noun:

• strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building) - four character idiom

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to open up a big lead (over one's opponent)

expression / adjective:

• not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser ➜ 往生際

expression:

• forming a crowd; ganging up on; joining forces against

noun:

• pent-up resentment; grudges and hard feelings

noun:

• person who turns up at the right moment to help

noun:

• color look-up table - IT term

noun:

• running a start-up company after work or on weekends

noun:

• hidden ball trick - Baseball term
• ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to make war (on); to wage war (against); to go to war (with); to fight (with); to do battle (against) - esp. 戦う
• to compete (against) - esp. 戦う
• to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight; to contend; to resist - esp. 闘う

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home)
• to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight
• to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to let a pitch go by (baseball); to watch a batted ball go into the stands
• to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone
• to have someone related or close to you die; to bury someone
• to take care of somebody until he dies
• to wait and see; to continue (e.g. in legal contexts)

noun:

• germ rice; half-milled rice; semi-polished rice; rice with the germ; rice polished to remove the bran but not the germ; milled rice with embryo buds - Food term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let go of; to release; to drop
• to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to spare; to sell
• to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go; to part with
• to temporarily stop working

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

adjective:

• confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous; easily mixed up (e.g. similar words)

adjective:

• meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor

noun / ~する noun:

• construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation; architecture (systems, agreement, etc)

noun / ~する noun:

• convening; calling together (e.g. parliament); call-up (for military service)

noun / ~する noun:

• discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice); retiring

~たる adjective:

• placed one upon another; piled up ［ちょうじょう］

~の noun / noun / interjection:

• excellent; splendid ［ちょうじょう］

noun / ~する noun:

• superimposition; superposition

noun:

• hung up; hoist
• denounced; severely criticised; kangaroo court

noun:

• the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, and down)

prefix:

• hexagonal

~の noun / noun:

• reserve; spare
• treasured; valued
• (ace) up one's sleeve; trump