up

ichidan verb:

• to coat a surface with something that adheres strongly when hardened (i.e. grout, plaster, lacquer)
• to cover up (e.g. truth); to varnish (e.g. with lies, rumors)