noun:

• defeat; loss; losing (a game)

suffix:

• failing to live up to (one's name, looks, etc.) ➜ 名前負け【なまえまけ】

noun:

• discount; loss (on a sale)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign; to give up ➜ 止める【やめる】

noun / ~する noun:

• holding a castle (during a siege); holing up
• confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors

noun:

• Narita divorce; divorce case of a newlywed couple breaking up upon their return to Narita Airport from their honeymoon abroad - four character idiom

expression:

• to (an extent); up to; so far as; even - more emphatic than まで ➜ 迄【まで】
• doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ... - usu. as 〜までもない
• even if ... - usu. as 〜ないまでも

noun:

• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends

~の noun / noun:

• upside-down ➜ 上下になる

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• hazy; misty; foggy; murky; fuzzy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / noun:

• hazy feeling; uncertain feeling; feeling gloomy; feeling depressed; pent-up feelings; ill feeling - onomatopoeia

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to line up; to stand in a line
• to rival; to match; to equal

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to hunt out; to flush out; to round up
• to impress; to recruit

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to lift; to hang up; to suspend
• to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to polish up (on); to refine; to hone; to round out
• to polish (by rubbing)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take up one's chopsticks (to begin a meal); to start to eat; to eat

noun / ~する noun:

• ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself)
• going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to muster (e.g. one's courage); to call forth; to rouse up

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be enlivened; to be invigorated

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to walk about; to walk around
• to conduct oneself
• to turn up
• to brawl (in a play, etc.)

noun:

• welling (up); gushing forth (of water); springing out; surging
• appearing (esp. suddenly)
• frothing of water (due to an advancing school of fish)

noun:

• fashion style heavy on make-up and elaborate hairstyles, used among Japanese rock bands, musicians, etc. ➜ Ｖ系【ブイけい】
• handsome man (esp. one who knows this)

ichidan verb / transitive / auxiliary verb:

• to continue; to keep up; to keep on

expression / ichidan verb:

• to live up to expectations; to meet expectations

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to raise; to rear; to bring up
• to train; to teach; to educate
• to promote the growth of; to nurture; to foster; to develop

noun / ~する noun:

• living in peace; being content with one's present position

adverb / ~と adverb:

• grinding (sound); grating; gnashing - onomatopoeia
• forcefully; strongly; with effort; (binding) tightly - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• decisive action; going through with; daring to do; carrying out

noun:

• hot pot stew made with offal, vegetables and (often) miso - Food term ➜ もつ

expression:

• what with this and that; for a number of reasons ➜ 色々