noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock (a person) off his feet; to hit (something) hard; to send (someone) flying

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to drive away; to order off; to chase away
• to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be effective; to be fruitful; to be worthwhile; to be worth; to be rewarded; to pay off

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to gouge; to hollow out; to bore; to excavate; to scoop out
• to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain ［えぐる］
• to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light ［えぐる］

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to cut at; to slash at

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to lose hair; to become bald
• to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to ascend; to go up; to climb
• to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the sun); to rise - usu. 昇る
• to go to (the capital)
• to be promoted
• to add up to
• to advance (in price)
• to swim up (a river); to sail up
• to come up (on the agenda)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money)
• to be omitted; to be missing
• to decrease; to sink
• to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.)
• to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind
• to become indecent (of a conversation)
• to be ruined; to go under
• to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list) ➜ 狐が落ちる【きつねがおちる】
• to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession
• to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick)
• to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee
• to fall; to be defeated; to surrender
• to come to (in the end); to end in
• to fall (in love, asleep, etc.) ➜ 恋に落ちる【こいにおちる】・眠りに落ちる【ねむりにおちる】
• to swoon (judo)
• to consent; to understand ➜ 腑に落ちない【ふにおちない】
• to crash; to freeze - IT term
• to die - of animals
• to move to the depths - of fish when it gets cold

noun:

• ceremonial bonfire (seeing off the spirits on the final night of O-Bon)

noun:

• cutting off the leg at the knee (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism ➜ 五刑

noun:

• cutting off the leg at the knee (form of punishment in ancient China) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 剕

noun:

• cutting off the head
• shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

ichidan verb:

• to cut down an enemy

ichidan verb:

• to cut and prepare (stones)

godan ~く verb:

• to (cut a) notch (in)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cut into squares (cubes)

godan ~る verb:

• to cut (e.g. cloth)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to carve into; to cut into; to dig into

noun:

• pigtail; ponytail; hair (hanging down the back)

noun / ~の noun:

• red hair
• Westerner (esp., originally, the Dutch) - obsolete term ➜ 紅毛人

noun:

• ear hair; hairs of the tragus

noun:

• flower or branch fastened in the hair ➜ 挿頭

noun:

• crossed fingers and word said to call someone to be avoided as 'dirty' - children's language

~する noun:

• to cross one's fingers (to ward off 'dirt')

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to cut into chunks; to chop into lumps