godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
• to resign; to retire; to quit; to secede ［のく］

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to banter; to make fun of; to jeer at
• to cool; to refrigerate
• to window-shop; to look at without buying

ichidan verb:

• to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to stand out; to be outstanding; to be preeminent
• to tower above (the surrounding landscape)

noun:

• tug of war (orig. a form of divination to predict whether the year will be favourable or unfavourable)
• forward puller (of a rickshaw)

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be highly-reputed and sell extremely well (of a printed literary work); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang [literal] - idiom - archaism

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to cross each other; to run counter to; to differ; to clash; to go awry

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something - esp. 極める, 窮める
• to investigate thoroughly; to master - esp. 究める

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to undertake; to take on (task)
• to assure; to guarantee; to vouch (for); to promise

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be ruined (reduced to poverty); to fall low; to go under; to come to ruin

expression:

• in one's whole life; all one's life; since one's birth ➜ この方【このかた】

expression:

• there's no point; it's no use; it's not worth it

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to approach; to draw near; to get close
• to get acquainted with; to get closer to; to get to know

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to wither; to wilt; to droop; to fade - esp. 萎れる, 凋れる
• to be dejected; to be disheartened; to be depressed; to be crestfallen - esp. 萎れる, 悄れる

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.); to rush for (the door); to inundate; to overwhelm; to push aside

noun:

• attacking a fleeing enemy
• additional attack on a weakened enemy; additional blow to an already unfortunate situation

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

noun / suffix:

• place; spot; scene; site - also pronounced どころ when a suffix
• address
• district; area; locality
• one's house
• point; aspect; side; facet ➜ いいとこ
• passage (in text); part
• space; room
• thing; matter

noun:

• whereupon; as a result - after the plain past form of a verb
• about to; on the verge of - after present form of a verb
• was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing - after past form of a verb

expression:

• there's nothing that doesn't exist; there's nothing we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have

expression / adjective:

• nonexistent; not in one's possession - emphatic form of 無い ➜ 無い

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to shiver; to shake; to quake; to tremble; to quaver; to quiver

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to dribble; to spill
• to suspend; to hang down; to slouch; to dangle

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to pick; to pluck
• to snip; to cut; to nip; to trim ［摘む］