godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to play; to enjoy oneself; to have a good time
• to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.)
• to be idle; to do nothing; to be unused
• to go to (for pleasure or for study) - as 〜に遊ぶ
• to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batter's concentration - Baseball term

expression:

• not wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord - from the Book of Rites - proverb ➜ 不倶戴天

expression / ichidan verb:

• to greet in a friendly manner; to treat someone as if they were a guest in one's own home

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to slash back
• to strike back; to counterattack; to retort
• to cut the wheel
• to perform a twisting backward knee trip - Sumo term ➜ 切り返し

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby) - obscure term ➜ 機嫌を取る

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby) - obscure term ➜ 機嫌をとる

noun:

• working in the theater (theatre); attached to a particular theater

noun:

• bass range (in Japanese music) - abbreviation ➜ 甲【かん】
• six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale ➜ 十二律・律
• Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) ➜ 呂旋

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise - colloquialism - vulgar ➜ お釜を掘る
• to crash one's car into the back of another

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to furnish; to install
• to get someone's agreement
• to patronize; to buy usually from the same store

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to balance; to counterpoise
• to remain unchanged
• to share (e.g. the expense); to bear (part of)

noun:

• children's haircut having hair in the rear that reaches the nape of the neck - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• riding in the same carriage (car) (with a superior); attending on (one's superior) in the same carriage

noun:

• break in the rain
• waiting for a break in the rain

noun:

• being narrow in the middle; something narrow in the middle - obscure term
• mallet - archaism ➜ 杵

expression / ichidan verb:

• to learn the ropes; to get the knack

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to hit the nail on the head; to guess exactly right

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to go through the proper procedures; to follow the required steps

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; to terminate; to come to an end

auxiliary verb / noun or verb acting prenominally / godan ~る verb:

• extremely - after adjectival noun. e.g. 退屈極まる話

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be at a loss - esp. 窮まる. occ. 谷まる
• to be decided; to be settled

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to line up; to put in a row
• to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to join (e.g. a list) ➜ 名を連ねる【なをつらねる】・袂を連ねる【たもとをつらねる】
• to link; to put together; to string together (e.g. compliments); to enumerate ➜ 美辞麗句を連ねる【びじれいくをつらねる】・書き連ねる【かきつらねる】
• to take along with; to bring with

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to the origin; going back to the beginning; retracing

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to seek results, not show; to discard the flower for the fruit [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to compete for the first place; to be one of the best

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to protect against the elements; to shelter oneself from the weather

adverb:

• to the utmost; to the best of one's ability