noun / ~する noun:

• dying in vain; wasteful sacrifice of life - sensitive

noun:

• safety of life at sea; SOLAS

noun / ~する noun:

• killing oneself out of despair (disgust with life) - four character idiom

noun:

• life in natural setting, free from worldly cares - four character idiom

noun:

• living; life
• judo art of resuscitation ➜ 活を入れる

suffix:

• action; activity - abbreviation ➜ 活動

expression:

• putting on weight from the good (married) life - colloquialism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be worn out (from domestic life)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to vary the pace of one's life ➜ 減り張り【めりはり】

noun / ~の noun:

• (for the) first time in one's life

noun:

• biosatellite; satellite designed to carry life in space

noun:

• being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is - four character idiom

noun:

• humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

noun:

• presumption of legitimacy; presumption of child in wedlock; presumption that the ex-husband is the father of a woman's child born within 300 days of their divorce - Law term

expression / adverb:

• like; similar to
• as with; in the same way

noun / ~の noun:

• cloudy sky looking like it will snow soon - obscure term

~と adverb:

• gently and clearly shining (like the sun in springtime) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• charango; small lute-like stringed instrument, orig. from Bolivia - From Spanish

adjectival noun:

• mysterious; strange; sphinx-like; enigmatic; noncommital

noun:

• Saurischia (order of dinosaurs with lizard-like pelvic structures)

noun:

• pika (rabbit-like animal of family Ochotonidae)

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata) - obscure term ➜ 欅

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata) - archaism ➜ 欅

noun:

• regional pickle of Kyoto made from turnip-like vegetable

noun:

• symphylan (any centipede-like arthropod of class Symphyla)