expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

expression / noun:

• owning nothing except the clothes on one's back

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get on one's way (back home)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to carry in one's pocket; to own
• to take; to carry about

noun:

• wooden rack with shoulder straps for carrying loads on one's back - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.

noun:

• wooden box carried on one's back to store items for a pilgrimage

ichidan verb:

• to carry in one's own hands; to carry in a manner that is obvious to others - colloquialism ➜ 提げる【さげる】

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation ➜ 命をかける

noun / ~する noun:

• standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself
• overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability; pushing to the limit

expression / ichidan verb:

• to turn one's back on
• to be uninterested in

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps

noun:

• video-on-demand

adjectival noun / noun:

• fitting things back to back; agreement of minds

noun:

• quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown - archaism ➜ 帰りなんいざ

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through

noun:

• falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall ➜ 尻餅をつく
• mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

expression:

• Come away home! (expression suggesting quitting one's job and moving back to one's hometown) - archaism ➜ 帰去来

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to
• to hound; to keep after (someone); to refuse to back down; to persist; to tenaciously face (someone); to doggedly oppose
• to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips - Sumo term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to give up on; to turn one's back; to abandon

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on

expression:

• having no choice but to carry on; having no choice but to go on; unable to change one's course of action; a man riding a tiger cannot disembark halfway through

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep one's wit about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary; to keep on one's toes - idiom ➜ 眉に唾をつける

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to shine ➜ 射す
• to be visible
• to be tinged with
• to rise (of water levels); to flow in
• to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one ➜ 気が差す・魔が差す

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hold up (an umbrella, etc.); to put up; to raise
• to extend one's arm straight ahead (in dance) ➜ 指す
• to insert; to put in ➜ 挿す
• to wear (a sword) in one's belt; to wear at one's side; to carry under one's arm ➜ 挿す
• to insert one's arm under an opponent's arm - Sumo term
• to pole (a boat) ➜ 刺す
• to pour; to add (liquid); to serve (drinks) ➜ 注す
• to put on (lipstick, etc.); to apply; to colour; to dye
• to light (a fire); to burn
• to shut; to close; to lock; to fasten ➜ 鎖す【さす】

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to stop in the midst of; to leave undone - after the -masu stem of a verb ➜ 止す【さす】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege ➜ 約束を守る