expression / godan ~る verb:

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

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to choke up; to be speechless - idiom
• to hold one's tongue - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be eager to pursue one's own interests; to think only of profit

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to raise oneself up to one's full height; to strike a daunting pose

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to strip to one's waist
• to go at with might and main - idiom

noun:

• boring pun; old person's joke; dad joke; worn-out joke - colloquialism - derogatory term ➜ 駄洒落

expression / ~す verb (precursor to modern する):

• to be unable to make up one's mind; to sit on the fence ➜ 首鼠両端【しゅそりょうたん】

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to choke up; to be speechless - idiom
• to hold one's tongue - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• settlement (financial); squaring accounts; clearing debts
• liquidation
• ending (a relationship); breaking up (with); burying (the past); redeeming (one's faults)

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

noun:

• vengeful spirit (spawned from a person's hate); doppelgänger; co-walker; wraith
• mankind; souls; people ［せいれい］

noun:

• one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it - four character idiom

noun:

• separates; things forming units by themselves (esp. women's outer garments, e.g. skirt and jumper) ➜ コーディネート
• two-piece bathing suit

noun:

• foil; someone to look as if he's putting up a fight but actually have no chance of winning

expression:

• something so difficult that one doesn't know if there's even a 1 in 1000 chance of success - obscure term

noun:

• horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum); rowdy lamb herb; barrenwort; bishop's hat; fairy wings; yin yang huo ➜ 碇草

noun:

• Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 薄葉細辛

noun:

• underpants; pants; briefs; panties; shorts; knickers
• trousers (esp. women's); jodhpurs; breeches; pants; trunks (e.g. swimming)

noun / ~する noun:

• giving one's name (or rank, etc.); self-introduction ➜ 名ノリ
• name readings of kanji

noun / ~する noun:

• seasonal change of clothing; changing (one's) dress for the season - reading is gikun for 更衣 ➜ 更衣【こうい】
• renovation; facelift; changing appearance

noun / ~の noun:

• going out
• one's best clothes

~の noun:

• formal (e.g. language); best (behaviour, manners, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

noun / ~する noun:

• submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)

noun:

• Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jinmu's reign in 660 BC ➜ 神武

noun:

• Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day