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- 追い詰める☆【おいつめる】追いつめる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after
- 抜き取る☆【ぬきとる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to pull out; to draw out; to disconnect
- to steal contents of; to pilfer (from); to pickpocket
- 纏わる【まつわる】纏るirr. Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to coil around; to follow about
- to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
- 運を天に任せる【うんをてんにまかせる】 Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to leave to chance; to resign oneself to one's fate; to leave the rest to heaven - idiom
- とちる Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to flub (one's lines)
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to be flustered; to be confused ➜ とっちる
- to bungle; to mess up; to blunder
- 優位に立つ【ゆういにたつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand
- 富国強兵☆【ふこくきょうへい】
noun:
- wealth and military strength of a country; "rich country, strong army": a slogan from the Meiji era referring to the government's goals for the country - four character idiom
- 出かける☆【でかける】出掛ける☆ Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to start; to set out
- to be about to leave; to be just going out
妻は魚のオードブルが好きだからね、釣りに出掛けるときはお許しが出やすいんだよね。 My wife loves fish hors d'oeuvre, so it's easier for me to get a kitchen pass for my fishing.
- つっつく《突っ突く・突っつく》 Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge ➜ 突く【つつく】
- to peck at (one's food); to pick at
- to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
- to egg on; to put up to
ハゲタカが突っつく死んだ鹿とか、他の動物の食べ残しとか、 そういう腐った肉を死肉と書きました。 A dead deer being pecked by vultures, remains partly eaten by other animals, that sort of rotten meat is called 'carrion'.
- どうどう・ドードー
~と adverb / adverb:
- with a roaring sound (of water or wind); sound of feet stamping on the ground - onomatopoeia
interjection:
- whoa! (command used to stop or quieten down a horse, etc.) ➜ どう
- 徹する☆【てっする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.):
- to penetrate; to sink in
- to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
- to do throughout (e.g. the night)
大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。 I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
- 擦れる【すれる】磨れる・摩れる・擂れる Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to rub; to chafe
- to wear out; to become worn
- to lose one's innocence; to become sly
シンと静まった部室。響くのは、クロッキー帳に擦れる鉛筆の音だけ。 The club room returned to quiet. All that could be heard was the sound of pencil on sketchpad.
- 言い切る☆【いいきる】言いきる・言切る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to declare; to assert; to state definitively
- to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
- 弾ける【はじける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to burst open; to split open; to pop
- to be bursting with (e.g. youth, laughter, flavor)
- to bounce; to bound
花火の弾ける音が止むと、急に辺りが静かになる。後に残った火薬の匂いが、なんだか俺をセンチメンタルな気分にさせた。 As the popping sound of the fireworks stopped, it suddenly became quiet around me. The smell of gunpowder somehow put me in a sentimental mood.
- 踏みとどまる【ふみとどまる】踏み止まる・踏み留まる Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to stay on; to remain; to hold out; to hold one's ground
- to stop (doing); to give up
- リーダー☆・リーダ
noun / ~の noun:
- leader
- reader; reading book
- reader (i.e. someone who reads)
noun:
- 目潰し【めつぶし】目つぶし
noun:
- sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them
- poking someone's eyes during a fight to blind them
「軽くならいいけど」「うむ、では金的と目潰しは有効にするか？」 "If it's a light workout, OK." "Right, so will we allow crotch-kicking and eyeball crushing?"
- つつく☆《突く・突付くirr.・突つくirr.》 Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge
- to peck at (one's food); to pick at
- to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)
- to egg on; to put up to
藪をつついてヘビを出す。 It's not good to wake a sleeping snake.
きつつきは、長く尖ったくちばしで、木の幹をつついて、中にいる虫を食べます。 Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.
- あぐねる《倦ねる》 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to tire of; to lose interest in; to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
- 式年遷宮【しきねんせんぐう】
noun:
- construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
- 掘る☆【ほる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to dig; to excavate; to hollow
- to delve into
- to dig up (e.g. vegetables)
- (for two men) to have anal sex - slang - vulgar
日本から中国へトンネルを掘るなどということはお話にならない。 Building a tunnel from Japan to China is out of the question.
直径１メートル、深さ２メートルの穴を掘るのに、約２時間半かかりました。 It took me about two and a half hours to dig a hole one meter in diameter and two meters in depth.
- 差し引く【さしひく】差引く Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to deduct; to take away; to dock
- to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to ebb and flow
- 見える【まみえる】謁えるirr. Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to have an audience; to meet; to see - humble language
- to face (an enemy); to confront
- to serve (esp. as one's wife)
- 頭をもたげる【あたまをもたげる】頭を擡げる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to raise one's head; to come to the fore; to rise into importance; to gain strength; to rear its head
Kanji
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